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Entertainment: Blue Moon Marquee on Sunday at Barkley Theatre

Nevada Appeal 02 Oct 2024
CHURCHILL ARTS COUNCIL WEEKEND EVENTS ... A.W ... It stomps and struts through the wilds, conjuring a blend where Howlin’ Wolf tangos with Django, Earnest Tubb shoots firecrackers with Cab Calloway, and Memphis Minnie throws dice with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins ... .
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The three San Diego concerts you won’t want to miss this week

San Diego Union-Tribune 12 Sep 2024
Give me a stein of beer, if not a drink of gin / I feel myself gettin’ sober, I want to get back drunk again” (during her rendition of Memphis Minnie’s 90-year-old “Drunken Barrel House Blues”) ... 7 p.m. Wednesday ... 19.
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Dr. Thomas B. Ripy, 85

The Pioneer News 29 Aug 2024
Born in Anderson County, he married Minnie Sue Ripy in 1965. He was a lifelong scholar with degrees from Transylvania University, Memphis State, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Kentucky.
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Pruitt’s lens on life in ’20s-’60s Mississippi now in focus

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 24 Aug 2024
From 1920 to 1960, Otis Noel Pruitt used his camera to document the lives of the people who lived in and around Columbus, Miss ... Pruitt's Possum Town ... Pruitt ... Blues singer Memphis Minnie even recorded a song, "Sylvester and His Mule Blues." ... Pruitt ... ...
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Sue Foley - One Guitar Woman

Music News 21 Jul 2024
Every track has something special about it but I would have to point out Maybelle Carter’s ‘Lonesome Homesick Blues’ and Memphis Minnie’s ‘Nothing In Rambling’ as particularly fine, while her version ...
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What music came out of Memphis? A look at city's music history, from W.C. Handy to Yo Gotti

Commercial Appeal 13 Jul 2024
In the 1920s, blues artists including Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie, Jim Jackson and the Memphis Jug Band recorded such classics here as "Casey Jones," "Stealin' Stealin" and "Cocaine Habit Blues" — ...
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What kind of music is Memphis famous for? Blues, rock 'n' roll and much more

Commercial Appeal 10 Jul 2024
Beale Street positioned Memphis as a big-city mecca for blues musicians from the Mississippi Delta and other neighboring regions, and provided exposure for such artists as Memphis Minnie and B.B ... Memphis radio stations helped spread the word.
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Daywatch: Celebrating the Fourth of July in Chicagoland

Chicago Tribune 04 Jul 2024
... (“Double Trouble”), Koko Taylor, Memphis Minnie (“In My Girlish Days”) and LillianLil” Green (“Why Don’t You Do Right”), while Corley shares and narrates the stories behind the songs and artists.
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Free concerts in the park to highlight the Great Migration's impact on Chicago blues

Chicago Sun-Times 01 Jul 2024
The Great Migration" in the coming weeks at several Chicago parks. " />. Born in Mississippi in 1914, blues pianist Eddie Boyd eventually made his way to Chicago in search of better opportunities ... Smith will also perform a song by Memphis Minnie ... ....
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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: June 30, 2024

Daily Freeman 30 Jun 2024
Shows will begin at 7.30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, with matinees at 2 p.m ...Women of the Blues” pays homage to the iconic songs and voices of the Blues, including artists such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, and Memphis Minnie ... ....
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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: June 29, 2024

Daily Freeman 29 Jun 2024
Shows will begin at 7.30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, with matinees at 2 p.m ...Women of the Blues” pays homage to the iconic songs and voices of the Blues, including artists such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, and Memphis Minnie ... ....
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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: June 28, 2024

Daily Freeman 28 Jun 2024
• The “Way Out Variety Show ... at The Muse, 1 Madeline Lane, Rosendale ... “Women of the Blues” pays homage to the iconic songs and voices of the Blues, including artists such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, and Memphis Minnie ... ....
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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: June 27, 2024

Daily Freeman 27 Jun 2024
at the Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St., Rosendale ... Tickets are $10 ... “Women of the Blues” pays homage to the iconic songs and voices of the Blues, including artists such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, and Memphis Minnie ... and 3 p.m ... ....
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What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: June 26, 2024

Daily Freeman 26 Jun 2024
at the Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St., Rosendale ... Tickets are $10 ... “Women of the Blues” pays homage to the iconic songs and voices of the Blues, including artists such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, and Memphis Minnie ... and 3 p.m ... ....

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