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A sound check along the Memphis-to-Nashville 'Music Highway'
Special to The Los Angeles TimesMemphis, Tenn. Knowing how obsessed Elvis fans can be, I wasn't surprised when my wife and I drove up to the Heartbreak Hotel and found, true to the song's lyrics, that it was actually "down at the end of Lonely Street" and that the desk clerk was...Tags: Memphis, Trips and Vacations, Garth Brooks, Culture, Happiness (state of mind)
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Tina Turner may become a Swiss citizen, give back U.S. passport
Tina Turner wants to become a Swiss citizen, and love has everything to do with it. If you've been wondering what the iconic diva has been up to lately, she's been living in Kuesnacht, a Zurich suburb, since 1995. A Swiss paper wrote Friday that the...Tags: Entertainment, Phil Collins, Lindsay Lohan, Tina Turner, Shania Twain
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Jim Shea: On 12-12-12, Nothing Big Has Happened, So Far
The Hartford CourantToday's date is 12-12-12. OK, first the good news, 12-12-12 is not the date on which the world is scheduled to end. That will not be happening until a week from Friday, so breathe easy. Frankly I'm getting tired of all these end-of-the-world deadlines....Tags: Peter Boyle, Google Inc., Bob Barker, Jennifer Connelly, Frank Sinatra
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Andre Williams, Rock 'n' Roll's Happily Tacky Senior Citizen, Visits Cafe Nine on Dec. 1
Andre Williams w/ Barrence Whitfield & the Savages and Bronson Rock. $15. 9 p.m., Dec. 1. Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven, cafenine.com. As of November 1, Andre Williams has officially spent 76 years on Earth, and that cautionary proverb about...
Tags: Stevie Wonder, Entertainment, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Andre Williams, Music Industry
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2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)
It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...
Tags: Entertainment, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Robert Goulet, Solomon Burke, Karlheinz Stockhausen
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André 3000's Jimi Hendrix biopic underway without estate support
Pop & HissWhen it was announced that André Benjamin – better known as Outkast’s André 3000 -- would be portraying iconic guitarist Jimi Hendrix in a biopic, it finally put to rest years of rumors of who would channel the psychedelic rocker on the big... -
The Oxford American's 13th Annual Music Issue: Incredible
Holy mackerel. The Oxford American’s annual music issue is always good, but this new one -- number 13 -- is a staggering piece of work. Possibly the best-ever stocking stuffer for the music nerd in your family. (It’ll pretty much fill up a...Tags: Entertainment, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, William Faulkner, Arts and Culture
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Delta blues legend won a Grammy at age 97
Pinetop Perkins lived the blues.
Born on a cotton plantation near Belzoni, Miss., in 1913, he worked the fields from age 7, drove a truck for a living at 18 and got stabbed in the arm in his late 20s.
The barroom attack tore his tendons and cut his...Tags: Music, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Entertainment, B.B. King, Muddy Waters
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Pinetop Perkins dies at 97; Mississippi Delta blues piano player
Pinetop Perkins, a regal piano player who was one of the last of the original Mississippi Delta blues musicians, died Monday of cardiac arrest at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 97.
"He was absolutely the premier blues piano player," said Bruce...Tags: David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Texas, B.B. King, Celebrities and Bad Behavior, Muddy Waters
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'O's Best Advice Ever!: Make Over Your Life with Oprah & Friends' by the editors of O, The Oprah Magazine
![I can count on two hands the number of times I've watched full episodes of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," but I've read two of her other "O, The Oprah Magazine" books — 2010's "Love Your Life!" and 2009's "Dream Big!" — and enjoyed them so much that I was all set to read 2011's "O's Best Advice Ever!"](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/65285188-08045838-187105.jpg "I can count on two hands the number of times I've watched full episodes of "The Oprah Winfrey Show,\" but I've read two of her other \"O, The Oprah Magazine\" books — 2010's \"Love Your Life!\" and 2009's \"Dream Big!\" — and enjoyed them so much that I was all set to read 2011's \"O's Best Advice Ever!\"")
Tribune NewspapersI can count on two hands the number of times I've watched full episodes of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," but I've read two of her other "O, The Oprah Magazine" books — 2010's "Love Your Life!" and 2009's "Dream Big!" — and enjoyed them so much...Tags: Entertainment, Talk Shows (genre), Jerry Seinfeld, Friends (tv program), Barbra Streisand
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FROM THE EDITOR
Just some random observations on a Monday morning ... - Mr. Yuk: His face says it all. He's putrid green with his tongue sticking out. It can only mean "Mr. Yuk" has found something unsafe for human consumption. Some enterprising "artist" used Mr. Yuk...Tags: Elections, Native Americans, Travel, Celebrities and Bad Behavior, Politics
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Legendary bluesman Pinetop Perkins dead at 97
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The manager for Pinetop Perkins says the Grammy winner and one of the last old-school bluesmen has died at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 97. Hugh Southard says Perkins woke up with chest pains and died of cardiac arrest on...Tags: Texas, Muddy Waters, Chest
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