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Ground Zero Blues Club
Clarksdale, Mississippi has long been described as "Ground Zero" for blues aficionados from around the globe. It all started here. That's why Ground Zero Blues Club® was created to celebrate the area's rich blues heritage and to provide a forum in which it can continue.
Located at Blues Alley next door to the Delta Blues Museum in the heart of historic downtown Clarksdale, Ground Zero Blues Club® opened in May 2001. Owned by local attorney and businessman, Bill Luckett; Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi Delta resident, Morgan Freeman; and Clarksdale native and Memphis entertainment executive, Howard Stovall; Ground Zero Blues Club® is the place for anyone looking for an authentic Delta Blues experience.
The mission is to showcase the best of today's Delta Blues musicians. Although some national acts perform from time to time, visitors are more likely to find the "real deal" at Ground Zero Blues Club® — those musicians who live in the Mississippi Delta and continue in the tradition of their musical forefathers Charley Patton, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker.
Ground Zero Blues Club® has been featured on CBS' 60 Minutes, CNN, Turner South, The Food Network, The Travel Channel, and The Discovery Channel and was the site for filming of Last of The Mississippi Jukes and Blues Divas. Named in 2005 as one of the "Top 100 Bars and Nightclubs in America” the club has been featured in publications such as National Geographic Traveler, Southern Living, USA Today, Esquire Japan, Food and Wine, The Washington Post and TV Guide — to name but a few.
The blues club is the latest venture for Freeman and attorney Bill Luckett. Howard Stovall, the executive director of the Blues Foundation in Memphis, joins the duo in bringing the Delta something it wants; a place to hear the blues.
"This is a venue for the blues," said Freeman, while sitting on a desk in the small office in the of the club. It doesn't matter whether it is traditional blues or new stuff, Freeman just wants a place for blues artists to play and blues fans to hear what they love.
The club is housed in a building in downtown Clarksdale that was built in the early 1900s. Ground Zero has really genuine feel to it with uneven floor boards, Christmas lights hanging from the ceiling, blues posters on the walls, vinyl tablecloths and mismatched chairs.
Customers can even say they've had a "hand in the club" by drawing their handprint on the bar, the wall or the floor.
Juke joints and small clubs pepper the Delta landscape, but there has never been a blues club in the Delta with the potential to attract national acts the way Ground Zero is expected to do in the future.
The club was open for business a week prior to the grand opening last Sunday night and Luckett said that it has been packed to almost maximum capacity almost every night.
According to Luckett, Ground Zero is already making a name for itself among foreign travelers who want to hear some authentic blues. The Clarksdale attorney said the club has already been visited by travelers from the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada.
Located at Blues Alley next door to the Delta Blues Museum in the heart of historic downtown Clarksdale, Ground Zero Blues Club® opened in May 2001. Owned by local attorney and businessman, Bill Luckett; Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi Delta resident, Morgan Freeman; and Clarksdale native and Memphis entertainment executive, Howard Stovall; Ground Zero Blues Club® is the place for anyone looking for an authentic Delta Blues experience.
The mission is to showcase the best of today's Delta Blues musicians. Although some national acts perform from time to time, visitors are more likely to find the "real deal" at Ground Zero Blues Club® — those musicians who live in the Mississippi Delta and continue in the tradition of their musical forefathers Charley Patton, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker.
Ground Zero Blues Club® has been featured on CBS' 60 Minutes, CNN, Turner South, The Food Network, The Travel Channel, and The Discovery Channel and was the site for filming of Last of The Mississippi Jukes and Blues Divas. Named in 2005 as one of the "Top 100 Bars and Nightclubs in America” the club has been featured in publications such as National Geographic Traveler, Southern Living, USA Today, Esquire Japan, Food and Wine, The Washington Post and TV Guide — to name but a few.
The blues club is the latest venture for Freeman and attorney Bill Luckett. Howard Stovall, the executive director of the Blues Foundation in Memphis, joins the duo in bringing the Delta something it wants; a place to hear the blues.
"This is a venue for the blues," said Freeman, while sitting on a desk in the small office in the of the club. It doesn't matter whether it is traditional blues or new stuff, Freeman just wants a place for blues artists to play and blues fans to hear what they love.
The club is housed in a building in downtown Clarksdale that was built in the early 1900s. Ground Zero has really genuine feel to it with uneven floor boards, Christmas lights hanging from the ceiling, blues posters on the walls, vinyl tablecloths and mismatched chairs.
Customers can even say they've had a "hand in the club" by drawing their handprint on the bar, the wall or the floor.
Juke joints and small clubs pepper the Delta landscape, but there has never been a blues club in the Delta with the potential to attract national acts the way Ground Zero is expected to do in the future.
The club was open for business a week prior to the grand opening last Sunday night and Luckett said that it has been packed to almost maximum capacity almost every night.
According to Luckett, Ground Zero is already making a name for itself among foreign travelers who want to hear some authentic blues. The Clarksdale attorney said the club has already been visited by travelers from the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada.
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How the blues brothers behind Chess Records made all the right moves
Leonard and Phil Chess's legendary Chicago label helped invent rock'n'roll with Ike Turner, brought the minimalist blues of Muddy Waters, and provided a direct influence on the young Rolling Stones
Frank Zappa once said that the best years of rock were when records were produced by "cigar-chomping old guys who looked at the product that came and said, 'I don't know. Who knows what it is? Record it, stick it out. If it sells, all right.'"
Leonard and Phil Chess were prototypical cigar-chomping, old-fashioned record men who took a chance on music they didn't understand. Jewish immigrants from Poland, they got into the record business more or less by chance: Leonard bought a liquor store in an African American neighbourhood on the south side of Chicago, and did well enough that he opened a small nightclub called the Macomba Lounge. It was a rough ghetto bar, patronised by prostitutes and drug dealers, but from the start it was known for having good music. In the late-1940s, that meant it had jazz groups playing bebop, pop tunes, and mellow blues ballads. That was what the better-paying black patrons preferred to hear, and when Leonard got involved with a small local label, Aristocrat Records, that was what he intended to record.
It was only after the first few records went nowhere that he took a chance on another kind of musician, a Mississippi singer who was too raw and country-sounding to have pleased the crowds at the Macomba. In fact, when Leonard Chess first heard Muddy Waters sing I Can't Be Satisfied, in a Delta growl backed with a whining electric slide guitar, he couldn't imagine it pleasing anyone. "What's he saying?" he asked. "Who's going to buy that?"
Fortunately, his partner in Aristocrat, Evelyn Arons, suggested that some of the black southerners who had moved north in search of jobs might enjoy the sounds of home. So Chess pressed 3,000 singles, they sold out in a day, and six decades later Waters's recording is remembered as the first masterpiece of electric Chicago blues.
In a movie – and there have been several based on this story – Chess would have instantly seen the light and devoted himself to creating further blues masterpieces. But in real life he was not a patron of the arts; he was a businessman trying to cut popular hits. By 1950 Arons had been replaced by Leonard's brother Phil and the label was called Chess, but most of its releases continued to be by jazz saxophonists.
Meanwhile Waters was also trying to reach a broader audience, adding a drummer and harmonica player to his live shows to create a tight, tough band. He was frustrated when Chess refused to mess with a winning formula and insisted that he keep making stark guitar-and-bass records like Rollin Stone, a one-chord chant that was archaic even by the standards of rural Mississippi. Neither of them could have imagined that a dozen years later five lads in London would like that record enough to name a band after it.
That is the paradox of the Chess story. The brothers were not musical visionaries; they were small-time "indie" record men making a quick buck from the poorest, least respected people in America. But their cheaply recorded, bread-and-butter discs of local street musicians and bar bands still sound as fresh today as they did 60 years ago. By failing to be timely, they succeeded in being timeless.
They were also lucky, and unusually loyal to their artists. That loyalty did not prevent them from playing some tricky games with publishing and royalty payments, but it meant that down-home bluesmen like Waters and Howlin' Wolf continued to make records long after other indie labels had switched to a trendy teen style called rock'n'roll.
