During its 15-year run, Stax released more than 800 singles, and nearly 300 LPs. It won eight GRAMMY® Awards, plus an Academy Award along the way. The label placed more than 167 songs in the Top 100 pop charts, and a staggering 243 hits in the Top 100 R&B charts.
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Don’t miss your chance to experience the blues, food, and more with the local folks. Visit with old friends and make some new ones!
Now some of you might be raising your eyebrows in surprise and thinking “A blues album from Willie Nelson? Really?” Yes, friends, he really did put out a blues album, and why not?
Inspired by raw Delta, and Mississippi Hill Country blues, Moreland & Arbuckle brought fierce electric fury and unrelenting punk rock energy to their original songs.
“‘First Words of a Changing Man,’ was recorded on the first night we set up. It’s an exciting, kind of bouncy tune.”
Cuba Gooding Sr. was found dead in his car earlier today in Woodland Hills.
A wealth of wonderful events will happen throughout the week surrounding the main attractions: the Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and the Blues Music Awards.
All of them are on this list for a reason, and that reason is to get folks to visit, and immerse themselves in a culture that was nearly dead, but has made a monumental comeback.
Stuart has released his new album ‘Way Out West,” and has begun touring behind it. He and his Fabulous Superlatives will be appearing on The Late Show, and The GRAMMY Museum® at L.A. LIVE will present ‘Marty Stuart’s Way Out West,’ a new exhibit opening May 25, 2017, featuring artifacts celebrating the personal collection of Marty Stuart.
‘Waiting On A Song’ is Auerbach’s much-anticipated follow-up to 2009’s ‘Keep It Hid’ and is a love letter to Nashville.