Sentences with word «bluesman»

A "bluesman" is a musician, typically a male, who plays and sings blues music. They are skilled in the techniques and styles of the blues genre, often performing with instruments like guitars and harmonicas. Bluesmen are known for their emotionally charged and soulful performances, capturing the spirit and storytelling elements of the blues tradition. Full definition
Initiates, including a healthy number of discerning musicians and critics, have hailed him as an American original in the style of bluesman Robert Johnson and country legend Hank Williams.
In the summer of 2008, a group of bluesmen including the last surviving members of the Howlin» Wolf and Muddy Waters bands were brought together by director Scott Rosenbaum for a cameo appearance in his film The Perfect Age of Rock»n' Roll.
Two Trains Runnin» (Unrated) Delta documentary recounting the search conducted for a couple of legendary bluesmen in Mississippi at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
As I was eating lunch in a place called Leo's Market, a waitress mentioned that Rosedale is the place where the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for musical genius (an event alluded to in — among other places — the Cohen brothers» movie Oh Brother, Where... Read more»
Just down Money Road out of Greenwood, past several miles of flat cotton fields and the believed gravesite of the great bluesman Robert Johnson, sits the old store where Chicago teenager Emmitt Till allegedly flirted with a white woman shopkeeper and was then abducted from his nearby uncle's house, murdered and thrown into the Tallahatchie River by some white men.
MARK ST JOHN - Jones is a Bass - geetarslinger / vocalist - a dedicated and professional stylistic bluesman with over 45 yrs of experience organizing, touring, producing, and recording with some of the finest traditional blues players in the business!
What would movies like these be without blind bluesmen?
Roland Turner, junky bluesman from Inside Llewyn Davis could probably shoulder a full film.
As with any good bluesman, however, Allison's sense of fun is informed by tragic experience.
May 15, bb pin dating BB King last of the great bluesmen BB King, who died i am dating my ex wife night, gave this interview during his farewell tour.
(The reference is to the legend of the real - life Delta bluesman Robert Johnson, who was said to have acquired his otherwordly skills by means of a similar pact.)
The documentary captures the personal triumphs, tragedies and perseverance of three of the last original Delta and Chicago bluesmen while preserving a critical legacy.
May 3, 2018 • The 71 - year - old raconteur returns to the old songs and inhabits the guises of death - haunted bluesmen to speak to the issues of the current era.
A century before bluesman Robert Johnson's mythical confrontation at a Mississippi crossroads, another prodigious musical talent was believed to have struck a deal with the devil: Niccolo Paganini, 19th century violin virtuoso, international luminary and, according to writer - director Bernard Rose's seductive new film, the world's first rock star.
Roland Turner (marvelously played by John Goodman), the big, bleary New Orleans bluesman with whom Llewyn shares a disastrous ride to Chicago, is a Falstaffian sleazeball.
When Timberlake's redneck brother viciously beats Ricci and leaves her for dead, grief - stricken bluesman Jackson brings her back to his shotgun shack and tries to set her on the straight and narrow.
En route, there are adventures with latter - day lotus eaters, sirens, a Bible - bashing Polyphemus (Goodman), a Robert Johnson - like bluesman, a public enemy, corrupt politicians and the Klan, accompanied by a wealth of terrific blues, bluegrass and gospel music.
Ralph Macchio plays Eugene Martone, classical guitar student of Juilliard but lover of the blues, and he hopes one day to be one of the finest Bluesmen in the country.
They also have live music every Thursday and I catch a fine performance from local bluesman Walter Wolfman Washington.
Flavin dedicated individual «icons» to friends, a teacher, a 1920s bluesman, an anonymous martyr, Jesus, and (most poignantly) his twin brother, who died of polio while the series was underway.
In The Man, music and performance, time and history, are ambiguously interwoven as the artist cedes the stage to the late bluesman Pinetop Perkins.
There's even a blind bluesman (Keb» Mo») who acts as a kind of Greek chorus.
The legendary bluesman had made what will remain a legendary art trade no matter what happens with Christie's picture because he turned a $ 3.4 m investment in November of 2001, sales that took place in the context of a city still smoldering with the wreckage of the World Trade Center attacks, into $ 54m so far and still counting.
Glenn O'Brien describes Early as a «new sort of bluesman... making work that reflects the lonesome road he's been on, a road that goes through Jesus, Jesus Christ Superstar, John and Yoko, protest movements, and the United Federation of Planets.»
It's in a regal enough tradition, too: behind Derek, the decafox; Buchanan, the soapstud; Peep, the little one; Lamar, the erstwhile basketball superstar; Diaz, the catcher (who's really Beaudilio); Belinsky, the pitcher; Gray, Mary Cunningham's ex; and Diddley, the bluesman.
Along the way, they fall in with Tommy Johnson (Chris Thomas King)- a bluesman who has swapped his soul for musical talent, which leads the runaways into a profitable detour as a recording sensation - and manic depressive gunman George Nelson, who hates cows as much as cops.
When Guitar Sam fails to show, a young itinerant bluesman, Sonny Blake (real bluesman Gary Clark Jr.), is hired as his impersonator.
Black Snake Moan (Paramount, February 23) Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, John Cothran Jr., Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brandon Raines, Michael Raymond - James, Leonard L. Thomas Director: Craig Brewer Rating: R The Pitch: A nymphomaniac (Ricci) requires the, um, «forcible aid» of a bluesman (Jackson) to scratch her itch.
The Austin bluesman, who has a new song on the soundtrack of Deepwater Horizon, has played with the best — but there was one band who intimidated him
Mosley's first novel outside the confines of the crime genre is a searingly eloquent requiem for a bluesman.
The bluesman B. B. King once exclaimed, «It took me 50 years to learn how to play my songs the same way, as if they were all the same song.»
«No bluesmen, no blues.»
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