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Mavis Staples. Wow. What can you say about this amazing singer and her album, We’ll Never Turn Back? This is much more than an album of freedom songs…it’s yesterday. It’s today. It’s inspiration. It’s important. It’s truth. And it’s great music.
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Down In Mississippi
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Turn Me Around
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Jesus Is On The Main [...]

I should probably take a hint, but, obtuse that I may be, I’m in the mood for a parlor game. Sneaking this in as a sports movie didn’t work, so I’ll try a different angle, a straight one: show off your knowledge of music history trivia and name the artists parodied in this clip.

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Or, you might say 3-0. The Rockies’ season is on the line, but with Hicks slated to sing the national anthem in game 5, there’s probably a few Hicks fans pulling for them just to make that happen. (as well as some just wanting to see Boston’s freaky sports bubble burst a bit).
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Coming up this next week, Austin City Limits will show a tribute to blues harp legend, Jimmy Reed. If you’ve seen a Taylor Hicks concert, you know Reed’s “Big Boss Man”. If you’ve been listening longer, you’ll also know “Bright Lights, Big City” (of course, Reed has been covered by just about everybody: Elvis, Stones, [...]

“After 9 months of touring, and at the close of an 8 week tour of Europe, my band, The Innocent Criminals, and I loaded directly off the road and into an elegantly humble recording studio in Paris called ‘Studio Gang.’ The record, Lifeline, was recorded and mixed in 7 days on a 16-track analog tape [...]

“I was studying Miss Billie, Miss Ella, Miss Sarah Vaughan and Miss Natalie Cole…”-Let’s Rock, Chrisette Michele

Chrisette Michele’s album “I Am” sounds like R&B, jazz, gospel, neo-soul, and hip-hop together with an old school elegant voice that more than one person has compared to singers like Ella Fitzgerald.
This lovely lady has created something beautiful that [...]

Forty years ago Jimi Hendrix returned to his native country and, in one fell swoop changed the musical landscape for all time.
I wasn’t going to post today, but then remembered that a great live concert DVD release is coming out today: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at Monterey and couldn’t let it go unmentioned.
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Taylor Hicks and company are coming off the road. This configuration of the band/tour finished up with a concert Saturday night at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. Hicks will be playing again in a few weeks with his pre-Idol band, now known as the Little Memphis Blues Orchestra, and other guys from the tour band are [...]

Off the tour with Taylor Hicks, guitarist Josh Smith will be laying down some blues close to home:
Cafe Boogaloo
Hermosa Beach, CA
October 18, 2007
9pm
Cafe Boogaloo is a phenomenom, a place for white-hot electric blues, Cajun, and various other amalgamations of American music.
Dead Wrong, Deep Roots
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It’s here. Our new message board, the Speakeasy. This takes you there, as does the link in the sideboard above the pics. Be patient as I clear moderation. It’s new, I’m new, but we’ll get it done. If you didn’t read the rest of this post yesterday, it’ll give you a sense of what we’re [...]