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Conservative Mississippi town shocked after gay mayoral candidate killed
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... African Americans" under age 30. The town is well known to blues fans as the home of the crossroads, where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil for skills with a guitar. Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi native Morgan ... Comment?
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US town stunned by killing of gay mayor candidate
... African Americans' under age 30. The town is well known to blues fans as the home of the crossroads, where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil for skills with a guitar. Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi native Morgan ... Comment?
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bergenPAC Announces New Shows On Sale FRIDAY, MARCH 1ST at 11AM
... songwriting, scorching guitar and fearless genre melding. The band's last release was 2011's "100 Years Of Robert Johnson." Joined by special guests including B. B. King, Charlie Musselwhite, Hubert Sumlin, David "Honeyboy" Edwards and more, BHTM ... Comment?
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Openly Gay MS Mayoral Candidate Marco McMillian Found Dead On Riverbanks
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... 34, was running for mayor of Clarksdale, MS, a city known as the mythical crossroads where musician Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. It's also home to Ground Zero Blues Club, a music venue co-owned by Oscar winner Morgan Freeman. The death ... Comment?
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Johnny Winter brings his brand of rockina blues to Frederick on Sunday
... includes “Mojo” and also “Dust My Broom,” originally recorded by Robert Johnson. The album is a tribute to some of the great blues musicians that Winter has known and been influenced by. Winter is also working on ... Comment?
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Album review: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away
... ramble (as only Cave can) about everything from missionairies with smallpox and pygmies eating monkeys to Robert Johnson and the devil's "killer groove"; and Hannah Montana "doing" the African savannah. What it's all about? Who knows (yet, anyway), ... Comment?
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Rare 78 spins into trade for drawing by noted artist
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... 34-year-old son, "Whistlin' Willie," got their hands on a 78 rpm copy of the mysterious Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson's "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" (Vocalion), one of the most important blues songs of the 20th century. A stranger strolled ... Comment?
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Unlocked: Read The Key's review of Circe by Penrose
... balancing act of human existence. Stuff that traces from The Black Keys to Nick Cave and all the way back to Robert Johnson. The three brothers who make up the band (Tom, Dan and Pat Murphy) are schooled not only in playing, but also vibe - those ... Comment?
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Bad Seeds supersede the songs: Cave
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... Blues, a song that not only delves into the discovery of the subatomic particle by the Hadron Collider, but Robert Johnson, the death of Martin Luther King and Miley Cyrus, who ends up "floating in a pool". The imagery is not typical of the album as ... Comment?
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'Hip-Hop Is the Most Important Youth Culture on the Planet'
... musical forms. And you cannot discuss Black music without taking it account its edginess (think of bluesman Robert Johnson, bebop innovator Charlie Parker, rocker Little Richard, soulman Otis Redding, et al.), its rebelliousness (anyone from Big ... Comment?
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... spell. He tilts his hat before belting out blues-infused guitar rhythms, showcasing musical influences from Robert Johnson to Steve Ray Vaughn. His short set, varied in subject matter and musical genre, includes dirty-down numbers like Austin Texas ... Comment?
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Guitarist/vocalist Keb' Mo' draws heavily on the old-fashioned country blues style of Robert Johnson while keeping his sound contemporary with touches of soul and folksy storytelling. Comment?
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Music Through the Southern Heartland
... juke joints found in Clarksdale. Take a moment to close your eyes and feel the spirits of the likes of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Pine Top Perkins and all of the well known and unknown blues men who walked these streets and gave us the gift of ... Comment?
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Local Blues Legend Lisa Kindred Plays Sweetwater Sunday
Lisa Kindred is an American folk and blues singer. Born in Buffalo, NY, Lisa grew up listening to a DJ who called himself "The Hound Dog" playing the blues on Sunday morning radio--Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, Robert Johnson--and the seed was planted. Comment?
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CD reviews: Nick Cave, Richard Thompson
... the woman who sticks with him during the journey through physics and pop culture, with stops to pay homage to Robert Johnson and the blues. After all, Johnson sang of his life and times and a battle with his devils. Cave might as well sing about ... Comment?
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Bath Chronicle published Bath's Chapel Arts roots out the very best in bluegrass
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... by pre-war musicians such as Son House, Bukka White, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton and Skip James as well as more recent blues artists like John Hammond, Corey Harris, Bob Brozman and Rory Gallagher. ... Comment?
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Acclaimed contemporary folk singer comes to Easton
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... and jazz records. 'My dad listened to a lot of Doc Watson, and also a lot of Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and Robert Johnson,' she said. 'I also have strong memories of driving around with my mom listening to '80s-'90s country radio and having tons of ... Comment?
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... a little black book, "and my name was written on every page." Hannah Montana gets a shout out, along with Robert Johnson and Lucifer himself, in the haunting god particle dirge Higgs Boson Blues. Push the Sky Away is yet another gem in a long string ... Comment?
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Review: Nick Cave mellows on new Bad Seeds album
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... a little black book, "and my name was written on every page." Hannah Montana gets a shout out, along with Robert Johnson and Lucifer himself, in the haunting god particle dirge "Higgs Boson Blues." "Push the Sky Away" is yet another gem in a long ... Comment?
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Blues Pillar Keb' Mo' Still Has a Few Secrets
... Moore does not believe he's the "living link" to the blues originators, guys like Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. "No, that would be Taj Mahal and Bobby Rush. They say that about me because maybe people see me a little more. Maybe I'm the 'living ... Comment?
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