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African Blues Gospel

‘Never Turn Back’ and the Lasting Power of Music

June 22, 2025 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 2025, Big Mama Thornton, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith, MoPOP, Muddy Waters, Museum of Pop Culture, Never Turn Back, Never Turn Back: Echoes of African American Music, Seattle, Washington

A look inside a very special MoPOP exhibit

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Blues Hard Rock Rock

Jane Lee Hooker: Knee Deep in the Blues and Loving It

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 j. poet 0 Comments Big Mama Thornton, Bobby Blue BLand, Dana Athens, Hail Mary Zadroga, Jane Lee Hooker, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin’ Ron Salvo, Tina T-Bone Gorin, Tracy Hightop

With a bold new album, the band is back on the road again in a van named Dwight, doing what they do best

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Music Journalism Rock

Not All the Single Ladies — Hall Admits Just a Single Lady

January 15, 2020January 16, 2020 Evelyn McDonnell 0 Comments 2020 Inductees, Bette Midler, Big Mama Thornton, Bjork, Celia Cruz, Chaka Khan, Cher, Dionne Warwick, Jann Wenner, Joel Peresman, Labelle, Pat Benatar, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Selena, Shirin Neshat, Songwriters Hall of Fame, Sussan Deyhim, The Go-Gos, Whitney Houston

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame still a Man’s World

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Blues Psychedelics Rock

THE BEST REISSUES OF 2019: Revisiting the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival

December 29, 2019December 29, 2019 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969, B.B. King, Big Joe Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Bobby Blue BLand, Buddy Guy, Carey Bell, Freddie King, Hound Dog Taylor, Junior Wells, Lowell Fulson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Roosevelt Sykes, T-Bone Walker, Third Man Records

Third Man Records offers a definitive edition of the very first major festival dedicated entirely to the blues

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