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Driving Towards The Daylight to Noise In My Head: A Conversation With Joe Bonamassa and DarkDriveClinic's "Litmus Heart"

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Eric Clapton, Brad Whitford, Kevin Shirley, Noah Chenfeld, Freddie King, Paul Rogers, Aerosmith, Joe Bonamasa, The Box Story, Jimmy Barnes, Koko Taylor, Warren Haynes, Arlan Schierbaum, Willie Dixon, Michael Rhodes, Robert Johnson, Tom Waits, John Hiatt, Howlin' Wolf, Arlan ScGuitar Player Magazine, ZZ Top, Guitar International, Anton Fig, Blondie Chaplin, Bruce Springsteen, Derek Trucks, Entertainment News

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Gonna Take An Elemental Journey: A Conversation With Sonny Landreth, Plus Getting To Know J.D. Shelburne

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.16.2012

Use the internet, spread the word, word of mouth. But in the long run, that's what it all comes down to, you have to play live. You never know who's going to be in that audience who knows somebody else, who knows somebody else, and one thing leads to another. You have to open up to that.

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Still a Wizard, a True Star: A Conversation With Todd Rundgren, Plus Tonight Alive's "Starlight" (Exclusive)

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Eric Clapton, Al Gore, Meat Loaf, Miami Vice, John Ford Coley, MC Hammer, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Jim Steinman, Hall & Oates, Keith Olbermann, Dylan Ratigan, The Coasters, Mike Post, Robert Palmer, Crime Story, Bill Bradley, Daryl Hall, Roy Bitten, Xtc, The Tubes, The Nazz, Utopia, Bat Out of Hell, Craig Boogie Coinman, England Dan, The Zombies, Timothy B. Schmit, Grand Funk Railroad, Rick Derringer, Rod Stewart, Jonathan Wolfson, The Buggles, The Platters, Todd Rundgren, Jeff Beck, Wendy Carlos, Tonight Alive, Patti Smith, Newt Gingrich, Robert Johnson, Dumb & Dumber, Colin Blunstone, Rachel Maddow, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ringo Starr, Jimmy Smith, Joill Sobule, Ellen Foley, Walter Carlos, John Oates, Jan Hammer, Joe Walsh, Moogy Klingman, Max Weinberg, Bruce Springsteen, Tomita, Patronet, Video, Entertainment News

"I wrote a song about my high school girlfriend who broke my heart and have been milking it ever since. The irony of it is, it's the very first song I ever wrote and it's the song that's pinned on my back, kind of like 'kick me.'"

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The Return of the Blues Wanderer: A Conversation With Dion, Plus Anthony Green's Beautiful Things Album Streamer

Mike Ragogna | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: The Big Bopper, Jimmy Reed, Buddy Holly, Anthony Green, The Lovin' Spoonful, Paul Simon, Tracy Nelson, Circa Survive, Good Old War, Dion, Dave Marsh, Matthew Nelson, Sam Nelson, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Ritchie Valens, Dion & the Belmonts, Hank Williams, Gunnar Nelson, Lou Reed, Richard Nixon, Bobby Kennedy, Muddy Waters, Nelson, John Hammond Jr., The Deer Hunter, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Mike Bloomfield, John Hammond, Dion DiMucci, John Lee Hooker, Bob Hyde, Ricky Nelson, Richie Havens, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

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Nation's First Black Billionaire Proposes Plan to Reduce Black Unemployment

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: South Africa, Barack Obama Black Unemployment, RLJ Rule, Bet, Unemployment, Black Unemployment, Obama-Jobs-Package, RLJ Companies, Black Entertainment Television, Robert Johnson, Business News

As Congress weighs the Obama administration's jobs package, RLJ Companies CEO Robert Johnson is pushing a proposal that he says marshals the capacity ...

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New York City Marathon Training: Stop Breakin' Down

Janet Turley | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Ipod, Running, New York Marathon, Apple Ipod, Robert Johnson, Marathon Training, New York City, The White Stripes, Zeno's Paradox, New York News

There's something gratifying to physical labor and pushing your body beyond a perceived limit. What was once a ceiling becomes a springboard.

