Big Joe Turner, a 300-pound legend who learned to sing the blues as a Kansas City junkman and
When a million impoverished Greek nationals and Armenian refugees from Asia Minor poured into Greece after the Turkish attack on Smyrna in 1922, they formed a class of social outcasts known as rembetes .
Sippie Wallace, one of a rapidly diminishing handful of blues singers who emerged from the bawdy
Back in the days when coffee cost a dime and the bar on the corner offered a free lunch, a certain part of New York's West 52nd Street was known as Swing Alley, so named for its profusion of jazz clubs.
For seven years, Raymond Mann struggled against the elements on Hollywood Boulevard, trying to keep open his gift shop.
remote cornfields west of Youngstown became the bitter birthplace of the "Blue-Collar Blues," and
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Greg Paslawski scored from the slot with 59 seconds left in overtime Monday night to give the St.
Lee Dorsey, the rhythm and blues singer whose joyful sound made "Working in the Coal Mine" a hit in
"Ho Hum, Another Simon Smash," says Variety this week, pretending not to care.
The Kings will open a two-game set against the St. Louis Blues tonight at St.
The surprising St.
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Being in jail isn't easy, observed singer-songwriter David Crosby, who recently served a short stretch.
Connie (Pee Wee) Crayton, a blues singer known in Los Angeles for his frequent appearances at the
Muir High School Coach Jim Brownfield spent so much of the last week whining about his team's injuries and lack of size, Hart Coach Rick Scott was offering to pull out a violin and play a sad song for some extra affect.
The scene was Election Central downtown, just before midnight on June 3.
"The Barrelhouse used to be right down there on the northeast corner of Wilmington," Johnny Otis said Saturday afternoon, referring to the nightclub--a block east of the Watts Towers--that he ran in the late '40s.
The Moody Blues have scaled down their sights considerably since the days of future passed, when