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  Reading Eagle, Pa.

  Reading Blues Fest: The perfect cure for the November blahs

  Nov. 13—There's no better cure for the November blahs than the blues, and Berks Arts' fifth Reading Blues Fest is the perfect prescription. Opening Thursday with a Community Kickoff Concert at the Reading Liederkranz, and continuing Friday through next Sunday in the cozy, friendly atmosphere of the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel, Reading, the festival will feature top-notch performances by some of ...

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  Dave Alvin’s New Highway: Selected Lyrics, Poems, Prose, Essays, Eulogies and Blues

  “Some of the stuff that’s in [the book] was written knowing that I may never play music again,” says Dave Alvin, chatting from his home in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. “Or I may…. I may be dead.” The book is New Highway: Selected Lyrics, Poems, Prose, Essays, Eulogies and Blues, a collection by the … Dave Alvin’s New Highway: Selected Lyrics, Poems, Prose, Essays, Eulogies and Blues Read More » The post Dave Alvin’s <i>New Highway: Selected Lyrics, Poems, Prose, Essays, Eulogies and Bl

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  ‘The Beano Album’: John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers And Eric Clapton Create A Classic

  Affectionately known as ‘the Beano album,’ Bluesbreakers forever changed the landscape of rock music.

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  Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer

  Carlos Santana: 'Music is the water, I'm a hose, people are the flowers'

  Carlos Santana opened up about his influences, unmistakable style and the role of spirituality in his music ... 53 years after Woodstock.

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  McAlester News-Capital, Okla.

  RAMBLIN ROUND: B.B. King: The guitar man and his Lucille

  May 22—When I recently asked John Moreland what kind of guitar he played during the first round of the Dancing Rabbit Music Festival in McAlester — a Nash, he told me — it got me too thinking about the ties between some musicians and their instruments of choice. I've noticed lots of guitarists have become especially tied to their instruments, Maybe musicians who play other instruments get just ...

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  Herald-Tribune

  Sarasota native, blues-rock musician Greg Poulos dies at 70

  A celebration of life for the guitarist, who played with acts like Freddie King and Kettle of Fish, will be held Sunday at Stottlemyer's Smokehouse.

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  Savannah Morning News

  '3 Kings' will rock into Victory North courtesy of Eric Culberson and his love of the blues

  Featuring the music of Albert King, B.B. King and Freddie King, the show was inspired by the “Blues Trilogy” tribute that Eric Culberson produced.

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  Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer

  Philip Paul, legendary Cincinnati drummer, dead at age 96

  His drumming can be heard on King Records albums including the original "Twist" and "Please Come Home for Christmas."

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  The Day, New London, Conn.

  Massachusetts blues guitarist Rosenbloom plays NAC Wednesday

  Jan. 5—After the Mississippi Delta and south Chicago, Waltham, Mass., is regarded as one of the hotbeds of blues music. Or it COULD be if momentum continues to build for native son Seth Rosenbloom. A singer/guitarist/songwriter whose background in classical violin and a performance merit scholarship to the Berklee School of Music isn't exactly the sort of bio one associates with those Blind ...

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  LA Times

  Leon Russell's former home and studio lists in Hollywood Hills

  The onetime home and recording studio of late musician Leon Russell is for sale in the Hollywood Hills for $1.398 million.

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