Leonard Chess and Waters had a particularly close relationship, and it served both of them well. When Waters finally persuaded Chess to record his full band, he incidentally brought the label its biggest blues hit-maker: Little Walter was barely out of his teens, and reshaped the course of blues harmonica by amplifying his instrument and playing it like a jazz saxophone. It was a fresh, hip sound, and in 1952 he cut an instrumental called Juke that stayed at the top of the R&B charts for eight weeks. Then, in 1955, Waters introduced Chess to an unknown songwriter from St Louis named Chuck Berry. In retrospect, the list of artists who were associated with Chess in that first decade forms a pantheon of electric blues and blues-influenced rock'n'roll: Waters, Wolf, Walter, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Berry, Bo Diddley. There were some startling one-offs as well: In 1951, a teenage Ike Turner recorded a romping boogie-woogie called Rocket 88 at Sun Studios in Memphis, soon to be the birthplace of rockabilly – but Sam Phillips had not yet started the record label that would spawn Elvis Presley, so the disc appeared on Chess. When Presley hit, Chess got its own white rock'n'rollers, Dale Hawkins and Bobby Charles. Many of the label's biggest hits in this period came from doo-wop groups.
When people talk about the "Chess sound", though, they are not thinking of rockabilly or doo-wop, or even of the brilliant soul records the label produced in the 1960s with Etta James, Fontella Bass and Little Milton. They are thinking of the stripped-down blues discs that, despite changing fashions, always remained among the label's mainstays.
Frank Zappa once said that the best years of rock were when records were produced by "cigar-chomping old guys who looked at the product that came and said, 'I don't know. Who knows what it is? Record it, stick it out. If it sells, all right.'"
Leonard and Phil Chess were prototypical cigar-chomping, old-fashioned record men who took a chance on music they didn't understand. Jewish immigrants from Poland, they got into the record business more or less by chance: Leonard bought a liquor store in an African American neighbourhood on the south side of Chicago, and did well enough that he opened a small nightclub called the Macomba Lounge. It was a rough ghetto bar, patronised by prostitutes and drug dealers, but from the start it was known for having good music. In the late-1940s, that meant it had jazz groups playing bebop, pop tunes, and mellow blues ballads. That was what the better-paying black patrons preferred to hear, and when Leonard got involved with a small local label, Aristocrat Records, that was what he intended to record.
It was only after the first few records went nowhere that he took a chance on another kind of musician, a Mississippi singer who was too raw and country-sounding to have pleased the crowds at the Macomba. In fact, when Leonard Chess first heard Muddy Waters sing I Can't Be Satisfied, in a Delta growl backed with a whining electric slide guitar, he couldn't imagine it pleasing anyone. "What's he saying?" he asked. "Who's going to buy that?"
Fortunately, his partner in Aristocrat, Evelyn Arons, suggested that some of the black southerners who had moved north in search of jobs might enjoy the sounds of home. So Chess pressed 3,000 singles, they sold out in a day, and six decades later Waters's recording is remembered as the first masterpiece of electric Chicago blues.
In a movie – and there have been several based on this story – Chess would have instantly seen the light and devoted himself to creating further blues masterpieces. But in real life he was not a patron of the arts; he was a businessman trying to cut popular hits. By 1950 Arons had been replaced by Leonard's brother Phil and the label was called Chess, but most of its releases continued to be by jazz saxophonists.
Meanwhile Waters was also trying to reach a broader audience, adding a drummer and harmonica player to his live shows to create a tight, tough band. He was frustrated when Chess refused to mess with a winning formula and insisted that he keep making stark guitar-and-bass records like Rollin Stone, a one-chord chant that was archaic even by the standards of rural Mississippi. Neither of them could have imagined that a dozen years later five lads in London would like that record enough to name a band after it.
That is the paradox of the Chess story. The brothers were not musical visionaries; they were small-time "indie" record men making a quick buck from the poorest, least respected people in America. But their cheaply recorded, bread-and-butter discs of local street musicians and bar bands still sound as fresh today as they did 60 years ago. By failing to be timely, they succeeded in being timeless.
They were also lucky, and unusually loyal to their artists. That loyalty did not prevent them from playing some tricky games with publishing and royalty payments, but it meant that down-home bluesmen like Waters and Howlin' Wolf continued to make records long after other indie labels had switched to a trendy teen style called rock'n'roll.
Leonard Chess and Waters had a particularly close relationship, and it served both of them well. When Waters finally persuaded Chess to record his full band, he incidentally brought the label its biggest blues hit-maker: Little Walter was barely out of his teens, and reshaped the course of blues harmonica by amplifying his instrument and playing it like a jazz saxophone. It was a fresh, hip sound, and in 1952 he cut an instrumental called Juke that stayed at the top of the R&B charts for eight weeks. Then, in 1955, Waters introduced Chess to an unknown songwriter from St Louis named Chuck Berry. In retrospect, the list of artists who were associated with Chess in that first decade forms a pantheon of electric blues and blues-influenced rock'n'roll: Waters, Wolf, Walter, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Berry, Bo Diddley. There were some startling one-offs as well: In 1951, a teenage Ike Turner recorded a romping boogie-woogie called Rocket 88 at Sun Studios in Memphis, soon to be the birthplace of rockabilly – but Sam Phillips had not yet started the record label that would spawn Elvis Presley, so the disc appeared on Chess. When Presley hit, Chess got its own white rock'n'rollers, Dale Hawkins and Bobby Charles. Many of the label's biggest hits in this period came from doo-wop groups.
When people talk about the "Chess sound", though, they are not thinking of rockabilly or doo-wop, or even of the brilliant soul records the label produced in the 1960s with Etta James, Fontella Bass and Little Milton. They are thinking of the stripped-down blues discs that, despite changing fashions, always remained among the label's mainstays.
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Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix LLC
Seattle-born rock icon Jimi Hendrix is recognized by many as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th Century. Hendrix is a member of the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the UK Music Hall of Fame, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was named by Rolling Stone as the No. 1 guitarist of all time, and was the first inductee to the Native American Hall of Fame.
Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix LLC are proud to announce the highly-anticipated release of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology, featuring more than four hours of rare and previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix music on a 5 Disc (4 CD/1 DVD) deluxe box set, available Tuesday, November 16.
The long-awaited career-spanning box set tracks Hendrix's remarkable journey from little known R&B sideman to international stardom through an unprecedented assemblage of previously unavailable recordings.
West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is not a collection of existing Jimi Hendrix albums but instead 45 unreleased Jimi Hendrix live and studio recordings including demos and alternate versions of songs from Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, and Electric Ladyland. West Coast Seattle Boy includes Hendrix's never before heard version of Bob Dylan's "Tears Of Rage," solo acoustic recordings of Electric Ladyland favorites like "Long Hot Summer Night" and "1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be)" as well as never before heard live performances from Berkeley and the legendary Band Of Gypsys Fillmore East concert on New Year's Eve 1969 combined together with such new Hendrix songs as "Hear My Freedom," "Hound Dog Blues," "Lonely Avenue" and more.
A centerpiece achievement in Legacy Recordings' monumental Jimi Hendrix catalog project, West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is the first Hendrix collection to bring fans access to a comprehensive treasure trove of fresh material - including demos, alternate takes, live concert jewels and more - from all phases of the artist's recording career (1964 -1970).
West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology offers the most complete collection of Jimi's pre-Experience R&B performances (including his singles with the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Don Covay, King Curtis and more) to ever be officially anthologized, while bringing together the most comprehensive and revelatory set of fully realized songs, never before heard live performances, alternate studio takes, acoustic and electric demos, and other rarities drawn from every chapter of Jimi Hendrix's remarkable life and career.
