Big Mama Thornton News

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Bernadette Peters will perform at 8:15 p.m. Nov. 21 in the Fred Kavli Theatre in Thousand Oaks.

SOUTHFIELD - Like the Blues? Then visit the meeting room of the Southfield Library at 6:30 p.m. on Nov.

Last night I was grooving along to one of the many blues CDs that I picked up in a big eBay purchase over the summer.

Steve Penhollow File photo Michael Jackson rehearsed in June for his 'This Is It' concerts at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Dobie Gray, in his hit "The In Crowd," famously said, "The original is still the greatest." But is this always true? Ace Records in London has put out a CD called You Heard It Here First, with 26 original versions of hit songs.

If you're in Los Angeles and you love the blues, Monday nights ought to find you far away from the glitz of the ersatz blues venues on the Sunset Strip.

Midnight Flyer is a weekly, two hour program featuring a wide variety of blues, interviews, biographies and stories about the blues.

I wasn't going to contribute to National Public Radio this year. Yes, I love its jazz and classical music, and I appreciate the news stories I can't get anywhere else, but it was just one check too many.

M onica Anderson hunches over her CD collection, closes her eyes and puts extra breath into her words for dramatic emphasis, as if imparting a guarded secret: "Some of the yoga CDs are sucky ," she says.

It would be easy to wrap Old Crow Medicine Show in a neat little bluegrass package and call them country -- but these five musicians play across the spectrum.

When Elvis Presley recorded "Hound Dog,'' he changed some of the words without telling songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

Muddy Waters. Robert Johnson. Big Mama Thornton. These are a few of the names forever associated with the blues, that genuinely American musical form that was born among black slaves in the South, migrated to places like Chicago, New York and Memphis, and gradually evolved into rock and roll, country, jazz and other popular styles.

Mia Vermillion has a big vocal presence. She sings with the wild abandon of Janis Joplin controlled by the fluid precision of Bonnie Bramlett, the gusto of Big Mama Thornton , and the blues foundation of Bessie Smith .

Summer speeds by with an abundance of festivals, but one of the largest of the season is the Russell City Blues Festival, celebrating Hayward's rich blues tradition.

Accurately dubbed "the Queen of Chicago blues" , Koko Taylor helped keep the tradition of big-voiced, brassy female blues belters alive, recasting the spirits of early legends like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Big Mama Thornton, and Memphis Minnie for the modern age.

The blues is a style of music that influences many other styles. There must be mention of several styles that have a great part in today's music.