The Joy of Sox (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
On November 25, 1976, the five members of The Band -- Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson - played their last concert together. It was billed as The Last Waltz . The Thanksgiving Day show (all 5,000 tickleholders were given a full sit-down turkey dinner before the show) was held at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom and was filmed by Martin Scorsese. Besides...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers From The New York Times: SIXTY-FIVE years ago, in November 1944, the war in Europe was at a stalemate. A resurgent Wehrmacht had halted the Allied armies along Germany’s borders after its headlong retreat across northern France following D-Day. From Holland to France, the front was static — yet thousands of Allied soldiers continued to die in futile battles to reach...
Artmanjosephgrech (Free subscription) | yesterday
12.00 I make up just under fifty artman glitter cards while watching Prime Minister’s Question Time. For once the Liberal democrat leader was the most effective with a question about the position of the Ghurkhas, an issue where I expect the government and the rest of Parliament to give in, if there is sufficient public support, He was also powerful about Iraq but covered old ground and would...
with both hands (Free subscription) | yesterday
Terry Sullivan is nothing like me. She is graceful,musical, delicate, intellectually serious, tough-minded, moral but never moralizing, good humored, but never over-the-top. She is 100% Woman,but no feminist. She is very easy on the eyes and reminds me of Audrey Hepburn and Jennifer Jones. We take long drives out of the city and into the rural beauty that is Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan....
Corporate Engagement (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Originally posted 12 January I got hooked on the blues back in the late sixties when I discovered my white heroes (eg Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Johhny Winter) had some very cool black heroes (e.g. Robert Johnson,Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker). In fact, I think John Lee Hooker might just be the coolest guy ever. One brief story. When as an old man, and recently ‘re-discovered’ and...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Aaron Miller The Last Waltz - Done LIVE Sunday, November 22nd Club DeVille ( 900 Red River St ) 7pm, $5 with canned food donation for Cap Area Food bank, $10 otherwise [ info ] Martin Scorsese's classic The Last Waltz has been quite the muse for many, many, many a film-minded musician-artist-type person. Ever since this 35mm beauty debuted back in 1978. The universal appeal of this flick is not just...
Nightwatcher's House Of Rock (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Blues rock guitar fanatics were in seventh heaven this past Thursday, November 12th as a plethora of guitar stars turned out for the crowning of Guitar Center's 2009 King Of The Blues winner in front of a capacity crowd at The House Of Blues Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California. The culmination of competitions held across the country, it was now down to the final five, Kirby Kelley, Graham Whitford,...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Wikipedia Ian Siegal (born Ian Berry in 1971) is a British blues singer and guitarist, whose style reflects the more rootsy side of the genre, drawing on influences such as Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Son House, Junior Kimbrough and Tom Waits.
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Downbeat: The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology. Edited and Compiled By Frank Alkyer. In July of 1934 the first issue of DownBeat magazine hit newsstands in Chicago. For the next seven-plus decades and counting the publication has been synonymous with jazz. DownBeat has chronicled every facet of jazz; every trend; every new and emerging sound. They have charted the birth and rise...
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 [...]
I ♥ MUSIQUE (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Part 1 Part 2 75. Ryan Adams - The Shadowlands ( Love Is Hell , 2004) Listen “ God please bring the rain ” is the first line which sets the tone for this this heartbreakingly slow song, best listened to in a dark room with a lot of red wine (or is that the worst way to listen to it'). It’s taken from my favourite Adams album (and there’s a fair few to choose from), and it’s...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Sure, Christopher Owens's life story sounds like a bit much , what with the being raised in a cult, and having a millionaire savior and ending up in one of the most critically hailed and widely embraced bands of the year. Ever the suspicious type, The Village Voice decided to look into the Girls lead singer's claims and the verdict is that Owens is likely telling the truth . The paper found bits of...
Birkdale Lib Dems blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I am indebted to my colleague Cllr Tatersall for the report below on a bit of this morning's cabinet meeting. David is a trained journalist-good (Pitman) shorthand and takes an excellent verbatim quote down accurately . I mention this only because we have a certain councillor who has been known to insist that minutes of meetings are changed because they didn't say xxxx. Tiresome when many of us were...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
KOCHI: The namesake of the LDF candidate in the Ernakulam byelection did rather well compared to UDF candidate’s namesakes who could mop up only two-digit votes. K.U. Seenulal, who apparently hoped to corner a sizeable chunk of the ...
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