The blues is a mystifying genre of music. On one hand, it’s simple–12 bars, in most cases, usually the same form. On the other hand, it’s incredibly complex and soulful. Nowhere is this more evident than in blues singing, where someone can have perfect tone and rhythm and yet fall completely flat as a blues ...
One of only three films in all of the 50s that featured an all black cast (the other two being Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess), St. Louis Blues tells the exceptional tale of musician Will Handy. Somewhere along the way however, the film loses its focus on entertainment, as it tries to uproot the ...
In every corner of the world, there are fans and afficianados of American blues music. The un- disputed “King” of American blues music, is without a doubt, Mr BB King. With an unmistakeable sound that is all his own, BB King has revolutionized and poplularized American blues music like no other musical artist ever before. ...
I love music and I love teaching. On those occasions when I have a chance to combine the two, good things always seem to happen. Last year, I decided to showcase music as a thematic unit for the year and though all of the lessons were constructive, there was one in particular that turned out ...
Oskar Blues Brewery has grown up very fast. They have been canning beer since 2002 in Lyons, Colorado. They opened the canning facility in Longmont around 2008 and will have brewed around 45,000 barrels of beer by the end of this year. This small microbrewery has grown from producing locally to distributing and selling in ...
Berry Gordy Junior was born in Detroit in November 28, 1929. He was the next to the youngest child of Berry Gordy Senior and his wife Bertha. Berry dropped out of high school to become a professional boxer. He then was recruited in the Army in 1950. When his hitch in the Army ended three ...
At 401 Mason Street at Geary, in the heart of San Francisco’s theater district, thumps San Francisco’s crown jewel for the blues and southern soul food. Biscuits and Blues earned a grand reputation in merely 12 years among blues fans and musicians as the place to be for an intimate night with the blues. California ...
