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US star set to sing the blues in CityAmerican singer-songwriter Megan Burtt will perform folk, rock and blues at the Park Hyatt Saigon Hotel lounge beginning tomorrow night.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 18:26
Homemade Jamz Blues Band performs this weekend at Blues and Jazz festival
Pop the CD "Pay Me No Mind" into your player and you're greeted by a solid trio playing some funky, straight-up blues.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 10:08
Demi and Rumer are making a movie
Demi Moore is to make her directorial debut, with a movie starring her daughter.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 01:55
Maggie Q: Good Hollywood roles rare for Asians
HONG KONG - Despite landing roles alongside Tom Cruise and Bruce Willis, Maggie Q says Asian actors still have a hard time getting good roles in Hollywood movies.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 20:01
The Best Tunes For The Economic Blues
We don't need to tell you that the most promising career options in America right now are boxcar-hopper, petticoat tailor or shepherd of hungry one-eyed alley cats.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 15:48
Mississippi Blues Trail follows in the footsteps of first bluesmen
John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Ike Turner all had the blues in their blood and came from the northwestern part of the US state of Mississippi.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 11:18
2008 Blues Music Awards on Beale Street Caravan
As always, Beale Street Caravan will be broadcasting portions of the 2008 Blues Music Awards.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 03:06
Vintage Video - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Whether you think Jon Spencer is the real deal or just poking fun at rock cliches, you have to admit, he can still rock it out when he needs to.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 19:03
New Robert Johnson Photo Found?
No less an authority than Eric Clapton once called him "the most important blues musician who ever lived." Blues artists such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and David "Honeyboy" Edwards...
Source : about.com | 13-Oct-2008 12:10
What Gives the Blues Its Groove?
I was walking down to Cook Street Village the other day, and noticed a couple of pieces of paper folded up in the crook of a tree.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 10:49
FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Bill Silva Presents and Rum and Humble Announce Pact with Long Beach Blues Festival
LOS ANGELES, Calif. Southern Californiabased concert production companies Bill Silva resents and Rum & Humble have announced a multi-year pact with radio station KJAZZ to produce the annual Long Beach Blues ...
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 02:49
Thrills for blues fans in the Delta
Various signs are pinned haphazardly to a shack of unpainted cypress wood, topped with a roof of galvanised, corrugated steel.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 18:45
Pioneering reggae star Alton Ellis dies in London
Reggae music pioneer Alton Ellis, who enjoyed a career revival in recent years after a string of hits in the 1960s, has died in a London hospital.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 10:37
East coast bluesman at the Waverley
Two time East Coast Music Association nominee and two time CBC Rising Star Award winner, Ross Neilsen, eats, breathes and sleeps the blues.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 06:20
Sisterhood of the Traveling Artists: Saffire, the Uppity Blues Women
SAFFIRE, THE UPPITY BLUES WOMEN are some of the hippest ladies around. Three monstrously talented acoustic blues artists, they rejected societal norms and hit the road in their mid-40s to see if they could ...
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 22:10
The Black Keys hit The Ryman
Blues-rock duo The Black Keys' upcoming stop in Nashville comes in support of this year's Attack & Release, helmed by producer Danger Mouse, one-half of the braintrust behind breakout electro-soul-pop crew ...
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 14:03
Rock Music Menu: McCartney is playing with fire with release
Back in the early 90s, an album by the group The Fireman appeared in record stores with zero fanfare whatsoever.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 08:59
Fitch Affirms Cobalt 2007-C3; Assigns Outlooks
Fitch does not rate $35.3 million class P. The rating affirmations are the result of stable performance and limited paydown since issuance.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 04:32
Museum in Mississippi a hometown tribute to B.B. King
B.B. King pauses during a media tour of the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, Thursday, Sept.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 00:13
Rumer Willis - Willis' Medical Ambition
Caption: Rumer Willis outside Ed Sullivan Theatre for the 'Late Show With David Letterman' New York City, USA .... Actress RUMER WILLIS never thought she would follow in the footsteps of her famous parents - ...
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 19:50
15th Annual Pleasure Island Seafood, Blues and Jazz Festival Featuring Johnny Winter and Edgar Winter
The 2008 Pleasure Island Seafood, Blues and Jazz Festival takes place on October 11th and 12th at the Fort Fisher Military Recreation Area in Kure Beach, NC.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 15:32
Cool Dry PLACEMission accomplished and more for Roots 'N Blues
Buddy Guy wends his way through the parking garage on Eighth and Cherry during his headlining performance Saturday at Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 07:20
Fitch Upgrades 4 & Affirms 5 ABS Classes From 2 CIT Equipment Lease Deals
Fitch Ratings has taken the following rating actions on the CIT Equipment Collateral transactions listed below: CIT 2005-EF1: -- Class D upgraded to 'AA' from 'A'; -- Class A-4, B and C affirmed at 'AAA'. CIT ...
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 23:07
Music preview: Blues-rock group Indigenous plays at casino
"Music should never be harmless." -- Robbie Robertson. The Native American born blues-rock group, Indigenous, is coming to the Feather Falls Casino in Oroville on Friday.
