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Music Producer Rocks Old-School In Digital Era (PHOTOS)

Alexandra Holzer | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jazz, Ella Fitzgerald, Shelly Liebowitz, Blues, La Arts, Shelly Liebowitz Interview, Shelly Liebowitz Music Producer, Los Angeles News

'Play' your dues Music Producer Shelly Liebowitz knows music and music knows him. There is nothing auto-tuned about this man what-so-ever.

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Bessie Smith: Music's Original, Bitchinest Bad Girl

Debra Devi | Posted 04.25.2012

What hugely popular female singer beat a rival unconscious, slept with her musical director, seduced her female backup dancers, frequented live sex shows and mortified New York society by telling a wealthy fan to "get the f*ck away from me"? 1920s blues singer Bessie Smith.

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Stage Door: Nice Work If You Can Get It, The City Club

Fern Siegel | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Entertainment, Musical, Blues, Theater, Jazz, Broadway, Kelli O'Hara, Off-Broadway, George Gershwin, Matthew Broderick, Arts News

Nice Work If You Can Get It has a glorious Gershwin score, frothy, screwball plot, strong ensemble and Kelli O'Hara. What it doesn't have is a leading man. Matthew Broderick suffers through his dance routines, moving as little as possible, and frequently mopping his brow.

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Blues Take Series Lead

AP | JOSH DUBOW | Posted 04.17.2012

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Andy McDonald scored one goal and set up another in the second period to help the St. Louis Blues regain home-ice advantage in the...

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5 Myths About Fighting the Blues

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Tips, Energy, Blues, Mood, Happiness, Anger, Tips on Happiness, Gps-Soul, Happiness Tips, Expression, Tips for Happiness, Slidepollajax, Healthy Living News

We all have a few tricks for beating the blues -- things we do when we're feeling down. It turns out, however, that several popular strategies don't actually work very well in the long term.

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The Real Story Behind Howlin' Wolf's 'Killing Floor'

Debra Devi | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: History of Words, History, Etymology, Blues Singers, History of Slavery, Blues Musicians, African American History, Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf, Blues Legends, Slavery, Blues Music, History of Blues, Killing Floor, Blues, Chicago Blues, Black History, Video, Culture News

"Wolf had seven wives. One was named Helen. She shot him with a double barrel shotgun with buckshot. Out the second floor window. This woman, oh man, he wrote that song about her!"

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Snapshots Of A Disappearing Delta

Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Photography, Video, Mississippi, Poverty, American Music, Documentary Photography, Mississippi-Blues, Kickstarter, Mississippi Delta, Blues, Delta Blues, Arts News

Few places other can claim as much in the way of the musical style as the Mississippi Delta; however, as much as the Delta is known as "the birthplace...

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White House of the Blues

Paul Stoller | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: The Blues, Michelle Obama, Mick Jagger, Chicago, President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Buddy Guy, Political Dysfunction, B.B. King, The White House, The Human Condition, Obamas, White House, Chicago Blues, Blues, Barack Obama, Culture News

The magic of The Blues worked itself way into the White House, providing a moment of communitas in Washington, D.C., a moment of unexpected unity in our divided society.

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Review: Wrecking Ball by Bruce Springsteen

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.05.2012

Wrecking Ball stands as Springsteen's best album release in almost thirty years. It's both wrenching and jubilant; looking back and looking forward; steeped in sorrow as well as celebratory and undaunted.

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Dion DiMucci in Conversation With Steven Van Zandt at the 92nd Street Y

Holly Cara Price | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Joe?S Pub, New Album, Bronx, Music News, Buddy Holly, Steven Van Zandt, Blues, New York City, Dion DiMucci, Dion and the Belmonts, Entertainment News, Jerry Lieber, Doo Wop, 92y, Hank Williams, Country Music, Dovells, Outlaw Country, Entertainment News

Just imagine you're sitting in your own living room and it's nice and cozy and quiet, and across from you in two comfy chairs are Dion DiMucci and Steven Van Zandt talking, for 90 minutes, about Dion's long and amazing career.

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Red Hot Wings Win 17 Straight At Home

AP | By LARRY LAGE | Posted 01.24.2012

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DETROIT -- Pavel Datsyuk and Johan Franzen scored in the second period, and the Detroit Red Wings beat the St. Louis Blues 3-1 on Monday night for the...

