Listening to songs from The Homemade Jamz Blues Band’s debut CD Pay Me No Mind, certain images come into focus. With numbers like “Penny Waiting on a Change” sung in...
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No American music has a richer mythology than the blues.
There’s the gripping lore surrounding blues music’s first superstar, Robert Johnson, who allegedly sold his soul to the devil at...
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After recording what was supposed to be her first album and long-awaited breakthrough in the music industry, vocalist Bettye LaVette got a phone call. The record executive on the other...
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Taj Mahal got valuable musical advice from blues elders, including Lightnin’ Hopkins, when he first embarked on his unconventional path as a musician.
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The blues hit young Joe Bonamassa like a lightning bolt. At the time, Bonamassa was reciting classical music pieces verbatim on guitar. But when at 8 years old the guitarist...
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Just after 9 on a frigid January morning in 2007, nearly six months after the disastrous E. coli outbreaks in bagged spinach, some 200 vegetable farmers and shippers, tailed by...
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The South Coast town of Gorda has a dubious distinction: ABC’s “Nightline” did a feature this past spring that revealed the community had the highest gas prices in the entire...
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From time to time, major military exercises at the increasingly active base close off certain roads and currently, the Indians Fire has neccessitated the closure of Del Venturi Road. If...
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The South Coast of Big Sur might have more hawks than humans. Moss Landing has roughly the same population as a small high school class. And soldiers aside, Fort Hunter...
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David Nilsen’s face twitches. The owner and broker of Cedar Funding nervously shifts in his leather seat inside Monterey County Superior Judge Marla Anderson’s courtroom. He wears a black suit,...
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