Category Archives: Music Calendar

Blues, Music Calendar

November 30: The late Robert Nighthawk was born in 1909 105 years ago years ago
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Of all the pivotal figures in blues history, certainly one of the most important was Robert Nighthawk. He bridged the gap between Delta and Chicago blues effortlessly, taking his slide cues from Tampa Red and stamping them with a Mississippi edge learned first hand from his cousin, Houston Stackhouse.
~Cub Koda (allmuisc.com)

Cheatin’ and Lyin’ Blues:

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Music Calendar, Randy Newman

November 28: Randy Newman birthday
Randy Newman I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn’t have anyone else to blame.
~Randy Newman
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To me, someone who writes really good songs is Randy Newman.
~Bob Dylan-
25 min. humorous British documentary:

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Memphis, Music Calendar, Soul, Stax

November 24: The late Donald Duck Dunn was born in 1941
DonaldDunn A 2 minute history of Donald “Duck” Dunn:“We were recording almost a hit a day for a while there. But I never knew how popular that music was until I came to England with Otis Redding in 1967.”
– Donald Dunn (about the Stax period)

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Blues, Music Calendar

November 23: The late R. L. Burnside was born in 1926

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“He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist…. he took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.”
~Matthew Johnson, the founder of Mr. Burnside’s record label, Fat Possum.

 

“I didn’t mean to kill nobody

… I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head.

Him dying was between him and the Lord.”
― R.L. Burnside

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