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The Hunt For New Music: It’s a winter weekend. Maybe you’re stuck inside because a blizzard is raging outside. Maybe you don’t want to watch the NFL playoffs. Maybe what you want to watch is a little blues, a lot of Eric Clapton, a bunch of good music played by very accomplished musicians—each of them …
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The Hunt for New Music: There’ll be lots of New Year’s Eve Concerts to select from this coming Thursday, but, just to wrap up the Extended Christmas-New Year’s Holiday Weekend, why not a little searing music from blues master Robert Cray and his band. Here, as the final Weekend Concert Series program for 2015 is …
The Hunt for New Music. The Blues Brothers, a traditional blues/R&B/soul band, began as an comical/music act on Saturday Night Live, inspired by a meeting that John Belushi had with blues singer Curtis Salgado while Belushi was filming Animal House. In the faux-blues-band-turned-real-live-performers, Belushi performed as “Joliet Jake” Blues (Vocals) and Aykroyd was Elwood Blues(Backing …
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The Hunt For New Music. You can find the blues in a lot of places and in the case of this weekend’s concert series, we find it in the form of Curtis Salgado, from Portland Oregon, playing in a Blues Festival in Gaildorger, Germany. You may not have heard for Curtis before, but like a lot …
Resources and research into the life and music of B.B. King. B.B. King’s Playlist (Source: Daily Beast.Com) How I Got My Sound (B.B. King Interview in Rolling Stone) (Source: rollingstone.com) B.B. King Passing As Reported on BBC (Source: bbc.com) An Oral History of American Music with B.B. King (Source: pbs.com) The B.B. King Museum (source: bbkingmuseum.org) B.B.King …
An older performance, Hamburg, 1991, when B.B. King was a mere 65 years old. The video is what you would expect from a concert recorded two and a half generations ago; the music is still stellar. One of the things that jumps out about this concert is that B.B. jumps right into it….. The …
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A 2006 concert of B.B. King live in New York, recorded in 2003. This is the seventh concert in the Weekend Concert Series tribute to B.B. King. The Fine Print: Embed via YouTube (thanks!), via Mr. SameEverynight (thank you for posting). All rights reserved by respective rights holders.This is a full length concert video …
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A recent vintage B.B. King live concert, performed at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011. He came ready to play and they came ready to listen. This is a high-def 1080P video with very good sound. In 2011, B.B. King was 85 years old. What will you be doing when you are 85? This is …
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The One Special Night concert (1985) united B.B. King and James Brown in a special by-invitation-only concert in New York. This concert united the Godfather of Soul with the King of the Blues for a once-in-a-lifetime evening. This is the fifth show in the Weekend Concert Series tribute to B.B. King. The Fine Print: …
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Gravity Limited provided this concert video, of a young B.B. King playing Live in Africa in 1974. The Fine Print. Embed via YouTube(thanks, guys) from a Gravity Limited Production. All rights owned by their respective rights holders. Special thanks to Gravity Limited for making this concert available.