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Cinema Paradiso/Jason Seizer
March 22, 2015
Just when you think that you've heard everything there is in jazz, somebody comes up with something new in this case Seizer and his group and they play movie music but not just any movie music but soundtrack themes that you'd thought impossible. The theme from "Alien" was the first that got my attention. You remember that scary movie back in 1979 with Sigourney Weaver. It was an eerie suspense building theme that definitely got your attention as you sat in the darkened theater. Jerry Goldsmith hit a homerun with that one but I'm sure if he heard this pure jazz part melody, part improvisation he'd clap for an encore.
Born in Stuggart to a musical family he began playing the flute and recorder at the age of 4 winning classical music contests along the way. He continued his musical studies at the Hilversum Conservatory and then discovered John Coltrane at the age of 23 and has been playing ever since.
Seizer, now 50, has surrounded himself with young talent that compliment his playing. They consist of Pablo Held on piano, Matthias Pichter on bass, and Fabian Arends on drums. They know what each other wants to do and they do so like a finely tuned machine. Take for example "Spartacus" as it opens with the delicate Bill Evan's sound from Held with quiet bass lines and just a whisper of the cymbals preparing us for the entrance of the raspy but oh so mellow Seizer who seems to be in no hurry as his scales are distinct. Pichter is given a turn to display his talents with crisp positive strokes being supported by select harmony from the bass and percussion. He turns the song over to Seizer who completes the fine Alex North composition. The opening selection Carlotta's Portrait from "Vertigo" begins with a steady somewhat relentess rhythm from the bass with the piano next being added both a prelude to the raspy but distinct line from the tenor sax. The entire track is simple uncomplicated but the three together make for an excellent track. If it was anymore laid back I might fall asleep? "On the Waterfront" opens with the tenor sax of Seizer complimented by percussion, piano chords, and bass. The original soundtrack and the after thought suite by Bernstein feature a trumpet but the tenor sax playing with a bit of Coltrane playing takes this to an entirely new concept. A favorite film of Jason's is "The Deer Hunter" along with the Cavatina theme from Stanley Meyers. The arrangement is a soft smooth one with the piano and sax sharing time. You'll be hard pressed or at least I was to recognize the "Jungle Book" theme which takes you to a new higher level in jazz. Seizer allows himself to soar and explore lines ascending and descending chords adding a quicker pace. Held is also allowed to run with chords and harmony which compliment the track. One of the lovelier themes from the pen of Morricone was "Cinema Paradiso" which Held gives a classical touch with Seltzer doing a bit of improv with a little bit of squeeking to grab your attention.
Although Seizer is new to me he has several CD's to his credit and I look forward to more from him perhaps a volume two of film music that offers some film noir material. The sound recording is superb but there is an absence of no liner notes only pictures.
1. Carlotta's Portrait · from »Vertigo« 1958 (3:13)
2. Cinema Paradiso · from »Cinema Paradiso« 1988 (7:49)
3. Steve's Care · from »The Machinist« 2004 (6:39)
4. On The Waterfront · from »On the Waterfront« 1954 (4:30)
5. Cavatina · from »The Deer Hunter« 1978 (5:16)
6. Jungle Beat · from Walt Disney's »The Jungle Book« (6:19)
7. Children's Games · from »The Curious Case of Benjamin Button« 2008 (5:42)
8. Alien Main Theme · from »Alien« 1979 (6:03)
9. Spartacus Love Theme · from »Spartacus« 1960 (6:15)
Total time 51:51
Come and Shine (1977)/Patrick Williams
January 25, 2015
Come On and Shine
My collection of Patrick Williams material began in the late 60's when I purchased the soundtrack "How Sweet It Is," "Shades of Today," and "Think" both on the Verve label. I've collected and enjoyed his material, mostly LP, so this release on CD was a pleasant surprise for me. It is part of a 25 CD release which also includes Count Basie and Lionel Hampton both of which I also have. I also look forward to exploring additional titles from George Shearing, Joe Pass, and Stephane Grapelli among others.
The first track, the unofficial main theme, "Come On And Shine" features the New York Section with a strong presence from the brass, some good keyboard work from Dave Grusin, who went on to compose some great material of his own, effective use of a vocal group in the background, and solo sax work from Lou Marini. The group has a good feel for the funky track and you hear it loud and clear. It made me want to crank up the amp and listen loud through my Interaudio speakers. The chorus said little other than shine but their whispers in parts were quite effective with the sax of Marini. I'm including it as an audio clip which will give you a good feel as to what this album about. As you listen to the arrangement you'll hear the instruments enter one by one: guitar, snare drum, keyboards, trumpets, and vocal section. "One For My Three" follows in a similiar vein with the saxes of Niewood, Marini, and Cuber taking center stage with able backing from Grusin. "Lou Grant Theme" will bring back memories and is dominated by Jerome Richardson on Alto Sax. "And We Will Love Again," a perfect love song offers Kahn on Guitar, Grusin on piano, and Toots Thielemans on Harmonica. This offering also has strings to give it a lushness and even more romance. "Sail On" spotlights the talent of Steve Kahn with able backing from Dave Grusin. The Bob Newhart Theme, "Home to Emily" is one of the more popular television themes with Sunny Burke of the Los Angeles section being featured on the Fender Rhodes. "Barrio" showcases the talents of Pete Christlieb on Tenor Sax reminding me of the sax work on "Taxi Driver," a Bernard Herrmann soundtrack. A wonderful lush arrangement and melody from Patrick. The talent of the Latin percussion of Larry Bunker is an added bonus. "The Late Night Wizzard" again features the talent of Toots this time in a funky style that will sure to please your audio canals. The final selection "Blue Light" again returns to Los Angeles and some nifty sax work again from Pete Christlieb.
We're so fortunate to have the talents of two Oscar winning/nomination talents of Dave Grusin and Patrick Williams. Be sure that you take the time to check this one out. I've enjoyed this recording for nearly 40 years and I'm sure you will too. The remastering is superb although I do kind of miss the surface noise of the LP. Come to think of it I might just dig it out again!
Track Listing:
1…. Come On and Shine (6:20)
2…. One For My Three (2:12)
3…. Lou Grant Theme (2:12)
4…. And We Will Love Again (5:10)
5…. Sail On (5:38)
6…. Home To Emily (5:52)
7…. Barrio (5:49)
8…. The Late Night Wizzard (6:10)
9…. Blue Light (2:58)
Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, and 8 recorded in New York. Tracks 3, 6, 7, and 9 recorded in Los Angeles.

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BabyCakes Covers the Classics
Gluten-free Vegan Recipes From Donuts to SnickerdoodlesBook - 2010
Following her widely adored debut cookbook with this delectable and extensive new collection, Erin McKenna, celebrated baker and proprietress of BabyCakes NYC in New York and Los Angeles, satisfies all your food fantasies with fifty recipes for perennial favorites--all created without gluten, dairy, eggs, or refined sugar.
In addition to its important primer on key ingredients and easy substitutions, BabyCakes Covers the Classics includes a section filled with Erin's insightful solutions to frequently asked questions, which will lead you to newfound baking glory. As for the goods themselves, prepare for untold hours of refreshingly simple and undeniably delicious recipes adapted from the ones that sprinkled our collective childhoods. They include:
Thin Mints
Chocolate Chip Waffles
Square-Pan Tomato Pizza
Six-Layer Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Preserves
Banana Royalenbsp;
Five variations of BabyCakes NYC's famous donuts
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BabyCakes Covers the Classics is filled with timeless sweet and savory temptations that vegans, celiacs, and the health-minded can safely indulge in. Erin shows people of all stripes how to take control of a vegan, gluten-free pantry, and she proves that once you do, there are no limitations to what you can bake.
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Try the pancakes!
