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2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony May 18 on HBO
Channel Guide MagazineThe 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — the 28th annual event — took place April 18 at Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre, marking the first time since 1993 that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held on the West... -
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: Music Industry, Entertainment, Asthma, Music, Muddy Waters
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2013 induction a real Rush
It was an emotional roller-coaster at the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday night in Los Angeles, even more so than usual for the annual event. Consider disco queen Donna Summer, whose husband and three daughters accepted the...Tags: Deep Purple (music group), Entertainment, Nokia Theater, Awards and Prizes, Music
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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: Entertainment Events, Concerts, Hubert Sumlin, Eric Clapton, Entertainment
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Hampton acoustic blues fest will feature Scott Ainslie, Rooster Foot
![<a class="runtimeTopic" href="#">Blues</a> in its most elemental form will once again step into the spotlight at Thomas Nelson Community College later this month.](http://www.dailypress.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-03/68779330-13091711.jpg "<a class="runtimeTopic\" href=\"#\">Blues</a> in its most elemental form will once again step into the spotlight at Thomas Nelson Community College later this month.")
Blues in its most elemental form will once again step into the spotlight at Thomas Nelson Community College later this month.
The 11th edition of the Hampton Acoustic Blues Revival taking place Saturday, March 31, will feature blues historian and...Tags: Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Music Industry, Entertainment, Soul (genre), Thomas Nelson Community College
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Killing the Blues: Big Head Todd and the Monsters play Infinity Music Hall in Norfolk on Jan. 18
![<span style="font-size: medium;">A lazy, soul-funk version of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D4If0CnYRY" target="_blank">“Come On In My Kitchen”</a> kicks off <em>100 Years of Robert Johnson</em>, the new album by the Big Head Blues Club, an offshoot of the Colorado-based band <a href="http://www.bigheadtodd.com/" target="_blank">Big Head Todd and the Monsters</a> that adds, oh, just a few musicians you may have heard of: B.B. King, Ruthie Foster, Cedric Burnside, Honeyboy Edwards, Charlie Musselwhite, Lightnin’ Malcolm and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmRmG-fw-3Q" target="_blank">Hubert Sumlin, Howlin’ Wolf’s former guitarist who passed away in December</a>. </span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/198693020-06123735.jpg "<span style="font-size: medium;\">A lazy, soul-funk version of <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D4If0CnYRY\" target=\"_blank\">“Come On In My Kitchen”</a> kicks off <em>100 Years of Robert Johnson</em>, the new album by the Big Head Blues Club, an offshoot of the Colorado-based band <a href=\"http://www.bigheadtodd.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Head Todd and the Monsters</a> that adds, oh, just a few musicians you may have heard of: B.B. King, Ruthie Foster, Cedric Burnside, Honeyboy Edwards, Charlie Musselwhite, Lightnin’ Malcolm and <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmRmG-fw-3Q\" target=\"_blank\">Hubert Sumlin, Howlin’ Wolf’s former guitarist who passed away in December</a>. </span>")
A lazy, soul-funk version of “Come On In My Kitchen” kicks off 100 Years of Robert Johnson, the new album by the Big Head Blues Club, an offshoot of the Colorado-based band Big Head Todd and the Monsters that adds, oh, just a few musicians you...Tags: Entertainment Events, Music Industry, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group), Eric Clapton, Entertainment
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Album of the Day 1/24/12: William Elliot Whitmore - Field Songs
People talk all the time about artists painting a picture of a certain place or people with their songs. Few artists actually do it well and even fewer do it as well as William Elliot Whitmore.
According to his bio, William Elliot Whitmore was born...Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Artists, Music, Bill Monroe
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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: William Faulkner, Entertainment, Music, Ike Turner, B.B. King
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'He's the last of the bluesmen'
He was the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and -- for an extraordinary 80-plus years -- the voice of the Delta blues.
David "Honeyboy" Edwards picked cotton and pulled corn on Mississippi Delta plantations from age 9, living the hard...Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment Events, Chess Playing, Concerts, Entertainment
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Is this the twilight of blues music?
They buried Hubert Sumlin two weeks ago at Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery in Homewood, laying to rest the man whose ferocious guitar riffs galvanized Howlin' Wolf's classic recordings of the 1950s and '60s.
Just before Sumlin's casket was lowered...Tags: Entertainment, Jazz (genre), Music, Eddie Shaw, Bars and Clubs
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David 'Honeyboy' Edwards dies at 96; Chicago bluesman
![David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and had been in declining health with heart problems.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-08/64346651-29221243-187105.jpg "David "Honeyboy\" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and had been in declining health with heart problems.")
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and...Tags: Music Industry, Arts, Mississippi, Physical Conditions, Health
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Joe Louis Walker an original electric bluesman
Lehigh Valley MusicOn Dec. 16, Joe Louis Walker, with opening act Midnight Shift, will perform at the Gander Room on Bethlehem's South Side to celebrate the Lehigh Valley Blues Network’s 20th anniversary....
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