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Tag Archives: Muddy Waters
Happy Birthday, Muddy Waters
in Best of Illinois, biography, music
Tagged blues, Blues All Day Long, Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, music, Music in American Life, Wayne Everett Goins
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Longing for that down home music? Looking for a shot of brilliance? Tryin’ to forget that you asked for water and your woman/man gave you gasoline? Then you must be celebrating the 100th birthday (or it might be the 102nd birthday) of McKinley Morganfield, … Continue reading
Blues All Day Long awarded by ARSC
in authors, awards, biography, black studies, blues, Chicago, music
Tagged Blues All Day Long, guitar, Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Wayne Everett Goins
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Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story by Wayne Everett Goins has been awarded a Certificate of Merit in Historical Research in Blues, Gospel, or R&B in the 2015 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence. Goins … Continue reading
Happy birthday, Jimmy Rogers
in biography, black studies, Chicago, music
Tagged blues, Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Wayne Everett Goins
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Jimmy Rogers was born James A. Lane on this day in 1924. As Wayne Everett Goins notes in Blues All Day Long, his new biography of Rogers, the legendary guitarist carried a no-nonsense version of how he came to be. … Continue reading
Jim Rooney: on the road and In It for the Long Run
in author events, authors, music, new books
Tagged Americana, Bob Dylan, In It for the Long Run, Jim Rooney, John Prine, Muddy Waters, Nashville
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In 2009 Jim Rooney received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association. In his new book In It for the Long Run Rooney recounts a lifetime’s worth of musical adventures. In support of his memoir, the singer and songwriter … Continue reading