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Levon Helm dies at 71; drummer and singer with the Band
Levon Helm is most widely known for the songs he sang that found their way onto the pop charts during his long tenure as drummer and singer for the Band: "Up On Cripple Creek," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Don't Do It," earthy and infectious...
Tags: Rock and Roll (genre), Dr. John (music artist), Nazareth, Led Zeppelin (music group), Martin Scorsese
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Album review: Jack White's 'Blunderbuss'
Pop & HissJack White, formerly of the White Stripes, has released his first solo album, called "Blunderbuss," and Times pop music critic Randall Roberts says it's fantastic.... -
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards dies at 96; Chicago bluesman
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and...Tags: Arts, Slavery, Greenwood, Chicago Tribune, Music Industry
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Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith dies at 75; blues musician
At 17, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith left the Arkansas farm where he was raised to travel to Chicago, where he first heard Muddy Waters when his mother took him to a club.
Inspired by the great bluesman, Smith never went home. Instead, he taught himself to...Tags: Music, Entertainment, John Lee Hooker, Blues (genre), University of Chicago
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Live: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bring a rebel spirit
Pop & HissTom Petty and the Heartbreakers played for tiny Cal State Northridge-based station KCSN-FM (88.5).... -
PASSINGS: Doyle Bramhall, Winston C. Doby, Bruno Rubeo, Cargill MacMillan Jr.
Doyle Bramhall
Bluesman collaborated with Stevie Ray Vaughan
Doyle Bramhall, 62, a blues singer, drummer and songwriter best known for his collaborations with the late guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, died Saturday at his home in Alpine, Texas, the Houston...Tags: Jimmie Vaughan, Companies and Corporations, Obituaries, Drama (genre), Movies
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A long time coming for Joe Ely
Pop & HissJoe Ely is making a rare appearance in L.A. He will be performing with slide guitarist Jeff Plankenhorn at the Mint, and highlighting songs from ‘Satisfied at Last.’ Texas country rocker Joe Ely goes so long between shows in California...... -
Pinetop Perkins dies at 97; Mississippi Delta blues piano player
Pinetop Perkins, a regal piano player who was one of the last of the original Mississippi Delta blues musicians, died Monday of cardiac arrest at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 97.
"He was absolutely the premier blues piano player," said Bruce...Tags: Celebrities and Bad Behavior, Chicago Tribune, Human Interest, Ike Turner, B.B. King
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At the crossroads as Robert Johnson centennial nears
The intersection of DeSoto and State streets here doesn't look like anything special.
On the southeast corner of the roads is H Town Custom Wheels. Across DeSoto to the west is Beer & Bud Mart, which faces a Church's Chicken stand. Immediately to the...Tags: Crimes, Folklore and Mythology, African Americans, Keith Richards, History
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Book review: 'Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World' by John Szwed
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAlan Lomax The Man Who Recorded the World John Szwed Viking: 438 pp., $29.95 Alan Lomax was a titanic figure whose ambitions were even greater than his formidable energies. Beginning his career as a folklorist in the 1930s with field recordings of...Tags: Culture, African Americans, Folklore and Mythology, Literature, Chicago Tribune
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Not quite hard times for Social Distortion and Mike Ness
During his three decades at the helm of Social Distortion, singer, guitarist and songwriter Mike Ness has repeatedly turned to the rich vein of his own hardscrabble life as a hell-raising teen and then a heroin-addicted rock musician.
But in putting...Tags: Punk (genre), Documentary (genre), Little League Baseball, Chuck Berry, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Jazz review: Nels Cline and David Breskin's 'Dirty Baby' at LACMA
Culture Monster"Someone said these poems were sad," the rich-voiced David Breskin slowly said between recitations at LACMA's Bing Theater Thursday night. "It's not a Broadway musical," he added with a smile. No one in the crowd would have argued. Presented as......
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