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Bronzeville among city sites seeking Obama library
The site where Michael Reese Hospital once stood isn't much to look at, just a 37-acre swath of overgrown land in Bronzeville, behind a shoddy chain-link fence. Developers are itching to build a casino or perhaps a sports entertainment complex on the...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, George H.W. Bush, U.S. Congress, University of Michigan, Chicago Mayor
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Local acts The UnXpected, Anthony Rosano and The Conqueroos shined at International Blues Challenge in Memphis
More than a week has passed since local bands returned from the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, time enough for the experience to marinate in the minds of musicians. Members of the Peninsula youth blues band The UnXpected as well as hard-...
Tags: The UnXpected (music group), Led Zeppelin (music group), Music, York (York, Pennsylvania), B.B. King
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Did Buddy Guy show his age in Bethlehem at '76 years young'?
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGBlues guitar legend Buddy Guy sang at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center on Friday night, "I'm 76 years young, there ain't nothing I haven't done." I believe it. Guy played with John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He...... -
Gather moss? Not the Rolling Stones at 50
Rock's original bad boys are marking their unlikely milestone with another greatest hits album, a new movie and a handful of live shows. And they're doing it their way. The Rolling StonesĀ of yore were more likely to be caught dead than to be caught...
Tags: Crossfire (music group), Rock and Roll (genre), Music, David Maysles, Mick Jagger
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Two men attacked when arriving for work in Spring Garden Township
Content ManagerSpring Garden Township Police are investigating an attack and car theft that happened around 4:50 a.m. this morning. Willie Dixon, 50, was getting out of his vehicle at Glen-Gery Brick this morning when three males wearing masks and dark clothing...Tags: York (York, Pennsylvania), Robert Miles
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Proof that the blues are a universal language
The blues are a foundational American art form that speak not only to the U.S. experience but to all of humanity's. Need proof? Just ask a European -- especially a European who's making a sentimental journey to the sacred shrines of the blues, with...
Tags: Maxwell Street, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues
Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...
Tags: Count Basie, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Howard Reich, Dominican University, Music
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Poetry is everywhere, if you listen
They are the overlooked of the literary world, and so you never hear mentioned the names of William James Dixon or Cora Walton or McKinley Morganfield when people gather to talk about great Chicago writers. Don't know those names? Understandable. But you...
Tags: Bob Dylan, Music, Chicago Tribune, Music Industry, Leonard Cohen
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Third Annual 'Wang Dang Doodle' Set for Roxbury
The ‘Wang Dang Doodle’ on Derby Street has a funny name, but a great purpose. The Wang Dang Doodle, or WDD, is a one-day music, food and car cruise event held on Derby Street next to Roxbury Park. The WDD provides an admission-free festival...Tags: Chester Arthur "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett, Music, Genres, Music Industry, Open-Wheel Racing
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Joe Louis Walker, the blues and beyond
As a teenager in ‘60s San Francisco, Joe Louis Walker lived just blocks away from Sly Stone, roomed with Mike Bloomfield, and played shows with B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Thelonious Monk. Walker was the 16-year-old house guitarist at the Matrix,...
Tags: Bob Dylan, Music, Grace Slick, Concerts, Buddy Guy
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Fabulous Thunderbirds show the best of what Levitt Pavilion's all about
Lehigh Valley MusicFor the myriad things great about the Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks on the ArtsQuest campus in South Bethlehem, the one bad thing – that it’s uncovered and the shows are held rain or shine – threatened the Saturday’s opening of the..... -
The creative stew that was Bronzeville
On Nov. 22, 1981, the Rolling Stones paid tribute to black history at the Checkerboard Lounge on East 43rd Street. In town for concerts at the then-Rosemont Horizon, the famed rock group made a pilgrimage to the South Side, where their musical style and...Tags: Checkerboard Lounge, Savoy (music group), Music, Mick Jagger, Chicago Loop
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