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Atlanta Blues Musician: Lola
Atlanta Blues Musician: Lola July 28, 2010 Rhetta Akamatsu Examiner.com Just one name: Lola. But it's attached to a dynamic and exciting blues and soul singer who is igniting stages around Atl
Atlanta blues musician: Sweet Betty
Atlanta blues musician: Sweet Betty August 5, 2010 Rhetta Akamatsu Examiner.com Sweet Betty, born in Duluth Georgia, got her musical career making appearances with Grady "Fats" Jackson in the
Blues genes, baby
Blues genes, baby April 8, 2011 By GARY DEMUTH Salina Journal ooking at pictures on blues guitar legend B.B. King's wall was one of the highlights of singer Shemekia Copeland's life. On Ma
Bonnie Raitt talks about Redlands, blues history
Bonnie Raitt talks about Redlands, blues history January 20, 2011 By VANESSA FRANKO InlandSoCal Bonnie Raitt usually is identified as a blueswoman, but her diverse catalog can't be categorized
Candye Kane - Still the Toughest Girl Alive
Candye Kane - Still the Toughest Girl Alive Piedmont Talent, Inc. PO Box 680006 Charlotte, NC 28216 Phone:(704) 399-2210 Candye Kane Superhero is the name of Candyes' original song and the
Cyndi Lauper finds the blues in Memphis
Cyndi Lauper finds the blues in Memphis October 3, 2011 by Jim Abbott Orlando Sentinel It has been almost three decades since Cyndi Lauper sashayed her way to status as a 1980s icon with "Gir
Cyndi Lauper: The blues are one of her true colors
Cyndi Lauper: The blues are one of her true colors October 26, 2011 By TIMOTHY FINN The Kansas City Star Cyndi Lauper wants to have fun, but she also sometimes gets the blues. To tho
Janiva Magness
Janiva Magness Alligator Records BIOGRAPHY: “A superb, powerhouse R&B singer who delivers blues and soul with show-stopping authority” –Los Angeles Daily News “Janiva Magness slow-bu
Janiva Magness Broadens the Blues
Janiva Magness Broadens the Blues July 28, 2010 by JOSEF WOODARD Santa Barbara Independent GRIT AND WISDOM: In the classic and sometimes over-mythologized definition of the blues, the music
Lady plays the blues
Lady plays the blues November 16, 2011 by Jim Beal, Jr. My SA When Mississippi-born Robert Johnson sat down in front of producer Don Law's microphone and recording gear in the Gunter Hotel in
Laurie Morvan
Laurie Morvan "Morvan has all the soulfulness of Bonnie Raitt and the swaggering, muscular guitar tone of Stevie Ray Vaughan...she provided a blistering, high-energy ending to another great guita
Marcia Ball: Rollicking at the keyboard
Marcia Ball: Rollicking at the keyboard September 3, 2009 By John Orr Peninsula Marcia Ball, who will bring her outrageous and delightful piano playing and singing to Yoshi's tonight and the L
Muldaur Gifts Fans with Bluesiana Album 'Steady Love'
Muldaur Gifts Fans with Bluesiana Album 'Steady Love' November 15, 2011 Doug Levine Voice of America n 1974, singer Maria Muldaur became an international pop sensation with her hit song “Mid
Pittsburgh Blues Women
Pittsburgh Blues Women Chicago and New Orleans are known throughout the world for their music, especially when it comes to the blues. Many talented female blues performers have hailed from these
Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women
Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women It's not often that dreams come true. In the case of the acoustic blues trio, Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women, that's just what happened. Over the course of nine
She's Got The Blues
She's Got The Blues May 13, 2011 By Peter Gerstenzang FairfieldPatch For a woman so steeped in the blues, Shemekia Copeland is pretty chipper, fizzy and funny in conversation. "It's pronou
Shemekia: ’I am blues’
Shemekia: ’I am blues’ February 2011 by Michael Lello Weekender If it was up to her, Shemekia Copeland would have never even gotten on a stage. Lucky for her — and thousands of blues fan
Sista Monica Parker
Sista Monica Parker Mo Muscle Records' recording artist - Sista Monica Parker releases her 9th CD "Soul Blues & Ballads" in the spring of 2009. It is a CD of her classic jewels of blues which
Tracy Nelson Relights Her Fire In 'Victim of the Blues'
Tracy Nelson Relights Her Fire In 'Victim of the Blues' July 31, 2010 by CRAIG HAVIGHURST NPR Through a 40-year career that's reached from the Fillmore scene of late 1960s San Francisco to Nas
ZAKIYA HOOKER
ZAKIYA HOOKER Zakiya Hooker is quite familiar with the blues. You could even say she had a front-row seat to view the best the genre had to offer, right in her own living room. Her dad was the re