The newly curated and assembled West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology includes Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child, a new 90 minute documentary directed by the multiple Grammy award winning Bob Smeaton (Beatles Anthology, Festival Express, Beatles: The Studio Recordings, Band of Gypsys). An autobiographical journey told in the legendary musician's own words as read by Parliament-Funkadelic's Bootsy Collins, the film incorporates interviews with Hendrix, coupled with the artist's letters, writings and recordings to provide new insight into one of the most enduring icons of popular culture. The documentary features some of Jimi's greatest performances as well as rare and never before seen footage and photos including-for the first time ever-examples from the Hendrix family archive of the late guitarist's personal drawings, postcards home to his father, song drafts, sketches, and lyrics.
"Who better to tell the incredible story of a man's life than the man himself? Jimi was amazing and only his music, with tones and textures that he conjured, can capture the colorful and expansive essence of his time here on earth. I am enthralled with this all-encompassing new anthology which not only illuminates his years on both sides of the Atlantic and beautifully reveals his versatility as a performer, from his R&B origins to his explosion on the pop culture scene, but highlights who he was for those who knew and loved him," said Janie Hendrix, President and CEO of Experience Hendrix and co-producer of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology. "This vast exploration of my brother's musical and life experiences leaves no stone unturned and is sure to broaden our understanding of who Jimi really was, not only as a legendary musician, but also as a timeless messenger of love."
"Jimi Hendrix changed the world with his music and West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology honors that achievement with an unprecedented collection of rarities and never-before-heard tracks from the Hendrix vaults that show the breadth and depth of this extraordinary artist," said Adam Block, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Legacy Recordings. "West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is a comprehensive overview of Hendrix's career told through fresh materials and provides remarkable new insights into one of music's greatest geniuses."
An essential and historic addition to the Jimi Hendrix catalog, West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology brings together, for the first time, many of Hendrix's earliest commercial recordings, providing a rare glimpse of the rising rock guitar hero through a series of stellar sideman performances on a set of highly collectible pre-Experience R&B singles. Included on Disc One of West Coast Seattle Boy are:
1. Isley Brothers - Testify (1964)
2. Don Covay & the Goodtimers - Mercy, Mercy (1964 - No 1 Cashbox R&B - No 35 Billboard Hot 100)
3. Don Covay & the Goodtimers - Can't Stay Away (1964)
4. Rosa Lee Brooks - My Diary (1965 - written by Arthur Lee)
5. Rosa Lee Brooks - Utee (1965)
6. Little Richard - I Don't Know What You Got But It's Got Me (1965)
7. Little Richard - Dancing All Around The World (1965)
8. Frank Howard & The Commanders - I'm So Glad (1966 - written by Billy Cox)
9. Isley Brothers - Move Over And Let Me Dance (1965
10. Isley Brothers - Have You Ever Been Disappointed (1965)
11. Ray Sharpe - Help Me (Get The Feeling) (Part I) (1966)
12. The Icemen - (My Girl) She's A Fox (1966)
13. Jimmy Norman - That Little Old Groovemaker (1966)
14. Billy Lamont - Sweet Thang (1968)
15. King Curtis - Instant Groove (1969)
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Disc Two of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology focuses on 1967-68 and Hendrix's breakout sessions with the Jimi Hendrix Experience:
1. Fire(1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
2. Are You Experienced (1967) - Previously Unreleased Recording
3. May This Be Love (1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
4. Can You See Me (1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
5. Love Or Confusion(1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
6. Little One (1967) - Previously Unreleased Recording (featuring Dave Mason on sitar)
7. Mr. Bad Luck (1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
8. Cat Talking To Me (1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
9. Castles Made Of Sand (1967) - Previously Unreleased Recording
10. Tears Of Rage (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
11. Hear My Train A Comin' (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
12. 1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be) (1968) - Previously Unreleased
Recording
13. Long Hot Summer Night (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
14. My Friend (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
15. Angel (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
16. Calling All The Devil's Children (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
17. New Rising Sun (1968) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
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Disc Three of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology revisits 1968-1969, both a peak and pivotal period for Hendrix in which the artist was exploring bold new directions on stage and in the studio:
1. Hear My Freedom (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
2. Room Full Of Mirrors (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
3. Shame, Shame, Shame (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
4. Messenger (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
5. Hound Dog Blues (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
6. Untitled Basic Track (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
7. Star Spangled Banner (1969) - Previously Unreleased Original Mix
8. Purple Haze (1969) - Previously Unreleased Original Mix
9. Young/Hendrix (1969) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
10. Mastermind (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
11. Message To Love (1969) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
12. Fire (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
13. Foxey Lady (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
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Opening with Hendrix's incendiary New Year's Eve performance of "Stone Free" at New York's Fillmore East on December 31, 1969 and closing with a previously unheard recording from Hendrix alone in his Greenwich Village apartment in 1970, Disc Four of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology provides a fascinating portrait of an artist at his fiery best, working on the future:
1. Stone Free (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
2. Burning Desire (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
3. Lonely Avenue (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
4. Everlasting First (1970) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording (featuring Arthur Lee)
5. Freedom (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
6. Peter Gunn/Catastrophe (1970) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
7. In From The Storm (1970) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
8. All God's Children (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
9. Red House (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
10. Play That Riff [Thank You] (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
11. Bolero (1970) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
12. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
13. Suddenly November Morning (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
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West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is the centerpiece of Legacy Recordings/Experience Hendrix LLC's second wave of Hendrix catalog releases. Also arriving on November 16 from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called "the greatest guitarist of all time" are deluxe editions of Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions and Jimi Hendrix: Blues, his legendary Live At Woodstock performance, and Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year, the highly collectible Jimi Hendrix Christmas EP.
A single disc "Best Of" edition of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology will be available, with or without the Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child DVD documentary. West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology will also be available in a deluxe edition featuring 8 12" vinyl LPs.
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Experience Hendrix Tour 2010, the fourth edition of the biennial concert tour that features an all-star line up of music greats paying homage to the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix, is currently underway with performances across the country.
Featured artists who will be performing music written and inspired by Jimi Hendrix include some of the best known and most respected musical talent in contemporary rock and blues including Steve Vai, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Mato Nanji, Double Trouble's Chris Layton, along with bassist Billy Cox. Cox, who first befriended Hendrix when the two were in the 101st Airborne Division of U.S. Army, played in both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys and performed with Hendrix at such landmark festivals as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight.
(All tracks are original master recordings)
(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation 3 system Oct. 13)
According to the April 2010 Stereophile review of Valleys of Neptune, “Today, [Hendrix’s] music appeals as much to musically wise 17-year-olds as to still-spirited baby boomers.”
Janie Hendrix, the CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, and Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Recordings launched their monumental 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project on March 9 with the release of “Valleys Of Neptune.”
The newly curated album of 12 fully realized studio recordings features more than 60 minutes of music never commercially available on a Hendrix album.
The project focuses around tracks recorded during a pivotal and turbulent four-month period in 1969.
“Valleys of Neptune” unveils the original Jimi Hendrix Experience’s final studio recordings, (Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitchell and bass player Noel Redding) as the trio lays down the foundation for its follow-up to Electric Ladyland, alongside first sessions with bassist Billy Cox, an old army buddy he’d recruited into his new ensemble.
“Valleys of Neptune” is previously unreleased Hendrix music, originally recorded and mixed for this historic release by Hendrix’s longtime engineer Eddie Kramer, who first worked with the guitarist on his debut Are You Experienced? album in 1967.
“Valleys of Neptune” reveals an audio view of what Hendrix was up to musically in the critical period between the release of Electric Ladyland in October 1968 and the 1970 opening of his own Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, the state-of-the-art facility where he would begin his final project, the album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
“Valleys of Neptune” is produced by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott (who contributes detailed liner notes to the album) and Kramer.
“The idea was to look at a really interesting period of Jimi’s career,” presents John McDermott. “It’s about the Jimi Hendrix legacy. We look at it as an important piece of the puzzle. We had spent the last few years sort of enhancing and improving the classic iconic live things like Woodstock and Monterey and so here let’s turn back towards the studio. Let’s again focus on a time period that is really important in terms of the development of Jimi’s career.
