Blues

Bobby Blue Bland - Bobby Blue Band

Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | yesterday

in post The Southern Dream of Freedom from An Aquarium Drunkard .

CARLOS DEL JUNCO: Blues Mongrel (2005) NorthernBlues Music

BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | yesterday

Live Recording ... As any Blues historian will tell you, Jazz, Rock ‘n Roll and Hip Hop are all hybrids of the Blues. Taking all of this one step further Carlos Del Junco (harpist, singer, songwriter, frontman) presents himself as a “Blues Mongrel” and I’m not quite sure who or what Mother Blues hooked up with to create this man, but I will say that it’s a very refreshing approach, albeit a little...

My Mississippi Manifest Destiny: Robert Johnson's Crossroads

Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday

After a brief respite, My Mississippi Manifest Destiny is back. After leaving Mound Bayou, I motored up north to Clarksdale. Which brought me to the site, where legend has it, pioneering bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil--the crossroads of Highway 61 and Highway 49. I had trouble finding the iconic sign pictured above--Highway 61 was re-routed decades ago, so the crossroads is on the...

Johnson-Sirleaf Breaks Ground for New Culture Center

All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has broken grounds for the construction of a new National Culture Center along the Marshall Road in Margibi County.

Nancy Watkins comes to Buddy's aid

tampabay.com blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

GOP heavyweight Nancy Watkins has taken the reins as campaign treasurer for Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson. Watkins, an accountant, said she has been handling the duties since April, when Johnson "had a problem brought on suddenly where he...

RONNIE EARL: I Feel Like Goin' On (2003) Stony Plain

BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | yesterday

Recorded at Wellspring Sound, Acton, Massachusetts. (Live Recording) Personnel: Ronnie Earl, Jose Alvarez (guitar); Dave Limina (piano, organ); Jimmy Mouradian (bass); Lorne Entress (drums); Silver Leaf Gospel Singers. Living Blues (6/03, p.73) - "...[Earl] remains an artist of deep integrity, with unerring technique and a finely honed aesthetic sensibility..." The year 2003 marks a few milestones...

Making Mountain Out of Mole Hill

Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | yesterday

Since no one in my team knew how to write Firefox plugin nor ActiveX, I had to wade into the muddy waters again. Firefox was pleasant enough so it took just a weekend. Feeling great, I started on the ActiveX (actually a BHO) version today (yesterday? time sure flies) only to discover I'll have to dig deeper than usual, to the mucky land of asynchonous pluggable protocol, just to do what I was able...

Steve Lopez:

LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Control, discipline and high expectations emerge at Green Dot campus that under L.A. Unified was a dysfunctional mess. I t's almost 8 a.m. on 111th Street in Watts, and here's a scene that could make a cynic faint:

Jobless benefits now last longer - so will your wait

Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday

Charles Brown lost his wife to cancer and lost his job for taking time off to care for her. The 56-year-old Orlando man thought he finally had caught a break when Congress extended unemployment benefits by an additional 13 weeks, effective this month.

Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers

Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream (Free subscription) | yesterday

Slash 'n burn slide guitarist Hound Dog Taylor was a polydactyly bluesman. That's right patients, a six fingered, six-string slinger. Crazy, we know, a medical condition that got the attention of our rock 'n roll stethoscopes. Apparently, Hound Dog had a wee sixth digit on each hand. But like all great bluesman lore, he amputated the extra digits one hazy night while drunk offa moonshine. Sure 'nuff...

Lesson From Olivia – Be Smart About Blogging For Profit

BlogHer (Free subscription) | yesterday

One of the amazing things that happened at BlogHer 2008 was the beginning of mainstream media outreach to certain bloggers to create content for their existing web sites or new blog portals. This is not a bad thing. I repeat, it is extraordinary good thing that type of opportunity is taking place. However, there are parts of my mind that are howling like an old yappy dog. Something is amiss. I can’t...

Mountain West media day: 5 Utes make preseason All-Mountain West team

Block U (Free subscription) | yesterday

Yesterday the preseason All-Mountain West team was announced and the Utes had five players on it. OL Robert Conley was the only player selected on offense, while DL Paul Kruger, DB Brice McCain and DB Robert Johnson all made the defensive list. Louie Sakoda was selected as the preseason Special Teams Player of the Year. Here's the whole list: 2008 Preseason All-Mountain West Football Team Position...

• BYU, Utah Utes football: MWC preseason selections - Deseret Morning News

Fricke’s Picks: Vintage Urban Pop

Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

There was a time, in the first half of the 1900s, when boogie and blues pianists were as urban and commercial as Jay-Z, making black pop and party music about no money, mo’ problems. Classic Piano Blues (Smithsonian Folkways) stars Meade “Lux” Lewis, Champion Jack Dupree, James P. Johnson, Sammy Price and other masters in [...]

Jesse Fuller, creator and master of the fotdella

The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

(a contraption with a pedal bass for the one foot, high-hat for the other, guitar for the hands, harmonica and kazoo mounted on a neck bracket)

Morning Soul: Kill Dem Wit It Now

Soulbounce.com (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

You know you want to take a sip of The Diddy. [WH]Pharrell Williams has a bun in the oven. [PC]B.B. King digs deep into his blues roots on his new CD. [BB]Does Jennifer Hudson have any friends? Cause they...