Blues Music News--4.15.12

All smiles at Blues festival at Jacksonville Beach; 1 more day Florida Times-Union Patti Lord dances on a sunny, cool Saturday at the Seawalk Pavilion during the George's Music Springing the Blues Music Festival. George's Music Springing the Blues Festival finishes up today at SeaWalk Pavilion in Jacksonville Beach. See all stories on this topic »

Coachella Day 1: Blues take the stage with Gary Clark Jr. and the Black Keys Entertainment Weekly (blog) Coachella will never be a roots music mecca. The Sahara tent swarms with MDMA-scrambled rave kids. Its guitar rock typically skews to the arch British side—Oasis, Wu Lyf, and Pulp play major stage sets this weekend. But the blues is having a strange ... See all stories on this topic »

Musicians unite for Wassenhove South Bend Tribune The owner of The Midway Tavern & Dancehall in Mishawaka, Wassenhove has built the Midway into one of the Midwest's most celebrated blues venues and a home to local bands of all genres since she reintroduced live music in 1991 at the club, ... See all stories on this topic »

Top blues artists converge at downtown fest The Advocate "The music keeps me going," said the Alsen native, 1998 Grammy nominee and Louisiana's oldest known living blues pianist still performing in public. "That and I've got a young wife." Gray was one of numerous local and national musicians taking part in ... See all stories on this topic »

Guns N' Roses, Chili Peppers Bring Magic to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction RollingStone.com "I don't know that it matters who's here tonight, because it's about the music that these bands played," Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan said during his induction speech. Minutes after making that point, McKagan walked over across to the stage to ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

The SXSW Experience ThirdCoast Digest The language barrier prevented any deep conversations about the band's clear appreciation of American blues music, but I managed a "Mi favorito," and they were off. Roughly 250000 people flock to Austin every spring for the massive music, ... See all stories on this topic » ThirdCoast Digest

The stars were shining at the Rock Hall of Fame induction ceremony Boston Herald "Long live the blues and long live Freddie King," Hill said before giving way to King's daughter, Wanda King, who accepted the honor for her father. King, briefly overcome with emotion, thanked the fans and the many musicians influenced by her father ... See all stories on this topic »

Brothers at the Flowerpot Ripley Today Over the past 40 years, the band has been hailed as rock innovators, one of the earliest of British blues bands. With founder guitarist Kim Simmonds at the helm, they helped launch the 1967 UK blues boom movement that brought blues music back to the ... See all stories on this topic » Ripley Today

Still running around: Blues Traveler celebrates 25 years, set to play State ... Washington Examiner AP News in Brief at 5:58 am EDT Blues Traveler, the jam rock band fronted by the harmonica-playing John Popper that made it big in the mid-'90s, is celebrating its 25th year as a band. That's how long many big names in the music industry have been on ... See all stories on this topic »

Guns N' Roses, Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys join Rock Hall USA TODAY Also inducted at the annual bash — now held every three years near the Rock Hall site in Cleveland, alternating with New York— were the late blues guitarist Freddie King, singer/songwriters Donovan and the late Laura Nyro, funk rockers Red Hot Chili ... See all stories on this topic » USA TODAY

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Blues, Trauma, Existential Vulnerability | Psychology Today By Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. With roots in African music, the blues was born in the Mississippi delta as a distinctively African American musical genre in response to the de-humanizing traumas of slavery and its aftermath. It has origins in spirituals, work songs, field hollers, ... Psychology Today Blogs