Koko Taylor News

Los Angeles based Janiva Magness received the 2009 Blues Music Award for B.B King Entertainer Of The Year as well as for Contemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year (she also won the 2006 and 2007 Blues Music Awards for Best Contemporary Female Artist Of The Year .

Blues Bash, Taipei s annual blues music festival, takes place next weekend at Roxy Roots in Taipei City and the Dream Community in Sijhih .

The winners have been announced, and the readers of Blues Blast magazine, a free weekly Internet blues music magazine published by Illinois Blues, have voted, choosing the winners in the publication's second annual Blues Blast Music Awards.

Make the juice run down my leg. Sunday, October 25, 2009 Rocking Sharrie has been around for a while and is certainly a presence - a fairly effusive fanzine states Sharrie sings the blues because she lived the blues, mental, physical and drug abuse, poverty stricken, most would say what's the use.

The late legendary blues singer Koko Taylor in "Queen of the Blues: A Portrait of Koko Taylor," a film documentary directed and produced by Barre filmmaker Sherry Wormser Rhynard, will be screened in Montpelier on Oct.

UNTIL 2002, Oli Brown had never picked up a guitar a ' now the 19-year-old blues star is coming to Worthing with his first solo tour.

Blues guitarist Stacy Mitchhart is performing tonight at Crossroads, 115 Clinton Ave.

Next year's 20th anniversary could prove to be bigger and better. A9 Kyle Mullin This year's Harvest Jazz & Blues festival may not have sported a name as big as Buddy Guy on its lineup list, but festival organizers say they worked to build a more well-rounded experience in 2009.

Grana Louise and Troublemaker will headline the Soul Shine Blues Festival, which will take place from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sept.

"Hootchie Cootchie Man" by Muddy Waters is as canonical as it gets. posted by Bookhouse at 10:52 AM on September 19 [ 2 favorites ] And to clarify the question: "cocksman" need not be gender-specific. Koko Taylor's performance of "Wang Dang Doodle" is equally convincing as a boast of sexual prowess.

Saturday afternoon at the Monterey Jazz Festival has a certain reputation - a good one, in case you were wondering.

Jimmy Warren of Beecher holds an electric guitar, the first guitar he bought after taking a decade-long hiatus from performing.

Koko Taylor and Taj Mahal guest-star in this episode celebrating "The Year of The Blues." George is inspired to write and perform his own blues song when he's introduced to the music of Koko Taylor.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Hambone Blues Rumshack #39 Hambone Blues Rumshack #39 Life gets in the way sometimes and it is always good to be there for someone when they need you.

To read past installments of Notes from the Soundboard, click here . It's become all too common in our society to mourn the passing of those whose fame has taken them to the heights of international stardom, while all but ignoring others who perhaps lack that same stature.

To read past installments of Notes from the Soundboard, click here . It's become all too common in our society to mourn the passing of those whose fame has taken them to the heights of international stardom, while all but ignoring others who perhaps lack that same stature.

Variety is the name of that tune in Central Park Friday, July 17, for the second South Ottumwa Savings Bank's Live After Five this season.

An Auburn institution ends with a bang this weekend as the 20th annual BBQ & Blues finishes its run at the Gold Country Fairgrounds.

Watching Shemekia Copeland perform last night renewed my faith that the blues will survive a little while longer.

As usual, the blues will be hot in Sedalia this summer. Alligator Records artist Burks has been playing guitar since he was a wee lad, and now he's a giant, in stature and on his instrument.