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Harmonica maestro Charlie Musselwhite wants to teach others the true blues
Lehigh Valley MusicWhen blues harmonica maestro Charlie Musselwhite decided as a teenager in Memphis, Tenn., that he wanted to learn the blues, there was only one way to do it: He sought out those who played it. And Musselwhite was fortunate enough...... -
Blues great scheduled for SteelStacks on Sunday dies of stroke
Lehigh Valley MusicWillie “Big Eyes” Smith, the Grammy Award-winning, longtime drummer with the Muddy Waters Band who was scheduled to appear for an all-star jam Sunday at ArtsQuest’s Blast Furnace Blues festival, died from a stroke Friday morning in his... -
Blast Furnace Blues fest a party, even in tribute to headliner who died
Lehigh Valley Music“I’m trying to start a party here,” Grammy Award-winning zydeco singer Chubby Carrier told the Musikfest Café crowd Sunday at the Blast Furnace Blues festival. Somebody sing!” Partying clearly was the atmosphere of the final day of... -
Westmont a harmonious blend of old and new
When gentrification raced through DuPage County's tonier suburbs during the late 20th century, it rambled through Westmont, whose history includes brick-making, Beanie Babies and blues.
Eighteen miles west of Chicago's Loop, the village of about 25,000...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Personal Service, Ty, Inc., World War II (1939-1945), Chicago Loop
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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: David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Ike Turner, Entertainment, Music Theater
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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, Chicago Tribune, Ike Turner, Mississippi, Human Interest
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South Bend guitarist remembers Pinetop Perkins
![<span style="font-size: small;">SOUTH BEND -- A local musical legend has died. Famous for his blues piano, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, passed away Monday. He was 97-years-old and still playing. One South Bend guitarist spent half of his life playing with the legend.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-03/60331234-22160030.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\">SOUTH BEND -- A local musical legend has died. Famous for his blues piano, Joe Willie \"Pinetop\" Perkins, passed away Monday. He was 97-years-old and still playing. One South Bend guitarist spent half of his life playing with the legend.</span>")
SOUTH BEND -- A local musical legend has died. Famous for his blues piano, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, passed away Monday. He was 97-years-old and still playing. One South Bend guitarist spent half of his life playing with the legend.
Just hours...Tags: Blues (genre), Texas
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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: Chest, Ike Turner, Texas
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Book review: 'Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World' by John Szwed
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAlan Lomax The Man Who Recorded the World John Szwed Viking: 438 pp., $29.95 Alan Lomax was a titanic figure whose ambitions were even greater than his formidable energies. Beginning his career as a folklorist in the 1930s with field recordings of...Tags: Louisiana, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Minority Groups, Culture
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Not quite hard times for Social Distortion and Mike Ness
During his three decades at the helm of Social Distortion, singer, guitarist and songwriter Mike Ness has repeatedly turned to the rich vein of his own hardscrabble life as a hell-raising teen and then a heroin-addicted rock musician.
But in putting...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Nine Inch Nails (music group), Orange County (California), Punk (genre), Trent Reznor
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New Social Distortion offers changes in content, not style
BURBANK, Calif. - During his three decades at the helm of Social Distortion, singer, guitarist and songwriter Mike Ness has repeatedly turned to the rich vein of his own hardscrabble life as a hell-raising teen and then a heroin-addicted rock musician....Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Punk (genre), Celebrities and Health Issues, Country and Western (genre), Music Industry
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Bringing Big Bill Broonzy back into the spotlight
He was one of the most celebrated blues artists of his era, a visionary Chicago singer-songwriter who mentored Muddy Waters, introduced the music to Europe and inspired no less than Eric Clapton, Ray Davies and Pete Townshend (as they've all acknowledged)...Tags: George Szell, Pete Townshend, University of Chicago, Eric Clapton, Ray Davies
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