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Tonight's top show: James Cotton at Mayne Stage
James Cotton: As a boy growing up in Mississippi, Cotton learned to play harp from Sonny Boy Williamson, and later was a key member of Muddy Waters’ tough-as-nails Chicago blues band. Now he’s a band leader in his own right, with a series of...Tags: Mayne Stage
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Blues legend James Cotton tells his story, in song
Bluesman James Cotton has lived the kind of life they make movies about. He toiled on a Mississippi plantation from earliest childhood, found himself orphaned at age 9, practically was raised by blues master Sonny Boy Williamson II and flourished as a...
Tags: Music, Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Muddy Waters, Throat Cancer, Human Accomplishments
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Chicago Blues Festival: Shemekia Copeland, James Cotton to headline
Shemekia Copeland, Irma Thomas, Otis Clay, James Cotton and Billy Branch will be among the headliners at the 30th annual Chicago Blues Festival, running June 6 through 9. The festival, expanded to four days this year, will open for the first time at the...
Tags: Grant Park, Entertainment Events, Festive Events, Irma Thomas, Quinn Sullivan
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A rosy new stage for Sugar Blue
These are very sweet days for Sugar Blue. In a few months, he'll be a father once more, his wife and bass player Ilaria Lantieri expecting their first child together in late May or early June. In the meantime, the two — who own a home in...
Tags: Lionel Hampton, Apollo Theater, James Stewart, Frank Capra Jr., Music
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Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues
Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...
Tags: Lionel Hampton, Tourism and Leisure, Jazz (genre), Dominican University, Blues (genre)
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Singer/guitarist who filled in for ailing headliner at Valley festival dies five months later
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGAn iconic blues guitarist who filled in at this summer’s Blast Furnace Blues Festival at SteelStacks in Bethlehem when another headliner took ill died Thursday, his record label said. Magic Slim, 75, who with his Magic Slim and the Teardrops...... -
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... -
Bluesman James Cotton, after 60 years and health woes, says he plays better than ever
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGOver an almost unfathomable 60-year professional career, blues harmonica player James Cotton has played with many of the genre’s greatest names: Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters. He’s won a Grammy Award and been... -
ArtsQuest's Blast Furnace Blues festival is moving out (side)
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGWhat all-indoor festival? ArtsQuest's second Blast Furnace Blues festival, which was supposed to be among the SteelStacks festivals to move entirely indoors this year after disappointing crowds and weather last year, changed plans with forecasts... -
Grammy winner to headline annual Toys for Tots concert
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGA multiple Grammy and Blues Music Award-winning guitar player will headline the annual Toys for Tots concert drive by 2nd Story Blues Alliance, it has been announced. Joe Louis Walker, who dueted with B.B. King on King’s 1993 Grammy -winning...... -
Icon who played harmonica for most blues greats to headline 2nd Blast Furnace Blues festival at SteelStacks
Lehigh Valley MusicA blues singer and harmonica player who has performed with many of the greats of his day will headline the second annual Blast Furnace Blues festival, Sept. 14-16 at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, organizers just announced. James......
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