“You discover the root is the songs. The songs are wonderful. They connect and continue to inspire. They’re great. The cool thing about Jimi Hendrix that particularly young fans should understand is that he had the foresight to own his own master recordings. He did not record at his record company’s studio like The Beatles did, for example. He did not have an engineer who was a union employee and who would look at a clock, ‘OK Jim, you got to go. Somebody else is coming in at 11.’ He was a guy used the studio as a tool to write and create.”
About his product collaborations with Janie Hendrix and Eddie Kramer, McDermott also adds, “We have the benefit of continuity. And that Janie, Eddie and I have worked together now for 12 years. And we’ve been able to not only plot out releases that we want to focus on but cast the net to find cool things. And so we’re not beholden to anybody to put records out. So in this process we mixed some things, kept going, found like a couple of gems, and said, ‘This fits perfectly here. That’s going to be part of the record.’ ‘Ships Passing Through The Night’ is one such example. That is what informs a lot of the decision making. You get gifts like that,” reflects McDermott.
Housed in the “Valleys of Neptune” album are songs that include the final studio recordings birthed by the original Jimi Hendrix Experience (after Electric Ladyland, in addition to capturing Hendrix’s initial efforts to forge a new sound equation with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox).
The 2010 March release includes unearthed studio covers of Elmore James’ classic “Bleeding Heart” and Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” as well as original Hendrix compositions like the aforementioned “Ships Passing Through The Night,” “Lullaby For The Summer” and the original un-dubbed Jimi Hendrix Experience rendition of “Hear My Train A Comin’.”
Also included in “Valleys of Neptune” is “Mr. Bad Luck,” a Jimi Hendrix Experience track produced by Chas Chandler during the 1967 Axis: Bold As Love sessions. There’s also a recording of “Stone Free” that Hendrix produced with vocal overdubs courtesy of Family’s Roger Chapman and Andy Fairweather Low.
“Jimi would re-visit songs — like ‘Stone Free,’” McDermott explains. “The cool thing is, which I think people have to understand, is that it’s a signature song to the audience at large. No doubt about it. It was the first song he wrote for The Experience and [it’s] on the B-side of ‘Hey Joe’ but not included in the debut U.S. Reprise Records U.S. Are You Experienced? album.
“He did it quickly because it was all that they could afford. And by 1969 he had brought it back to his live set and said, ‘You know what? America and the world have not really heard this song.’
“And ‘Stone Free’ also shows the role of Eddie Kramer. I think the wonderful thing about Eddie — and he is such an asset to the work we do; we’re grateful to have him — is that I’ve been through every tape in the library. And when Jimi wanted to be serious about something, you can tell it’s a session Eddie is involved with, because there’s a communication between the two of them. You can hear it on the session tapes. They are working towards something. Like ‘Stone Free,’ for example. When they brought Billy (Cox) in, they did a few sessions with Billy playing with other people, jamming a little bit, but when it was time to get serious, Jimi called Noel in and called Mitch in and they cut ‘Stone Free.’ And you know it’s time to get to business.”
The first wave of products for the Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project, Legacy Recordings released on March 9 new deluxe CD/DVD editions of “Are You Experienced?,” “Axis: Bold As Love,” “Electric Ladyland” and “First Rays of the New Rising Sun,” also available on vinyl.
Each of the subsequent titles in the Hendrix catalog planned for reissue on Legacy will feature a bonus DVD featuring newly created documentaries directed by Grammy-award-winning director Bob Smeaton [“Beatles Anthology,” “Festival Express,” “Beatles: The Studio Recordings”] and featuring interviews with Experience members Redding, Mitchell and Cox, original producer Chandler and engineer Kramer.
Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix LLC are proud to announce the highly-anticipated release of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology, featuring more than four hours of rare and previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix music on a 5 Disc (4 CD/1 DVD) deluxe box set, available Tuesday, November 16.
The long-awaited career-spanning box set tracks Hendrix's remarkable journey from little known R&B sideman to international stardom through an unprecedented assemblage of previously unavailable recordings.
West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is not a collection of existing Jimi Hendrix albums but instead 45 unreleased Jimi Hendrix live and studio recordings including demos and alternate versions of songs from Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, and Electric Ladyland. West Coast Seattle Boy includes Hendrix's never before heard version of Bob Dylan's "Tears Of Rage," solo acoustic recordings of Electric Ladyland favorites like "Long Hot Summer Night" and "1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be)" as well as never before heard live performances from Berkeley and the legendary Band Of Gypsys Fillmore East concert on New Year's Eve 1969 combined together with such new Hendrix songs as "Hear My Freedom," "Hound Dog Blues," "Lonely Avenue" and more.
A centerpiece achievement in Legacy Recordings' monumental Jimi Hendrix catalog project, West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is the first Hendrix collection to bring fans access to a comprehensive treasure trove of fresh material - including demos, alternate takes, live concert jewels and more - from all phases of the artist's recording career (1964 -1970).
West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology offers the most complete collection of Jimi's pre-Experience R&B performances (including his singles with the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Don Covay, King Curtis and more) to ever be officially anthologized, while bringing together the most comprehensive and revelatory set of fully realized songs, never before heard live performances, alternate studio takes, acoustic and electric demos, and other rarities drawn from every chapter of Jimi Hendrix's remarkable life and career.
The newly curated and assembled West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology includes Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child, a new 90 minute documentary directed by the multiple Grammy award winning Bob Smeaton (Beatles Anthology, Festival Express, Beatles: The Studio Recordings, Band of Gypsys). An autobiographical journey told in the legendary musician's own words as read by Parliament-Funkadelic's Bootsy Collins, the film incorporates interviews with Hendrix, coupled with the artist's letters, writings and recordings to provide new insight into one of the most enduring icons of popular culture. The documentary features some of Jimi's greatest performances as well as rare and never before seen footage and photos including-for the first time ever-examples from the Hendrix family archive of the late guitarist's personal drawings, postcards home to his father, song drafts, sketches, and lyrics.
"Who better to tell the incredible story of a man's life than the man himself? Jimi was amazing and only his music, with tones and textures that he conjured, can capture the colorful and expansive essence of his time here on earth. I am enthralled with this all-encompassing new anthology which not only illuminates his years on both sides of the Atlantic and beautifully reveals his versatility as a performer, from his R&B origins to his explosion on the pop culture scene, but highlights who he was for those who knew and loved him," said Janie Hendrix, President and CEO of Experience Hendrix and co-producer of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology. "This vast exploration of my brother's musical and life experiences leaves no stone unturned and is sure to broaden our understanding of who Jimi really was, not only as a legendary musician, but also as a timeless messenger of love."
"Jimi Hendrix changed the world with his music and West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology honors that achievement with an unprecedented collection of rarities and never-before-heard tracks from the Hendrix vaults that show the breadth and depth of this extraordinary artist," said Adam Block, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Legacy Recordings. "West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is a comprehensive overview of Hendrix's career told through fresh materials and provides remarkable new insights into one of music's greatest geniuses."
