“Chicago Kinfolk: The Juke Joint Blues” earns Gold for Use of Music Craft (Casting/Performance) and Bronze for Use of Music Innovation ...
The blues, like Lloyd “Teddy” Johnson, was born in the modest front rooms of rural shacks and shotguns where Black folks gave life to and nurtured a sound that was part music, part heart and part ...
In the early 1990s, I often took a cheap Southwest Airlines flight from my native Dayton, Ohio to Chicago in search of down-home blues venues like Lee’s Unleaded and Rosa’s. Then, in 1995, my ...
If you walk into the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History in Fayetteville, you might suddenly find yourself very much at home--that is, if you're from the South. As you stand on a wooden ...
The blues runs deep through Orlando Paden’s veins. As a child, he danced for nickels and quarters by the jukebox. He cleaned, crushed cans, and bagged them. He’d greet Mr. Bill, the bouncer, at the ...
The youngest band to perform at the recent Baton Rouge Blues Festival, the Juke Joint Juniors feature middle and high school students enrolled in the West Baton Rouge Museum’s Blues After School ...
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot details from Ryan Coogler‘s “Sinners,” now playing in theaters. Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw vividly remembers when Ryan Coogler sent her the script ...
The stage at the Portage Theater doesn’t usually serve any purpose aside from putting a gap of maybe 20 feet between the first row of seats and the screen. But on the afternoon of Sunday, March 21, it ...
Experience real-deal Memphis blues at Wild Bill’s, a legendary juke joint known for live music, local crowds, and an authentic, no-frills vibe.
No. 1 distributor of phonograph music is the humble jukebox, which absorbs some 44% of the output of U. S. popular records, plays them at a nickel a throw in bars, dance dives and lunch counters ...
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