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The Iceman put a whole lot of fire in his playing with wild vibrato and a stinging blues tone

Photo by Jeff Katz Park City Institute will add another dash of country and a pinch of the blues to its already stacked Big Stars, Bright Nights summer concert season at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. Executive Director Ari Ioannides announced on Friday that Justin Moore, winner of the Academy of Country Music Best New Artist award in 2011, will hit the stage on Saturday, July 24, and also said five-time Grammy Award-winning blues guitarist Robert Cray will make an encore visit to t...

Established in 2019 by Melia Clapton (Eric Claptons wife), Turn Up For Recovery is a charitable movement which aims to raise awareness of abstinence-based recovery, tackle the stigma of addiction and help make treatment affordable to those struggling with substance addiction. Through his connection with TUFR, Wood hopes to “bring people together through music to support recovery for addicts, and their friends and family. To become a part of that is my way of giving back, as I am so grateful f...

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Tickets are on sale for all three shows. Written By: John Lamb | × Mommy comics Cat & Nat bring their adult sense of humor to the Fargo Theatre on Sept. 22. Special to The Forum FARGO — It’s not too early to be thinking about Halloween, at least according to the Fargo Theatre. Kathy Najimy hosts a screening and Q&A for her classic comedy, "Hocus Pocus" on Oct. 15 at the Fargo Theatre. Special to The Forum Other upcoming Fargo Theatre shows include a return from soul and blu...

Grammys 2021: The Country Music Winners From Best Country Album to Best American Roots Performance, the complete country and Americana rundown Joseph Hudak, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Awards in the Americana and country music categories were handed out during the 63rd Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on Sunday afternoon with John Prine winning a pair of posthumous Grammys for his song “I Remember Everything.” Written with Pat McLaughlin, “I Remember Everything” was named Best Amer...

Robert Johnson went down to the crossroads and, according to legend, sold his soul to the devil for world-changing talent. Ralph Macchio went down to the crossroads and, well, shredded the blues into a speed metal and neoclassical orgy with guitarist Steve Vai in 1986’s Crossroads. It’s a long, long way from Johnsons raw, rootsy, seminal blues to the pompous, ridiculous, glorious bombast of ’80s hair metal, but director Walter Hill took audiences on that fun and oh-so bumpy trip on March...

Philly bluesman Frank Bey is up for a posthumous Grammy for his final album ‘All My Dues Are Paid’ Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer Frank Bey released his final album in January 2020, putting an exclamation point on a music career that stretched over five decades. Five months later, the Philadelphia blues singer who grew up in the Jim Crow South in Millen, Ga., died at age 74, after a yearslong struggle with kidney disease. But after Bey’s death, his star continues to...

Smokey Blue Bar-B-Q thrives off-grid in an electronic society Bob Saar for The Hawk Eye In this day of electronic communication lanes that are wide open 24/7, Derrick Middleton is a businessman who lives what you might call a hand-to-mouth life: he smokes up some mean barbecue. But his customers have no way of knowing when or where Smokey Blue Bar-B-Qs blue trailer will be on any given day, so its all word-of-mouth. Middletons home base in Burlington is, more or less, the Shell gas station at R...

Writer, producer and showrunner Brian Koppelman has built an impressive resume over the last twenty-plus years. He is best known for his work on the Showtime series "Billions," as well as films like "Rounders" and "Ocean’s Thirteen." At his core, though, Brian is a music lover. In fact, he began his career in the music industry working in A&R. He also played a role in helping to launch the career of Tracy Chapman and was even credited as an executive producer on her debut album. With his div...