While this was better than the first book, I'm not a big fan. When someone disregards that spelt is one of the grains to be avoided by those who can't have gluten from wheat family products (wheat, rye, barley, spelt, etc.) spelt is NOT safe--ancient wheat grain or not. It contains the protein that needs to be avoided by those of us on the gluten free food plan. Cross contamination is always a concern for us & should be for those making products & marketing them to the gf community.
I love this book. It is one of my favorite cook books ever. The best recipe in this book is the thin mint one
The recipes in this book are inspiring and tasty.
I love these baking books. I have a gluten sensitivity and I choose to be vegan which can make baking difficult. The babycakes books have great recipes that I can enjoy and my non-vegan family can enjoy with me.
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A Word On StatisticsMonday, February 22nd, 2010
A poem by Wislawa Szymborska Out of every hundred people Those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: nearly all the rest. Ready to help, as long as it doesn't take long: forty-nine. Always good, because they cannot be otherwise: four–well, maybe five. Able to admire without envy: eighteen. Led to error by […]


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Cherish currently works as Communications Officer for the national charity, WaveLength.
She graduated with a Distinction in the MPhil in Modern British History from Churchill College, Cambridge in July 2018. Before this, Cherish graduated with a First Class Honours degree in History from Lucy Cavendish College.
Cherish founded and runs www.womenslandarmy.co.uk, an award-winning national website on the work of the British Women's Land Army during World War One and Two.The website offers general histories on what it meant to be a Land Girl and Lumber Jill, as well as primary source material such as journals, photos, videos, and songs.
Before studying, Cherish set up Cherish Watton Enterprises, providing project management, evaluation, and PR services for environmental initiatives.


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UNCASVILLE, Conn. (February 21, 2017) – The Connecticut Sun announced today it has acquired Lynetta Kizer and the eighth overall pick in the 2017 WNBA Draft as part of a three-way trade involving the Phoenix Mercury and Indiana Fever.
Connecticut traded veteran forward Camille Little and the rights to Jillian Alleyne to the Mercury. Phoenix traded Candice Dupree and the 17th pick in the 2017 WNBA Draft to Indiana.
"We are excited to obtain Lynetta Kizer, another outstanding player entering the prime of her career," Sun head and general manager coach Curt Miller said. "She is a consistent offensive weapon with the ability to play facing the basket. She has shot fifty-three percent from the field and eighty-four percent from the foul line over her last two seasons. She also provides us with a needed physical presence on our roster."
A 6-foot-4 veteran forward/center who will begin her sixth WNBA season, Kizer has steadily improved each season. In 2016, she appeared in 33 games with 12 starts for the Fever, averaging a career-best 9.3 points per game with career highs in blocks and steals. Kizer had single-game career-highs of 21 points and 10 rebounds at New York last July 21st. Over the past two seasons, she has averaged nine points per game.
Miller is also excited about obtaining a first-round pick in the upcoming draft.
"The eighth overall draft pick will give us the opportunity to add another talented piece to our young roster as we build towards a bright future," he said.
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A pub crawl.
In the aftermath of our Canada 150 celebrations, what better way to keep the spirit alive than a pub crawl with friends?
I'll tell you one better way.
Do it with friends from Newfoundland.
That is what happened on the nights of July the 4
and 5th on Elgin Street in Ottawa, where 6 Newfoundland authors had converged to celebrate the most loveable elements of Newfoundland life, as portrayed in their stories.
First stop: The Lieutenant's Pump.
Deep in the interior of an establishment laid out in odd but conjunctive corners, we gathered to hear Eva Crocker, author of
Barrelling Forward
As a young person born into the lee side of the millennium, Eva was able to present a view of life from a youthful perspective, with all the challenges and advantages that come with it.
She read, with a sweeping poetic lilt, words that she had authored with a depth and intelligence beyond her years, but from a reservoir not unlike that of her mother's, as we'd find out later.
A pint and some banter, and we were across the street to climb upstairs into The Cross on Elgin to listen to Edward Riche.
Edward read from his current offering,
Today I Learned It Was You
, with an account of a nearly realized bar brawl narrowly averted by some moral intervention.
Riche's voice flowed with that rolling Newfoundland rhythm that is so entertaining to hear.
To end the night, we sauntered northward to Woody's Pub, where Lisa Moore, mother of Eva Crocker, took the mike.
Her story for the night was not set in a pub, but concerned a common result of any productive pub crawl, an unplanned sexual encounter.
She described the tryst in forceful, explosive language from that reservoir that I described from her daughter's reading.
It was the perfect end to a rollicking ride, with all the saucy conversation and sordid stories that a night on the town should have.
We all went home after finishing our drinks, knowing this was just the intermission and there was a second night to come.
The next evening, we reconvened at the Lieutenant's Pub to listen to Bridget Canning read from her novel
The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes,
which is a story about an average woman facing the severance of her job only to be redeemed by an random, impulsive act of bravery.
It was amusing to listen to Wanda's 'hangry' thoughts leading up to the climax, but as the action took off, not a head in the room moved, so raptly did Bridget's voice hold our attention.
Across the street again to The Cross on Elgin, it was Robert Chafe's turn to read. Although he was a decorated playwright, his book,
2 Man Tent
was his first work of fiction.
He read an account of a man out on the town with his girlfriend when they meet a flamboyant gay man to whom the protagonist takes an immediate and excessive dislike, although later the man is forced to face his own latent homosexual feelings.
Again, the audience was captivated by the raw emotions in the narrative and sat transfixed on Robert's every word.
Lastly for the night, it was at Woody's Pub again where we gathered to hear Kathleen Winter read from her book,
Freedom in American Songs.
She started with an anecdote about how she revisited shops on Bank Street here in Ottawa where she had lived as a student when she was younger, and noted how different sex shops were between here and Montreal.
Her shameless and candid story was the perfect moodsetter for her story about a farmer in Newfoundland who, usually quiet and shy, becomes much more outspoken after some drinks at an intimate get-together. Her narrative was full of everything I love about Newfoundland writing, where everyone knows everyone else, and their business, the strong sense of community woven into every paragraph like a family that one can never escape.


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I first met designer Natasha Zinko during Paris Haute Couture (read more about that here) and was charmed by the very same charismatic personality that I later found evident in her work. Having trained in jewellery design at Central Saint Martins, Natasha went on to launch her own jewellery brand and a ready-to-wear collection soon followed. With her work featured everywhere from Grazia to Harpers Bazaar, and now sold at Net a Porter, Natasha Zinko has already established herself as the name to watch. I caught up with the multi-talented designer in London to talk about the brand, her background in Ukraine and finding inspiration.
Check out behind the scenes at Natasha Zinko on her Instagram.
Hi Natasha! Can you talk me through the origins of the Natasha Zinko brand?
Why did you choose to launch a womenswear line alongside the jewellery?
Describe the Natasha Zinko brand in three words:
Some of my favourite looks from the Natasha Zinko Autumn/Winter collection.
Who is the Natasha Zinko girl?
Where do you find inspiration?
I would say that I am often influenced by my childhood memories. I grew up in the Soviet Union and still visit my home town, Odessa in Ukraine, which plays a part in my designs. However, it's always combined with the current influences I have around me – living in London for over 10 years and traveling all over the world. My son is a great inspiration and he always helps me in my work.
Can you talk me through the inspiration for the ready-to-wear Autumn/Winter collection? I love it!
This season elegance prevailed with subtle lines and slim silhouettes. Colours and patterns are certainly influenced by vibrant London, but my heritage cannot be hidden and is always present in my thoughts when I design. Studying in the Soviet Union and having grown up hearing stories about Mary Poppins and other British characters, my childhood imagination is evident in the pieces.
You use fine stones in your jewellery sourced from Basel – do you apply the same selective nature to the clothing?
Yes, I am very selective. I travel to special professional shows around Europe and have been buying lace from Paris and fabrics from Italy and the UK. I always select materials in person as I have to check the quality and feel before I use them in production.
Bunnies or elephants? Natasha Zinko jewellery, available at Net-A-Porter.