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Neil Young's Bridge School Exclusive: Dave Matthews' "Too Much," Plus Chatting With Johnny Winter, Queen's Roger Taylor and Yes' Steve Howe

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Mike Myers, Johnny Winter, Sonny Terry, Dave Matthews, Flash Gordon, Warren Haynes, Asia, Alan White, Fleet Foxes, James Burton, George Thorogood, Brian May, Yes, Jimmy Vivino, Edgar Winters, B.B. King, The McCoys, John Medeski, Vince Gill, Muddy Waters, The Shadows, Mark Fisher, Ray Fenwick, Jeff Beck, The Highlander, Oliver Wakeman, Stevie Ray Vaughn, AC/DC, Ray Charles, Bill Bruford, Pearl Jam, Rick Wakeman, U2, Scotty Moore, Brownie McGhee, Little Richard, The Hollies, Tom Chaplin, Eric Clapton, Dino De Laurentis, Dylan Howe, Queen, Benoit David, Sonny Landreth, Rick Nelson, Paul Nelson, Billy Gibbons, Geoff Downes, David Bowie, Roger Taylor, Chet Atkins, Graham Nash, Les Paul, Tom Yorke, Paul Sutin, Rick Derringer, Paul Rogers, Jon Anderson, Trevor Horn, John Deacon, Paul McCartney, Steve Howe, Robert Johnson, Ross Stanley, George Michael, Freddie Mercury, Steve Moore, Keane, Susan Tedeschi, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Wayne's World, Chris Squire, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Derek Trucks, Gtr, Entertainment News

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From Woody Guthrie to Little Nut Tree: Chatting With Rob Wasserman and Dan Zanes

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Arlo Guthrie, Carol Channing, Charles Mingus, Rob Wasserman, Pete Seeger, G.E. Smith, Dan Zanes, Neil Young, Edie Brickell, Joan Osbourne, Bobby McFerrin, The Blind Boys, Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars, Madeleine Peyroux, Van Dyke Parks, Elvis Costello, Philip Glass, Bruce Hornsby, Matthew Broderick, Lou Reed, Woody Guthri, Chris Whitley, Tom Morello, Suzanne Vega, Studs Terkel, Wilco, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Angelique Kidjo, Sheryl Crow, Del Fuegos, Nora Guthrie, The Grateful Dead, Michael Franti, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Sharon Jones, Ani DiFranco, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

On Woody Guthrie: "in a short life he saw so much, but he was really present and there with people. I think he's just really vital, not just in his vision, but as a spokesman for America."

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Let Them Talk: Chatting With House's Hugh Laurie, Dar Williams and The Axis of Awesome, Plus Cal Ecker's "Time After Time" Premiere

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Jelly Roll Morton, Cruella De Vil, Tom Jones, Scrubs, Christopher Guest, Hugh Laurie, Otis Spann, Family Guy, Two and a Half Men, Jordan Raskopoulos, Lee Naimo, Grey's Anatomy, Louis Armstrong, David Hasselhoff, Irma Thomas, Journey, Dar Williams, Benny Davis, David Bowie, Barbara Bush, Elvis Costello, Glee, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Walt Disney, Muddy Waters, Joshua Radin, Axis of Awesome, 101 Dalmations, Nora Jones, Dr. John, Robert Johnson, Sheryl Crow, Spinal Tap, Leadbelly, Joe Henry, Jack Johnson, Randy Newman, George Holland, Allen Toussaint, Entertainment News

Hugh Laurie has a new album, Let Them Talk, which is New Orleans blues based. Here he discusses how he came up with that idea.

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Bluesman David 'Honeyboy' Edwards Dead At 96

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Video, Honey Boy Edwards Dead, Blues Honey Boy Edwards, Honey Boy Edwards Chicago, David Edwards Dead, Blues, Chicago Music, David Honey Boy Edwards, Robert Johnson, Chicago News

By CARYN ROUSSEAU, Associated Press CHICAGO -- Grammy-winning Blues musician David "Honey Boy" Edwards, believed to be the oldest surviving Delta b...

