RochesterConservative.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
From Wikipedia: Samuel “Magic Sam” Gene Maghett was born in Grenada, Mississippi and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter. He moved th Chicago in 1950 and started playing in the West Side blues clubs. In 1963, he gained national attention for his single “Feelin’ Good (We’re [...]
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
From Private Elvis , a collection of sleazy photos of G.I. era Elvis on leave in Paris having fun, long out of print.... From Pic mag, May, '56, a digest size sleaze mag... Nowadays, anytime some weenie pulls out a guitar there's twelve morons with a camera phone there to document the event, but there are very few great recordings from rock'n'roll's golden era. There are no great live recordings from...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A leading figure of the largely overlooked Nashville blues scene, Johnny Jones was an outstanding guitarist who helped to launch the musical career of Jimi Hendrix. And it was with a Hendrix tune, Purple Haze, that Jones first attracted attention in the UK. He was born in 1936 in the small Tennessee town of Edes to a musical family. His father sang in local gospel groups, and his grandmother had a...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sounds like golden outtakes from lost sessions where James Brown's backing band got together with Booker T and the MGs at the Stax studios with an insanely talented batch of unknown singers. Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon: the trifecta of Chicago blues. Magic Sam, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells: also men of stature in the Windy City tradition. Elmore James, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed: the list of...
On the Wilder Side (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Ken The Rocket Korb and Lora Kendal http://www.bellport.com/redriver play the Little Walter tune “It Ain’t Right” at the PeaceSmiths 2009 Dinner/Concert. http://www.peacesmiths.org The event was hosted by Sonny Meadows. Video by Wilderside Media (Ian and Kimberly Wilder) http://www.onthewilderside.com
Earvolution (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
By: David SchultzA dramatized history of Chess Records, Cadillac Records turns out to be a threadbare and homogenized account of the rise of the label’s most well-known stable of stars: Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter and Etta James. The movie peaks early with its opening scenes ripped from the pages of Can’t Be Satisfied, Robert Gordon’s wonderful biography...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Our Rubber City Reviewer reads about his favorite bluesman's messy life — and plays back a few highlights.
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Asks Gregory Kane, a conservative Republican columnist : "I call it 'dissing talented black folks.' And the trend is downright alarming. Let’s begin with perhaps the most obvious: Does anybody in BlackAmericaWeb.com’s reading audience get the feeling, as I do, that a woman has to have a Hispanic surname in order to be a finalist in the Miss Universe pageant? Stefania Fernandez of Venezuela...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Street dancing will never, ever die.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Bluesman Abu Talib, who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, has died. He was 70.
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Chicago bluesman Abu Talib, who performed under his given name, Freddy Robinson , has lost his battle with cancer. Robinson -- who played alongside the likes of Ray Charles , Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, John Mayall, Jimmy Rogers, Monk Higgins, Bobby "Blue" Bland and Mighty Joe Young -- died last Thursday, Oct. 8, in a Lancaster, Calif. hospital at the age of 70....
ABC 7 News - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Bluesman Abu Talib... who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name... Freddy Robinson... has died. He was 70. from ABC 7 News
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Bluesman Abu Talib, who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, has died. He was 70.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Bluesman Abu Talib, who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, has died. He was 70.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
LANCASTER, Calif. -- Bluesman Abu Talib, who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, has died. He was 70.
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