Do you ever design with yourself in mind?
Some of my favourite looks from the Natasha Zinko Autumn/Winter collection.
Who would you most like to dress?
I like to dress interesting and inspirational women. For me the dream client is a person who really likes to experiment and is not afraid of mixing her outfits.
What can we expect from you next?
I have to continue working hard on developing my seasonal collections as well as designing capsule and resort collections. That's a lot of work to do and I hope I can manage it!
Natasha Zinko is available to buy from her Maddox Street store – race you there!
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'Rough Pup' Graphite on Arches Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper
Approximately 14 x 10 inches
Very belated wishes that you all have a great 2015.
The drawing above is the first one completed this year and is of 'Xena' the youngest member of my rough collie family. I chose to draw her in a very uncharacteristic pose, mainly because I thought I might never see her sitting still again :) The image below is much more characteristic of Xena although after all the rain she is slightly more muddy looking.
I do intend to draw her again when time permits and this time it will be a Xena in action pose.
I haven't made any plans for 2015 mainly because I don't tend to revist the list once February arrives. Instead I'm keeping a weekly to do list which includes regular updates of my blog and website and some painting/drawing time.
I am planning to overhaul my website in the very near future as I think it needs completely re- designing to make it more suitable for the latest technology.


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The Y-STR paternal lineage test is used to determine whether two or more males are related through the paternal/male line. The Y chromosome is passed from father to son relatively unchanged through many generations. Males who are related through their fathers will have the same or similar Y-STR profiles. This test can confirm relationships to long-lost relatives and paternal ancestors.
This test is used to support or disprove a direct paternal connection between 2 or more male participants.


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April 13, 2019
Hey y'all! Fingers crossed for sunny JUKE JOINT FEST skies on Saturday. Regardless, we are a "RAIN OR SHINE" event!
Our daytime music stages all have rain plans, and our nighttime music is already inside. Our JJF crew is set to pop up our eight blocks of vendor tents. And everything from monkeys-riding-dogs to a petting zoo will entertain our families. Pray for sunshine, but come party with us no matter what!! Thanks. :)
• Cat Head's Robert Belfour Hill Country Blues Stage
(Possible rain plan: Stays put, y'all! Front porch and plenty of tents.)
• Crossroads Cultural Arts Center
(Possible rain plan: Stays put, y'all! Indoor venue.)
• Crossroads Marker Stage
(Possible rain plan: Adding more tents if needed.)
• Delta Blues Museum Stage
(Possible rain plan: Move inside DBM's Arts & Education Room.)
• Travelers Hotel Stage
(Possible rain plan: Move inside Delta Furniture building.)
• Collective Seed & Supply Stage
(Possible rain plan: Move inside "shed" space.)
• Mr. Tater Memorial Stage
(Possible rain plan: Move inside New Roxy front lounge.)
• Paramount Marquee Stage
(Possible rain plan: Stays put! Under Marquee plus adding tents if needed.)
• Quapaw Canoe Stage
(Possible rain plan: Move inside Quapaw Canoe Co building.)
• Hambone Art & Music Stage(Possible rain plan: Move inside Hambone bar.)
• Stone Pony Pizza
(Possible rain plan: Move inside Stone Pony Tack Room.)
• The Bank
(Possible rain plan: Stays put! Indoor venue.)
• Wade Walton Barber Shop
(Possible rain plan: Move inside VisitClarksdale Tourism (Train Depot) building.)
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Earl "Little Joe" Ayers is a blues guitarist and singer based in Holly Springs, Mississippi. For over thirty years, he was a member of the Soul Blues Boys, Junior Kimbrough's long-time backing band.
The Mississippi based Multi-instrumentalist combines the Tribal Rhythms and raw electrifying power of the Hill Country Blues with melodic songwriting wisdom of heroes Bob Marley, Sam Cooke, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix. MALCOLM fuses elements of Funk, Soul, Rock, Reggae, Hip Hop, West African World Beat, Gospel and Country to create an Authentic Signature sound in modern day World Roots Music.
Ever since I was knee-high to a duck, my dad called me "Willey Woot" and it sticks with me today. That's what I am calling this CD. This is a mix of songs from my previous self produced CDs in the COTTON PATCH BLUES STYLE that I was raised on. That original SOUL BLUES like my Poppa played. I hope you enjoy.×
Mr. Turner played a cane fife that he made from reeds that grew on the bottomland of his farm. He led the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, which was the last survivor of a tradition that had transformed the sound of a Civil War military band into music with clear African roots: a syncopated drumbeat behind sharp, riffing melodies in pentatonic modes.
RL Boyce is a blues musician from Como, Mississippi. Born in 1955, he picked up music as a teenager, starting out as a drummer in the local fife-and-drum bands of Otha Turner and Napolian Strickland, and later with Jessie Mae Hemphill as heard on her classic "Feelin' Good" album. He is also a singer and guitarist, inspired by his neighbors RL Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, as well as the records of John Lee Hooker and Howlin' Wolf. Boyce developed an individual style that draws upon songs from the local repertoire and interprets them with a considerable degree of enthusiasm and spontaneity. Though his recorded output is slim, Boyce's renown has grown over the years and his performances at his frequent house/yard parties attract friends, neighbors, and visitors from around the world.
Baptized in the fire water of Clarksdale, MS., Sean "Bad" Apple began his spiritual journey of learning the blues by seeking out the old blues musicians that were willing to share their years of knowledge. Sean is working hard to keep Hill Country Blues alive and well. People are always in for a good show and never leave disappointed when the Bad Apple is on the stage×
American blues slide guitarist skilled in the North Mississippi Hill Country blues style.
Hill Country bluesman.
Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Duwayne Burnside is one of 14 children born to legendary North Mississippi musician R.L. Burnside and his wife, Alice. He has been a frequent performer with the North Mississippi Allstars since the early 1990s, when that group, fronted by Luther and Cody Dickinson, formed. The young Burnside learned his first few guitar licks and chords from his father, but proved a quick study and soon began playing with local club owner Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys. Growing up in Holly Springs, he was close to Memphis, and as soon as he was able to get to Memphis, he did, and soon had the chance to sit in with Little Jimmy King, Albert King, B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and others.
145 Delta Avenue
Donna Herula is a Chicago-born singer and acoustic blues slide guitarist that has a passion for playing traditional country and Delta Blues in addition to contemporary and original blues. Her sound combines her love for music of the Deep South with her love of blues guitar improvisation. Donna is a regular performer at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago and has opened for Buddy Guy multiple times. She is also a teacher at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago where she teaches Acoustic Slide Guitar group and individual lessons.×
Colombian artist inspired by the beat of rural dance music of north Mississippi, the Hill Country Blues along with a self-discovered sense of spirituality in Blues music, creates a unique sound that blends his backgrounds in African & Latin American music with Rock n' Roll, incites you to party and the dancing ritual. Considered the Hill Country Blues Pioneer in Latin America.
YZ Ealey—"YZ" is his given name—was born in Sibley, about 14 miles south of Natchez on March 8, 1937, and grew up on a self-sufficient farm where his family raised crops and livestock. He is the middle of eleven children, with three sisters and two brothers both older and younger than him. He first began playing guitar as a child by picking up the guitar of his older brother "Bubba" (David, b. 1927), but his mother, Lucinda Barnes Ealey, would only allow religious music in the house. His father, David Ealey, Jr., could play guitar but did not have his own instrument.
"Cadillac" John Nolden is a blues harmonica player, songwriter, and vocalist from Renova, Mississippi.
Keyboardist/singer/songwriter LaLa Craig got her start in her hometown of Oceanside, CA, performing with her family's country band at the tender age of 4. Taking a turn at dabbling for decades in every style imaginable, LaLa found her true calling when the blues spoke to her at the age of 33. "Almost on a dare" (as she puts it), LaLa entered her first blues tune, 'Blue Is Hardly The Word' in the 1998 San Diego Songwriters Guild Competition & to her astonishment, took home first prize. It was the move that was to send her on a musical sojourn beyond anything she could have possibly imagined. Her quest to seek authenticity led her to the Mississippi Delta where, like so many blues men & women before her, she sought to unearth for herself the roots of this distinctly American treasure known as the blues, & found herself almost instantly transformed.
