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"I Ain't Studdin' Ya is the behind-the scenes story of beloved blues entertainer Bobby Rush's extraordinary rise to fame. Born Emmett Ellis Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, he acquired his first real guitar, adopted the stage name 'Bobby Rush,' and started playing juke joints in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a teenager barely old enough to sneak through the door. After leading his own band in Arkansas, he relocated to Chicago in the 1960s, where he started working...
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We turn our attention to Rhythm and Blues. In the late forties, white record companies labeled commercial black music 'race music'. Eventually, Jerry Wexler, then working at Millboard magazine as a reporter, thought of the phrase, 'rhythm and blues' and it caught on. Before long, numerous other descriptions appeared, Motown, the Philadelphia sound, Soul, but all had in common that the music expressed the rising aspirations of the ghetto.
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"From Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson of the...hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of Soul Train—the cultural phenomenon that launched the careers of artists such as Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, Whitney Houston, Lenny Kravitz, LL Cool J, and Aretha Franklin. Questlove reveals the remarkable story of the captivating program, and his text is paired with more than 350 photographs of the show's most memorable...
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Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the century emerging from several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, work songs, spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues. Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
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"'Blues on Beale', filmed entirely in the Blues clubs on famed Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, captures the people, the soul, and music of the 36th International Blues Challenge, an annual event organized and staged by The Blues Foundation. Starting in the early fall of 2019, Blues Societies from across the globe held local competitions for Blues bands and solo/duo acts. The winners of these competitions qualified to travel to Memphis to compete...
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