An essential and historic addition to the Jimi Hendrix catalog, West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology brings together, for the first time, many of Hendrix's earliest commercial recordings, providing a rare glimpse of the rising rock guitar hero through a series of stellar sideman performances on a set of highly collectible pre-Experience R&B singles. Included on Disc One of West Coast Seattle Boy are:
1. Isley Brothers - Testify (1964)
2. Don Covay & the Goodtimers - Mercy, Mercy (1964 - No 1 Cashbox R&B - No 35 Billboard Hot 100)
3. Don Covay & the Goodtimers - Can't Stay Away (1964)
4. Rosa Lee Brooks - My Diary (1965 - written by Arthur Lee)
5. Rosa Lee Brooks - Utee (1965)
6. Little Richard - I Don't Know What You Got But It's Got Me (1965)
7. Little Richard - Dancing All Around The World (1965)
8. Frank Howard & The Commanders - I'm So Glad (1966 - written by Billy Cox)
9. Isley Brothers - Move Over And Let Me Dance (1965
10. Isley Brothers - Have You Ever Been Disappointed (1965)
11. Ray Sharpe - Help Me (Get The Feeling) (Part I) (1966)
12. The Icemen - (My Girl) She's A Fox (1966)
13. Jimmy Norman - That Little Old Groovemaker (1966)
14. Billy Lamont - Sweet Thang (1968)
15. King Curtis - Instant Groove (1969)
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Disc Two of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology focuses on 1967-68 and Hendrix's breakout sessions with the Jimi Hendrix Experience:
1. Fire(1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
2. Are You Experienced (1967) - Previously Unreleased Recording
3. May This Be Love (1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
4. Can You See Me (1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
5. Love Or Confusion(1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
6. Little One (1967) - Previously Unreleased Recording (featuring Dave Mason on sitar)
7. Mr. Bad Luck (1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
8. Cat Talking To Me (1967) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
9. Castles Made Of Sand (1967) - Previously Unreleased Recording
10. Tears Of Rage (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
11. Hear My Train A Comin' (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
12. 1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be) (1968) - Previously Unreleased
Recording
13. Long Hot Summer Night (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
14. My Friend (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
15. Angel (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
16. Calling All The Devil's Children (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
17. New Rising Sun (1968) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
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Disc Three of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology revisits 1968-1969, both a peak and pivotal period for Hendrix in which the artist was exploring bold new directions on stage and in the studio:
1. Hear My Freedom (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
2. Room Full Of Mirrors (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
3. Shame, Shame, Shame (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
4. Messenger (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
5. Hound Dog Blues (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
6. Untitled Basic Track (1968) - Previously Unreleased Recording
7. Star Spangled Banner (1969) - Previously Unreleased Original Mix
8. Purple Haze (1969) - Previously Unreleased Original Mix
9. Young/Hendrix (1969) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
10. Mastermind (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
11. Message To Love (1969) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
12. Fire (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
13. Foxey Lady (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
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Opening with Hendrix's incendiary New Year's Eve performance of "Stone Free" at New York's Fillmore East on December 31, 1969 and closing with a previously unheard recording from Hendrix alone in his Greenwich Village apartment in 1970, Disc Four of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology provides a fascinating portrait of an artist at his fiery best, working on the future:
1. Stone Free (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
2. Burning Desire (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
3. Lonely Avenue (1969) - Previously Unreleased Recording
4. Everlasting First (1970) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording (featuring Arthur Lee)
5. Freedom (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
6. Peter Gunn/Catastrophe (1970) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
7. In From The Storm (1970) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
8. All God's Children (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
9. Red House (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
10. Play That Riff [Thank You] (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
11. Bolero (1970) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
12. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) - Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
13. Suddenly November Morning (1970) - Previously Unreleased Recording
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West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is the centerpiece of Legacy Recordings/Experience Hendrix LLC's second wave of Hendrix catalog releases. Also arriving on November 16 from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called "the greatest guitarist of all time" are deluxe editions of Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions and Jimi Hendrix: Blues, his legendary Live At Woodstock performance, and Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year, the highly collectible Jimi Hendrix Christmas EP.
A single disc "Best Of" edition of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology will be available, with or without the Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child DVD documentary. West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology will also be available in a deluxe edition featuring 8 12" vinyl LPs.
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Experience Hendrix Tour 2010, the fourth edition of the biennial concert tour that features an all-star line up of music greats paying homage to the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix, is currently underway with performances across the country.
Featured artists who will be performing music written and inspired by Jimi Hendrix include some of the best known and most respected musical talent in contemporary rock and blues including Steve Vai, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Mato Nanji, Double Trouble's Chris Layton, along with bassist Billy Cox. Cox, who first befriended Hendrix when the two were in the 101st Airborne Division of U.S. Army, played in both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys and performed with Hendrix at such landmark festivals as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight.
(All tracks are original master recordings)
(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation 3 system Oct. 13)
According to the April 2010 Stereophile review of Valleys of Neptune, “Today, [Hendrix’s] music appeals as much to musically wise 17-year-olds as to still-spirited baby boomers.”
Janie Hendrix, the CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, and Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Recordings launched their monumental 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project on March 9 with the release of “Valleys Of Neptune.”
The newly curated album of 12 fully realized studio recordings features more than 60 minutes of music never commercially available on a Hendrix album.
The project focuses around tracks recorded during a pivotal and turbulent four-month period in 1969.
“Valleys of Neptune” unveils the original Jimi Hendrix Experience’s final studio recordings, (Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitchell and bass player Noel Redding) as the trio lays down the foundation for its follow-up to Electric Ladyland, alongside first sessions with bassist Billy Cox, an old army buddy he’d recruited into his new ensemble.
“Valleys of Neptune” is previously unreleased Hendrix music, originally recorded and mixed for this historic release by Hendrix’s longtime engineer Eddie Kramer, who first worked with the guitarist on his debut Are You Experienced? album in 1967.
“Valleys of Neptune” reveals an audio view of what Hendrix was up to musically in the critical period between the release of Electric Ladyland in October 1968 and the 1970 opening of his own Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, the state-of-the-art facility where he would begin his final project, the album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
“Valleys of Neptune” is produced by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott (who contributes detailed liner notes to the album) and Kramer.
“The idea was to look at a really interesting period of Jimi’s career,” presents John McDermott. “It’s about the Jimi Hendrix legacy. We look at it as an important piece of the puzzle. We had spent the last few years sort of enhancing and improving the classic iconic live things like Woodstock and Monterey and so here let’s turn back towards the studio. Let’s again focus on a time period that is really important in terms of the development of Jimi’s career.
“You discover the root is the songs. The songs are wonderful. They connect and continue to inspire. They’re great. The cool thing about Jimi Hendrix that particularly young fans should understand is that he had the foresight to own his own master recordings. He did not record at his record company’s studio like The Beatles did, for example. He did not have an engineer who was a union employee and who would look at a clock, ‘OK Jim, you got to go. Somebody else is coming in at 11.’ He was a guy used the studio as a tool to write and create.”
About his product collaborations with Janie Hendrix and Eddie Kramer, McDermott also adds, “We have the benefit of continuity. And that Janie, Eddie and I have worked together now for 12 years. And we’ve been able to not only plot out releases that we want to focus on but cast the net to find cool things. And so we’re not beholden to anybody to put records out. So in this process we mixed some things, kept going, found like a couple of gems, and said, ‘This fits perfectly here. That’s going to be part of the record.’ ‘Ships Passing Through The Night’ is one such example. That is what informs a lot of the decision making. You get gifts like that,” reflects McDermott.
Housed in the “Valleys of Neptune” album are songs that include the final studio recordings birthed by the original Jimi Hendrix Experience (after Electric Ladyland, in addition to capturing Hendrix’s initial efforts to forge a new sound equation with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox).
The 2010 March release includes unearthed studio covers of Elmore James’ classic “Bleeding Heart” and Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” as well as original Hendrix compositions like the aforementioned “Ships Passing Through The Night,” “Lullaby For The Summer” and the original un-dubbed Jimi Hendrix Experience rendition of “Hear My Train A Comin’.”
Also included in “Valleys of Neptune” is “Mr. Bad Luck,” a Jimi Hendrix Experience track produced by Chas Chandler during the 1967 Axis: Bold As Love sessions. There’s also a recording of “Stone Free” that Hendrix produced with vocal overdubs courtesy of Family’s Roger Chapman and Andy Fairweather Low.
“Jimi would re-visit songs — like ‘Stone Free,’” McDermott explains. “The cool thing is, which I think people have to understand, is that it’s a signature song to the audience at large. No doubt about it. It was the first song he wrote for The Experience and [it’s] on the B-side of ‘Hey Joe’ but not included in the debut U.S. Reprise Records U.S. Are You Experienced? album.