Young bluesman from Clarksdale, Mississippi. Anthony Sherrod & The Cornlickers are the official house band of Red's – 'the most famous juke joint in the world'.
"We are a group of musicians that enjoy playing a variety of music ranging from southern rock, new country, old country, and honkey-tonk. Our motto is to have fun and always keep it Live- the only way to go."×
332 Delta Avenue
Bill Howl-N-Madd Perry and Shy Perry have travelled extensively as a duet and full band for years. They were recently one of the main musical acts on European Blues Cruise 2016 that sailed on the Mediterranean Sea from Marseille, France to Naples, Rome, and Bastia, Italy. Shy and Bill performed in Marseille and had 5 shows on the ship Croisieres De France.×
Mookie is an Arkansas blues guitar prodigy. Miss Carla is a long-time bassist.
Traditional West African music meets the North Mississippi Hill Country Blues. Fronted by Senegal's Guelel Kumba.
Ricky L. "Brotha Ric" Patton, Sr. was born in Huntsville, AL but was raised up in Triana, AL. He is the grandson of blues and whiskey man, Paper Thomas Patton. Ric also has a trio band called the "Chickenbone Reunion Band, the band members are Ric, (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Mac Barnes (bass), Kenneth Epps (drums). Ric mostly play solo and bring along kazoos, a shaker, washboard, hula hoops and ask for help with these instruments from his crowd. "What I do is plain Southern Style Funky Blues" says Ric.
Terry "Big T" Williams has dedicated his life to his music. Born in Clarksdale in 1960, he spent his early years on a plantation in Farrell, Mississippi, hearing stories about Muddy Waters attending Sunday picnics in his grandmother's yard.
Richard "Rip Lee" Pryor didn't have to go far for his blues pass. He was born into it, he is the son of the legendary Snooky Pryor. Rip started at a young tender age blowing his dad's discarded harmonicas and mimicking his records. Rip played guitar in several local soul bands while in high school. In 1994, he started playing blues guitar with his dad, netting a spot on Snooky's CD recording "Mind Your Own Business" and also a Japan tour. Rip formed several blues bands in the Carbondale Il area, singing and blowing harmonica. In 1998, he recorded a CD "Pitch a Boogie Woogie" playing all instruments on 8 of the tracks. Later he got into doing his solo act playing guitar and harmonica. With the hassle of music and a day job he got out of the music business in 2000. After retiring from his day job in 2008 and a bout with bone marrow cancer in 2010, Rip is back and very strong. He has been working steady with his One Man Blues Show touring South America, Europe, playing various local venues and blues festivals throughout the US. Rip recorded a CD in 2014 with Electro-Fi Records "Nobody But Me". Rip plays Chicago '50's style blues with a vengence.×
Ghalia is an emerging Blues, R&R singer/songwriter from the city of Brussels, BE. For the last six years, she's been working as a solo artist as well as bandleader of two home-made acts: "Ghalia & The Naphtalines", a high energy boogie, rhythm'n'blues band and her (all-original) project "Voodoo Casino", with whom she recorded her first album in 2016.
Crossroads of Hwy 49 & 61
Singer, Song writer, Blues guitarist, at David Daniels Ban
Capt. Dirk
Based out of Nashville, Tennessee, Cristina Vane is taking the town by storm with her unique blend of blues and folk. Originally from Europe, she draws from such a great host of influences that it is impossible to compare her music to any one artist. That being said, she draws decisively from country blues, delta blues, and American folk music, creating her own flavor of the blues. Whether on the Venice boardwalk busking by the beach or on a stage in Mississippi, her signature resonator bottleneck playing and powerful vocals are unmistakable and unforgettable.×
Armed with foot percussion, a National Reso-phonic Guitar and Lowebow cigar-box reso-hillharp, Big Jon Short's high energy solo performances bring a foot-stomping show that taps into the heart of the songs.×
was encouraged to learn and play an instrument by some of my great blues heros; Pinetop Perkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bob Stroger, and Hubert Sumlin; so I learned to play the harmonica. They introduced me to Little Arthur Duncan who was one of the great Chicago harmonica men who helped define the west side Chicago sound back in the 1950s and 60s. Little Arthur taught me to sing play and write music like no one but Steve Kolbus can. Although I play the blues I'm a huge fan of the blues and the people who play it first. with this in mind I hope to play and record every blues related genre and sub genre of music before it's all said and done. The Clarksdale Blues Revue is a high energy Rockin Blues band that enjoys making people happy. Our live show is a high energy interactive show with lots of antics!! We believe that our "Skippin and Hoppin" CD is a great reflection of this philosophy. I have been truly blessed as I have been surrounded by some of the worlds most accomplished musicians the whole time I've been playing. The Clarksdale Blues Revue with world class musicians like Walt Busby, Jaxx Nassar, and Cade Moore is no exception.
Lew Jetton learned The Blues while working in the cotton fields of his native West Tennessee as a teenager and young man. Musically, he had 2 of the best mentors you could think of. While working in Jackson, Tennessee, he became acquainted with the legendary Carl Perkins. Later, after moving to Western Kentucky, he was befriended by blues legend Snooky Pryor, who hailed from just across the Ohio River in Southern Illinois. Lew joined the blues band 61 South in 1994 as a guitar player, then took over as the frontman a year later.×
Hailing from Tupelo, Mississippi, Vince "Vinnie C." Cheney brings the true, raw grit of North Mississippi Hill country style blues straight from the heart and soul. Vinnie is steeped in the tradition and learned his music firsthand from Jessie Mae Hemphill, Robert Belfour, R. L Burnside and others. Vince's music is a reflection of Mississippi's past and the future of "hill-country blues". Playing foot tambourine, harmonica, guitar and chanting the blues; he's a reminder that the sounds from the worlds most notorious jukes will never die!
1 Blues Alley
The purpose of the Delta Blues Museum's Arts and Education Program is to continue the great musical tradition born in the Mississippi Delta: the Delta blues. The Arts and Education program teaches students to play music and keeps the history of the Delta blues alive. Students are taught to play the blues on the instrument or instruments of their choice. Instruments – drums, guitars, and keyboards – are provided by the museum for use in the classroom and authorized performances. However, we encourage students to purchase their own instruments. Instructors utilize the oral tradition, recorded music, video, instruction books, and handouts to educate the students in a classroom environment. The students progress from learning the basics of playing music to working together as a band.
Carson is the youngest endorsee with Hohner Harmonicas. Featured on the Hohner Red Dragon Harmonica box. skateboarding with a harmonica in his hand.×
The Griot Youth Program is a community of students actively engaged in making their community and world a better place through the arts and community service. We provide excellent teaching in various arts mediums, encouraging academic discipline, and a thriving mentoring program.×
Ol' Skool Revue, a musical group of students and faculty from the DMI Entertainment Industry program at Delta State University, is an area favorite to music lovers of the ol' skool sound. Ol' Skool Revue has an extensive repertoire that includes hits from the Blues, R&B, Soul, and Funk genres. Band members have become students of the history of the songs and the session musicians that made the songs hits, such as the Funk Brothers from Motown, the Stax session players from Memphis, and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section from north Alabama.
The DMI is an independent center of study under the College of Arts and Sciences at Delta State University, offering a bachelor's degree in entertainment industry studies. The focus of the DMI is to provide students with a broad and thorough education in the technological, creative and business areas of the music and entertainment industry.
111 E. Second Street
j.d. has been a bluesman since 1967 and an artist all his life. he has shown worldwide.
