Music history and highlights that have happened on February 6th… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1943: Frank Sinatra debuts on radio show “Your Hit Parade”. 1965: Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” hits No. 1 on U.S. charts. 1945: Bob Marley born in St. Ann, Jamaica. 1950: Natalie Cole […]
Music history and highlights that have happened on February 5th… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll! 1887: Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Othello” opens in La Scala, Italy. 1897: The first showing of a motion picture ever in Hawaii (at the Hawaiian Opera House). 1923: Country singer Claude King (“Wolverton Mountain”) born in […]
Some 200 people have looked at “The Devil Showed Me How” over the last few days. It’s been shared on Facebook some 50 times. It is a story of a man in Clarksdale, Mississippi claims to have sold his soul to the Devil in order to make his living by playing dice and cards. It […]
Music history and highlights than have happened on February 3rd… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1809: Composer and pianist Felix Mendelssohn forn in Hamburg, Germany. 1911: Blues singer Jesse “Babyface” Thomas born in Logansport, Louisiana. 1935: Johnny “Guitar” Watson born in Houston. 1943: The Temptations lead singer Dennis Edwards born […]
Music history and highlights that have happened on February 2nd… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1731: George Frederic Handel’s opera “Poro” opens in London. 1926: Three men dance the Charleston for 22 hours in a dance marathon. 1927: Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz (Bennie Goodman, Tommy Dorsey) born in Philadelphia. 1937: […]
Music history and highlights that have happened on February 1st… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1896: Giacomo Puccini’s world famous opera “La Boheme” opens in Turin. 1902: Important poet, playwright and social activist Langston Hughes born in Jopin, Missouri. 1934: Kingston Trio singer Bob Shane born in Hilo, Hawaii. 1937: […]
From the Clarksdale Press Register By JOSH TROY (with some editing) Dick Waterman had a love for music at a very young age and put himself in danger in his effort to find Clarksdale’s long-lost bluesman, Son House, in the summer of 1964. In June 1964, Waterman, who was living in Cambridge, Mass., along with […]
The Arts & Culture District sign for Libby Rae Watson was mounted a few days ago by Clarksdale Public Utilities. It is located on Sunflower Blvd… in between the church and the blues (the Bishop T. T. Scott sign is on one side of Libby, and Anthony “Big A” Sherrod is on the other). A […]
Music history and highlights that happened on January 31st… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. (featured image on this article’s frontispiece is Muddy Waters and Son Sims about the same time as Alan Lomax first recorded Muddy) 1797: Franz Peter Schubert (“Unfinished Symphony”) born in Vienna, Austria. 1901: Anton Checkov play […]
Some music history and highlights that have happened on January 30th… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1911: Jazz trumpeter Roy Eldridge (Gene Krupa and Artie Shaw) born in Pennsylvania. 1928: Tour de force blues singer Ruth Brown born in Portsmouth, Virginia (“Lucky Lips”, “Teardrops From My Eyes”, “(Mama) He Treats […]