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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Blues Music News--4.10.12

 
Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes packs star-quality power in her blues-rock voice
New York Daily News
Brittany Howard sings a musical phrase like a track and field star throws a shot put. She'll lean far back in a note, pausing to amass lung power and heft. Then, in a burst, she'll hurl the phrase to the sky, hitting her target with the aim of an ...
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New York Daily News
Music Review: Scissormen - Big Shoes: Walking & Talking the Blues (CD + DVD)
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
As for the music, I like the song "Big Shoes," about finding and staking out a claim to your own place in the blues. I also like "Whiskey and MaryJane," but the rest of the songs are just okay. For me, songs are strongest when they reflect something ...
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Music Review: Tab Benoit - Legacy: The Best of Tab Benoit
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
The Louisiana-based blues guitarist and singer offers fourteen highlights from ten albums released on the Telarc label. The gritty tracks make a powerful case for Benoit both as an interpreter of other artist's material as well as a solid songwriter in ...
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Music Master Johnny Colon and DJ Turmix Bring Back Boogaloo
Fox News
Those were the days, such special days, he recalls – when he filled Le Poisson Rouge, known then as the Village Gate, with revelers who listened raptly while he played Latino Boogaloo, a blend of percussion, blues, jazz, Afro-American music and, ...
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Blues on the bay this weekend
Tampa Bay Newspapers
PETERSBURG - The Tampa Bay Blues Festival heats up downtown St. Petersburg, running Friday through Sunday, April 13-15, at Vinoy Waterfront Park, 500 Bay Shore Drive NE. Since 1995, the biggest names in blues music have traveled to the area to play the ...
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Tampa Bay Newspapers
New Music Tuesday: Counting Crows, Curtis Salgado, Florence And The Machine ...
Blinded By Sound
I was at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis last year and Kate Moss asked if I wanted to go Wild Bill's, the last juke joint still running in Memphis, with her and a group of others to hear some folks jamming with a damn good house band.
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Music Review: Bonnie Raitt returns with songs that put her back in the musical ...
Washington Post
"Slipstream" is infused with the blues. Raitt plays her trademark slide guitar on some of the best tracks — from that opener "Used to Rule the World" to the Dylan cover "Million Miles" and another new song, "Split Decision." Befitting a blues album, ...
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South Puget Sound Live Music and DJs Calendar: Sunday, April 15, 2012
Weekly Volcano
Puget Sound Music For Youth Performances & Jam Session. All Ages. 2 pm. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. Marine View Presbyterian Church Tacoma - Northeast. Blues Night, featuring The Randy Oxford Band.
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South Puget Sound Live Music and DJ Calendar: Saturday, April 14, 2012
Weekly Volcano
Ivan & Alyosha, Arlo Guthrie, Gray Sky Blues Festival, KC Brakes, Leezy Soprano, Momma's Headtrip and others ... By Rachel Thorne on April 10, 2012 IVAN & ALYOSHA: They'll perform in a room lit only by candles. Photo credit: José Mandojana Pantages ...
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Album review: The Alabama Shakes' 'Boys & Girls'
Los Angeles Times
The Alabama Shakes' first album, "Boys & Girls," is an electric jolt that anyone who loves blues-based rock music should track down immediately. Consisting of three men and one young explosion named Brittany Howard on vocals and guitar, the group, ...
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Blogs
 
LONE STAR STATE BLUES COMES TO WTBA 4/14/12 | KRNN
By Staff
The blues of Texas are celebrated in honor of Folk Festival Week. As Gavin, the dog, stands proudly before the Texas flag, you are invited to join John, your host, as he plays some of the best in Texas blues music on Walking The Blues Away, ...
KRNN

Web
 
6th Annual SOOTS Benefit Blues Revue - News - Music Maker ...
We hope you can make it for the 6th SOOTS Benefit Blues Revue, featuring Justin & The Mary Annettes, John Dee Holeman and Tad Walters! It will be a great ...
www.musicmaker.org/.../6th-annual-soots-benefit-blues-revue/
Mr. Salsich's Class - Singing the Blues
A music that is closely related to jazz is the blues. The blues also originated in the African American communities of the south. Blues music is often about ...
jmsalsich.edublogs.org/2012/04/05/singing-the-blues/

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