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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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There are a lot of great patriotic songs to hear this weekend but there’s one song that sums it all up–Ray Charles’ version of “America The Beautiful”. There’s a long lead in as Ray appreciates one of his musicians, but stay with it. It’s terrific. No further exposition needed. Just listen and enjoy one of …
The Hunt for New Music: Stan Getz is a jazz saxophonist who was born on February 2nd, 1927 and who died on June 6th, 1991. Getz is being treated in the first person—as if he were still here—because he is. It is midnight and I am listening to one of the classics of modern jazz, …
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Transitions. Ornette Coleman (March 9th, 1930-June 11th, 2014) Fall. A Few Decades Ago.Siler City, North Carolina. I am wandering through the record library at my dad’s radio station. The station is small…a 1000 Watt daytimer…but the record library is massively oversized for the size of the station and the market. It was then a real …
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 …
The Hunt For new Music. First in a series of playlists for the summer. Play it loud and play it often. Notes on the selections. 1. Because it’s summer. 2. The right title (lots of us are at the beach) and it involves “Mr. Summer”, Jimmy Buffett. 3. Great song that can be perceived …
From Style.com comes this nice survey (complete with all the videos) on the Top 25 Music Videos that used models (super and otherwise) to the musical story. While we agree with most of the picks, we’re puzzled about why the ground-breaking Terence Donovan video of Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” was left out of the survey. …
The Hunt for New Music: The complete concert from the Foo Fighters 2015 show in Rio. Play it big and turn it up. In Honor of Letterman and the fact that the Foo Fighters were the last band to play on the Letterman’s late night TV Show. The Fine Print: Embed courtesy of …
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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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