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Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues
Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...
Tags: Music Industry, Jazz (genre), Entertainment, Music, Lionel Hampton
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Joe Louis Walker, the blues and beyond
As a teenager in ‘60s San Francisco, Joe Louis Walker lived just blocks away from Sly Stone, roomed with Mike Bloomfield, and played shows with B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Thelonious Monk. Walker was the 16-year-old house guitarist at the Matrix,...
Tags: B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Entertainment, Music, Entertainment Events
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'He's the last of the bluesmen'
He was the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and -- for an extraordinary 80-plus years -- the voice of the Delta blues.
David "Honeyboy" Edwards picked cotton and pulled corn on Mississippi Delta plantations from age 9, living the hard...Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Joe Williams, Blues (genre)
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21st century blues -- can an ancestral art form survive?
You can't find the blues on radio very easily these days, unless you hunt low down on the dial in the small hours of the morning.
Same with TV -- a vast wasteland, as far as real blues is concerned.
Record stores -- remember those? -- no longer can...Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Chester Arthur "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett, Michael Jackson
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Did Buddy Guy show his age in Bethlehem at '76 years young'?
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGBlues guitar legend Buddy Guy sang at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center on Friday night, "I'm 76 years young, there ain't nothing I haven't done." I believe it. Guy played with John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He...... -
Fabulous Thunderbirds show the best of what Levitt Pavilion's all about
Lehigh Valley MusicFor the myriad things great about the Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks on the ArtsQuest campus in South Bethlehem, the one bad thing – that it’s uncovered and the shows are held rain or shine – threatened the Saturday’s opening of the..... -
An Appreciation: Etta James
Pop & HissEtta James appreciation: Simple lyrics took on deeper meaning when sung by Etta James. Her unmatched song styling helped bring West Coast R&B to prominence.... -
10/10/10: Ten great songs about drinking (and five others about sobering up)
Pop & HissItâs a fool's game, trying to pick 10 songs about one of popular musicâs most reliable topics: alcohol, and the joy and pain it begets. Itâs a topic that could fill volumes -â song and the drink -â so to...... -
Top 5 Concerts of the Week
Lehigh Valley MusicHere are the Top 5 Concerts for the coming week 1. THIN LIZZY A week after St. Patrick’s Day, it’s appropriate to have one of the greatest Irish bands of all time playing the area. Perhaps Thin Lizzy isn’t as...... -
Captain Beefheart, dead at 69: Music as an action painting
Turn It UpWhen Don Van Vliet â better known as Captain Beefheart -- died Friday at age 69, he left behind a lifetime of ground-breaking albums that enchanted, puzzled and disturbed even as they assured his reputation as one of rockâs avant-garde...... -
Live Review: Mose Allison at Largo at the Coronet [UPDATED]
Pop & HissMose Allison fans couldnât have asked for a more ideal environment for the second performance of his two-night stand at Largo at the Coronet on Sunday night. The first winter storm of 2010 snarled traffic and might have taken a...... -
Buddy Guy relocates Legends; new state-of-the-art blues club set to open
Turn It UpAfter a decade of uncertainty, Buddy Guyâs Legends finally has a new home â and itâs a lavish improvement on just about anything the venerable Chicago blues scene has ever seen. When the new space (above, with Guy) is unveiled......
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