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℗♭2004
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"Born in the Delta, the blues has meandered through Mississippi juke joints and Chicago nightclubs, Texas roadhouses and Memphis studios, and on to concert halls worldwide. Elwood's Blues in the story of the artists who have carried the blues along these roads." "Since 1993 the award-winning House of Blues Radio Hour has brought in-depth artist profiles and blues music to millions of listeners, courtesy host Dan Aykroyd and producer Ben Manilla. Now...
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Pub. Date
2011
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Follow House's journey from rural pulpits and labor farms to smoky juke joints. In the 1930s, he became the decade's leading bluesman in Mississippi, and an important influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. This account of his life offers a fresh perspective on how the blues influenced American culture and spread throughout the world.
25) Usher
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Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Meet singing superstar, Usher.
Pub. Date
2005
Description
After Jake Blues is release from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church is no longer supporting the institution and will sell the place to the education authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within the next 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a...
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2015.
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"Beyonce Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing in pageant shows and talent contests, honing her craft through her teenage years until, at the age of 16, she had her first number one record with Destiny's Child. That hit-making trio launched Beyonce's successful solo career, catapulting her, as of 2014, to #1 onForbes annual list of most wealthy celebrities--the same year she made the cover of Time. BECOMING BEYONCE...
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2005.
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"The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues offers an in-depth look at this powerful and influential music, with detailed information on the groundbreaking artists that helped to shape jazz and blues as the styles developed. Organized by decade, the introductory text to each chapter provides essential background information, while the Themes & Styles sections place the music into its cultural, historical and social contexts and discuss...
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Leonid McGill mysteries volume 6
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"Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip 'Catfish' Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. The opportunity...
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Pub. Date
2007
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Wilson's plays form a kind of fever chart of the unmooring trauma of slavery. Their historical trajectory takes African-Americans through the shock of freedom at the turn of the century (Gem of the Ocean); to the reassembling of identity in the teens (Joe Turner's Come and Gone); the struggle for power in the urban America in the twenties (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom); the dilemma of embracing their past as slaves in the thirties (The Piano Lesson);...
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Pub. Date
1997
Description
Blues guitarist Honeyboy Edwards looks back on his life, telling of his upbringing as a sharecropper's son, his years as a hobo during the Depression, and his travels throughout the country as an intinerant bluesman, playing in the hot towns of Memphis, Chicago, and New Orleans.
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Pub. Date
2023
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"A religious biography of Tina Turner that maps her journey from the Black Baptist church to Buddhism and includes special attention to the diverse metaphysical beliefs that influenced her along the way"--
"If you don't know Tina Turner's spirituality, you don't know Tina. When Tina Turner reclaimed her throne as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll in the 1980s, she attributed her comeback to one thing: the wisdom and power she found in Buddhism. Her spiritual...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Riley King, ever to be known as B.B. (1925-2015), was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister's guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, and encouraged by his cousin, the established bluesman Bukka White, B.B....
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Pub. Date
2021
Description
n the summer of 1962 young Dan Geary, a history professor from Chicago, embarks on a journey to reconstruct the life and mysterious death of a legendary blues artist, Virgil Thomas. His odyssey takes him from Chicago to Kansas City to St. Louis to Memphis to Helena, Arkansas, and then into the Mississippi Delta. In the South, he runs into the reality of the raging civil rights conflict. Sucked into that violent struggle, he will have to confront his...
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