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With its new Local Sound Series, the Guild Theatre will be shining its spotlight on Bay Area musicians. Americana artist Miko Marks and Belle Haven-raised bassist and blues vocalist Frank Thibeaux perform Jan. 18.
Miko Marks: “It’s not a song about going back in time but about bringing the strength of the past into the future,”
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Miko Marks understands if you're a bit confused about her new cover of "Hard Times." Originally published in 1854, the song was written by Stephen Foster, an American songwriter whose well-known songs also include, among others, "Oh, Susanna" and "Camptown Races." Perhaps you'll be familiar with the versions by Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan or, perhaps most famously, Mavis Staples, who included it on her Grammy-winning 2004 album Beautiful Dreamer. Foster's music, however, is tied to the era's blackface minstrel shows: "Much of his success came through the appropriation of Black culture and mus...