SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — When multi-instrumentalists Jerron Paxton and Dennis Lichtman go out into the world together, they look to the past for inspiration. Growing up on opposite coasts — Paxton in Los ...
As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods; it's ...
She sang, she played the keys, and she rocked a suit like the best of them. Whatever Gladys Bentley did, she did with absolute aplomb. She knew from a young age that she ran a bit on the butch side; ...
The 1920s saw a revolution in technology the advent of the recording industry that created the first class of AfricanAmerican women to sing their way to fame and fortune Blues divas such as Bessie ...
Singer Bessie Smith’s recording career lasted only 10 years, but during that time she created a body of work that helped shape the sound of the 20th century. Her first single, “Downhearted Blues” — ...
Like Judaism, the musical form of the blues is steeped in tradition. That was just one of the many connections that the rabbi, activist and musician Sandra Lawson and blues musician and historian ...
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