Blues Awards Weekend - Memphis Flyer


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Blues Awards Weekend
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An annual event of the Memphis-based Blues Foundation, the BMAs will celebrate the year in blues with awards in 26 categories recognizing albums, songs, singers, and players from across the blues spectrum and with live performances from several ...
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Controversial Rapper Muck Sticky Premieres New Hip Hop Music Video “Party On ... - MemphisRap.com


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Controversial Rapper Muck Sticky Premieres New Hip Hop Music Video “Party On ...
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... released a new music video for new hip hop song “Party On.” Muck Sticky's “Party On” music video and song is a single release, which comes off of Muck Sticky's new album Hullabaloo, which is the Memphis based rapper's eleventh studio album release.

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Billy Boy Arnold, Matt 'Guitar' Murphy, Doc Pomus and Allen Toussaint to be ... - Something Else! Reviews


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Billy Boy Arnold, Matt 'Guitar' Murphy, Doc Pomus and Allen Toussaint to be ...
Something Else! Reviews
... Memphis bluesman Furry Lewis, Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau, the German promoters of the American Folk Blues Festival; Chicago blues radio legend Pervis Spann; and Frank Stokes, also of Memphis. Albums to be honored are Buddy Guy's Damn Right, ...
Blues Awards honor Benoit, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Musselwhite Bayoubuzz

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Big Star's Third: 'It's hard to nail the chaos' - The Guardian


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Big Star's Third: 'It's hard to nail the chaos'
The Guardian
No one wanted the third album by the Memphis group Big Star, until it crept out in two markedly different versions on tiny labels in the UK and the US in 1978. That's the album that a group of musicians will attempt to recreate in its entirety in ...

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Former Toledoans up for award - Toledo Blade


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Former Toledoans up for award
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A pair of former Toledo blues musicians are members of a band that is a finalist for the Best Historical Blues Album in the Memphis Blues Awards contest. Bill Tarsha, who played for years in Toledo as "Bullit Bill" Tarsha, and his wife, ...

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The Voice coach and Good Charlotte's Joel Madden part of Song Summit 2012 at ... - The Daily Telegraph

The Voice coach and Good Charlotte's Joel Madden part of Song Summit 2012 at ...
The Daily Telegraph
He produced Guy Sebastian's platinum-plus record The Memphis Album and the Australian singer will tear himself away from baby Hudson to interview Cropper as part of Song Summit's In Conversation sessions. Another headliner will be Grammy Award-winning ...

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Stax Legend Donald 'Duck' Dunn Dies At 70 - Noise11


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Stax Legend Donald 'Duck' Dunn Dies At 70
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Booker T & The MGs backed Young for the album that became 'Are You Passionate'. The song 'Differently' featured Dunn's backing vocals with Neil on the album. In 2007, Australia's Guy Sebastian recorded his 'The Memphis Sessions' album with Dunn, ...
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What's On: Tyneside roots music scene this week - ChronicleLive

What's On: Tyneside roots music scene this week
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His debut album, Wrong Side of Memphis, back in 1997, contained songs such as Murder, Just Like A Dog, Wages of Sin and I Don't Exist and set the twilight-tint for his subsequent releases. The Memphis referred to in the title is no figment or lyrical ...

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Is Lil Wyte Still Doubted? Hypnotize Minds - Hip Hop Press (press release)

Is Lil Wyte Still Doubted? Hypnotize Minds
Hip Hop Press (press release)
After more than a decade in the spotlight, the Memphis songwriter has amassed legions of fans worldwide, and consistently attracts new listeners from his catalog of intense solo and collaborative albums. On June 19, 2012, Lil Wyte will release his ...

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Johnny Rawls to Release 'Soul Survivor' June 19 - Blinded By Sound

Johnny Rawls to Release 'Soul Survivor' June 19
Blinded By Sound
Blues Music Award-winner Johnny Rawls will follow up his 2011 album Memphis Still Got Soul on June 19 when he releases Soul Survivor through Catfood Records. Memphis Still Got Soul garnered multiple nominations for Rawls at last month's 33rd Blues ...

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