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 17:32
Moreland & Arbuckle Join Bluzapalooza Tour
Moreland & Arbuckle will be among the blues artists traveling to Iraq and Kuwait later this month for the second Bluzapalooza tour to entertain members of the military. Created by...
Source : about.com | 09-Oct-2008 16:51
Columbia Blues Festival
When Little Walter arrived in Chicago in 1947, he found a city teeming with blues bands, blues singers and blues clubs.
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 09:26
Shyamalan Confirms "Unbreakable 2" in the Works
M. Night Shyamalan said he is considering working on a sequel to his hit Unbreakable , a superhero tale about a man who finds that he is impervious to harm and is called to become a savior, according to ...
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 01:09
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Nurse with Wound:huffin' Rag Blues
Bessie Smith never sang this one but that doesn't diminish the otherworldly, warped 78 rpm-ness of Nurse With Wound 's latest.
Source : topix.net | 08-Oct-2008 20:38
Toot Blues Film To Premiere In New Orleans
Blues fans in the New Orleans area, mark your calendars for next Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 because the documentary film Toot Blues will be receiving its premiere screening at the...
Source : about.com | 08-Oct-2008 15:32
Rock Hill's Willie Roach is a man born for the blues
About 55 years ago on a Saturday morning, on his granddaddy's farm out where half-million-dollar homes now sit between Celanese Road and the Catawba River, a stranger with a guitar strapped over his back walked ...
Source : topix.net | 08-Oct-2008 12:23
SIU gets the blues
Saturday night, balls will stop bouncing, nets will stop swishing and shoes will cease squeaking.
Source : topix.net | 08-Oct-2008 04:13
Taj Mahal: Four decades of Blues with a smile
Taj Mahal performing "The Blues is Alright" Sept. 5 in Lowell, Mass. Taj Mahal sheds sunshine on the blues in more ways than one.
Source : topix.net | 07-Oct-2008 20:01
M For Mississippi Film Premiere
If you're in the Clarksdale, Mississippi area this Saturday night, be sure to drop by the Delta Cinema to catch the worldwide premiere of M For Mississippi, a documentary film...
Source : about.com | 07-Oct-2008 18:47
Best Halloween Songs with a Blues Theme
If you like the blues, don't leave out your favorite music when Halloween rolls around.
Source : topix.net | 07-Oct-2008 11:59
Camden sings the blues
Friday, October 03, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. Gary Erwin is keeping the beat for an entire city.
Source : topix.net | 07-Oct-2008 03:41
Rumer Willis was visited on set by her filmstar parents
Anna Faris has revealed that Bruce Willis and Demi Moore regularly visited the set of her new film, The House Bunny, to support their daughter Rumer Willis.
Source : topix.net | 06-Oct-2008 19:36
Lawsuit Filed Against Fat Possum Records
Kenny Malone, the common-law son of North Mississippi Hill Country blues great Junior Kimbrough, has filed suit against Fat Possum Records, label President and co-founder Matthew Johnson, and several other...
Source : about.com | 06-Oct-2008 18:06
Against the Grain I was a teen at camp the first time I met the blues
It seeps into your skin, runs up your spine and blooms into a sour taste in the back of your mouth.
Source : topix.net | 06-Oct-2008 13:29
Blues musician taps legacy of granddad; Burnside writes a so that people can relate.a
Blues music is in Cedric Burnside's blood. Burnside is the grandson of legendary blues musician R.L. Burnside, a prolific guitarist and vocalist from Mississippi.
Source : topix.net | 06-Oct-2008 05:12
Last call for blues
ROCKLAND : The Monday night blues series, produced by North Atlantic Blues Festival co-founder Paul Benjamin, has set its lineup for the rest of the year.
Source : topix.net | 05-Oct-2008 21:02
Locallers Moreland & Arbuckle Bring Blues to Middle East
Local musicians, Aaron Moreland and Dustin Arbuckle , are headed to Iraq and Kuwait later this month as part of the second BLUZAPALOOZA tour.
Source : topix.net | 05-Oct-2008 12:49
Museum pays tribute to B.B. King
INDIANOLA, Miss. - Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an ...
Source : topix.net | 05-Oct-2008 04:49
FESTIVAL/CRUISE: 23rd Annual Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival
Each October, thousands from throughout the world flock to historic downtown Helena as the music takes over - giving visitors a three-day, down-home, soul-baring musical history lesson.
Source : topix.net | 04-Oct-2008 03:17
Blues marker to honor McCoy brothers
Blues musicians Joe and Charlie McCoy, who performed as the McCoy brothers, will be honored with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in Raymond.
Source : topix.net | 04-Oct-2008 03:08
Blues and Boogie Woogie Festival
The legends, both local and national, will be in the house for one of Detroit's favorite annual musical events.
Source : topix.net | 04-Oct-2008 03:05
Blues-gospel singer Sista Monica beats cancer & has embarked on an exciting new chapter in her life
It's a birthday for Seaside, and for one of the performers who will be there to help celebrate it, it's a time of new beginnings.
Source : topix.net | 04-Oct-2008 02:58