“He did it quickly because it was all that they could afford. And by 1969 he had brought it back to his live set and said, ‘You know what? America and the world have not really heard this song.’
“And ‘Stone Free’ also shows the role of Eddie Kramer. I think the wonderful thing about Eddie — and he is such an asset to the work we do; we’re grateful to have him — is that I’ve been through every tape in the library. And when Jimi wanted to be serious about something, you can tell it’s a session Eddie is involved with, because there’s a communication between the two of them. You can hear it on the session tapes. They are working towards something. Like ‘Stone Free,’ for example. When they brought Billy (Cox) in, they did a few sessions with Billy playing with other people, jamming a little bit, but when it was time to get serious, Jimi called Noel in and called Mitch in and they cut ‘Stone Free.’ And you know it’s time to get to business.”
The first wave of products for the Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project, Legacy Recordings released on March 9 new deluxe CD/DVD editions of “Are You Experienced?,” “Axis: Bold As Love,” “Electric Ladyland” and “First Rays of the New Rising Sun,” also available on vinyl.
Each of the subsequent titles in the Hendrix catalog planned for reissue on Legacy will feature a bonus DVD featuring newly created documentaries directed by Grammy-award-winning director Bob Smeaton [“Beatles Anthology,” “Festival Express,” “Beatles: The Studio Recordings”] and featuring interviews with Experience members Redding, Mitchell and Cox, original producer Chandler and engineer Kramer.
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Viagra's new TV ad has got the blues: TCB

Besch, who is an executive creative director at McGarryBowen, said the other radiated Wolf music a key ingredient in Viagra campaign - masculinity. "Wolf's Song has a vibration really sure for that," he said. "It felt very masculine - it is really communicated in tones of sand and the style of who this person really is."
All that AdSpeak than about confidence and masculinity, I should think that if Wolf is still alive today, he would get a big kick to hear one of his songs used to plug Viagra, so someone explain to him what the product is for. I saw Wolf a few times when I was a teenager and even in the twilight of his career he flowed sex appeal, always drawing ooh and aah from Chicago's South Side woman watching him work his magic on the local blues clubs. In fact, if you listen to the lyrics of some of Wolf hits, like "Back Door Man," "The Red Rooster" and "Wang Dang Doodle," You could say that Wolf grasp the essence of Viagra, long before it was even invented.
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menyajikan Morganfield Enterprises
William “Big Bill” Morganfield adalah putra Legenda Blues Muddy Waters dan telah muncul dalam beberapa tahun terakhir sebagai salah satu talenta blues terbaik di Amerika. Bill telah melakukan di banyak festival utamanya di seluruh dunia dalam 12 tahun terakhir, membawa pengalaman musik murni dan bag of joy kepada ribuan penggemar musik. Menawan, Lucu, Sexy, Amazing, dan Sensasional adalah kata-kata yang menggambarkan artis ini berbakat!
CD Bill terbaru, BORN LOVER (co-diproduksi oleh Bob Margolin, Muddy Waters alumnus band), dirilis pada tanggal 7 Juli 2009 dinominasikan untuk Best Blues Recording Tradisional tahun 2009 oleh Chicago Music Awards.
Bio:
William “Big Bill” Morganfield, lahir 19 Juni 1956, Chicago, Illinois, adalah seorang penyanyi dan gitaris blues Amerika. Morganfield dibesarkan oleh neneknya, Verdell Clark, di Florida Selatan. Dia datang ke musik di kemudian hari, setelah pertama kali bekerja sebagai guru setelah mendapatkan gelar sarjana dalam bahasa Inggris dari Tuskegee University dan Komunikasi dari Universitas Auburn.
Banyak pria mencoba mengikuti jejak ayah mereka ketika mereka bergabung dengan bisnis keluarga. Morganfield tidak mengambil tantangan sampai beberapa tahun setelah ayahnya meninggal pada tahun 1983. Dunia Blues berduka atas meninggalnya Muddy Waters. Muddy ibarat lubang menganga di kancah blues tetapi anak yang berduka cita yang merenungkan bagaimana menangani kerugian. Bill membeli sendiri gitar dan mundur dari dunia pribadinya, berniat untuk belajar sendiri cara bermain dan kemudian memberi hormat kepada ayahnya yang terkenal itu. Memang, ini adalah awal dari Big Bill Morganfield sebagai Bluesman dan awal perjalanan blues nya….
Enam tahun yang panjang , tahun-tahun dimana Morganfield menghabiskan untuk belajar sendiri cara bermain instrumen. Ia mempelajari gaya blues di masa lalu. Kata Bill, “Aku belajar blues tradisional yang lama, lagu yang ditulis pada tahun 1930 ke tahun 1950.” Suatu malam menghabiskan bermain kecapi di Center Stage di Atlanta dengan Lonnie Mack .

DISCOGRAPHY
Morganfield recorded RISING SON (on Blind Pig Records) di Chicago tahun 1998, melihatbeberapa sesi rekaman Waters . Bob Margolin, gitaris Waters, menjabat sebagai produser dan juga tampil di album ini. Menampilkan beberapa teman band Waters ‘, termasuk; drummer Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, pemain piano Pinetop Perkins, dan pemain harmonika Paul Osher. Juga hadir bassis Robert Stroger, seorang mantan anggota band Sunnyland Slim.
Bill kembali ke Chicago pada tahun 2001 untuk membuat sophomore nya rekaman RAMBLIN’ MIND, (on Blind Pig Records) yang diproduksi oleh Dick Sherman. RAMBLIN ‘PIKIRAN menampilkan sebuah tampilan dengan Taj Mahal. Taj juga memberikan kontribusi komposisi aslinya “Strong Man berteriak” ke album.
Pada tahun 2003 Big Bill melanjutkan perjalanan blues, dengan BLUES IN THE BLOOD, (on Blind Pig Records) yang diproduksi oleh Jimmy Vivino dan Brian Bisesi. Musik, itu sangat berakar pada Delta Blues, tetapi dengan cara modern. Bill berseru “itu mewakili dimana aku sekarang dalam perjalanan saya”. BLUES IN THE BLOOD memenuhi janji kebesaran yang ditampilkan dalam rekaman debutnya. Tidak hanya fitur suara khas Bill yang berderak dan gitar slide gemilang, tetapi ia juga menampilkan sebagai penulis lagu, semua lagu ditulis oleh Morganfield kecuali satu. Disk memegang nomor satu titik di Living Blues Radio Charts selama 3 bulan.
Pada tahun 2009, Big Bill Morganfield memulai perusahaan rekaman sendiri, Black Shuck Records. Black Shuck Records didukung oleh VizzTone Label Group. CD Bill terbaru, LAHIR LOVER, dirilis 7 Juli 2009, (rilis utama Black Shuck’s) dan dinominasikan untuk Best Blues Recording Tradisional tahun 2009 oleh Chicago Blues Awards.
NOW BOOKING FOR 2011 FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTSNorth America Inquiries Contact:
Morganfield Enterprises
Atlanta, Georgia
Office (770) 249-0079
William Morganfield…Owner/Agent
Email: bbm@bigbillmorganfield.com
Debra Lyn…Agent
Email: debralyn@bigbillmorganfield.com
For Southwestern US Bookings Contact:
Texas Music Agency/TMA Talent
Wallace Watson…Owner/Agent
31 Royal Oaks Cir.
Denton, TX. 76210
Phone: (940) 391-1536
Email: wallace@texasmusicagency.com
For European Booking Inquiries Contact:
Break Live Music
European Booking Agency
Via del Commercio 70
63100 Ascoli Piceno ITALIA
ph/fax: 0039.0736.344251
Massimo Piccioni…Owner/Agent
e-mail: info@breaklivemusic.com
Morganfield Enterprises
Atlanta, Georgia
Office (770) 249-0079
William Morganfield…Owner/Agent
Email: bbm@bigbillmorganfield.com
Debra Lyn…Agent
Email: debralyn@bigbillmorganfield.com
For Southwestern US Bookings Contact:
Texas Music Agency/TMA Talent
Wallace Watson…Owner/Agent
31 Royal Oaks Cir.
Denton, TX. 76210
Phone: (940) 391-1536
Email: wallace@texasmusicagency.com
For European Booking Inquiries Contact:
Break Live Music
European Booking Agency
Via del Commercio 70
63100 Ascoli Piceno ITALIA
ph/fax: 0039.0736.344251
Massimo Piccioni…Owner/Agent
e-mail: info@breaklivemusic.com
See where Big Bill has been…and where he’s going next!
