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Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen - he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
4) After Hours
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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Filtering R&B, pop, and hip-hop through an ambitious widescreen lens, the Weeknd quietly took over popular music and culture on his own terms. Features the global hits Heartless and Blinding Lights.
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[2004]
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Robert Johnson's story presents a fascinating paradox: Why did this genius of the Delta blues excite so little interest when his records were first released in the 1930s? And how did this brilliant but obscure musician come to be hailed long after his death as the most important artist in early blues and a founding father of rock 'n' roll? Elijah Wald provides the first thorough examination of Johnson's work and makes it the centerpiece for a fresh...
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Country blues volume 1
Pub. Date
1970.
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"Descriptive analysis and musical transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature" of the works of various blues guitarists.
10) Yellow Dog blues
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2022.
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"Traveling across the Mississippi Delta, Bo Willie searches blues landmarks like Dockery Farms and Beale Street for his missing dog"--
Pub. Date
2006
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Documentary film about the legendary blues club in Austin Texas, "Antone's." The film is filled with historical dynamic blues performaces from the earliest days of the club in the 1070's. The film follows the club and its owner, Clifford Antone, through their ups and downs to the present day. There are performances by and interviews of many of the great blues masters of the last half-century."...contianer.
14) RL's dream
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Kiki Waters takes in Soupspoon Wise, a aging and seriously ill bluesman, when he is evicted from his apartment. Both have to come to terms with the legacies of their pasts.
15) In Session
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p1999
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Personnel: Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan (vocals, guitar); Tony Llorens (piano, organ); Gus Thornton (bass); Michael Llorens (drums).
Recorded at CHCH studios, Hamilton, Ontario on December 6, 1983. Includes liner notes by Bill Belmont, Lee Hildebrand and Dan Forte.
Digitally remastered by George Horn (1999, Fantasy, Berkeley, California).
Throughout his short ride in the public eye, Stevie Ray Vaughan constantly cited his musical influences:...
Recorded at CHCH studios, Hamilton, Ontario on December 6, 1983. Includes liner notes by Bill Belmont, Lee Hildebrand and Dan Forte.
Digitally remastered by George Horn (1999, Fantasy, Berkeley, California).
Throughout his short ride in the public eye, Stevie Ray Vaughan constantly cited his musical influences:...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The Blues brothers: After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood take their blues band back on the road in an attempt to raise money for the orphanage where they were raised. Havoc ensues as the brothers seek redemption on their "mission from God."
Blues brothers 2000: 18 years after the Brother's original "mission to God," Elwood Blues gets out of prison and discovers that much has changed in the time he's been away. His partner,...
18) Killer Diller
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[2008]
Description
An ex-con guitar player meets an autistic savant piano player and together, along with a bunch of halfway-house residents, they form the red-hot Killer Diller Blues Band.
20) Bill Wyman's
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Pub. Date
2001
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A history of the Blues genre and its celebrated musicians discusses how African-Americans expressed poverty, injustice, faith, and love in their music as they journeyed from southern plantations to northern cities.