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Month: June 2011
Increasingly, live music is often axed by clubs tightening their belts or protecting themselves from lawsuits. Live music, however, is vitally important, and deserves to be fiercely supported.
A real life Forrest Gump, Blind Tom was an autistic savant with an unheard of gift of piano. The first African-American to perform in the White House and the “last American slave”, his life was enigmatic.
A mere month from turning 75, the six-time Grammy winner was a ball of energy this past Saturday at the first annual Greenwich Town Party in Connecticut.
Robert Johnson’s famous “Stop Breakin’ Down” has been recorded by Clapton, the Stones, the White Stripes & Junior Wells, it’s seen it’s day in court and, over 70 years, has become a landmark blues song.