Category Archives: Blues
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Image by ElvertBarnes
Independence Weekend . 45th Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival . National Mall . Washington DC . Sunday afternoon, 3 July 2011 . Elvert Barnes Photography
Rhythm and Blues: Tell It Like It Is Program
www.festival.si.edu/2011/RhythmBlues/
Folks Dancing to William Bell & the Stax Music Academy (SMA)
Motor City Stage
12 noon – 1 pm
Watch short video clip of folks dancing at Vimeo at vimeo.com/26036366
Visit Stax Music Academy (SMA) at www.staxmusicacademy.org/
Visit Smithsonain Folklife Festival at www.festival.si.edu/
Visit Elvert Barnes 45th Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2011 docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/45thSmithsonianFolklifeFestival2011
www.amazon.co.uk soundcloud.com www.facebook.com From the album Lord Cry Cry Live at the CPU Remember life before the smoking ban? How life had a heady, hazier fug of hidden depths and musky abandon? Lord Cry Cry’s debut album throws you into a dreamy what-if world — where the beatnik decadence of the Left Bank is thrown forward to an alternative present, where the eternal, nicotine-hued avant garde exploration has found its way onto the hard drive; where jazz, blues and classic film soundtracks have found common ground with dubstep and electronica. This is the Mississippi Delta relocated to Silicon Valley. This is Tom Waits for the Ableton generation. This is Lord Cry Cry, his debut album, released on Generation Bass. Wildly adventurous, evocative and dream-like, Lord Cry Cry is the brainchild of a North England born Berlin-based producer and composer, who brings a whole world of experience to this album — a genre-gliding musician and film-score composer trained in the psychology of music and music composition, his work is able to use music and rhythm to affect emotion, and over its nine tracks, Lord Cry Cry blends everything from soul to ambient via dubstep and jazz, as much in line with 60s library music as the playful noodlings of Money Mark. On his influences he states: “Until I was about fourteen we only had three albums in the house; Roberta Flack First Take, Motown Chartbusters Vol.3 and The Beatles Oldies but Goldies. They are the foundation of everything I do …
The Rhythm & Blues Foundation’s Pioneer Awards recognize those artists whose lifelong musical contributions have been insturmental in the development of Rhythm & Blues music. On September 9,2008, as part of its 20th Anniversary celebration, the Rhythm & Blues Foundation proudly honored Ms, Sugar Pie DeSanto for her distinctive work as an individual artist. For more info, please visit www.rhythmblues.org.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
(250/365) Wonderful
Image by Sarah G…
11th September 2009 – Having heard a snippet of an old song I liked on Scrubs last night, I downloaded it onto my phone this morning. I sobbed the enter journey into work… it’s weird how memories can totally mess with your head.
Exhausted from the week by the evening, tried to have a nap before dinner because I wasn’t able to function, but instead tossed and turned for two hours then gave up. Stupid headache, stupid head. Stupid world. Bleh!