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David Grisman: Chicago's Bluegrass Scene 'Needs More Dorks'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival, Mike Raspatello, Bluegrass, My Chicago, Chicago Bluegrass Festival, Chicago Around Town, Blues, Chicago Music, Todd Fink, Giving Tree Band, David Grisman, Chicago News

Undeterred by dropping temperatures, the fourth annual Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival is celebrating the city's musical roots this weekend and n...

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Soul Singer Howard Tate Dies At 72

AP | GEOFF MULVIHILL | Posted 02.05.2012

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TRENTON, N.J. — Soul singer Howard Tate, who got a second chance at a musical career three decades after being derailed by disputes with industr...

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Caps Fall To Blues 2-1 In Hunter's D.C. Coaching Debut

AP | JOSEPH WHITE | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Alex Ovechkin, Video, Verizon Center, Caps, Dale Hunter, Nhl, Washington Capitals, Blues, National Hockey League, St. Louis Blues, Hockey, DC News

WASHINGTON — If Dale Hunter needs a role model as a new coach trying to make the Washington Capitals play better defense and with more confidenc...

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Finding God At The Margins In The Mississippi Delta

Marilyn Sewell | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Watermelon Slim, Red's Blues Club, Mississippi Delta, Racism, Occupy Wall Street, Blues, God, Occupy Portland, Ground Zero Blues Club, History of Blues Music, Homelessness, Mississippi Blues, Sacred Sounds, Poverty in America, Delta Blues, Mississippi Blues Trail, Blues Music and Religion, Religion News

Why is it that we must go to the margins of society to find what is real? Perhaps it is only at the margins where people have so little to lose that they are free of pretense.

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Hugh Laurie Goes to New Orleans

Roger Catlin | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Joe Henry, Great Performances, Blues, New Orleans Music, House, Hugh Laurie, Pbs, Allen Toussaint, Entertainment News

"Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk - A Celebration of New Orleans Blues" is part heartfelt travelogue, part uncomfortable small club gig. Laurie's enthusiasm for all parts of Southern culture is matched by his charm in discussing it.

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Ex-NHL Player Uses Prison Skills To Save Teammate's Life

AP | By MALIN RISING | Posted 11.20.2011

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STOCKHOLM -- Former NHL player Mike Danton was sent to prison for plotting to take a life. In his return to professional hockey, the skills he learned...

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Taylor Made: How One Man's Dream Redefined the American Idol

Cicily Janus | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Simon Cowell, Art, Taylor Hicks Album, Taylor Hicks, Music Industry, Blues, American Idol, American Dream, Entertainment News

Hats off to Taylor Hicks for proving the masses wrong, for tailoring a dream to reality and giving us all something to sing for.

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PHOTOS: A Blues Institution In Mississippi

AP | Posted 11.06.2011

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by Rogelio V. Solis, Associated Press CLARKSDALE, Miss. -- It's not the Heartbreak Hotel or the Ritz, and George Washington didn't sleep there. ...

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Bluesman David 'Honeyboy' Edwards Dead At 96

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 10.29.2011

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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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Taste Of The Blues And BBQ Coming To Pier 54

| Andrea Swalec | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: NY Restaurants, Food, Blues, Ny Food, Bbq, New York News

MANHATTAN — The West Village will go Southern this weekend for the Hudson River Park's 12th annual Blues BBQ. The free party on Pier 54 Sunday w...

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Buddy Guy Way: Chicago Names Street For Blues Legend

AP | Posted 10.08.2011

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CHICAGO — Chicago blues great Buddy Guy now has his own street. The city of Chicago has renamed the stretch of Wabash Street in front of his cl...

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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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Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington

Art Levine | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Americana, Wolf Trap, Music, Entertainment, Lucinda Williams, Blues, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

At Lucinda Williams' Washington show, it was a mad love-fest between audience and performer that I've rarely seen outside of a Bruce Springsteen concert.

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Sure, Montreal has a Festival Culture, but Prince Still Blows Minds

Crai S. Bower | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Festivals, Tourism, Montreal, Quebec, Jazz, Bella Fleck, Burlesque, Reggae, Travel, Tattoo, Music, Blues, Gay Pride, Canada, Culture, Travel News

The math is easy, even for a writer. 800 concerts in ten days equals 80 concerts a day at Montréal's International Festival de Jazz. But how does thi...

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