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Alabama Shakes: No Fear
Brittany Howard stomps, shakes, whispers, and roars, riding the wave thrown up by her fast-rising band, Alabama Shakes. There’s the vulnerability and passion of bedrock soul in the vocals, the dynamics of the blues and the fury of garage-punk in the...Tags: Led Zeppelin (music group), Entertainment, The Rolling Stones (music group), Athens (Greece), Music
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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: Beyonce, Europe, Michael Jackson, Music, Radio
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Playing the blues in black AND white
On a recent Wednesday night at Blue Chicago, a long-running club downtown, you had to elbow your way forward just to get past the doorman. Men and women in business suits — collars loosened, beers in hand — packed the place, barely leaving...Tags: Environmental Issues, Colleges and Universities, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Radio, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Florida songs could be the soundtrack for your next road trip
If you read this column regularly, you know that it's not unusual for the topic to have something to do with a photograph that looks inviting to me.
That's part of the motivation for this week's dispatch: Looking at the image of cypress trees along the...Tags: Jimmy Buffett, Travel, Trips and Vacations, Ray Charles, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Jake, Elwood and Huggy, all singing the Euro blues
So at the Auditorium Theatre – the 3,929-seat Auditorium Theatre – one currently finds an Australian Elwood Blues, a British Jake Blues and aEuropean cover band, all working, along with a trio of women called the Bluettes, for Dutch producers....Tags: Riots, Health, Dan Aykroyd, Building Material, Comedy (genre)
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Bringing Big Bill Broonzy back into the spotlight
He was one of the most celebrated blues artists of his era, a visionary Chicago singer-songwriter who mentored Muddy Waters, introduced the music to Europe and inspired no less than Eric Clapton, Ray Davies and Pete Townshend (as they've all acknowledged)...Tags: Studs Terkel, George Szell, Pete Townshend, Colleges and Universities, Lifestyle and Leisure
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UPDATE: Chicago guitarist announced to replace ailing headliner at Blast Furnace Blues fest
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGA Chicago blue guitarist who played Pennsylvania Blues Festival last year will replace an ailing headliner who canceled his appearance at this weekend’s Blast Furnace Blues Festival, officials have announced. Magic Slim & the Teardrops, who have won... -
Blues harmonica player, cover band sweep Lehigh Valley Music Awards
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGA blues harmonica player who won every Lehigh Valley Music Award ever given in his instrument category pushed his achievement even higher Sunday, sweeping five categories in the 14th annual awards ceremony, including the top Best All-Around Performer... -
The Moody Blues, about to turn 50, hasn't planned celebration yet: 'We're too busy'
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGIn a year when The Beach Boys celebrated 50 years together with a new album and tour and The Rolling Stones are about to, seminal British prog-rock group The Moody Blues are just a year and a half away from...... -
Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGTop 5 Concerts of the Coming Week: 1. B.B. KING Not many musicians have theatrical documentaries released about them, especially any narrated by distinguished actor Morgan Freeman. Of course, there aren’t many musicians like B.B. King. “The... -
Writers in the Round brings performers, songs, stories to Lehigh Valley
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGIt’s 8 p.m. on a Saturday, and about 15 people are sitting at tables lit by tealight candles, surrounding four singers seated in the round with acoustic guitars. Performers at Writers in the Round (from left), Danielle Miraglia, Anna Coogan...... -
Tedeschi Trucks Band to headline inaugural Sunshine Blues Fest in Fort Myers, Boca Raton and St. Petersburg
Soundboard Music Blog - Orlando SentinelThe Grammy-winning Tedeschi Trucks Band, featuring slide guru Derek Trucks and his singing, guitar-slinging wife, Susan Tedeschi, will headline the inaugural Sunshine Blues Festival, a 3-day 3-city event set to debut in January 2013. The concert will...
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