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JAMES COTTON : GIANT
Hal ini dengan senang dan bangga menyambut sebuah legenda blues kembali ke Alligator Records. James “Mr Superharp “Cotton, selama karir 66 tahun (dimulai pada usia sembilan!), Telah menerima tempatnya sebagai ikon dunia harmonika blues. tanda tangannya suara kecapi raksasa dan serangan ledakan-tungku yang tak tertandingi, bahkan saat ia berubah 75 tahun.
James belajar dari blues lainnya raksasa-Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin ‘Wolf, dan tentu saja Muddy Waters, di sisi yang ia bermain untuk lebih dari satu dekade. Dia mulai merekam sebagai pemimpin band remaja, di Memphis Records ‘Sun. Ia muncul di banyak sisi lumpur klasik, termasuk album Live At Newport terkenal. Sejak pertengahan 1960-an, dia memimpin band sendiri semua-bintang pemain kelas dunia, tur tanpa henti. Dia memotong hampir 30 album, menggabungkan boogies pembakar nya tinggi energi dengan yang terdalam dan termanis blues lambat, blues ia pertama kali bermain sebagai seorang anak di Delta Mississippi dan disempurnakan di South Side Chicago.
Hari-hari ini James daun bernyanyi untuk band-nya, tapi setiap kali dia mengangkat kecapi itu ke bibir, kekuatan tipis dan keganasan musiknya menegaskan kembali statusnya sebagai Mr Superharp sendiri, seorang raksasa yang tak perlu dari blues.
-Bruce Iglauer
Raksasa menegaskan kembali bahwa kompresi tinggi James Cotton bermain harmonika blues adalah kekuatan sejati alam. Sebagai The San Francisco Examiner mengatakan, “adalah James Cotton sebuah legenda blues yg tak ada bandingannya. Nya harmonika pukulan meratap mereka pergi. improvisasinya di blues penuh dengan menyenangkan dan humor yang baik. Blues tidak mendapatkan yang lebih baik. “…
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‘CAT HEAD’ di Clarksdale RAYAKAN BLUES FESTIVAL MINGGU DENGAN STORE KHUSUS DAN MUSIC LIVE GRATIS
Untuk store Cathead blues di Clarksdale, Mississippi, minggu yang akan datang berjanji untuk menjadi salah satu tahun terbesar. Sebagai Helena dekatnya, Arkansas, merayakan festival blues 25 tahunan, Cat Head menawarkan acara live khusus baik di dalam maupun di luar toko.
“Festival Arkansas Blues & Warisan di Helena adalah begitu besar itu juga mengisi semua hotel di sisi sungai, juga,” kata Roger Stolle, pemilik Clarksdale’s Cat Head Delta Blues & Seni Folk. “Kami ingin merayakan tahun festival masing-masing dengan beberapa peristiwa yang sangat besar di toko juga -. Termasuk terkenal Cat Kepala kami Mini Blues Fest pada hari Minggu”
Disebut “satu dari 17 toko kaset paling keren di Amerika” oleh majalah Tempel, Cat toko Kepala menawarkan blues fans campuran CD, DVD, buku, seni, T-shirt dan souvenir. Cat Head juga telah meletakkan pada tiga festival blues sendiri setiap tahun untuk sebagian besar dekade ini.
“Begini,” jelas Stolle. “Kami mendapatkan pengunjung dari seluruh dunia selama minggu festival seperti ini Mereka ingin memiliki banyak untuk dilakukan, dan banyak dari mereka sedang mencari kesepakatan-nyata -. Jenis musik dan musisi paling berpikir hanya dalam sejarah buku Kami bertujuan. untuk menyenangkan. “
Dan tolong, mereka lakukan. Kepala Cat – Menjaga masa lalu Penghargaan Blues dan Blues Alive penerima Music Award – menawarkan Facebook menyenangkan acara mulai Rabu, 6 Oktober dan membawa pada melalui Senin, 11 Oktober.
Jadwal termasuk mengunjungi bluesman Andy Coats (Rab, Oktober 6 pada 14:00), penulis Allen Whitley penandatanganan “mana Southern Cross Anjing” (Sab, 9 Oktober jam 10:00, di dalam), musisi Adam Gussow & Brandon Bailey (Sat , 9 Oktober pada 10:00, di luar.), dan tur bluesman Bernie Pearl (Senin, 11 Oktober di 15:00).
Namun sorot dalam seminggu harus Cat pernah-populer Kepala Mini Blues Fest pada hari Minggu, 10 Oktober, mulai pukul 09:00.
“Saya telah memberitahu saya orang festival Cat Kepala adalah hal favorit mereka sepanjang akhir pekan,” tertawa Stolle. “Hanya saja kesempatan langka untuk melihat dari dekat legenda blues dan pribadi, saya kira kami mendirikan tenda dan kursi di depan toko dan mempersembahkan blues hidup bebas hampir sepanjang hari..”
Edisi ini Cat Kepala fest janji untuk menjadi salah satu yang terbaik namun dengan pertunjukan oleh M untuk bintang Mississippi Terry “Harmonika” Bean, 5-kali Blues Music Award calon Big George Brock dengan tamu Clarine Wagner, Blues Revue majalah subjek Anthony “Big Sebuah “Sherrod, Rooster Blues / Fedora Records seniman Robert” Bilbo “Walker, dan banyak lagi.
Menurut Stolle, juke bersama pemilik Merah Paden juga berencana untuk elang depan lezat keluar BBQ selama acara. Di dalam, Cat Kepala berencana untuk pasar beberapa barang dagangan yang sangat khusus selama akhir pekan – termasuk tiga eksklusif Cat Kepala T-shirt dan edisi terbatas Juke Joint Festival kaus bulu, yang merupakan penggalangan dana awal untuk premier event sendiri Clarksdale musim semi blues.
Jadi, mengapa semua kegembiraan selama seminggu festival yang bahkan tidak berbasis di Clarksdale?
“Lima belas tahun yang lalu, saya menghadiri festival blues pertama saya di Helena,” kenang Stolle. “Saya tinggal di St Louis itu, dan itu benar-benar membuat kesan dalam diri saya. Itu selalu menjadi salah satu favorit saya fests blues, dan aku bahagia untuk mengatakan bahwa garis mereka-up tahun ini tampak seperti salah satu yang terbaik yang pernah . “
Dengan headliners Helena seperti BB King dan Taj Mahal serta favorit Delta seperti Big Jack Johnson dan ‘Bebek’ Jimmy Holmes, mudah untuk melihat mengapa.
Stolle cepat menunjukkan bahwa selain acara minggu Cat Head festival, banyak entitas lain Clarksdale’s wisata yang berhubungan dengan menawarkan Facebook beberapa kejadian menarik mereka sendiri.
“Beberapa nama blues terbesar yang melekat pada Clarksdale akan bermain di kota selama festival akhir pekan,” menurut Stolle, yang secara teratur daftar semua kejadian mingguan Delta blues pada musik live kalender www.cathead.biz web.
Misalnya, Jumat malam akan menampilkan Big Jack Johnson di Red’s Lounge, Cedric Burnside & petir ‘Malcolm di Inn Shackup, dan TCB di Ground Zero Blues Club. Pada Sabtu malam, mencari Big George Brock seorang Komisaris Hopson, Super Chikan di Ground Zero Blues Club, dan Semangka Slim di Bluesberry Cafe.