David Dunavent and EVOL LOVE is a hard hitting blues rock band hailing from the heart of the Mississippi Delta. David, the front man and namesake, has played along side blues legends like Bill "Howl n Madd" Perry, James "Super Chikan" Johnson, current Blues sensation Jarekus Singleton, and many more before striking out on his own.
Ray Cashman is a blues singer, songwriter and guitarist, who performs mainly solo or as a duo and occasionaly with a electric band. Armed with a National guitar, stomp box and a Fender amp he performs a blues gumbo repertoire that can conjure up the ghosts of the Mississippi delta.
Popular Mississippi bluesman plays traditional music — new and old.
Things were happening fast for the hotshot southpaw guitarist from Nimes, France, who funded his move to the States by selling a Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar. But you can't really play the blues until you've paid some dues and for Frenchie it's been a rough and tumble 20 years from when he was a 17-year-old high school dropout jamming with blues legend Lucky Peterson at a French festival to the Nov. 9, 2018, release of Love Is Blood by his Frenchie's Blues Destroyers duo with drummer Brother Pete Coatney. "I grew up on American music — rock 'n' roll and blues — but back when I was playing in France I felt somewhat like a copycat," Frenchie says. "But as soon as I landed in the U.S. I felt at home, because this was where the music I loved was born." Although he's played with many greats and co-founded the Redneck Social Club collective (co-writing Colt Ford's hit "DWI: Dancing While Intoxicated" from the #1 country album Declaration of Independence) in Nashville, Frenchie says "the highlight of my musical career was becoming a U.S. citizen" in August of 2016. America has inspired Kevin "Frenchie" Sciou to follow his path. From his humble beginnings to today's adventures, make no mistake … Frenchie's Blues Destroyers is an all American band!
The biggest influence on Street's art is the perspective of being a blues musician. Growing up in New York he was influenced by his father and uncle - classical percussionists - who encouraged his creativity. He took up: sax, harmonica, percussion and singing, accumulating credits in award winning blues groups. He tours the Canadian blues festival circuit as well as blues festivals and honkytonks of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.
Rachelle has consistently brought the house down to cheering audiences around the world by bringing her own high-powered brand of Blues; from soul, to country, to uptown, onto the stage. Rachelle's take on the blues is unexpectedly honest and mesmerizing.×
American soul blues singer, guitarist, arranger, songwriter and record producer. He was influenced by the deep soul music of the 1960s, as performed by O. V. Wright, James Carr, and Z. Z. Hill, although his styling, production and lyrics are more contemporary in nature.
near Yazoo Pass restaurant at Yazoo Ave. & Third St.
350 Issaquena
Piano Red
Natchez-based drummer, harmonica player and vocalist Hezekiah Early was born on October 7, 1934 on a farm in the community of Anna's Bottom, located about a dozen miles north of Natchez adjacent to the Mississippi River. Some of first music that Early heard as a young man was that of local fife and drum groups, which consisted of a fife player, two snare drums, and a bass player. His father, Wilson, played fife, and Early learned to play all the instruments himself. He continued playing in such bands until 1970, and says that he would like to revive the tradition.
B-Movie Blues is an experienced 5-piece band: drums, bass, guitar, blues harp, and vocalist.×
"Terrific… Another keeper… He's one of America's finest, most literary and talented musicians… it's the way Gordon crafts his words to reflect reality without cliché that helps the music resonate long after the last note has faded."- Hal Horowitz, American Songwriter, July 23, 2018×
Hill country and delta blues/rock/roots heard by way of stomping, slide guitar, hollering and story telling...and dancing! Alabama-born and Southern-raised, Brett "Bad Blood" Benton has been obsessed with country blues ever since he was a child, listening to his parent's and grandparent's records at an early age. By his teens he was playing behind a drum kit, and by his early 20's was learning his way around slide guitar. In 2016 he left the South and everything he's ever known to perform his own brand of delta and country style of blues around the country and the world.
Born in the blues fertile city of Clarksdale, MS, Phillip came to the blues at a relatively young age. Since then, he has focused his energy into lively and driving covers of original blues songs spiced with his own improvisational attitude. A regular at world-famous Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Phillip has entertained thousands during the annual Juke Joint Festival and Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival for years and has also performed as a side man across the Delta.
Louis Arzo Youngblood, aka "Gearshifter," is a Jackson-based guitarist and vocalist who performs a unique blend of country blues, modern soul-blues, and everything in between.
One of Mississippi's hidden treasures: a contemporary hill country bluesman, lifelong resident of Pontotoc, who has created his own distinctive version of the harp-blowing, guitar-grooving one-man band. Although he's long past the dues-paying stage, Bean has played with some of the most important bluesmen to come out of Mississippi in the past two decades.
258 Yazoo Avenue
Robin Lane is the heart of an act that continually conjures up the memory of Mr. Tater.
Sadie Lamp is a mesmerizing duo act performing in the alternative jazz styles of fusing blues with pop genres , while keeping the standards interestingly alive. Their full slate touring ended them in Clarksdale, Mississippi performing to full house scheduled shows. In 2018 they took center stage at world famous Juke Joint Festival with their debut CD release party , then a show for Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival sponsored by the Clarksdale Blues Museum performing with the likes of the slide guitar master "Watermelon Slim," and then an astonishing show same year for the Deep Blues Festival. Currently Sadie Lamp is performing weekly scheduled shows as seen on CATHEAD'S MUSIC CALENDAR at cathead.biz , performing shows at Clarksdale's REDS LOUNGE on Thursdays at 5 pm with their new Happy Hour Blues Show and on Sundays weekly at The Third Street Bistro at 12:30pm. Sadie Lamp performs this show weekly as a black tie event with smooth and easy listening jazz while dining the bistros famous entree.
"Little Willie" Farmer is a self-taught guitarist, who developed a style that is closest to the Memphis Blues, a mixture of Soul and Blues. He writes and performs original music and has produced several CDs. He performs in clubs, festivals, and for private parties and also does Blues education workshops, having worked with Johnnie Billington, and Jerry Fair in the Montgomery County School District, the Montgomery County Arts Council and Action Communication and Education Reform's Cultural Arts and Multimedia Project.
With an intercontinental band, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Lee Crosby blends essences of American folk-blues and North Indian raga into meditative songs of impermanence, compassion and joy. Crosby's music is a pleasing mix of improvised and composed material, performed on traditional and modern instruments. Through his recordings and performances, Crosby hopes to inspire peace, openness and respect - for tradition, for culture, for each other and for one's self. Crosby describes himself as a 'seeker' within the music: producer and listener, performer and enthusiast, teacher and student. Crosby's music-making is an inward process: creativity through meditation, devotion and discipline, but it is also oriented around community-building. As a bandleader, Crosby is guided by the potential of music to connect the internal to the external, the individual to the group, and to bridge seemingly disparate cultures and traditions.
Born in Vermont and based in Memphis, Alice Hasen is a professional violinist, recording artist, songwriter, sideman, teacher and vocalist. She leads her original band, Alice Hasen & the Blaze, and is part of the Blackwater Trio, an acoustic rock band. Alice is known for her unique playing style, which combines the virtuosity of her classical upbringing with the freedom and creativity of improvisation. She has been called "one in a million" by Alan Rowoth, founder of folkmusic.org, and "a monster talent" by Jim Hurst, nationally-acclaimed guitarist. She is most at home at the crossroads of genre, pushing the traditional sounds of violin and fiddle out of their comfort zones and into the realms of jazz, pop, funk and rock.×
Mike Munson makes his home in Winona, Minnesota, a town sandwiched between the Mississippi River and the bluffs, with train tracks cutting through its middle. Well known for playing outstanding slide guitar blues, the driving rhythms in his songs are reminiscent of the trains that barrel through his neighborhood. He's a humble fellow who loves making food and playing guitar and singing. Munson's blues influences include Fred McDowell, Jack Owens, and Jesse Mae Hemphill – who all hailed from areas of rural Mississippi that Munson visits often. (His upcoming album, "Rose Hill", was recorded in Bentonia, MS at the Blue Front Cafe, the oldest juke joint in Mississippi owned by Jimmy "Duck" Holmes.) From sad and somber slow tunes to swampy, caterwauling stompers, his music is a master class in creative blues composition and performance, lyrically compelling, full of unique turns and twists, yet never losing sight of his art form and the music's roots.×
Though Blues harpist, singer, and educator, Hal Reed is currently living in Bettendorf, IA, he was born just a few miles from the Mississippi Delta and grew up surrounded by legends of blues music. His playing brims with the stamp of authenticity, having a triple-fisted influence of Mississippi, Gospel and Chicago style blues pumping through his heart.
