Pennan Brae Releases New Album Nov 28, 2008
"Well, it starts with the blues first and foremost. Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Elmore James. There's something essential and foundational in that music. It cools you out and sets you straight. After that it's a chronology of 50s rock, with brilliant writing from Buddy Holly & Eddie Cochrane, the 60s a la the Beatles, Stones, Dylan. The 70s with Steve Miller, Springsteen, Mellencamp. ". With well-placed harmonicas and irresistible piano undertones, Pennan successfully blends his musical... (Suite101.com)
Landreth, Lindley kick off "The Magic & Mystery of the Slide Guitar" Oct 10, 2008
Such American musicians as Johnny Winter, Bonnie Raitt, Elmore James and George Thorogood have employed slide guitars to accent their style of blues. Brian Jones and Mick Taylor used the slide in the 1960s and 1970s for the Rolling Stones. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
George Harrison: 50-yr anniversary Aug 31, 2008
1970 - There's one classic moment in the documentary Let It Be where George responds to Paul's "suggestions" about how to play his guitar with a withering, "I'll play whatever you want me to play, or I won't play at all if you don't want me to play. Whatever it is that'll please you, I'll do it." George contributes two song to the soundtrack - I Me Mine, an impassioned attack on the ego that would have been easy to read as a swipe at McCartney, and the lighter-hearted For You Blue, a playful... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Piney Woods School to receive Blues Trail marker Aug 16, 2008
After graduation, he studied music in Chicago and performed professionally with blues artists including Elmore James. Later in his blues career, he found acclaim as the lead singer for Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Hail, hail, rock'n'roll Jul 19, 2008
When Elmore James wrote Shake Your Moneymaker, I'm sure he didn't intend it for an audience of six-year-olds in tiger face paint ... I'm sure when Elmore James wrote this song he did not intend it for an audience of six-year-olds in tiger face paint. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A Rich Tradition Jul 19, 2008
He wants to entertain people but also show them the range and evolution of blues, "the traditions that run deep in the music." He covers the bases: the rural sound of Son House and Robert Johnson, personified by Honeyboy Edwards, who knew them both; Chicago urban blues of the sort that slide guitarist Elmore James Jr. will be playing this year; the Memphis soul sound of singer Denise LaSalle, who's also on the bill, along with the Gospel Hummingbirds ... Sept 27: Hot Tuna, Delta Groove All-Star... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Pilgrimage to the shrine of Rock and Roll Jul 13, 2008
Named after the famous founder of Atlantic Records, this section holds a large collection of guitars once used by rock and roll greats from the Eagles' Timothy B. Schmit and Duane Allman to bluesman Elmore James to Duane Eddy. The ground floor is also dedicated to a chronology of the birth and evolution of rock and roll from the early blues period in the 1930s through to the grunge era of the early 1990s. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Rockland has the blues Jun 27, 2008
radio stations and the influences of Etta James, Billie Holiday, Elmore James, Aretha Franklin and others. And shes proving to be a major player on the modern blues music scene. (Courier Publications, ME)
Local plays the Northwoods blues Jun 21, 2008
I want to do it with the authenticity and passion that I saw in musicians like R.L. Burnside, Elmore James and Junior Kimbro. But I put my own twist on it, keeping the raw elements of old school Blues and at the same time making it progressive for younger audiences. (Forest Republican, WI)
Brains frontman slides on with Delta Moon Mar 6, 2008
" Delta Moon's latest album, 2007's "Clear Blue Flame," is the band's fifth release but the first with Gray as lead singer. Brimming with nasty slide guitar licks, Gray's weathered and wizened vocals and some impressive songwriting, "Clear Blue Flame" maintains its own style while paying tuneful tribute to old bluesman's church deacons like Elmore James and Muddy Waters and lap-steel innovators like Jerry Byrd, who was reportedly so old school that he left Nashville for Hawaii when the pedal... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Atlanta teen a blues master Jan 3, 2008
Top 5 Favorite Songs "Third Degree," Willie Dixon "I Can't Quit You Baby," Otis Rush "It Hurts Me Too," Elmore James "Got My Mojo Workin,'" Muddy Waters "Cuttin' In," Johnny "Guitar" Watson. What he plays A yellow 1996 American made Fender Stratocaster is his main guitar. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Blues legend Ike Turner dies at 76 Dec 14, 2007
He also worked as a talent scout, helping to sign up bluesmen such as Sonny Boy Williamson and Elmore James. He first met Tina Turner, then Anna Mae Bullock, an 18-year-old from Nutbush, Tennessee, in 1959. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
RIP, Ike Turner Dec 14, 2007
Meanwhile, Turner recorded regularly, backing the likes of B. B. King, Elmore James, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson and Howlin' Wolf with his sharp, broken-glass guitar lines. Then came Tina. (Newsweek)
