Livin': B.B. King’s - Memphis, TN
These pictures are from B.B. King's on Beale St.
From my honeymoon. Yeah, that's right.
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Music/Livin': B.B. King - Sweet Sixteen
I learned about B.B. King from my Grandma Pearl about 30 years ago. She used to put on his records whenever we drove up to Buffalo to visit her. She's a real cool lady. Love you Gram!
The video above is from an amazing documentary someone gave me a few years back called Lightning In A Bottle.
Here's a bit about it from Amazon.com by Sam Graham:
Part concert, part history lesson, part summit meeting, and all blues, Lightning in a Bottle puts a bright spotlight on this quintessential American music. There are some heavy hitters at work here, both behind the camera (Martin Scorsese executive produced, while the film was directed by Antoine Fuqua of Training Day and King Arthur) and especially in front of it, with a superb house band and a mind-boggling array of musicians (including B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Solomon Burke, Keb' Mo', Macy Gray, the Neville Brothers, Robert Cray, and John Fogerty, to name but a few) performing at New York's Radio City Music Hall in February, 2003. The idea was to trace the music from its beginnings; thus we get an African song (by Angelique Kidjo), some early gospel blues (the great Mavis Staples), acoustic Delta blues, and so on, right up to blues-drenched electric rock and even some rap (a riveting version of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" by Chuck D.). Virtually all of the immortals who defined the blues (Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and even Jimi Hendrix, whose fiery style is re-enacted by Buddy Guy) enter the picture, either through vintage film clips or new performances of their songs. One might wish for more insight into the influence of the blues on jazz (Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit," sung here by India.Arie, is a fine song, but it's not a blues tune) or country, but overall, Lightning in a Bottle is an edifying and, most important, highly entertaining portrait of the music and its heritage.
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Music/Film: The Black Keys - Live From Abbey Road
Check out the Sundance Channel's series "Live From Abbey Road" Thursdays at 10 PM. Above is a clip of The Black Keys' episode. The show is described on the Sundance Channel site as follows: "The world's most famous recording studio is the setting for this intimate music series featuring new and established performers. Created to suggest the visual quality of a movie and the carefully engineered sound of a commercial recording, LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD captures artists without an audience as they rehearse, discuss and perform in the closed environment of a recording studio."
They've got another series that looks good as well. "Architecture School. Focusing on an innovative studio program at Tulane University, this six-part documentary series follows a group of fourth- and fifth-year architecture students as they design and build a single-family house in a low-income neighborhood of New Orleans devastated by Hurricane Katrina." Episode 1 is airing on August 20th at 9 PM.
The Black Keys are also featured on MTV2's "The Drop" today. Now go outside, and tell the world! I'm envious of all you lucky folks who are goin' to see 'em in Toledo tonight!
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Music: The White Stripes - Ball & Biscuit
One mo' for the road. A helluva riff. Bluuuuuuesy.
"It's a fact, I'm the seventh son."
Have a nice day.
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Music: The White Stripes - Icky Thump
It's a White Stripes mornin'! Outta coffee. Needed a little kick start.
If ya don't own Icky Thump, whatcha waitin' for? The album was recorded at Nashville's Blackbird Studio. The video was filmed in Nashville and the scenes of the "Mexican" town were shot at the Tennessee State Penitentiary and directed by The Malloys & Jack White.
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The White Stripes - Icky Thump (itunes)
The White Stripes - Icky Thump (amazon)
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