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Manitowoc's celebration of the waterfront, the annual Riverwalk Festival, marks its 20th year on Sunday.

The fifth annual Pender Harbour Blues Festival brought local and outside talent together for its best year yet, each act as different as the blues can be.

"They got a name for the winners in the world/ I want a name when I lose." Steely Dan uttered those words in 1977, which was the same year Donald Fagen discovered a winning loser named Foster MacKenzie III, ...

In an area full of blues joints, overpriced stores and tourist traps, the Rum Boogie Cafe is a sure bet for real Beale flavor.

MEMBERS: CC Stewart , Ernie ET Terrell and Reggie Upshur . QUICK HITS: VooDoo3 is an explosive power trio featuring hard-driving blues with a touch of classic rock and some funk thrown in for good measure.

Older brothers and sisters may pick on you now and then, but they have their purposes.

“He'd have to be to let people call him "bubba.”

His nickname for Isaac Hayes was "bubba." Listen to the interview with Lee Sain But, the man who would one day become "John Shaft," never told Lee Sain to "shut your mouth." That's because Hayes and Sain, a ... via Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

There are many different types of guitar fingerstyles for rock and different for blues and this technique can be best learnt on an acoustic guitar. via American Chronicle

“I'd love to go to Memphis and record there with Stuart and the Memphis Horns and the band and do something informed by that Memphis sound, without slavishly recreating it.”

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bobby ... Patterson at the Dallas Observer Music Awards last year, with Shibboleth as his backing band This is a very special treat, exclusively for the Friends of Unfair Park: A few ... via Dallas Observer

“Now I've got two guitar players who can play anything”

When: Friday, April 25, at 8 Where: Exit Music Hall Tickets: 250 KA in advance through Ticketstream, 300 KA at the door The well-traveled bass player and vocalist Azariah Cane has worked with a respectable list ... via Prague Post

“For Your Precious Love'. Buddy is perhaps best known, for his association with Jimi Hendrix, playing on his 'Electric Ladyland”

CHANGES This DVD features two incredible concerts by Buddy Miles and company. In the first, filmed at Switzerland's New Morning Rock Heroes Festival in 1995, he re-works in his own distinctive style a selection ... via DigitallyOBSESSED.com

During the postwar boom years of the blues, Beale Street in Memphis was a customary stop for any touring blues artist. via About.com

“In nearly 30 years of business, we have never before offered a new artist a recording contract on the strength of one performance”

Harmonica player and blues-soul singer John Nemeth brings his band Tuesday night to Varsity Blues Bar & Bar-B-Que, 1616 S.W. 17th. via Topeka Capital-Journal

“In honor of Carmen and her work, the event was given the Mardi Gras flair”

Junior Achievement of Northern Alabama, Inc. has organized a night of fun on May 2nd with the Mardi Gras on the Moon concert featuring Michelle Malone at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center's new Davidson Center for ... via About.com

Release Date: Apr 8, 2008 Label: Alligator Genres: Modern Electric Blues, Soul-Blues, Blues-Rock Number Of Tracks: 12 As on previous releases, Burks' explosive guitar solos are the most notable aspect to this ... via Ultimate-guitar.com

“I'm gonna show you how the late Albert King would do it.”

Buddy Guy headlined the Calvin Theatre on Saturday night and not only paid homage to the great blues artists of the past, but introduced a glimpse of the future as well. via MassLive.com

Before he did it last week in Philadelphia , no one could have imagined that Barack Obama would sing the blues so powerfully. via NY Daily News

Alvinia and Albert King, Rudolph, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Feb. via WisInfo

Blues on WGBH Sat, March 15, 9pm, WGBH 89.7 At 11pm, host Brendan Hogan features the music of blues rock guitarist and singer Jimmie Vaughan . via WGBH

On this date 40 years ago, Bill Graham, who had made his name as a concert impresario in San Francisco, opened Fillmore East in NewYork City. via Steven Rubio's Online Life