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*Chicago bluesman Jimmy “Fast Fingers” Dawkins, known for his skilled guitar playing and laid-back vocals, has died, reports Billboard.com. He was 76. Delmark Records owner Bob Koester said that Dawkins died Wednesday. The cause of death wasn’t immediately known. James Henry Dawkins was born in Tchula, Miss. An only child, Dawkins taught himself to play [...]
*Blues singer Buddy Guy joins actor Dustin Hoffman, comedian/TV host David Letterman, ballerina Natalia Makarova and the rock group Led Zeppelin as recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The artists will be celebrated Dec. 4 at a gala to be broadcast Dec. 26 on CBS. As always, the president [...]
*EURweb’s Black Music Month Artist Spotlight is inclusive of talented gospel rapper Will Hunter, whose mission is to reach God’s people through Holy Hip-Hop. Hunter grew up in Montgomery, Alabama and admits to an early lifestyle of drugs, alcohol and violence. But Hunter had a praying mother. Will Hunter’s spiritual purpose has finally evolved for he is now all about Kingdom business. “The LORD filled [...]
*Popular award-winning Jazz musician Herbie Hancock is getting ready to pen a memoir, expected to be released in 2014. “Quincy Jones is a dear friend of mine and he keeps saying to me, ‘You’ve got to do a book,’” Hancock said Tuesday during a telephone interview with TheAP from Shanghai, where he is currently on [...]
*When President Barack Obama picked up that microphone and sang ta few bars of a blues song earlier this week, Mick Jagger, who was also present at the White House affair, called the move “courageous.” Bluesman Buddy Guy encouraged Obama during a concert at the East Room to join in on a verse of “Sweet [...]
*When Mick Jagger held out his mic to the President of the United States during a Black History Month blues jam at the White House last night, the audience in the East Room got another dose of Barack Obama carrying a tune. Obama’s surprise performance came at the end of the playlist when the concert [...]
*”Blues for an Alabama Sky,” a riveting play set in1930s Harlem and directed by artistic director Sheldon Epps, is packing them in at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, Calif. through Nov. 27 and is racking up rave reviews. The play, which stars Robin Givens, Kadeem Hardison, Kevin T. Carroll, Robert Ray Manning, and Tessa Thompson, [...]
*Grammy-winning blues musician Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, who was a longtime sideman for Muddy Waters, died of a stroke on Friday in Chicago at age 75, according to a statement on his website. Smith’s death comes less than six months after the passing at age 97 of blues master Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, with whom [...]
*Recently, jazz and blues legend Barbara Morrison introduced 6-year-old Harmony “Love” Bailey as the first performer to open the new Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center. Little Miss Harmony did the honors by performing “Almost There” from the hit Disney movie “The Princess and the Frog.” Morrison predicted her new place will be the launching pad [...]
*Blues guitarist and singer Phillip Walker, who played for such stars as Etta James and Lowell Fulson, has died. He was 73. Marc Lipkin, publicity director for Alligator Records, says Walker died Thursday of heart failure in Palm Springs, reports the Associated Press. Walker performed for more than 50 years, recording many solo albums and [...]
*Jackson, MS — On Bobby Rush’s new CD Blind Snake (Deep Rush) the bluesman returns to some time-tested themes but once again explores new musical territory. In addition to several gospel songs he includes a Christmas-oriented take of the title track, which otherwise fits pretty squarely into the Bobby Rush mold. “The Christmas version of [...]
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