“Plus, orang pasti akan ingin memeriksa Rock & Blues Museum pada hari Sabtu dan Minggu,” kata Stolle. “Museum ini menawarkan musik live baik hari di sore hari.”
Stolle juga menunjukkan bahwa blues wisatawan ke wilayah tersebut akan ingin membayar kunjungan ke Delta Blues Museum dan beberapa galeri seni di pusat kota itu seperti Hambone, Lambfish, Gimme Gumbo, Foxtrot dan The Gordon. Sementara sebagian besar kamar hotel dipesan di daerah untuk minggu festival, tempat-tempat seperti Loft di Five & Dime, yang Loft di Hopson Perkebunan dan The House Clark semua layak mencoba katanya.
“Cat Head bangga menjadi berbasis di Clarksdale,” diringkas Stolle. “Clarksdale lebih dari sekedar rumah dengan mitos ‘Crossroads’ rumah itu untuk warisan, kaya hidup Delta, seni blues dan budaya.. Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival minggu adalah waktu yang tepat untuk mengalami hal itu.”
Untuk informasi lebih lanjut di web, kunjungi:
Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art, www.cathead.biz
Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival, www.bluesandheritagefest.com
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Paul Reed Smith mengumumkan Guitars ‘One Night Satu Tampilkan Satu Penyebab’
Guitaris Paul Reed Smith akan menjadi tuan rumah. diakui Satu Malam, Satu Tampilan, Satu Penyebab. Manfaat untuk Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center di Bourbon Street di Downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
Headlining Satu Penyebab, gitar ajaib Derek Truk dari Allman Brothers dan Truk Derek Band bersama dengan vokalis bertingkat Susan Tedeschi akan membawa gaya yang unik selatan mereka blues rock ke tempat intim. Setelah muncul di album masing-masing nominasi Grammy pada tahun 2009, Derek dan Susan yang tampil bersama hanya beberapa kali dalam setahun ini, bangunan antisipasi untuk kinerja ini – hanya keterlibatan lokal mereka.
Paul Reed Smith Band juga akan muncul, bergabung pada gitar oleh tamu istimewa, Dr William Nelson, Direktur Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Sebuah lelang Live gitar yang menampilkan artis lokal akan diselenggarakan oleh Jon Levinson Alex Auctioneers Cooper.
Satu Penyebab adalah konser amal unggulan dari PRS Guitars. Sejak tahun 2000, PRS Guitars telah meningkatkan lebih dari 2 juta dolar untuk Live dengan Cancer Sumber Daya Program di Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Live dengan Cancer Resource Program menawarkan program perawatan dukungan dan pendidikan-kation untuk pasien dan keluarga, gratis!.
Umum masuk $ 40. masuk VIP $ 100 termasuk bar terbuka, makanan dan akses ke daerah tingkat VIP atas tampilan. Pintu terbuka 19:00. Semua umur menunjukkan.

Tickets are available through MissionTix: www.missiontix.com/
Venue Information – Bourbon Street: www.bourbonstreetbaltimore.com/
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Anak-anak Invention
BB King Museum menyajikan Children of Invention dengan Produser Sheila Dvorak sebagai bagian dari the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers Sabtu depan, 23 Oktober jam 4:00 Setelah pemutaran film nya, Dvorak dan penonton akan terlibat dalam sebuah diskusi tentang film dan pekerjaannya sebagai pembuat film. Ruang yang sangat terbatas dan pemesanan sangat dianjurkan. Serta menyarankan sumbangan $ 3 di pintu.
Setelah acara tersebut, para tamu digiring untuk datang bersama di restoran Gin Mill terletak di Pershing 109 Ave, Indianola. Sebagian dari Mill Gin akan ambil malam itu dan disumbangkan ke Museum untuk mendukung film seri dan program masyarakat masa depan.
Dvorak Children of Invention adalah sebuah drama tentang pengaruh dunia dewasa pada anak-anak, prospek imigran dan pengaruh ambil jalan pintas dengan mimpi Amerika.
For more information on Children of Invention and other screenings at the B.B. King Museum, check out the Events Calendar. For more information on the South Arts Southern Tour of Independent Film Makers, click here.
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Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan “In Session…”
Sejak rilis CD asli pada tahun 1999, penggemar gitar blues telah menikmati antara sang legendaris Albert King and the young upstart Stevie Ray Vaughan dalam album duet pasangan ini. Mendokumentasikan siaran televisi Kanada 1983 yang menampilkan dua gitaris blues, album In Session ini telah lama menjadi album favorit untuk para penggemar salah satu (atau keduanya) .
In Session ini diterbitkan kembali pada tahun 2009, album digital remaster menampilkan catatan liner baru dari Stax Records ‘Bill Belmont, dan jurnalis musik Lee Hildebrand dan Dan Forte. Banyak penggemar telah lama bertanya-tanya, namun, mengapa belum pernah melihat rekaman video dari siaran TV? Heran lagi, karena pada November 9, 2010 Stax Records akan merilis CD dua-disc / versi DVD Dalam Sesi yang mencakup video studio legendaris yang konser secara keseluruhan, serta sebelas lagu-asli compact disc.
Setengah DVD baru Dalam fitur In Session tiga lagu tidak disertakan pada rilis CD: kinerja yang merah-panas dari lagu tanda tangan Albert King’s, dan hits Stax terbesar, “Born Under A Bad Sign;” membaca sama mengesankan Stevie Ray ” Texas Flood, “dari album debut segera-jadi-merilis dengan nama yang sama, dan klasik” I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town, “aslinya direkam oleh Louis Jordan dan Ray Charles terbesar.
Yeah.., In Session sebelumnya, banyak dari kita membeli dua kali … tapi kali ini dapat mengambil versi akhir dari the ultimate version ini gitar yang mengagumkan antara dua dari enam-string bakat terbesar di blues, dan enjoy dalam both audio and video dari pertunjukan legendaris di kedua audio dan video.
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Keruwetan sengketa lagu langka Jimi Hendrix
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – The Jimi Hendrix estate, Martin Scorsese dan pemain saksofon tua bernama Lonnie Youngblood adalah di antara mereka berjuang atas lagu 40 tahun berjudul “Georgia Blues” yang baru-baru ini fitur pada PBS Scorsese-directed khusus pada musik blues dan didistribusikan melalui album yang menyertainya.
Pada pertengahan 1960-an, Hendrix, bekerja sebagai Jimmy James, bermain di band Youngblood’s. Kemudian virtuoso gitar dipukul keluar sendiri, tapi ia bersatu kembali pada tahun 1969 dengan Youngblood di sebuah studio New York untuk merekam “Georgia Blues.”
lagu ini terutama terlupakan sampai 2003 khusus Scorsese PBS, “The Blues”, yang melahirkan beberapa album termasuk “Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Jimi Hendrix,” yang termasuk lagu. Sekarang subjek litigasi dipanaskan.
Awal tahun ini, Youngblood menggugat real, MCA Records dan Scorsese, mengklaim lagu itu dirilis tanpa izin dan tanpa kredit yang tepat. Youngblood mengatakan real Hendrix menawarkan $ 3.000 untuk hak, yang ia tolak.
Pada hari Selasa, Hendrix estate memukul balik dengan claim, meminta hakim untuk mendeklarasikan pemilik lagu dan terlambat hak cipta Youngblood’s pendaftaran sebagai tidak valid.
Menurut makalah yang diajukan di New Jersey Pengadilan Negeri, Hendrix diproduksi dan merekam lagu dengan biaya sendiri. real mengatakan sesi dua-hari pada Record Plant Studio di New York menghasilkan beberapa lagu Hendrix, termasuk “Georgia Blues,” yang tetap dalam kepemilikan fisik real sejak saat itu.
real sekarang ingin Youngblood ke account untuk semua royalti tentang “Georgia Blues.”
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