"Art and music are often interlinked. When listening to certain music you can sense the colors and mood of the piece."
Gavin Mayhew: The sound of Artophone
Gavin Mayhew is an artist…
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Willie Dixon said two important things: “The Blues are the facts of life” and “Blues is the roots and everything else is the fruits.”
Thomas J. Cullen III: …
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"Because roots/blues music is real and vital, and it makes you feel something, like a release of true emotions. And even if it’s a sad song, feeling something real makes a person feel good."
Kathy Murray & Bill Jones: Austin Blues Love…
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"The Hammond organ is connected to Blues/Jazz and Soul music because of it’s connection to the church. Gospel music used it first and it crossed over to secular music."
Clayton Doley: The Joy of Music…
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"The BLUES is the truth, the un-sugar-coated honesty we all face day to day, or even moment to moment."
Michael P. Maness: Coloring the Blues World
From the age of eight, Michael Patrick Maness has been…
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British blues rock great Alvin Lee, a guitarist and singer whose scorching performance at Woodstock propelled his band Ten Years After to wide fame, died on Wednesday of "unforeseen complications" from a routine surgery, family…
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"Enjoy life and be grateful for every moment, it is a gift. Be open, kind, loving and laugh a lot...Best advice I ever received. Meditate, it is the way to uncover your soul and be free to be who you are."…
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"New Orleans is like a bowl of 'gumbo'. Gumbo has many ingredients in it, such as, chicken, shrimp, sausage, oysters, etc. and New Orleans music culture possesses the same thing, musically, Dixie Land, R&B, Jazz, Second Line, etc."
Leo Nocentelli: New Orleans…
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"Most of the artists were part of the hippie movement of the time; the underground culture was really a bunch of young kids who'd run away from home. And, they also wanted to rebel against the rules of design and art."
Bob Masse: Rockin the Art Nouveau …
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"Blues is a big part of American history and I hope it keep its natural roots. Today’s blues is becoming a lot more southern rock based and I think its loosing it natural flavor its history."
Reggie Britton: Call me Black Magic Johnson…
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"Blues is an expression of a person’s deepest emotions. You can’t really listen to the blues without reflecting on your own situation to some degree."
Stevie Silver: Blues journey never ends
His…
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"Great poets use their voices like musicians, drawing forth humor, grief, love, desire, hate, awe. Musicians have a step up with their instrument, that’s why I think some poets like to have a musician accompany them."
Catfish McDaris: The Blues of storyteller…
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"Every experience and all of the input from my environment that I have received on a daily basis over the years have been an invaluable resource."
Mark Lindsay: Coolest Songs in the World…
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"There are similarities between the Native Americans and the Blues artists. Both races had similar obstacles to overcome to try and assimilate into the American culture. Each race had to fight prejudices, racism and segregation."
Paul “Satch” Sachtleben: Native…
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R.I.P Dangerous" Dan Toler, Have a Nice Trip !
Dan Toler, a southern rock guitar great who was part of the Allman Brothers family, has died near his hometown of Sarasota, Fla. He was 65.
In 2011, Toler…
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"Music stops me from going mad. It’s definitely a form of release."
Claude Hay: Back to the Future
Hailing from the Blue Mountains near Sydney, award winning Australian solo artist Claude Hay blends slide…
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"Poetry is free-form chaos brought into a modicum of control and direction. Poetry is the explorer...I’m only the vehicle. I could be replaced by a toilet plunger."
Roxie Powell: A Primitive Poet…
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"The whole reason that stuff back then sounds so cool, even on the records, is because you can hear the wood of those old guitars & basses and the reeds of those saxophones. It was all about the approach. The feel!"
Bill Stuve: Let's Hard Swing…
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"I feel it is necessary that we embrace, encourage and support all shades/forms of "blues" from acoustic to modern electric to ensure we keep the blues alive so that it enjoyed by future generations."
Ray Fuller: Smokin Hot Slide Guitar…
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"The image offers many things to do with emotions. Image offers humor, irony. It offers me a possibility to chronicle a combination of my eye and my emotion."
Jerry Schatzberg: Poetic Images…
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