Tag: blues
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August 06, 2008 05:33 PM EDT --
She is 70 now. And she's still fabulous. She's having such a fantastic career.
GATHER'S OWN Rhetta A. has a new book out, T'ain't Nobody's Business . . . more
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August 05, 2008 06:33 PM EDT --
A Baptist preacher in his early teens, what man's almost supernatural and super powerful playing mesmorized delta youths such as Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters?
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December 22, 2007 05:57 PM EST --
So many great things are going on in my life right now, but my depression isn't allowing me to enjoy any of it. (which makes me even more depressed!)
*Just . . . more
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January 22, 2008 03:58 PM EST --
Another year older and another year wiser but boy do i feel the same. I feel grouchy that everyone forgot it was my birthday. That no one did did anything thing special. Oh sure one of my friends made . . . more
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July 25, 2008 05:53 PM EDT --
What is your new book and what's it about?
My new book is T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do: Women Blues Singers Old and New and it's about, surprisingly, women blues . . . more
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April 07, 2008 11:58 AM EDT --
This is the introduction to my book, T'ain't Nobody's Business If I do: Blues Women Old and New. I welcome your comments.
BLUES WOMEN
The early ones were tough. All . . . more
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August 02, 2006 03:17 AM EDT --
For Mary C. Legg in response to her article Summer Blues
Rain will come, dear Mary, I'm sure!
Why does, Mary has the blues,
Is it because the heat makes traps of her shoes . . . more
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October 08, 2007 09:59 PM EDT --
Chapter One
Thomas Edison High School
Basketball Courts
Summer 2004
Jake Sullivan ran hard to mid court, spun around his best friend Emmanuel, came to a quick stop, jumped straight . . . more
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January 28, 2008 08:33 PM EST --
What are your tricks and tips? What manages to put a smile on your face even when the weather is dreary?
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July 18, 2008 03:06 PM EDT --
Do you like the Blues? I don't have to be sad to listen; maybe just reflective. It's like you're not alone; someone else understands. That mournful sax; Ella's soothing . . . more
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April 28, 2008 09:01 AM EDT --
Another Monday morning.
Just when one gets used to relaxing weekends, it just disappears. WHOOSH!
Surprisingly, I'm grumpy, irritated and cranky on Mondays, something I don't like. . . . more
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November 09, 2007 08:14 PM EST --
ztzzing is vibe
vib rate . . . more
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July 26, 2008 09:35 AM EDT --
Yesterday I posted a Gather interview with Rhette Akamatsu about her new book, that is all about the women who sang the blues. If you missed it, and you love the blues, you will want this . . . more
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September 26, 2008 03:29 PM EDT --
I was trying to make a few pennies on MTurk today for the first time in about a month, and I found a cool thing through one of the tasks.
It's called Newsbeet and all you have to do is register, . . . more
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December 24, 2006 11:43 PM EST --
I look out my bedroom window into a rain-silvered Christmas Eve. My neighbors’ houses glitter with colored lights; occasionally I hear voices and laughter ghostly through my solitary walls. . . . more
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December 10, 2007 05:52 AM EST --
Fate has a wicked sense of humor, and as a result, I do too. If the Universe is going to go to the trouble to conspire against someone is a humorous sort of way, why, I feel almost obligated . . . more
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March 18, 2008 03:59 PM EDT --
Dial turned from red to blue
Another pawn hoists her own petard
As wafting breeze ensues
Chatter monkeys stop their prate
To ballyhoo and promelgate
Precipitates . . . more
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November 19, 2006 10:59 PM EST --
Who really is the best guitarist ever ? I often ask myself this question as I strap on my six string and start practicing my chops. I also wonder if anyone has ever mastered the guitar, or if the . . . more
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July 16, 2008 03:55 PM EDT --
I finally got my 2nd proof, approved it, and got my book up for sale!
It's only on the Estore now:
http://www.createspace.com/Customer/EStore.do;jsessionid=14A37B50033B897A2F32B2A13CCA75EE.cspworker01?id=3344396&rewrite=true . . . more
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April 18, 2007 06:40 AM EDT --
A credo I (try) to live by: "Worry is a misuse of imagination."
There is a reason I try to live by those words. I've dealt with severe clinical depression for years. I felt compelled . . . more
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