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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.

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.

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.

IT'S BEEN 36 YEARS SINCE BOBBY HANSON and Michael Amburgey first started making music together as a team.

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 ...

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.

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

“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

“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

Bruce Hornsby, shown here, will team up with Ricky Skaggs to play the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall next Thursday. via The Gazette

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

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

“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

“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

The Civil Rights Movement galvanized young Americans in the early 1960's, regardless of ethnicity. via Mondo trudeau

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