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August Wilson's words came straight from his soul
Stage and film legend James Earl Jones once said, "It's hard for an actor to go wrong if he's true to the words that August has written." As an actor and writer, I have found that statement to be true of only a few playwrights. There is usually at least...
Tags: 42 (movie), Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Broadway Theater, Poetry, Fences (music group)
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Chris Simmons & Royal Blue headlines Mount Dora Blues and Wine Festival
MOUNT DORA — The fifth annual Mount Dora Blues and Wine Festival will present headliners Chris Simmons & Royal Blue and Thomas Wynn and the Believers plus a host of other blues performers and styles in the three-day event. Opening-night...
Tags: Leon Russell, Tampa, Wines, Arts and Culture, Jackie Wilson
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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: Keb' Mo' , Howard Reich, Throat Cancer, Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Entertainment
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Riding metal's rails with the blues aboard
South Bend TribuneMaybe it’s the slow- driving distorted guitar line on “Foxhole.” Or the way that freight train groove turns into a free-for-all of distortion and wah-wah that takes you back to “Iron Man.” If you wager that The Midnight...Tags: Robert Johnson, Entertainment, Music Industry, Asthma, Music
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Students study stereotypes
South Bend Tribune CorrespondentSOUTH BEND -- Group presentations from two of University of Notre Dame professor Cyarina Johnson-Roullier’s English classes transformed the Civil Rights Heritage Center recently into a showcase of fighting stereotypes. The former segregated...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), September 11, 2001 Attacks, Tyra Banks, Justice and Rights, Separation of Church and State
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Muddy Waters' home, Chicago bridges make endangered list
Tribune reporterHistoric sites need money to survive. Some also need a little love. That's why some preservationists are optimistic that Muddy Waters' former home can be saved — at least it has people who want to preserve it. Other historic sites might not be...Tags: Beecher, Lifestyle and Leisure, Chicago Hotels, Human Interest, eBay Inc.
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Jackie Scott, recovering from surgery, reschedules her Hampton Block Party gig
Organizers of the Hampton Block Party have made a change to the entertainment for Saturday's season launch. Blues singer Jackie Scott has been replaced by Blues Empacts, Mojo Collins and Herbie D and the Dangermen. Scott had to reschedule her...
Tags: Lynyrd Skynyrd (music group), Blackbeard Pirate Festival, Buckroe, Beets, Widespread Panic (music group)
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Flynn a blues master of all instruments
South Bend TribunePick an instrument. Guitar. Bass. Drums. Piano. Harmonica. Even one of those double-stringed, scale-boggling mandolins, the kind Yank Rachell used to redefine Delta blues back in the day when bluesmen doubled as train hobos to get to their next gig. If...Tags: Concerts, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Paul McCartney, Entertainment
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Jumping at the 'Crossroads'
When Jody Williams took the stage Wednesday night at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, he didn't dive into a rendition of the blues standard "Don't Start Me to Talkin'." But it might have been appropriate. The 78-year-old Williams, a...
Tags: Lucinda Williams, Genres, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Bob Dylan
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Blues veterans to join in tribute
Ask Jody Williams about Howlin' Wolf's legacy, and he'll rattle off remarkable numbers about the old Chicago bluesman. Not chart statistics. Measurements. "Well, he was a pretty big man," said Williams, 78, who played guitar for Wolf (a.k.a. Chester...
Tags: Mick Jagger, B.B. King, Music, The Rolling Stones (music group), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Mojo Tour (2010)
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Who's afraid of Muddy and the Wolf?
In terms of record sales, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf have nothing on U2 or Mariah Carey — no No. 1 singles or albums between them. But pop music history would be inconceivable without their influence. Here are a few places it can be found:...Tags: Mariah Carey, Lisa Simpson (fictional character), Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan, Chester Arthur "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett
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PASSINGS: Magic Slim, Cleotha Staples, Lou Myers, Donald Rutledge
Magic Slim Singer of Chicago blues Magic Slim, 75, whose ragged voice and punchy guitar riffs made him a symbol of Chicago blues, died Thursday in Philadelphia after surgery for a bleeding ulcer, according to his family. A younger contemporary of...
Tags: Obituaries, New York University, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Celebrities
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