“I started really making the connection to blues and R&B , and the progression of black music throughout the years,” Fields said. “Blues is at the root of …
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Apprenticeship shines light on history of blues and black gospel
“I started really making the connection to blues and R&B , and the progression of black music throughout the years,” Fields said. “Blues is at the root of …
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Apprenticeship shines light on history of blues and black gospel
(10) R&B hit (by the Vibrations) the previous year, in 1964. We played a lot of blues and R&B kind of music in the McCoys, strangely enough, so we …
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Hippiefest in Englewood, New Brunswick | Jersey Retro
Moonshine Society's dance-able roots rock, blues and old school R&B has won them multiple WAMMIE nominations for Best Blues/Traditional R&B …
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Big Names to Play at 10th Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival
On August 1, 2016, WSIE launched its new brand, 88.7 The Sound; providing listeners with a rich blend of jazz, smooth jazz, blues and R&B to create …
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SIUE's WSIE-FM 88.7 Tunes its Dial to More Success with New Director Jason Church
… they are known to draw on a diverse mix of musical influences from Bay Area R&B , funk, Southern soul, Delta blues and New Orleans second-line.
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Strings Music Festival announces two new concerts in September
But just as jazz, blues and R&B artists were demonized for propagating the devil's music, so too was this new generation of rock musicians. In 1966 …
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Is Rock Dead?
But just as jazz, blues and R&B artists were demonized for propagating the devil's music, so too was this new generation of rock musicians. In 1966 …
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Is Rock Dead?
Mr. Starks, a mostly self-taught musician, modeled himself after the blues and R&B drummers he watched as a child in Mobile, where he avoided age restrictions at a local club by sitting on a milk crate with his eye glued to a hole in the wall. He played with the electrifying rhythm-and-blues singer Bobby …
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Jab'o Starks, drummer who kept the beat for James Brown, dies at 79
Mr. Starks, a mostly self-taught musician, modeled himself after the blues and R&B drummers he watched as a child in Mobile, where he avoided age restrictions at a local club by sitting on a milk crate with his eye glued to a hole in the wall. He played with the electrifying rhythm-and-blues singer Bobby …
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Jab'o Starks, drummer who kept the beat for James Brown, dies at 79
This seven-piece band, founded by lead vocalist and harmonica virtuoso Pat Gleeson, plays R&B , funk, blues and jazz. The band also features Keith Crossan on sax, Mikey Gymnaites on Guitar and vocals, and David Neft on keyboards. Rounding out the band are Joanie Lane on vocals and flute, Dave …
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May 5 benefit concert features Clean Sweep
Why: The Los Angeles-based classically-trained cellist and vocalist Kelsey Lu has a unique aura to her music that draws from both classical influences (Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff), blues and R&B (Etta James, Billie Holiday), jazz (Thelonious Monk) and pop (Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin) and a past that saw …
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New artist of the week: Kelsey Lu
Chicago rhythm and blues and neo-soul singer Ravyn Lenae is scheduled to perform at the Missouri Theatre Thursday night. Tickets are available for purchase at the MU Student Center Ticket Office. Doors open at 8 p.m. and Lenae's performance is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m.. Only 19 years old, …
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R&B artist Rayvn Lenae to perform Thursday night at Missouri Theatre
It wasn't so much about Sugaray Rayford finding the blues, as it was about the blues finding him. The Texas native grew up singing gospel in church, and discovered funk and r&b as a young man around San Diego. But once Rayford realized he had a real flair for the blues and perhaps should focus his …
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Bluesman Sugaray Rayford comes to Hull