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"Right on BillyBobJoe!!
My first concert was Jethro Tull and I remain a fan. Once saw him in the Netherlands in Rotterdam. What an interesting crowd!! But yeah "Heavey Metal"......ha! What a weird thing to…"
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"I like your suggestion, BillyBobJoe. I'd like to visit Sunflower, Tommy. Yes, Flo and Eddie -- some of my stone-rocker friends may snivel, but "Happy Together," "She's My Girl," "You Baby," and backup work…"
BillyBobJoe commented on Howard Mandel's blog post 'The Kennedy Center honors Buddy Guy (great!) and Led Zeppelin (but they're Brits! and talented, rich, derivative!)'
"The KC nominating committee here outta be visited by JETHRO TULL and whipped about their heads with his "Heavy Metal" Grammy Award. This makes about as much sense."
Tommy Lagniappe commented on Howard Mandel's blog post 'The Kennedy Center honors Buddy Guy (great!) and Led Zeppelin (but they're Brits! and talented, rich, derivative!)'
"Amen Howard....my soul brotha from anotha motha!!!!
I have shot stick with Buddy and Junior Wells at "Cotton Chicago" on Belmont in the Windy City. (which is now gone). And been in the company of a lot of our treasures right here in…"
Greg McAteer commented on Howard Mandel's blog post 'The Kennedy Center honors Buddy Guy (great!) and Led Zeppelin (but they're Brits! and talented, rich, derivative!)'
"Why are you giving awards to non-American popstars? Sure, you have many, many American-born musicians who deserve to be honoured, be that before, at the same time as, or after musicians from elsewhere but on at least one level I hope it's…"
Paul Wilner commented on Howard Mandel's blog post 'The Kennedy Center honors Buddy Guy (great!) and Led Zeppelin (but they're Brits! and talented, rich, derivative!)'
"Flo and Eddie?"
Hal Bogerd commented on Howard Mandel's blog post 'The Kennedy Center honors Buddy Guy (great!) and Led Zeppelin (but they're Brits! and talented, rich, derivative!)'
"I guess Linda Chorney didn't lobby hard enough!"
Jack Williams commented on Howard Mandel's blog post 'The Kennedy Center honors Buddy Guy (great!) and Led Zeppelin (but they're Brits! and talented, rich, derivative!)'
"And I guess Elton John got his before Bob Dylan (2006)."
Jack Williams commented on Howard Mandel's blog post 'The Kennedy Center honors Buddy Guy (great!) and Led Zeppelin (but they're Brits! and talented, rich, derivative!)'
"As much as I still love Led Zeppelin, I do find it a bit odd that they're to be Kennedy Center honorees. Good that they didn't leave out John Paul Jones, though. And your statement about who got their award after…"
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The Kennedy Center honors Buddy Guy (great!) and Led Zeppelin (but they're Brits! and talented, rich, derivative!)
Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy, at age 75 as wild a guitar pyrotechnician as lives today, and the British dinosaur rockers Led Zeppelin, whose guitarist Jimmy Page stands in Guy's shadow, are being celebrated with Kennedy Center Honors, to be presented at a program at the Kennedy Center on Dec. 2. Remind me again why we're giving awards to non-American pop stars? Guy, who first came to prominence outside Chicago in…See More
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The Kennedy Center honors Buddy Guy (great!) and Led Zeppelin (but they're Brits! and talented, rich, derivative!)
Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy, at age 75 as wild a guitar pyrotechnician as lives today, and the British dinosaur rockers Led Zeppelin, whose guitarist Jimmy Page stands in Guy's shadow, are being celebrated with Kennedy Center Honors, to be presented at a program at the Kennedy Center on Dec. 2. Remind me again why we're giving awards to non-American pop stars? Guy, who first came to prominence outside Chicago in…See More
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NEA Jazz Masters of 2013 announced: Eddie Palmieri, my top choice, among the four
Last January during the NEA Jazz Masters ceremonies at Lincoln Center, I blogged "Who should the next NEA Jazz Masters be?" and wrote, "My own list of deserving nominees -- it starts with Eddie Palmieri." Today the NEA announced its Jazz Masters of 2013 -- Eddie Palmieri!…See More
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NEA Jazz Masters of 2013 announced: Eddie Palmieri, my top choice, among the four
Last January during the NEA Jazz Masters ceremonies at Lincoln Center, I blogged "Who should the next NEA Jazz Masters be?" and wrote, "My own list of deserving nominees -- it starts with Eddie Palmieri." Today the NEA announced its Jazz Masters of 2013 -- Eddie Palmieri!…See More
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The Kennedy Center honors Buddy Guy (great!) and Led Zeppelin (but they're Brits! and talented, rich, derivative!)
Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy, at age 75 as wild a guitar pyrotechnician as lives today, and the British dinosaur rockers Led Zeppelin, whose guitarist Jimmy Page stands in Guy's shadow, are being celebrated with Kennedy Center Honors, to be presented at a program at the Kennedy Center on Dec. 2. Remind me again why we're giving awards to non-American pop stars?
Guy, who first came…
ContinuePosted on September 13, 2012 at 10:00am — 10 Comments
NEA Jazz Masters of 2013 announced: Eddie Palmieri, my top choice, among the four
Last January during the NEA Jazz Masters ceremonies at Lincoln Center, I blogged "Who should the next NEA Jazz Masters be?" and wrote, "My own list of deserving nominees -- it starts with Eddie Palmieri." Today the NEA announced its Jazz Masters of 2013 -- Eddie Palmieri!…
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments
RIP Duck Dunn, 70, bass mover of American vernacular music
Donald "Duck" Dunn, bassist for Booker T. and the MGs, most all the grits 'n' greens soul voices who emerged from Memphis' Stax Records in the 1960s, and dozens of major blues-rock-pop stars during his subsequent career as an LA-based studio musician, died in his sleep at age 70 in the early morning of May 13 while on tour in Japan with his guitarist partner and childhood friend Steve Cropper. He'd performed two shows the…
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:30am — 17 Comments
UNESCO's International Jazz Day heralds America's root-and-branches music worldwide
The first International Jazz Day -- April 30 2012 -- was a phenomenal world-wide event, initiated by composer-pianist Herbie Hancock and reaching at the very least the 195 nations that had musicians playing Hancock's "Watermelon Man" in tandem with his own performance of it at a sunrise concert in Congo Square, New Orleans. The sunset concert in the hallowed and vast main hall of the UN was an impressively strong demonstration of jazz's vitality and diversity, too. Videos…
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- At 12:35am on January 25, 2011,
Wil said… - Howard, Thanks for the quick reply. Anything I can do to make the sharing of the Betty Davis files easier for you I'm happy to do. If you send your email I can add you to a file in my dropbox to"collaborate" on as they refer to it on the site or you can add my email to one of yours and let me know once they're uploaded. My email is theaterboi01@aol.com . I'm a huge Betty Davis fan and I'd be completely in your debt for sharing these lost treasures.
- At 2:01pm on February 21, 2010,
J. Hayes - music writer said… - howard,
you can reach me at hayesmusicdesign@gmail.com
- At 9:23am on December 28, 2009,
Kevernacular (Kevin Lynch) said… - Howard:
Thanks much. "The Ballad of Michael Bloomfield." I like that. I have read and heard Wilentz and Marcus' "The Rose and the Briar" not long ago.. So you may be onto something. Glad you had Butterfield bells to ring.
I'll try to track down your Goldmine piece.
- At 12:58pm on December 27, 2009,
No Depression said… - Hi Howard - Welcome to the No Depression community! We hope you're finding everything okay. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback (here are some FAQs in case anything's confusing). Thanks for joining. Cheers!
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- At 11:33am on December 23, 2009, Kevernacular (Kevin Lynch) said…
- Howard:
I got into the rootsy literate songwriter side of things when I got divorced a few years ago. Got into Townes Van Zandt of all things. He spoke to those feelings vulnerability, loss etc. And you know divorce too I gather.You're enuff of an American Renaissance man to appreciate this, I know.
Always wanted to write about Bloomfield, which I also do in my "Voices" book. I remember you riffing heavy on Blues Project. Have U heard the new Danny Kalb? How is it?
Best,
Kevin
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