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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Blues Music News--3.25.12

 
Vallejo musicians inducted into West Coast Blues Hall of Fame
Vallejo Times-Herald
When Erokan started BAM and the BAMMIES, "one of my goals was to let everyone know about the great blues musicians living in the Bay Area like Charlie Musselwhite and John Lee Hooker." The West Coast Blues Hall began with a show in 1987 at the James ...
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Concert Review: Ruthie Foster at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA, March 23, 2012
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Foster drew from a wide variety of sources from her music. She explained that she grew up in Texas listening to country music, and then transmogrified Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" into a soulful blues ballad I think Cash would have loved, ...
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Seth Walker Brings His New Blues-Infused Americana to New CD
Guitar International
As Geoffrey Himes wrote for Nashville Scene, it was "one of the year's more interesting Americana albums, because its notion of roots music drew not just from the country-folk tradition but from blues and R&B as well." Leap of Faith was in the Top 10 ...
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Local teens are blues ambassadors to Singapore music fest
Yahoo! Philippines News (blog)
Making blues music is what they're really about and it shows even when Leobrera sometimes imitated the pained grimace of a rock guitarist on the throes of release from a winding electric solo. The trio were high school friends at the New Era College ...
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Yahoo! Philippines News (blog)
Music Review: Big Brother and the Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Despite only being 25 at the time, Joplin delivers the song like a blues veteran. The old standard, "Summertime," is given the heavy blues treatment here, with Big Brother's musical performance matching Joplin's heart-wrenching vocals note for note.
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Kevin Eubanks Trio settles in at Blues Alley
Washington Examiner
Guitarist Kevin Eubanks, perhaps best known for his 18-year stint as the music director of the Tonight Show Band (and Jay Leno's comic foil), closes out a four-day gig with two shows at Blues Alley on Sunday night. He will perform with his touring band ...
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Washington Examiner

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