Rare chance to catch the blues bird in a SOLO "live" performance! James "Super Chikan" Johnson was born in the small Delta community of Darling in 1951 and grew up in rural towns around the area. As a young boy living in the country, he developed an interest in his family's chickens and spent time trying to understand the meaning of the noises they made. His friends and family soon began calling him "the old chicken boy" or "Chicken" for short. He received the other half of his moniker during a stint working as a taxi driver in Clarksdale. His speedy driving earned him the new nickname "Super Chikan."
291 Sunflower Avenue
Randy "19th Street Red" Cohen plays the blues. His specialty is Mississippi Delta Blues. Born in Queens, New York and raised in Washington D.C., Randy learned his first Jimmy Reed and Chuck Berry riffs by the time he was ten. Hungry to discover the blues, by the time he was eighteen Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howling Wolf and foremost, T-Bone Walker were the sounds that filled his life.
I'm Brad Webb. I was born and raised in Memphis, TN, which has a rich musical heritage known the world over from Rock n Roll, Blues, Gospel, Rockabilly, Soul and R&B. I was blessed to be touched by all of these. I got my first guitar, a $13 Kay with painted on pick guard at age 14, a Silver tone at 15 and a Fender Strat at 16. When I started playing gigs at 15 in 1966, Memphis music was going strong and I was interested in all of it. George Klein, a Memphis DJ, had a TV show called Dance Party that always had local bands and international acts such as The Gentry's, Booker T & the MG's, Charlie Rich etc, so as youngsters, we learned to compete at a high level of musicianship.×
Kansas City soul-bluesman, guitarist Pat Moss has been visiting Clarksdale for years.
Memphis' long-performing Native American bluesman.
Colorado-born, American highway-raised, bluesman.
Bill Abel from Belzoni Mississippi plays the raw gutbucket blues he learned from Paul Jones, T Model Ford, Cadillac John and many other blues legends.
People are drawn to Wes Lee's personal brand of blended traditions and many styles, they know that music does not come from the head, but from a deeper place. And they know that this music moves them. They see it—no, they feel it—when they are in the presence of Wes Lee performing at any of his various venues. They might not be able to tell you exactly what it is about Wes Lee's music that touches them, but they can tell you that they like it. Whether the person is caught by his self-taught guitar skills of string bending inspired by some of the forefathers of blues, or if his classic themes of loss, women, and drinking pull them in, a person simply feels the passion that drives the man to do what he does. For musician Wes Lee and his nearly life-long expanse of generating music, he admits, "I didn't choose to play the blues, the blues chose me." Late night song writing, countless shows across the country, driving city to city, and a thousand empty bottles, all the while holding tightly to the realization that he is supposed to do this. "It's almost like a calling," Wes Lee admits, "because there's nothing inside your head that would say, 'Yes, get on the road and do what you love' because that's not where the blues reside. Not in your head, but more like in your soul."×
Stone Gas is back! Shine Turner, Harvell Thomas, Dion Thomas and Stan Street... The Stone Gas Band was the house band at Margaret's Blue Diamond in Clarksdale's New World district for many years. Fronted by the late harmonica player and songwriter Artheice "Gas Man" Jones, this local blues band earned a strong following and praise from audiences and critics for delivering tight, solid performances. The legend continues with the skillful guitar licks of Andrew "Shine" Turner, whose father was Ike Turner's first cousin, and who gigged and recorded with drummer Sam Carr and his Delta Jukes.
226 Delta Avenue
ilana Katz Katz has been hailed as "a rising star with her own blend of Blues and old-time Appalachian fiddling." Ilana began as a busker in 2008, playing the crowded platforms of Boston's subway stations. After a chance meeting with Ronnie Earl at a Billy Boy Arnold concert in 2013, Ronnie invited Ilana to sit in with him at an upcoming show. He subsequently took her under his wing, offering to accompany Ilana on her 2014 debut record, showcasing her as his guest in many shows around Boston and New York.
The son of famed Mississippi bluesman James "Son" Thomas, from Leland, Mississippi, carries on the family blues business, keeping his father's songs alive, as well as doing his own thing in the country blues tradition. His dad, as many blues fans know, was brought to the international blues forefront by musicologist William Ferris. Pat Thomas is also a well renowned folk artist who makes clay sculpture of birds, animals, and human faces, also a passion he shares with his late father.
Reverend Robert is a master of prewar blues. He has delved deep into the styles of Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and other delta blues giants. In the past two decades he has become accomplished at many other early twentieth century styles including ragtime and early jazz, Hawaiian, African and Caribbean. He combines these styles seamlessly in a combination of infectious rhythm and an authentic acoustic sound. In 2004 he took first place at the National Slide Guitar Festival in North Carolina The Reverend is known for his true conviction, and powerful delivery. You can hear it on his latest CD "Shake That Thing."×
Reba Russell is a name synonymous with the Memphis Music scene. Beginning early in the 1980's (with band's Visions, Portrait, and Reba and the Portables) and now currently fronting the Reba Russell Band, Reba has covered most bases in the music industry. She is a published songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, backing vocalist, bandleader and producer, as well as a touring and recording artist. Reba Russell and her band tour throughout the United States and Europe and have released 8 Independent Albums. She is a highly respected Memphis studio/session vocalist but she is perhaps more popularly known as a powerful live performer.×
His years of playing Nashville, Clarksdale and Memphis have served his blues well.
Dicky James is an American Blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is a highly skilled performer specializing in Chicago, Memphis, and Mississippi Hill Country style Blues. "The Blues is like a jealous lover. You be true to her, she'll be true to you." --Dicky James×
Guy Davis once said, "I like antiques and old things, old places, that still have the dust of those who've gone before us lying upon them." Blowing that dust off just enough to see its beauty is something Guy has excelled at for over twenty years of songwriting and performing. It's no wonder his reverence for the music of the Blues Masters who've gone before him has been evident in every album he's ever recorded or concert he's given. Guy has had his musical storytelling influenced by artists like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy, and his musicality from artists as diverse as Lightnin' Hopkins and Babatunde Olatunji. However, there's one man that Guy most credits for his harmonica techniques, by stealing and crediting from him everything that he could, and that man is the legendary Sonny Terry. International touring bluesman and recording artist, making his debut in Clarksdale, Mississippi!×
123 E 2nd Street
If you're reading this right now, you've probably been indoctrinated into the mysteries of the mythical Mississippi night. You've felt the sweet taste from a fruit jar….you've seen the moonlight through the trees bathing the surreal shapes of the kudzu cloaked hills. This is the first recording by the group Mississippi Stomp. It's a long time coming. The songs at the heart of "Chickasaw Lodge" bear witness to the combined experience and talent of it's members, all native Mississippians.×
Marshall Drew was born on January 11, 1984 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He took an interest in music at a young age, learning to play guitar at age five and beginning to write songs at eight. He played in several local bands during his teens, often performing blues music throughout the Mississippi Delta. Drew, however, cites classic rock-era singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young as his primary influences. He is also heavily influenced by highly melodic rock bands such as The Beatles and Big Star.[1]
Clarksdale's Ron Parks and his all-star blues band!×
Dave Angle, Dave Dearnley, Andy Rehm, Paul Weber, John Randall, Tony Lotven, Justin Hickerson Delta Blues Influences: John Hurt, Fred McDowell, Furry Lewis, Robert Johnson, Leroy Pierson, Henry Townsend
All Aboard! that Blues Train. it's your boy Otis "TCB" Taylor. it's going down sunflower river blues fest, at Delta Blues alley Clarksdale miss. TCB ant the Main Stage Band will be performing from 1030pm to 1230pm at Adel's Blues alley, across from ground zero blues club, on Saturday nite. their will be a cover charge, so hey after William bell do his thang on the stage, come on over and check out a real live soul-blues performance from the hottest band in the land. [come on and do wat u do].