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Amy Winehouse: Newest Member of Club 27

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 09.26.2011

Club 27 is a most exclusive and heavenly private club of great musicians who died at the age of 27. As of July 24th, Amy Winehouse is the latest me...

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Do Musicians Have A "27 Curse"?

Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. | Posted 09.22.2011

Read More: Janis Joplin, 27 Club Curse, Alcohol, Kurt Cobain, Addiction, Drugs, Amy Winehouse Dead, Music, The 27 Club, Robert Johnson, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse, Winehouse, Entertainment News

Amy Winehouse was 27 years old when she died. There are a number of other famous musicians who died at 27. Are these musician deaths at the age of 27 just a coincidence?

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From New Deal To Raw Deal: The Real Economics Of Cutting Social Security

Thomas Ferguson | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Obama, Social Security, Democrats, Federal Deficit, Robert Johnson, Thomas Ferguson, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

As profits for the banks the American people rescued soar, it marks a new low in the Democratic Party's long retreat from the New Deal's glittering promise that ordinary Americans, too, deserved to share in prosperity.

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Fugitive Caught After 32 Years As A Different Man

The Denver Post | Kirk Mitchell | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Robert Charles Johnson, Prison Escapees, Escaping From Prison, Man Caught After 32 Years, Robert Fargo, Michael Lucas, Colorado Fugitive Caught After 32 Years, Robert Johnson, Colorado Prisons, Denver News

STERLING -- For 32 years, Colorado officials took few steps to capture convicted killer Robert Charles Johnson, who escaped the Cañon City prison in ...

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Riding White Water Economics Without Paddles and Rudder

Steve Clemons | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Bank, Depression, Jared Bernstein, Birch Bayh, Kenneth Rogoff, George Soros, 1937, Economic Shocks, Robert Johnson, Barack Obama, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Joseph Stiglitz, Financial Crisis, Inet, Economic Corruption, Greece, Politics News

What would it take for Pleasantville to become modern-day Greece -- where people are losing all that they have built and the social stress is undermining the solvency of the state?

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Passing Down the Blues in Alabama and Mississippi

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Etta, Blues Harmonica. Delta Blues Museum, Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, Louisiana, Muddy Waters, Little Jimmy Reed, Montgomery, Alabama, Charlie Musselwhite. Jon Gindick?S Harmonica Jam Camp, Koko Taylor, Son House, Blues, Robert Johnson, Ella, Alabama Blues Project, Southerners, Sugar Blue, Carroline Shines, Bluestown Music, Hill Country Harmonica, Tuscaloosa, Willie King, Sonny Boy, Mississippi, Red?S Juke Joint, Johnnie Shines, Clarksdale, Travel News

Southerners love their blues the way we New Yorkers love our Broadway. And no matter where I go in the south -- Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, I can never get enough of the raw, gritty blues.

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Jill Scott's Video Exclusive, Plus Chatting With The Wombats and The Postelles, and Paleo's Latest

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.31.2011

For Jill Scott's new album The Light of the Sun that will be released June 21st, here is a video with the artist and co-producer JR Hutson discussing the making of eight of its tracks followed by previews of each track.

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James Tormé's "Love For Sale," Plus Conversations with Josh Groban, Darlene Love, and Yael Naim (Video)

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Rick Rubin, The Righteous Brothers, David Donatien, Tom Jones, Dionne Warwick, Homas Bloch, Lou Adler, Ellie Greenwich, Tina Turner, The Beach Boys, Sam Cooke, Josh Groban, Shelley Fabares, The Crystals, Bell Records, The Beatles, James Tormé, Shindig!, Stephane & Lionel Belmondo, Mel Tormé, Perez Hilton, Jack Nitzsche, Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, Eric Legnini, Robert Johnson, Tom Waits, Elvis Presley, Darlene Love, Johnny Rivers, The Blossoms, Lester Sill, Debussy, Phil Ramone, Leader of the Pack, Ravel, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, The Spinners, Tété, Entertainment News

Jazz vocalist James Tormé -- son of The Velvet Fog, Mel Tormé -- debuts his new video "Love For Sale" here on HuffPost.

