Correction: Blues Hall of Fame story

2010-02-22T09:01:31Z

<div id="subtitle">Correction: Blues Hall of Fame story</div><div><p>In a Feb. 16 story about inductees to the Blues Hall of Fame, The Associated Press provided an incorrect Internet link to the hall's Web site. The correct link is: http://tinyurl.com/ygh3rpc</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication...

Raitt, others picked for Blues Hall of Fame

2010-02-22T09:12:45Z

<div id="subtitle">Raitt, Brooks and Musselwhite to be inducted into Blues Hall of Fame during May ceremony</div><div><p>Singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, Chicago bluesman Lonnie Brooks and harmonica player AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 10: Cat Power (Chan Marshall) performs with The Dirty Delta Blues Band during the Days Like This Festival at Fox Studios, Moore Park on January 10, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Cassandra Wilson honored with blues marker

2010-02-22T23:55:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Jazz artist Cassandra Wilson honored with hometown marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail</div><div><p>Jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson can easily explain why the Mississippi Blues Trail would embrace jazz artists.</p><p>"Blues is an essential component of jazz. It's like one of the building blocks. It's what we use in order to naviga...

Easy Steps To Learn To Sing Blues

2010-02-23T08:38:56Z

Some people believe that for you to be able to sing blues, you must be born with it and you just can?t learn it later in life. But this is not true, because you can learn to sing blues and it?s even possible if you?re a beginning singer. It also depends on the sound that you want to achieve. In this article i have prepared for you a guideline to help you become a real blues singer. If you have always wondered how to sing blues music, then read the guidelines below for some real lesson on blue...

Jackson, Cohen to get Grammy lifetime nods

2010-02-23T17:26:54Z

<div><p>Pop icon Michael Jackson and Canadian singer Leonard Cohen will headline a group of talent receiving lifetime achievement awards at the Grammys in January, organizers announced Thursday.</p><p>The late King of Pop, a 13-time Grammy winner, and singer-songwri...

Learn How to Sing Blues Songs

2010-02-23T18:42:47Z

There are a lot of music genre, one of them is the blues songs. Blues is a genre of music which was developed in earlier nineteenth century, but in recent years it came down to be associated with bad things like drugs and alcohol. It has been a notion that people cannot be an accomplished blues singers if they do not drank off glasses of alcohol. But this is not true. It is a personal choice of a singer if you drink alcohol or not and I am pretty sure that you will be able to find a lot of si...

Pinetop Perkins' 80-year career still going

2010-02-24T00:05:21Z

<div id="subtitle">At 96, Pinetop Perkins still turning out signature Chicago blues in noisy clubs, smoky bars</div><div><p>Noisy crowds in smoky bars don't bother 96-year-old bluesman Pinetop Perkins.</p><p>It's all part of his job. Most nights, after he snuffs out his menthol cigarette, Perkins slides ont...

Officials to restore birthplace of Robert Johnson

2010-02-24T06:18:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Lingering interest in bluesman Robert Johnson spawns project to restore home where he was born</div><div><p>The mystery surrounding bluesman Robert Johnson's life and death feeds the lingering fascination with his work.</p><p>There's the myth he sold his soul to the devil to create his haunting guitar intonations. There's the dispute o...

Travel Trip St. Louis Blues Heritage

2009-11-09T09:31:19Z

FILE-This Oct. 19, 2009 file photo shows blues harmonica player Big George Brock speaks about his life at his home in St. Louis. At 77, Brock is a natural storyteller and respected musician, who talks easily about growing up in Mississippi, playing music with Muddy Waters in ...

Obituaries in the news

2010-02-24T22:00:07Z

<div><p>Abu Talib</p><p>LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Bluesman Abu Talib, who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, has died. He was 70.</p><p>His daughter, ERIC MILLIGAN LORD PROVOST OF EDINBURGH SPEAKING AT THE LAUNCH OF THE EDINBURGH JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL (JULY 27 TO AUG 5 2001) AT THE HUB IN EDINBURGH. PIC IAN RUTHERFORD....

Mike Hart & his Triking 1991

2009-08-27T21:05:45Z

Stockbridge antiques dealar and later director of the Jazz and Blues festival Mike Hart with his trademark Triking three-wheeled car in May 1991....

UK News - August 02, 2009

2009-08-14T06:55:09Z

SOS EN. News 01/08/09 Sarah Johnston from the Edinburgh Samba School during the mardi gras down to the grassmarket as the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival kickstarts the years' festival season....

UK News - January 01, 2005

2009-08-14T06:55:07Z

SOS EN. News 01/08/09 Catherine McInally from the Criterion Brass Band leads the mardi gras down to the grassmarket as the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival kickstarts the years' festival season....

Sweet Georgia Brown: from streets to Montreux star

2010-02-26T09:47:12Z

<div><p>MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters Life!) - Blues singer Sweet Georgia Brown made her dream come true with an electrifying performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival six years after she was found sleeping rough on the streets of New York.</p><p>...

MUSIC ESSENCE FEST

2009-07-02T12:56:45Z

Blues singer Thais Clark rehearses with guitarist June Yamagishi in preparation for her debut at the Essence Music Festival, New Orleans, Wed., July 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)

Mourners belt out blues to honor Koko Taylor

2010-02-26T22:21:03Z

<div id="subtitle">Hundreds of mourners in Chicago belt out the blues to honor legendary vocalist Koko Taylor</div><div><p>Hundreds of mourners honored Chicago blues icon Koko Taylor at her funeral Friday by singing her signature song "Wang Dang Doodle" and remembering why she was known as the "Queen of the Blues."</p><p&...

koko taylor

2009-06-04T11:23:56Z

**File Photos** * BLUES SINGER TAYLOR DIES Blues legend KOKO TAYLOR has died, aged 80. The star, who was known as the Queen of Blues, passed away on Wednesday (03Jun09) at a Chicago, Illinois hospital. Last month (May09), Taylor underwent surgery for a gastrointestinal bleed. Taylor, born Cora Walton, enjoyed a 50 year career and was best known...

Blues legend Koko Taylor dies

2010-02-27T02:03:05Z

<div><p>Blues legend Koko Taylor, who became known as the "Queen of Blues" and was one of the few women to find success in the male dominated blues scene, died Wednesday, her publicist said.</p><p>She was 80.</p><p>"Blues is my life," the Grammy Award-winning singer said in a biography posted on her web...

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