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Murali Coryell spent years shunning his legacy. With an affinity for languages, he toyed with the idea of becoming a translator or an academic.

Around this time of year students at Southern Miss can be found attempting to schedule their class line-up for the next semester to be as stress-free as possible, which includes finding out which professors are a bore and which professors flat-out rock.

Nearly 40 years after The Beatles called it quits, the Fab Four and their occasionally still-active arch rivals, The Rolling Stones [ tickets ] , are still battling it out for the hearts and discretionary dollars of classic-rock fans and gift buyers.

Las Vegas, once known as just a gambling town in the desert, is now known for much more, including the culinary scene which has been booming over the past decade.

Even after the deluge of Woodstock 40th anniversary commemorations we've seen this year, a new box set revisiting the Rolling Stones' celebrated U.S. tour a couple of months after those three days of peace and music makes an invaluable addition to the pop music archives.

PHOTOS: Above, Bruce Springsteen rehearses for the night's show. CLICK PIC FOR MORE PHOTOS OF THE ROCK HALL OF FAME'S MSG BASH Rock 'n' roll can cover a lot of ground - at least when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame defines it.

Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET October 31, 2009 - William Ferris grew up in eastern Mississippi, just outside Vicksburg.

Cornel West is an American philosopher, author, critic, pastor, actor, and civil rights activist.

While not a full-fledged Fresnan, blues artist Ron Thompson is something of a Fresno treasure.

Members of the Chicago blues group, Howard and The White Boys will perform at Morgan's Thunderbowl on Firday, Oct.

"According to most people's thinking, a guy that sits on a big bucket lookin' north, wearing a cap with the bib of the cap turned east, and he's got a jug of corn whiskey on his left side on the ground and his pants are torn on the south side of it, and he has a cigarette hanging on his lip that's west.

If you missed B.B. King's concert at the Aronoff Center Friday night, there's no reason to feel bad.

For tri-state Blues-lovers, bergenPAC is the place to be when Grammy Winners, Jonny Lang takes the stage with Robert Cray on Wednesday November 11th at 8 p.m. Lang made his bones as one of the hot, young blues guitar slingers of the '90s, playing alongside such legends as Buddy Guy and B.B. King.

This Saturday and Sunday night, Fleetwood Mac will perform in the O2 venue in Dublin to over 20,000 fans.

Jeff Chaz ; Woody Andrews ; Jim Wattlington . In Exile KINDRED SPIRITS: Rock it if you like dudes who should be kings, e.g. B.B. King, Albert King and Freddy King.

Attempts to pin a single label on guitarist and singer Robert Cray are pointless.

It's almost impossible to have a conversation about music history without talking about Memphis, Tennessee.

Catch the man with the mile-long blues resume Friday. Fifteen-time-Grammy-winning, legendary-guitar-playing octogenarian B.B. King - who somehow performs more than 250 concerts a year - breaks out Lucille at 8 p.m. Friday at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, 650 Walnut St., Downtown.

It should come as no surprise that Lovely by Surprise , Kirt Gunn's film about a fictional creation that leaps from the page to minimize a child's tragedy, is as lovely to listen to as it is to watch.

One day, about a year from now, Jimmy Bowskill will no longer be a teenage bluesman.