A modern-day Ike and Tina, - Queen Iretta and Johnie B are a high energy blues Act, - whether as a duo or a full band. They have their own style of delivering music, everywhere they play, and are often asked back, or to sit in with other Blues Artists, such as The Dee Miller Band, or Barbra Leshore, in Minnesota did most of all our shows, in Chicago. Queen Iretta has sang on stage with people like westside Mary Lane, Willie Dee, and Linsey Alexzander,×
Earnest Roy, Jr. was born on September 25th, 1958 in Clarksdale, Mississippi under the watchful eye of his late, great father and guitarist, Earnest Roy, Sr, who worked with Jackie Brinston, Ike Turner, John Lee Hooker, Wade Walton, Raymond Hill and many of the other Clarksdale bluesman. Earnest's father taught him bass guitar at the early age of five, and when Earnest turned eight, he began playing in his fathers band, "Earnest Roy and the Clarksdale Rockers", who's members included Big Jack Johnson, C.V. Ville, and Raymond Hill. At age eleven, Earnest Jr. began playing lead guitar. From 1993 to 2001, Earnest played for the international televangelist and pastor Rod Parsley, whose ministry aired on 320 nations around the world. In 2001, Earnest "Guitar" Roy returned to his blues roots when he began touring and appearing at blues and jazz festivals with Sam Carr. Earnest's most recent CD is Going Down to Clarksdale from 2011.
212 Third Street
Original & classic delta blues featuring slide guitar and soulful vocals. A blues gumbo repertoire that can conjure up the ghosts of highway 61 & the delta blues experience. Austin Walkin\' Cane is a blues singer, songwriter and slide guitarist that performs acoustic solo, duo & electric band sets.
In the woods of West Virginia, in an isolated hollow, a young boy thought he was a peacock. When he realized, much to his dismay, that he was not a peacock, he picked up a guitar. From then on the sounds of him loudly playing along to the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix could be heard echoing through the hollow. Somehow placed between roaming peacocks, a family of Russian intellectuals, and parents dedicated to living off the land, Gyasi was brought up in an environment that could only be described as unique. It was an isolated world, where life felt like a time capsule of a different era. With a precociously early interest in music, dance, and performance, Gyasi found himself altogether removed from his peers growing up in typical rural West Virginia culture. From his parents he inherited a love of blues, jazz and world music, and silent movies. Through the mentorship of the Russian immigrants next door, he learned about the heroes of the British Invasion, glam rock, and psychedelia.×
Libby Rae is an authentic Blues woman who has been playing Blues since the early 1970's. She helped organize the talent for the very first Delta Blues Festival in Greenville, MS in 1978.×
Raised in Bessemer, Alabama, Earl recognized he had an interest in music at the young age of seven. He often watched television and admired Roy Rogers, Ricky Nelson, and Elvis Presley as they played guitars. It was exciting to Earl to hear such melodious sounds come from guitars. He decided that he wanted to play a guitar and asked his parents to purchase one for him. Coming from a family of nine children, they could not afford to buy a guitar for him. However, Earl learned that Bo Didley made his own guitar out of a cigar box. Because he was so determined to have a guitar to play, Earl then focused on making his own. With much thought and anticipation, he successfully crafted a guitar. He used a King Edward cigar box, a broomstick, and fishing cord for the strings. It was the beginning of his musical career, and the rest is history.
Hi. I'm Ted Drozdowski. Welcome to my Coyote Motel. I hope you enjoy your stay! In case you don't know me, I'm a moderately successful guitarist, songwriter, singer and producer, and I live in Nashville, Tennessee, with my wife, Laurie, and our dog Dolly. We've got a good thing going. And if you're wondering how to pronounce my name, it's three syllables: Droz-dow-ski. As an instrumentalist, I'm mostly known for my slide guitar playing—which can be aggressive, wild, spacey, or deeply traditional—but Coyote Motel has allowed me to branch out in a lot of different styles and directions. So maybe now is a good time to talk about the songs. A few are simply good fun, like "Los Alamos," which is a tongue-in-cheek ditty about the Apocalypse, or "57 Flavors," which is about life's chaos. But like anybody, what I see in the world today makes me reflect, so "Trouble"—which I played on a one-string electric diddley bow—and "Jimmy Brown" are protest songs. "Josh Gibson" is, too, but it's subtler, letting the story of Josh's amazing life in baseball do the work. I learned about Josh Gibson years ago through my friend Ronnie Earl, who educated me about the Negro Leagues.×
Formed in 1986 by core members Larry Grisham and Tommy Stillwell, The Beat Daddys have spent almost 30 years bringing their blend of American roots music to audiences around the world. With nine international CD releases, several film & TV soundtrack credits, and countless shows in the US and abroad, The Beat Daddys are a duo with authentic American roots. Coming of age in rural Kentucky where the nearest interstate highway was 100 miles away, Tommy Stillwell and Larry Grisham's musical journey was shaped by their families and the deep music traditions of Kentucky and the South.×
In the mid 1990's (and against everyones advice) Kifer dedicated himself to learning how to play the blues. Since then this prolific songwriter has recorded 7 cd's of original music. Now known nationwide as The Blues Wizard , Keith and his songwriting partner Rosie Mac have been featured on national TV shows such as America's Got Talent and others.
Johnny Lowebow is the stage name for John Lowe, musician and bookstore owner from Memphis TN who has become known for his unusual electric cigar box guitars called :Lowebows". His live shows have been described as "brutal blues blasts" by fellow cigar box guitarist, Shane Speal. Johnny Lowebow's set-up is a mixture of old drum parts, milk crates, guitar amps and his ever present Lowebow. The Lowebow cigar box guitar is a bizarre instrument made from two oak dowel rods, a wooden cigar box, three guitar strings and a bass string. It is played with a slide in the old blues tradition, but that's about the only thing traditional about it. Lowe wires each instrument with hand-made pickups so that the Lowebow is broadcast through two amplifiers. The result is a massive wall of sound, one side low and grumbly, the other side screaming like a jet. There isn't a style of music Lowe won't try. His set lists contain everything from Johnny Cash to punk pioneer, Iggy Pop. Lowe regularly sets up on Beale Street, playing for passers-by.
317 Issaquena Avenue
Clarksdale blues 'n soul band....×
Lucious Spiller was born in St.Louis, MO. At an early age, he discovered that God had blessed him with a special gift. His dad gave him a guitar when he was four. Immediately he was a natural, he started out playing in church. Lucious has performed with countless well known musicians to include Bo Diddly, Larry "Totsy" Davis, Albert King, Eddie Clearwater, Robert Cray. He has been opening act for such artists as the legendary Ritchie Havens' Bobby "Blue" Bland and the infamous Tower of Power, Zach Brown, and many others. His music is an energized mix of new blues and old school injected with a contemporary edge. His songs are brought to vivid life by his unlimited energy.
Charles ''Skeet'' Rodgers & The Inner City Blues Band has been performing for 37years, well know and loved in the St.Louis, Mo for their great music!
His rootsy, Delta blues-rock tunes go down like good bourbon on a summer night. His slide work dances like moths around a porch light and his original songs take the listener to a beloved, homey place. Mohead's music is deeply rooted in Mississippi where he makes his home. It is imbued with the inevitable influences of the blues masters who seem to sprout from the Delta as if planted by some unseen hand. A hand that loves the blues.
