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Last week, I checked in on Trampled Under Foot, who is leaving tomorrow morning for Memphis to perform at the 25th Annual International Blues CompetitionLast week, I checked in on Trampled Under Foot, who is leaving tomorrow morning for Memphis to perform at the 25th Annual International Blues CompetitionT

They are set to perform at the opening kick-off show Wednesday night at the New Daisy Theater on Beale Street with previous IBC winners. As previously mentioned, the Kansas City Blues Society entrant is King King, the rootsy-rockabillyish three-piece from KCK.They are set to perform at the opening kick-off show Wednesday night at the New Daisy Theater on Beale Street with previous IBC winners. As previously mentioned, the Kansas City Blues Society entrant is King King, the rootsy-rockabillyish three-piece from KCK.

Ensuring that Central Oregon continues to enjoy the tradition of the Blues. Our aim is to increase awareness of blues artists & get enthusiasts together to support live blues throughout the region and nation.
Ensuring that Central Oregon continues to enjoy the tradition of the Blues. Our aim is to increase awareness of blues artists & get enthusiasts together to support live blues throughout the region and nation.

MODERN BLUES HARMONICA
soulful, innovative instructional
videos, blues harp tabs, and recordings by ADAM GUSSOW, handcrafted in Oxford,
Mississippi

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Director Martin Scorsese (
The Last Waltz
,
Raging Bull
,
Gangs of New York
)
pays homage to the Delta blues. Musician Corey Harris travels through
Mississippi and on to West Africa, exploring the roots of the music. The film
celebrates the early Delta bluesmen through original performances (including
Willie King, Taj Mahal, Otha Turner, and Ali Farka Toure) and rare archival
footage (featuring Son House, Muddy Waters, and John Lee Hooker).

In this companion book to MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES: A MUSICAL JOURNEY, a PBS/DVD series, numerous music historians and period writers take on the task of capturing the very essence of the genre that gave birth to rock and roll. Peter Guralnick says in his introduction that the purpose of the companion book was to "reflect and refract the spirit of the blues" and to compile "something deeper and more spiritual than a mere recitation of the facts."

Mainstay blues historians such as Christopher John Farley, Peter Guralnick, Alan Lomax, Paul Trynka, and Robert Gordon have their place in the companion book by contributing their biographical and historical research as well as adding some new information to the blues arsenal. Excerpts from Gordon's CAN'T BE SATISFIED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MUDDY WATERS and Trynka's PORTRAIT OF THE BLUES are included alongside new entries such as Christopher John Farley's "Bessie Smith: Who Killed the Empress?" Present day fiction writers like Suzan Lori-Parks and Toure also offer their contributions on the blues and the legacy it left behind.
In this companion book to MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES: A MUSICAL JOURNEY, a PBS/DVD series, numerous music historians and period writers take on the task of capturing the very essence of the genre that gave birth to rock and roll. Peter Guralnick says in his introduction that the purpose of the companion book was to "reflect and refract the spirit of the blues" and to compile "something deeper and more spiritual than a mere recitation of the facts."

Mainstay blues historians such as Christopher John Farley, Peter Guralnick, Alan Lomax, Paul Trynka, and Robert Gordon have their place in the companion book by contributing their biographical and historical research as well as adding some new information to the blues arsenal. Excerpts from Gordon's CAN'T BE SATISFIED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MUDDY WATERS and Trynka's PORTRAIT OF THE BLUES are included alongside new entries such as

The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes. It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.[1] The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of African influence.

The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became the roots of jazz, rhythm and blues, bluegrass and rock and roll. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues rock developed from the combining of blues with various rock and roll forms.The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes. It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.[1] The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of African influence.

The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became the roots of jazz, rhythm and blues, bluegrass and rock and roll. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues rock developed from the combining of blues with various rock and roll forms.

Talk of the Nation, September 3, 2003 - Corey Harris
believes that the blues are a blueprint for a kind of music that can reach around the world. Join NPR's Neal Conan and Corey Harris as we inaugurate an official Year of the Blues.

Boise Blues in the Schools

A very active Blues Forum.