... plays blues and rock, they are a weekly attraction at Joe's playing every Monday night and sometimes on Saturdays. Joe Richardson the guitarist and singer of the band is the heart and soul his biography on the band's website joerichardson.com reads, "At 52, this versatile veteran puts as much heart, soul, and energy into his music as he did in his younger years ... , and he vows that only death will stop him!". The biography does not lie as Joe and his band put everything they had into their performance and the audience is very appreciative. Paul, a 46 year old white male, commented "Joe...

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... plays blues and rock, they are a weekly attraction at Joe's playing every Monday night and sometimes on Saturdays. Joe Richardson the guitarist and singer of the band is the heart and soul his biography on the band's website joerichardson.com reads, "At 52, this versatile veteran puts as much heart, soul, and energy into his music as he did in his younger years ... , and he vows that only death will stop him!". The biography does not lie as Joe and his band put everything they had into their performance and the audience is very appreciative. Paul, a 46 year old white male, commented "Joe...

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... it include; Fletcher Henderson, Count Basie, and Bennie Goodman. Bennie Goodman, however, also was a leader for Big Bands. The sound of Big Band was derived from the arrangements of Paul Whiteman, who toned down the dense polyrhythms and raw sounds in order to "civilize- it for a white ... adding more dissonance. This type of symphonic jazz would also go on to influence twentieth century American symphonic music. After the heyday of Big Band arrangement, Bebop emerged in New York City in the late 1940s. Centered around Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gilespie, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell, .....

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... King, and Muddy Waters (Coleman). The god of guitar mended his way into the world of music. In early 1963 Eric joined his first band The Roosters. Following the band's breakup he spent a month in the pop-oriented group Casey Jones and the Engineers. In October 1963 Keith Relf and Paul Samuel Smith recruited ... their egos. This would cause their breakup in 1968. After this Clapton went on to form rock's first super group Blind Faith. The band included Steve Windward, Ginger Baker, and Rick Grech. They broke up after only one album was made. In the summer of 1970 he returned ... Derek an...

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... effect or unified story (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_album). The Beatles were known for having the first concept album (Lonely Hearts Club Band), however after the second song in the album, the tracks were not contributing to the one unified story. Particular well-remembered songs from the album ... the door for many rock bands to come out with provocative albums that contained drugs lyrics. Ken Kesey and the pranksters became a drug influenced rock band. Tom Wolfe wrote the novel, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test-. The novel used basically a collection of all the notes, audio ...

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... and love, and promoting free love, smoking dope, and once again hallucinating on LSD. Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead, the Steve Miller Band, and Janis Joplin were performers that exemplified the persona of the peace and love trend. Towards the beginning of the 1970's the heavy metal trend ... as saying: "In 1971, there were only three bands that mattered- Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple." The band credited as being the first heavy metal band is usually Black Sabbath, which was led by lead singer Ozzy Osbourne. Heavy metal consisted of an extreme distortion ...

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... Rock "n" Rollers. Through the sixties, the Beatles dominated the record industries all over the United States. John Lennon and Paul McCartney formed the band in 1962. The group featured modern Rock that was new and popular during the period, with John Lennon and Paul McCartney composing and doing ... were backed by George Harrison on bass guitar and Ringo Starr on drums. Following the Beatles, the Rolling Stones were the second most significant British band that became popular in the United States. These British bands instigated a return to the blues orientation of Rock 'n' Roll, although...

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... Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota on May 26, 1920. She began her singing career with high-school glee club, church choir and semi professional college bands. Peggy joined Benny Goodman's band in July 1941. Most of the success she received is credited with the big bands. Peggy said, " I learned more about music from the men I worked with in bands than I have ... learned anywhere else. They taught me discipline and the value of rehearsing and even how to train Band singing taught us the importance of interplay with musicians. And we had to work close to the arrangement." In July 1942, he...

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... , was Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. In 1922, Armstrong rode the train from New Orleans to Chicago to join his mentor Joe Oliver and play in the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band. The Creole Jazz Band was busy playing the popular Lincoln Gardens Cafe, which catered to the growing African-American population in Chicago. During this time, Armstrong gained the reputation as a highly talented ... cornet player. In 1923, he was the first jazz musician to be recorded by Gennett Records while playing with the Creole Jazz Band. Okeh Records also recorded the band again before he left for New York in 1924...

