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4 days 22 hours ago

Remembering Bill Withers (1938-2020), a soulful vet who did not care for a music biz that he could dominate effortlessly with realism, from the heart vocals and timeless songs. "He soon bought a cheap guitar at a pawn shop, taught himself to play and began writing songs between shifts at the factory. A demo tape got into the hands of Clarence Avant, an executive at Sussex Records, and Withers was soon called into the studio to record an album with producer Booker T. Jones, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn and Stephen Stills on guitar. One of the first songs they cut, “Ain’t No Sunshine,” was a tale of lost love that Withers wrote after watching the 1962 Jack Lemmon-Lee Remick movie Days of Wine and Roses on television..."

Bill Withers, Hall of Fame Soul Singer, Dead at 81

Mellifluous vocalist behind “Lean on Me,” “Lovely Day” and “Ain’t No Sunshine” succumbs to heart complications

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5 days 12 hours ago

"Struttin' with Some Barbeque" - the Marsalis family

Struttin’ With Some Barbecue - The Marsalis Family (DVD clip)

August 4, 2001 Lakefront Arena – New Orleans, LA The Marsalis Family performed with their father, the esteemed pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis in a concert that marked his retirement from the school’s jazz department.

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1 week 3 days ago

"everybody's gonna need some kind of ventilator" Blues material has always covered scarcity in finance, romance and the necessities... File the Stones’ prescient ‘Ventilator Blues," a rare Mick Taylor-Mick Jagger-Keith Richard composition, on Exile on Main Street under the latter. The song’s unique rhythm has vexed drummer Charlie Watts ever since its recording. Consequently, ”Ventilator Blues" was only played live once in the 1972 tour’s opening show. #ventilator #rollingstones

ROLLING STONES VENTILATOR BLUES IN HD W/LYRICS

ROLLING STONES VENTILATOR BLUES OFF EXILE ON MAIN STREET LYRICS: When your spine is cracking and your hands, they shake, Heart is bursting and you butt's gon...

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2 weeks 19 hours ago

“Country music really is just the white man’s blues.” In 1979 James Brown played Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, fulfilling a lifelong ambition.

Flashback: James Brown Brings Scandalous Soul to the Opry

“I could throw up,” an Opry piano player reportedly said upon hearing the singer would be sharing her stage

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3 weeks 3 days ago

“I love blues, and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence. But you’re right, there’s a distinct blues influence within what I do..." - David Gilmour With over 250 million albums sold, Pink Floyd has had a foot in the blues since day one. Founder Syd Barrett named the band after two Piedmont blues players, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council - which settles the question "...which one's Pink." As the years progressed, Pink Floyd's music channeled blues to the masses courtesy of the guitar stylings of David Gilmour whose pungent blues licks, solos, riffs and phrases grace many of the band’s anthems: “Wish You Were Here,” “Money," "Have a Cigar" and “Young Lust.” read more at: bluescenter.com

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3 weeks 4 days ago

“Groove Me” - Jon Cleary & the Monster Gentlemen. . . #funk #neworleans #kingfloyd #bluesbrothers

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