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Music & Gigs: Best of the blues

Source: ChronicleLive, Nov 23 2012, 7:27am CST

ALAN NICHOL brings us the latest news from the roots music scene TONIGHT, two top-class though quite contrasting acts get the weekend off to a flying start. There are similarly attractive shows to close-out the coming week, too. The C ...

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REVIEW: Levitt Pavilion's third season kickoff offers the things that make it great

Source: The Morning Call  |   May 18 2013, 9:27am CDT

May 18, 2013 And the weather was great. Everything that makes the Levitt what it is. Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks kicked off its third season Friday with the things that make the outdoor lawn venue at the ArtsQuest Center in Bethlehem what it ...

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Debbie Davies

Source: LongIsland.com  |   May 17 2013, 11:19pm CDT

Debbie Davies is a blues singer and guitarist who "pulls out all the stops" according to Blues Review. "She can play it all: seductive, soulful material, down-home delta blues or humorous tales of life on the road." Davies cut her teeth playing in blu ...

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"The record is, in a sense, a conversation between the English and North American influences that lie at the heart of much of Show Of Hands music. Our love of the acoustic and roots music of both countries has been recently reinforced by touring and recording with North American musicians."


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Top 10 concerts from Sands Event Center's first year

Source: The Morning Call  |   May 17 2013, 6:48pm CDT

Thursday marked the first anniversary of the night Sands Bethlehem Event Center opened with a nearly sold-out show by alternative rock band Incubus. In the 365 days since, the event center has held a little more than 1 ...

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Simi Valley festival combines Cajun, zydeco and blues music

Source: L.A. Daily News  |   May 17 2013, 5:19pm CDT

multi-BMA winner Curtis Salgado (B.B. King Entertainer, Soul Blues Album and Soul Blues Male Artist), will be one of the special guests playing at Simi with the Mannish Boys, themselves fresh recipients of the B ...

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Driving the Juke Joint Trail

Source: The New York Times  |   May 17 2013, 1:45pm CDT

I expected my juke joint pilgrimage to feel like a peripatetic wake. Decades ago, blues luminaries like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Sonny Boy Williamson traveled across the South, guitar or harmonica in hand, fr ...

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Zakk Wylde, others celebrate Les Paul’s birthday

Source: The Loop  |   May 17 2013, 9:22am CDT

Zakk Wylde, Lee Ritenour, JJ Grey & Mofro, and Rock Candy Funk Party (RCFP)--featuring Tal Bergman, Joe Bonamassa, Ron DeJesus, and Mike Merritt--will take The Iridium stage to celebrate Les Paul's 98th birthday with more than a week of shows June 3-12. ...

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Hurricane Ruth headlines ‘Smoking Blue and BBQs’

Source: Herald & Review  |   May 16 2013, 8:17pm CDT

TICKETS: $10 one day, $15 both days, from (217) 855-4262 DECATUR — “Hurricane” Ruth LaMaster earned her name based entirely on defying the expectations of those who sized her up as a performer before she began to sing. “I worked f ...

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Guitar genius Eric Gales' blues show will be one to remember

Source: Palo Verde Valley Times  |   May 16 2013, 7:17pm CDT

BLYTHE -The Eric Gales Band, starring Eric Gales and his wicked progressive rock, blues guitar, will be headlining the 2nd Annual Blythe River Blues Festival on May 25 (Memorial Day weekend). Gales, who hails from Memphis, Tenn., the home of some of t ...

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From Blues Hall of Fame to Davenport

Source: Quad-Cities Online  |   May 16 2013, 9:59am CDT

Joe Louis Walker has played with some of the biggest names in the blues, and his long and storied musical career was honoredMay 8, as the 63-year-old San Francisco native was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall Of Fame. "It's ...

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