Ike Turner, rock 'n' roll pioneer, dead at 76 Dec 14, 2007
Turner scoured the Mississippi Delta for the most talented musicians and is credited with bringing blues artists such as Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Junior Park and Little Milton to the recording studio. Perkins, 94, learned the news of Turner's death while watching television at his home in Austin, Texas. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Ike Turner, musician and songwriter in duo with Tina Turner, dies at 76 Dec 13, 2007
He worked with King, Bobby Blue Bland, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Ace, Otis Rush, Elmore James and many other blues and rhythm-and-blues musicians. In 1954, he moved up the Mississippi River to East St. Louis, where his disciplined and dynamic band became a major draw at local clubs. (International Herald Tribune)
Ike Turner dead at 76 Dec 13, 2007
After forming his band, The Kings of Rhythm, in the late 1940s, Turner settled in St Louis, Missouri, where he worked as a scout for labels including Sun Records, helping to sign talent such as Howlin' Wolf and Elmore James. Most influential figure in his life. (iAfrica.com)
Ike Turner, Rock And Roll Pioneer And Former Husband Of Tina Turner, Dead At 76 Dec 13, 2007
The song became a hit and the Kings went on to work with such legendary blues musicians as Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy and many others. Turner and the group continued performing and recording throughout the 1950s, with Tina joining the group late in the decade and ultimately marrying Turner in 1958. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Rock icon Ike Turner dies Dec 13, 2007
Mr. Turner scoured the Delta for the most talented musicians and is credited with bringing blues artists such as Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Junior Park and Little Milton to the recording studio. Perkins, 94, learned the news of Mr. Turner's death while watching television at his home in Austin, Texas. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
For 8-year-old guitar prodigy Tallan Latz, happiness is playing the blues Nov 30, 2007
So does the way he plays Elmore James The Sky is Crying on his electric guitar. Tallan, a second-grader at Tibbets Elementary School in Elkhorn, loves to play the guitar. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
The beat goes on: Miss. Blues Trail marker celebrates Trumpet Records Nov 16, 2007
The first releases by Mississippi blues legends Elmore James and Sonny Boy Williamson II appeared on Trumpet. The label also is notable because McMurry operated it at a time when the recording industry was even more male-dominated than it is today. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Artrain arrives with Indian culture Oct 30, 2007
Street's earliest art celebrated the blues pioneers in wide slashes of brilliant color on slabs of discarded wood, rescued from anonymity with portraits of the likes of Muddy Waters, Elmore James and Robert Johnson. As he experimented with different styles, drawing on the Impressionists and Expressionists, Street "took what he needed to know and went from there." Bold strokes and colors play out the sounds he heard and played as a musical artist. (Clarksdale Press Register, MS)
Jimmy Page: Master of excess Sep 15, 2007
"One of the reasons their music is so rich and colourful," says Ellen, "is all the different influences that fed into it from Elmore James or rhythm and blues right across the scale to Davy Graham or Pentangle. I interviewed Page once and he constantly emphasised the 'light and shade' of Led Zeppelin and all its gradations of volume and texture. The problem for the majority of the rock bands in their shadow is that they only listened to Led Zeppelin and consequently produced music that was... (Independent)
More of this story Aug 21, 2007
For their encores, Piazza and company did a rompin stompin rendition of Elmore James Stranger Blues, the counterpoint between the piano and the harmonica almost too keen to believe. The night ended with an instrumental tour de force. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
Blues marker unveiled at Little Zion May 18, 2007
He influenced Muddy Waters, Elmore James and other artists with his tunes "Sweet Home Chicago" and "Dust My Broom.". Jordan said Johnson's music wasn't appreciated when he was alive. (Greenwood Commonwealth, MS)
USA TODAY's Ken Paulson chats with Bo Diddley May 18, 2007
So I decided to try to play like Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and all these different blues people. I tried to learn this while my mother went to the Aughter) Because she didnt deal with the guitar, she didnt like it. (USA Today -- Life)
Fresno's golden age of music? It's now Mar 14, 2007
He brings six guitars and uses them all while playing everything from his original compositions ("Smoke and Mirrors") to Willie Dixon ("Built for Comfort") to Elmore James ("The Sky is Crying"). Rogers isn't much for banter. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Get your motor running Feb 20, 2007
The Late Fantastically Great (Ember) by Elmore James ... He takes Elmore James's Sky Is Crying and Portishead's Glory Box somewhere else entirely. (Guardian Unlimited)