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... the Comets number one hit for eight weeks, and it sold 22 million copies worldwide. Haley adapted black R&B song streamlined rock and roll beat, to the music him and his band played. Another song that was a successful for the group was "Crazy, Man, Crazy"; it was the first rock and roll record to make Billboard Pop Chart. The group was owned ... Charles Hardin Holley. Holly was first interested in playing the piano, when he was 11 year old, but latter turned to playing guitar. Holly gained fame in 1957, when his band The Crickets recorded song, "that"ll Be the Day", and his hit solo "Pe...

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... record players, tape players and CD players. There are music videos on television and now, you can buy movies about the making of music videos, or even videos all about a band or group. There are books, posters, clothes, lunch boxes, computer games, cups, book bags and the list could go on forever of items that sell because ... a band or group is on the item. Music is everywhere, television commercials, shopping malls, etc. People are obsessed with what is popular and whatever is popular now sells everything and anything. ... music; they spend their money because it is their entertain...

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... rock group ever, ruled the record industries and with their dominant instrumentation, which included: electric leads, rhythm, and bass guitar, drums and sometimes an electric organ. The Beatles were the band behind changing the name of Rock & Roll to just Rock. British bands, lead by The Beatles initiated a return to the blues orientation of Rock & Roll, although in an ever louder ... -Rock, the most appreciated of these descendants of Rock Music and was introduced by Bob Dylan, who appeared on the scene playing electric guitar and backed by an electrified rock band. This kind of music b...

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... her knee that jingled when she played. In the forties and fifties, she played in crowded Bourbon Street clubs. Emma eventually formed her own band in 1961, called "Sweet Emma the Bell Gal and Her Dixieland Jazz Band". Some of their most famous songs were "I"m Alone Because I Love You", "Clarinet Marmalade", and "Little Liza Jane". Health problems began to plague Emma in ... ...

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... cannot be traced to a specific time or to a specific artist. Some people say that the first signs of pop came from the music band the Beatles. Others believe it started with Millie Vannili and continued with the boy band New Kids on the Block. Pop in the United States has become very popular in the last couple years. Ever since Britney Spears ... ...

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... her knee that jingled when she played. In the forties and fifties, she played in crowded Bourbon Street clubs. Emma eventually formed her own band in 1961, called "Sweet Emma the Bell Gal and Her Dixieland Jazz Band". Some of their most famous songs were "I"m Alone Because I Love You", "Clarinet Marmalade", and "Little Liza Jane". Health problems began to plague Emma in ... ...

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Then the bus began driving into clouds, and between one cloud and the next we caught glimpses of the town below. It was suppertime and the town was a constellation of yellow points. We arrived thirty minutes after leaving that town, which was called Leuk. The train to Leuk had come in from Visp, the train from Visp had come from Bern, and the train before that was from Zurich, from which I had started out in the afternoon. Three trains, a bus, and a short stroll, all of it through beautiful country, and then we reached Leukerbad in darkness. So Leukerbad, not far in terms of absolute distance,...

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... 's with the merging of some of the most talented and creative musicians in the business. Among the jazz pioneers were the trailblazing New Orleans Rhythm Kings, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Fletcher Henderson. Among the contributing blues pioneers were Son House, Charles Patton and Robert Johnson. In the 1940's, these pioneers were ... ...

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... drugs and music, and his brother through job teaching. Really their struggle is to accept their situation, at the very end of the story when Sonny is playing with the band, his brother watching, Sonny's brother describes them as "up there in the indigo light" (pg. 140). Indigo light being a very dark color, so they were in a dark light, then he ... ...

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... Harris and, some would say, also by Joe Turner). All of these collaborations, when married with the new technology of amplification, set the stage for the ascendancy of the blues band. From the late '40s on, Chicago established itself as the world capital of electric blues. The foundation was created by three blues guitarist/vocalist titans who brought their different perspectives ... ...

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... carried herself with. Bessie was physically big and she sang at a time where there was no amplification so in order to be heard over all the instruments especially in a blues band you had to either use a megaphone or in Bessie's case you had to amplify your voice to a level that was above all the music. The reason that Bessie became so ... ...

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... drugs and music, and his brother through job teaching. Really their struggle is to accept their situation, at the very end of the story when Sonny is playing with the band, his brother watching, Sonny's brother describes them as "up there in the indigo light" (pg. 140). Indigo light being a very dark color, so they were in a dark light, then he ... ...

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