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Did Buddy Guy show his age in Bethlehem at '76 years young'?
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGBlues guitar legend Buddy Guy sang at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center on Friday night, "I'm 76 years young, there ain't nothing I haven't done." I believe it. Guy played with John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He...... -
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... -
Mac Arnold: blues traveler
Mac Arnold sounds completely at home on his sweat-raising 2011 recording, "Blues Revival." Captured on-stage at the Grey Eagle club in Greenville, S.C. — about 15 miles from the rural hamlet of Pelzer, where he grew up and currently resides —...
Tags: Entertainment, Otis Redding, Music, John Lee Hooker
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Kennedy Center Honors Letterman, Led Zeppelin
CNNWASHINGTON -- An array of talents was on display Sunday at the Kennedy Center Honors gala where President Barack Obama toasted the lifetime achievements of an iconic ballerina, a famed comedian, a timeless actor and two chart-topping musical acts. In the...Tags: Theater, Barack Obama, White House, Robert Plant, Thad Cochran
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Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest'
3.5 stars (out of 4) It’s official. On his latest album, “Tempest” (Columbia), Bob Dylan has become Tommy Lee Jones in “No Country for Old Men.” Like Jones in the Coen brothers’ 2007 film adaptation of Cormac...
Tags: Tommy Lee Jones, Entertainment, Poetry, John Lennon, Ethan Coen
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Band Spotlight: Junior & The Igniters
The band: Junior Combs — lead guitar, vocals Jesse Lee Scutchfield — lead vocals, stand-up bass Mike McCalmet — drums How they started: Best friends Junior Combs and Jesse Lee Scutchfield had grown up in North Judson playing...
Tags: Blues (genre), Lucinda Williams, Harley-Davidson Inc., Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Carbon Jam, Anthony Rosano and his Conqueroos win at Blues Challenge contest in Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach youth band Carbon Jam and Norfolk's Conqueroos on Sunday were picked as winners in the Hampton Roads round of the International Blues Challenge. The competition, held at the Virginia Beach Jewish Mother and presented by the Natchel'...
Tags: Entertainment, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Music, Religion and Belief, Ocean View
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Homemade Jamz Blues Band concert review: You've never heard a car muffler sound this amazing
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOG"What do you guys think about these things?" 20-year-old Ryan Perry asked the crowd at Americaplatz Monday night, gesturing to the strange tubular metal contraption hanging from his shoulder. "Look pretty weird?" That thing was, in fact, a guitar made....... -
Dukes of September are super as they deliver a revue for the '60s and '70s generation
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGHere’s the lowdown on Dukes of September Rhythm Revue. Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald and Donald Fagen have got a really good thing going. And that’s a really good thing for fans of the poppy, jazzy, bluesy, soulful hybrid styles of the Doobie... -
1962: The year the music changed
The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.The year 1962 did not seem to portend great things in the world of pop music. The brightest lights of '50s music -- including Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley -- were either inactive, in jail, or not making the kind ofrock 'n' roll that made...Tags: Little Richard, The Rolling Stones (music group), Brian Wilson, Brian Jones, EMI Group Ltd.
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The creative stew that was Bronzeville
![On Nov. 22, 1981, the Rolling Stones paid tribute to black history at the Checkerboard Lounge on East 43rd Street. In town for concerts at the then-Rosemont Horizon, the famed rock group made a pilgrimage to the South Side, where their musical style and name were born. They shared the blues joint's tiny stage with Muddy Waters, whose song "Mannish Boy" had the refrain: <i>"I'm a rollin' stone."</i>](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/68026985-11154001-187105.jpg "On Nov. 22, 1981, the Rolling Stones paid tribute to black history at the Checkerboard Lounge on East 43rd Street. In town for concerts at the then-Rosemont Horizon, the famed rock group made a pilgrimage to the South Side, where their musical style and name were born. They shared the blues joint's tiny stage with Muddy Waters, whose song "Mannish Boy\" had the refrain: <i>\"I'm a rollin' stone.\"</i>")
On Nov. 22, 1981, the Rolling Stones paid tribute to black history at the Checkerboard Lounge on East 43rd Street. In town for concerts at the then-Rosemont Horizon, the famed rock group made a pilgrimage to the South Side, where their musical style and...Tags: Bronzeville, The Rolling Stones (music group), Savoy (music group), Chicago Loop, Checkerboard Lounge
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Donald 'Duck' Dunn dead at 70: A soul rhythm-section great
Donald “Duck” Dunn, who died Sunday at age 70 in Tokyo only hours after playing his final show with longtime friend Steve Cropper, was part of one of soul music’s greatest rhythm sections. Dunn was a self-taught bass player who had been...
Tags: Stevie Nicks, Al Jackson, Neil Young, James Brown, Entertainment
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