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He Named It "Grammy": A Conversation With Hunter & Stan Freberg, Plus New Robert Johnson Releases

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Beanie & Cecil, Billy Crystal, Richard Dreyfuss, Kirk Douglas, Love Is..., Comic-Con, The William Tell Overture, Lassie, Friz Freleng, Jeno Paulucci, Grammy, Ken Nelson, Contadina Tomato Paste, Dean Martin, Hunter Freberg, Clayton Moore, Naras, Pete Puma, Steven Spielberg, St. James Theatre, Capitol Records, Time for Beanie, Disney, Roseanne, The Lone Ranger, Stan Freberg, Sunsweet Pitted Prunes, Sammy Davis Jr., Time, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Leeds, Martin Sheen, David Merrick, Stuat Little, Anthony Hopkins, Harry Winston, The Writers Guild, Ronald Long, Ray Bradbury, Mel Blanc, Looney Tunes, Robert Johnson, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Lark CIgarettes, Warner Brothers, Daws Butler, Penn & Teller, Advertising Age, Donald Trump, Richard Foos, Liza Minelli, Frank Sinatra, John Burton, Cecil, Entertainment News

Stan Freberg, Hunter Freberg. Together, they're like an institution.

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Mellencamp Shops on eBay, Gets Baptized, Hangs with Dalai Lama for New Album

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, Ga, Savannah, Sun Studios, Elvis, T-Bone Burnett, Music News, Robert Johnson, John Mellencamp, Entertainment News

The Mellencamp formula hasn't changed much since 1976. What's different about his latest record, No Better Than This, is that the mosaic starts to take the shape of a musical self-portrait.

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Someone's Mojo Is Working: A Conversation With Tom Petty

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Elmore James, Little Walter, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, BB King, Gamble & Huff, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Jeff Beck Group, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, Thomas Jefferson, Blues, Robert Johnson, Tom Petty, Derek and the Dominos, Chuck Berry, Cream, Bo Diddley, Leon Huff, Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Robert Cray, Randy Newman, Scott Thurston, Mike Campbell, Entertainment News

"I've been trying to get there for over a decade, really. [Blues] is the music we've always played. I guess over the last decade or so, it just became where I went when I wanted to listen to music."

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Do You Know Your Love I.Q.?

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Valentine's Day Myth, The Good News and Its Practical Implications, Psyche and Amor, Robert Johnson, Author, Featured Contributor, Self-Quiz, Valentine's Day, Healthy Living News

The opposite of love is not hate. It's indifference. More love wilts from neglect than any other cause. Doesn't it make sense, then, to know your Love Intelligence Quotient?

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AIG Autopsy: Eliot Spitzer Calls For Investigation Like Swiss UBS

Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swiss Baking Federation, Economic Crisis, Aig, American International Group, Robert Johnson, Eliot Spitzer, Swiss National Bank, Ubs, Bailout, Rob Johnson, Spitzer, Financial Crisis, Bank Bailout, Video, Business News

Inquiring minds want to know ... where's the inquiry? Three prominent former prosecutors are calling for the government to make AIG release interna...

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"There Is a Crack in Everything; That's How the Light Gets in"

Melanie Drane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mending, Re-Purpose, Re-Use, Critique, Restore, Workshop, Writing, Robert Johnson, Jane Hirshfield, Prompts, Repair, Poems, Breaking, Environment, Revision, Stories, Anu Tuominen, Revise, Jung, Books News

Mending is always accompanied by an element of risk. Something may function again, but differently, so that every successful re-use is accompanied by a sense of luck and relief.

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Soros Battles Free Market Zealots With New Fund, Economic Journal: Newsweek

newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sir James Mirrlees, George Soros, Joseph Stiglitz, Hyman Minsky, George Akerlof, Robert Johnson, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Michael Spence, Fiscal Policy, Business News

Large swaths of economics are going to have to be rethought on the basis of what's happened." So said Larry Summers, President Obama's chief economic ...

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