Ronnie Baker Brooks, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Big George Brock, and other blues greats graced a new venue at Saint Louis Bluesweek to play a grab-bag of blues styles to the sweet smell of BBQ and a beautiful, unmatched backdrop.
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Hugh Laurie has a spirited discussion about an emotional moment after playing with Dr John, how all human life is in the blues, Jelly Roll Morton being an “olympian god” of music, and trying to introduce Bessie Smith to someone new.
(CHICAGO, IL) — The first annual BluesToday, Chicago Summit 2014 will be taking place at Buddy Guy’s Legends on Thursday, June 12, 2014. The event will give music fans and visitors an interesting and exciting insight into the Blues preceding the 31st Annual Chicago Blues Festival. Unique and insightful blends of TED Talk-style discussion on the blues and some of the best music in the windy city make the BluesToday, Chicago Summit 2014 a do-not-miss engagement. Speaking on several blues topics will be American Blues Scene Magazine publisher Matt Marshall, Alligator Records boss Bruce Iglauer, and Chicago Blues Allstar’s Dr. Dan…
The Mississippi Blues Trail and The Boy Scouts of America have partnered to create a unique and special patch for Mississippi-area boy scouts
Walter Trout has been hospitalized for over two months, in and out of the ICU, and has been ill for over a year with end-stage liver disease….
When it comes to the blues, Cleveland may have it all: the last real juke joint, a stunning music college program, an upcoming GRAMMY Museum, tenures filled with untapped blues treasures, and two of the most significant locations in the wide history of the blues.
2014 is the year for exciting music movies!! Between intimate documentaries and full-budget, full feature biopics on subjects ranging from BB King and Bessie Smith to Gregg Allman and James Brown, there’s no shortage of music coming to the big screen this year.
The Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Film Commission announced that Don Cheadle will star as iconic jazz innovator Miles Davis in Miles Ahead, a feature film biopic on the legendary trumpeter. Related: Six 2014 Music Movies We Can’t Wait For The film will also star Zoe Saldana, from Star Trek and Avatar, and Ewan McGregor from Big Fish. Cheadle, who starred in a number of movies including House of Lies, Iron Man Two and Three, and Hotel Rwanda also will direct and produce Miles Ahead from a script he wrote with Steven Baigelman, who also wrote Get On Up, the James Brown biopoc due out later this year. Davis…
The gravestone ceremony, reception, and jam for delta blues great T-Model Ford has been scheduled for late May.
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