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Boro Blues Fest to provide stirring music plus a little education
Get ready to sing the blues. The third annual Boro Blues Fest kicks off Sept. 12 and continues Sept.
"In Search of the Blues" by Marybeth Hamilton . Lead Belly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton - we are all familiar with these legends of the Delta blues.
Legend's storytelling skills shine through
A full moon low in the sky behind the main stage, Rufus Wainwright closed out the 15th annual Ottawa Folk Festival on the main stage last night.
The Mighty Sound of Leadbelly's Blues
Louisiana Bluesman Leadbelly was discovered in a jail in 1934 and later went on to write such classics as "Midnight Special" and "Goodnight, Irene." He was also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Amburgey & Hanson still have the blues
IT'S BEEN 36 YEARS SINCE BOBBY HANSON and Michael Amburgey first started making music together as a team.
Master-mentor relationships help keep an American music form pure.
No American music has a richer mythology than the blues. There's the gripping lore surrounding blues music's first superstar, Robert Johnson, who allegedly sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads ...
County judge urges support of regional live music events
They may be singing the blues at the Third Annual T-Bone Walker Blues Fest in Linden, but the spirit of cooperation is anything but blue.
Bourgeois Blues by Lead Belly & This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie
WITH A NAME like his, it's no surprise that Moses Asch became a man with a mission.
Just-unearthed FBI records in Tiny Robinson and John Reynolds' new book, "Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures," reveal how the folk and blues... Comments >> No comments yet. via Woo Factor
Orrin Hatch and John McCain, Hipsters
“Hatch's heart is in the right place, but he has the wrong decade”
"Forever together / America is the land we're fighting for / There's a time in history / for a hero's destiny / together forever more," says Hatch's song, co-written with composer Philip Springer, famous for ... via Daily Kos
April 21, 2008 - Groundbreaking for Millennium-Ledbetter Film Studio
“I'm ecstatic about this innovative public-private partnership and commend council members for seeing the value of this project and supporting it”
LEDBETTER FILM STUDIO On Tuesday April 22, 2008 at 300 Douglas Street, between Travis and Fannin, Shreveport Mayor Cedric B. Glover will chart another first! At 10:00 am Mayor Glover and City Council members ... via Ci.shreveport.la.us
Skaggs, Hornsby will team up, Kottke will play alone
Bruce Hornsby, shown here, will team up with Ricky Skaggs to play the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall next Thursday. via The Gazette
Reviews: Classic African American Gospel and Salvation Station, NewWorldSon
Music Classic African American Gospel. Various Artists. . There's 'old school' and then there's 'back in the day.' Smithsonian Folkway Recordings' Classic African American Gospel is clearly 'back ... via South Florida Sun-Sentinel
For those of you in need of a Dallas music edumication, every couple of weeks the old fart stinkin' up the Unfair Park offices will scour his dusty collection of 78s and eight-tracks and upload a hopefully not ... via Dallas Observer
Need to address racism in community
On a visit to Washington, D.C., to record for the Library of Congress, the late black folk musician Lead Belly was so discriminated against that he wrote a song condemning the city, 'The Bourgeois Blues.' 'The ... via News-Gazette Letters to the Editor St...
This week's Big Thing includes a series of oversized kitchen implements . Buy your ToDo Tattoo Kit here . via Biomes Blog
Bending the birth of the blues
“With a high-handedness so monumental it is almost disarming”
Researchers may just have found what they wished Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a "Leadbelly," was the linchpin of the Delta blues. via Boston Globe
Brave Hart: Alvin Youngblood Hart
“I did my part of the song, and I was back on the road, and she came in a week later and overdubbed some things.”
"I'm pondering my future in the music business," Hart announces from his Memphis home on the eve of his winter tour with his musical brethren, North Mississippi Allstars . via JamBase
Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement and songwriter Bob Dylan
The Civil Rights Movement galvanized young Americans in the early 1960's, regardless of ethnicity. via Mondo trudeau
Leadbelly's Connection To The Former Black Arabs
Posted in Football at 7:31 pm by GC Saturday's 1-0 home result over Southampton puts Bristol Rovers in the FA Cup's quarterfinals for the first time in half century, an occasion that is undoubtedly being ... via Can't Stop The Bleeding