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Low-down, funky blues from Tim Morgan & The Mojo Brothers
247-4732As a songwriter and a guitarist who enjoys playing both acoustic and electric styles, Tim Morgan stands out from the crowd of local blues musicians. His deep voice, creativity and natural intensity adds to the power of his performances. "I started...Tags: Theater, Poquoson Seafood Festival, Ry Cooder, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Music
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No apologies: White Sox have to swing for fences
This is a call to arms, a call to arms that are attached to hands that are attached to bats. This is an appeal to the White Sox to start hitting before it's too late. Home runs are the preferred method of payback for a team built on power, but even...Tags: John Danks, Ozzy Osbourne, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Paul Konerko
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Museum is a tribute to B.B. King
The Associated PressTranslucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta. They're a...Tags: Texas, B.B. King, Contracts, Morgan Freeman, Ethics
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Alejandro Escovedo steps to the front
Special to The TimesAll comeback stories are unlikely, but Alejandro Escovedo's is more so than most. Five years ago, he was vomiting blood in a Tempe hospital. Several months ago, he was on stage with Bruce Springsteen, playing the first song on his new album to an audience...Tags: Sam Adams, Dave Matthews, Bruce Springsteen, Democratic National Conventions, Iggy Pop
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Buddy Guy helps Yahoo! music make its mark
Tribune NewspapersLOS ANGELES—Musicians have learned to downscale their expectations for TV exposure these days. Those lucky enough to score any might get a song spotlighted in a TV show or commercial. If they make the cut for one of the late-night talk shows, it's...Tags: Moby, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Television, Kelly Clarkson
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Chicago blues man, brother of Buddy Guy
Chicago Tribune reporterPhil Guy wasn't as flashy or famous as his older brother, Buddy, but made his own mark on stages around the world as both a rhythm guitarist and band leader. Mr. Guy, 68, of Park Forest died of cancer on Wednesday, Aug. 20, in hospice care at St. James...Tags: Janis Joplin, Music, Contracts, Koko Taylor, Fannie Mae
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'Shine a Light' shows the way
Chicago Tribune reporterMy brothers Tim and John are the big Rolling Stones fans in our family. But, for some reason, last April, I was the one smitten by "Shine a Light." Really smitten. The Martin Scorsese film, released last month on DVD by Paramount, is a high-energy and,...Tags: IMAX, Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Michael Jordan, Beacon Theater
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Music festivals take on the role of destinations
Special to the Chicago TribuneUntil recently, outdoor rock festivals have been associated with mud: muddied bodies, muddied sound systems and muddied minds, soft from baking under a blazing sun for four days in a row. That was then. Today, destination festivals define the summer...Tags: Festive Event, AEG AG, Jack Johnson, Wars and Interventions, Bob Dylan
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Offices that look/feel like home
Tribune reporterIf one does the math (eight hours a day, five days a week, 50-ish weeks a year), the numbers reveal this about the state of working people's lives: They don't need a second home. They already have one. It's their 60 or 70 square feet of standard-issue...Tags: Jay Graham, Government, Rentals, Popular Music, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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'A Freewheelin' Life' by Suze Rotolo
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMay 15, 2008 They were cherub-cheeked kids when each landed in Greenwich Village in early 1961, drawn like moths to the flames of art, music, theater and ideas that burned so brightly in every cranny of the Big Apple's most bohemian quarter. She was 17....Tags: Jack Elliott, Books and Magazines, Arthur Rimbaud, Minnesota, Harpo Marx
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Miley Cyrus has some easy acts to follow
Sun reporterThe Hannah Montana phenomenon that steamrolls into 1st Mariner Arena tonight is called the Best of Both Worlds tour, for the dual nature of the character on whom it's based: Miley Stewart, the main character in the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana, is...Tags: DVDs and Movies, David Cassidy, Lindsay Lohan, Robert Altman, 1st Mariner Arena
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Facing the music
Song Man: A Melodic Adventure, or, My Single-Minded Approach to Songwriting
By Will Hodgkinson
Da Capo, 290 pages, $16.95 paper
'Stay uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it," said Jerome Kern, who did OK by himself when he added "Ol' Man River,"...Tags: P J Harvey, Dionne Warwick, Carnegie Hall, Books and Magazines, Ray Davies
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