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12:26 pm UTC Feb. 17, 2021 Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, field...

Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 8:54 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021 Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. JACKSON, Miss. — B...

Sarasota Opera returns with a ‘Happy Deception’ A new Sarasota Opera season gets underway this weekend with the opening of Rossini’s one-act comic opera “The Happy Deception.” Soprano Hanna Brammer stars as the Duchess Isabella, who disappears and washes ashore in a small mining town, where she is taken in and cared for by a kindly miner, played by bass/baritone Alexander Charles Boyd (Brammer’s real-life husband). Tenor Christopher Bozeka plays her grieving husband, Duke Bertrando....

Neil Young To Debut Album Of Unreleased 80s Trans Band Songs Neil Young has revealed he is working on an album to be called ‘Johnny’s Island’, a collection of unreleased songs from the 1980s featuring the band he used for ‘Trans’. 1982’s ‘Trans’ was Young’s 12th solo album. ‘Trams’ was a departure for Young. It was mainly an electronic album influences by Kratfwerk and Devo. He toured the album in Europe and released a home video titled ‘Neil Young in Berlin’. While th...

Johnny’s Island is likely to be released soon. The album was recorded with the ‘Transband’ – who included Nils Lofgren on guitar, Ralph Molina on drums and Bruce Palmer on bass – at Commercial Recorders in Honolulu prior to Young’s 1982 European tour. According to a post on Neil Young Archives, it includes a majority of unreleased songs including “Big Pearl”, “Island In The Sun” and “Love Hotel”, “plus others you may have heard before”. Young has previously referr...

Best Rock Super Bowl Commercials Year-by-Year 2000-20 When it comes to Super Bowl commercials, there are certain things you can bank on: funny animals, celebrity cameos and iconic music. Many of rock’s biggest and most recognizable tunes have been featured in ads airing during the big game in the 21st century, as youll see in the below list of Best Rock Super Bowl Commercials Year-by-Year 2000-20. Sometimes the tracks were the central point of the commercial’s theme; other times, they simpl...

Neil Young to Release the Album That ‘Trans’ Replaced Trans replaced in his catalog. Island in the Sun was recorded in 1982 by the same creative team but rejected as his first LP for Geffen Records. He went on to deliver the controversial Trans instead, which featured three tracks that started life on its shelved predecessor. Young revealed on his website that the LP was now titled Johnny’s Island. He called it “a complete album now being prepared for release,” adding that it �...

Anna Yatskevich / Courtesy of Newvelle Records Public acknowledgment took its time finding Billy Lester. A pianist devoted to searching for a new form of modern jazz, he spent more than half a century on the outskirts of New York City, quietly honing his craft. "I just figured Id go to my grave without any kind of recognition," he says plainly, "and I was at the point in my life where I totally accepted that." The situation changed only a few years ago when Lester was in his early 70s. A ...

One of my favorite things about 2021 so far is that JaeSean Tate is Actually Good. JaeSean Tate is the first Rockets rookie with 10+ assists in a game since Steve Francis in 99-00. — Taylor Pate (@taylorlpate) January 15, 2021 Hand up, I wrote him off from having any chance in the league unless he developed an outside shot or grew about four inches. Hes done neither and seems to be doing just fine! Word of the Day: Mellifluous.   ANOTHER WIN OVER HARBAUGH. Urban Meyer retired from ki...

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