Acoustic Mississippi blues at its best from a native musician.
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is the proprietor of one of the oldest juke joints in Mississippi, the Blue Front in Bentonia. In the mid-2000s he began performing blues actively after many years of performing casually, and has already garnered several awards and many accolades. He is a practitioner and conscious advocate of a distinctive blues style from his hometown whose most famous proponent was blues pioneer Skip James.
"Music courses through Kern Pratt's veins as sure as the Mississippi River flows through the Delta, and just like the Mighty River has affected lives up and down its banks, Kern touches the souls of those who hear his music. After all, music is the voice of the soul and Kern helps us hear it loud and clear. Kern's music blends all that is good about Delta music and takes it out into the world. His rock-influenced blues produces funky, bluesy, jazzy, toe-tapping tunes that are a blend of the musicians who influenced him along with life experiences that have left a mark on him personally and his music.×
Juke Joint Festival® name and logo are registered trademarks of Clarksdale Downtown Development Association. All rights reserved.


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About Maxine Mesinger
Maxine Mesinger, a Houston Chronicle columnist, died Jan. 19, 2001, from medical illnesses unrelated to MS. From 1964 right up through her last days, slowing down only slightly when she wrote from her wheelchair, she covered the lifestyles of the rich and famous in Houston and around the world.
She coined such unique phrases as "swankienda" and "playcation." She was the first to report details of the first heart transplant performed by Dr. Denton Cooley and regularly came up with other scoops. Among her close friends, she included celebrities such as Barbara Walters, Carol Channing, Liza Minnelli and Shirley MacLaine.
Named in Her Honor
A clinic named in her honor is a part of the Baylor College of Medicine Multiple Sclerosis Center. Fundraising for the new Maxine Mesinger Multiple Sclerosis Clinic was launched exactly a year after her death.
"Very Happy and Proud"
Emil Mesinger, her widower, said, "Maxine would be very happy and proud to know the clinic is being named for her because it will help people with the disease. It also means a lot to me because even though it's too late to help her, it will help MS patients in the future."
Telling the World
In one of her 1996 columns, Maxine Mesinger announced that she had MS. At first, even after she publicly announced that she had MS, she was low-key about it. Then the MS Society got her involved. From that point on, any time she spoke in public she mentioned MS.
Her Legacy Continues
She soon began lending her name to a series of "Dinner of Champions" fund-raising events that raised almost $2 million for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. In the spring following her death, participants in the MS 150 Bike Tour from Houston to Austin paid tribute to her by wearing ribbons inscribed "In Memory of Maxine Mesinger."


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'Do bloggers need to be relatable?'
Now this question has posed a lot of controversy in the blogging world. I've seen people disagreeing left, right and centre and people putting their views out there only to be scrutinised.
Is there really any right answer to this question? Every blogger wants their posts to be liked and read and part of that usually means the reader engaging and relating with the post, therefore enjoying it more. But are we forgetting that people's blogs are THEIR corner of the web and simply they can post about whatever the hell they want, whether it's relatable to other people or not? Not everyone is going to like and relate to everything so how can this possibly be maintained through every blog post? I sure couldn't make my posts relate to every single reader of my blog.. In fact my dad reads my blog (Hi, dad) and if I was to possibly try to make every blog post relatable to him I'd have to include something or other about boats, which quite frankly I couldn't give two hoots about (sorry, dad..).
Just because something isn't relatable to you, doesn't mean it isn't to other people.
I have seen plenty of tweets (and I am not singling anyone out here, in fact I couldn't even name any of the accounts that tweeted these things) saying that bloggers who write about higher end products just aren't relatable. Is this for real?! What about all those people who use high end makeup, could they not relate to that post? Obviously they could. Just because that particular blogger doesn't write about the brands you usually buy from, does not make them unrelatable, it just means that not everyone can fully relate to what they are writing about and you know what? That is more than okay. Not every blogger and post is going to be your cup of tea but to make comments about them being unrelatable is just completely unfair from my point of view.
Look at the vast range of bloggers we have in this community. Beauty bloggers, lifestyle bloggers, bloggers who like tea, books, history, fashion.. the list truly does go on. I'm not a huge fan of tea and I can't drink much due to migraines, but I actually still enjoy reading content on blogs purely dedicated to tea. It's not relatable to me, granted but there are so many people out there that those posts will relate to therefore.. making it relatable – who'd have thought!
Being different is something to embrace, not avoid
Different people have different views and different people buy different things. Bloggers are relatable to their target group and if you don't relate, don't follow and go find someone who writes about the things you love, it really is that easy. What's not okay is to put bloggers down making them feel unrelatable just because you don't relate to their content.
I feel like I'm having a good old trusty rant here (which I'm allowed to do, because this is my corner of the web!!!) but I just feel like these bloggers and blogs shouldn't be targeted just because they write about a particular subject not everyone buys/can relate to. There are many different people in the world with different interests/hobbies which I think is what makes the blogging community so damn great, you can literally find anything on here whether you're into beauty and want an update on the latest palette release or you enjoying baking and are looking for new cookie recipes.
What are your thought's on bloggers being 'relatable' or not?


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Me, My Car:
I guess I'm the only one here crazy enough to buy cars from skeezy old guys on Long Island..
professional wood easel for $15, new... and M.I.A. tickets at below box-office price. Oh and my stolen bike.
my eames chair.
buy and sell cars there all the time, better than posting an ad on shitty autotrader
I bought a 5th gen honda prelude on c-list... looking to sell it over the summer though. currently scanning the list for a 70s honda CB 550 or 750, maybe a yamaha xs650 or something, to convert to cafe racer style
my eames chair.
hey, I got mine too off of there... $350, it had been recovered tho... cheap leather faux leather...
Waiting till whenever I buy a house, just going to have it completely redone... it's in amazing shape other wise... Cat sleeps in it mostly lol
this guy did it w/ a paperclip to a house.
5 years worth of vogue magazines for free
car i bought
WoW World of Warcraft 70 Warrior/Shaman - $560
Reply to: [email protected]
Date: 2008-02-06, 7:55PM PST
I am looking to sell my whole account after 3 years of playing. The account includes:
70 Orc Warrior, transferrable now, pvp server
currently specced MS/fury hybrid 36/25/0 for pvp and can easily reach 1800+ ratings put in good hands
pvp (all epic except 1 trinket):
- 3/5 season 3 vengeful gladiator gear (helm, pants, chest)
- 2/5 season 2 merciless gladiator gear w/ s2 thrown weapon
- vindicator/veteran rings, neck, boots, belt and bracers, w/ dory's embrace cloak
- 2 minute cd medallion of the horde (only blue in pvp gear)
- 1676 ap, 34.06% crit base 37.06% in berserker, 364 resilience, 12044 hp all unbuffed
- pve gear available mixed with pvp pieces to raise hit rating to 65, 37.53% crit, 1700 ap all unbuffed. full epic except hourglass of the unraveller trinket
- Tanking gear mixed, mostly epic some blues. 13k hp, 528 +def unbuffed when specced as protection making him Main tank ready for Karazhan/heroics.
All gear completely gemmed and enchanted as well
Attuned to Karazhan and skettis/ogrila dailys for easy everyday money making.
375 mining to mine any ore (another good money maker)
normal flying mount and epic grounds
70 Tauren Shaman, Transfer up on March 16, pvp server
Resto Spec 0/5/56 for chain heal spam goodness, mainly pve toon completely ready for ssc/tk
- s3 chestpiece, 3/5 s1 resto gladiator gear, kharrma's shroud of hope, vind belt
- 236 resi, 8871 hp, 9616 mana, 1710 +heal, 14.08% spell crit all unbuffed
- 1899 +healing, 230 mp5, 104 mp5 while casting (w/ water shield: 279mp5 and 154mp5 while casting)
- full epic, most epics from karazhan/za/gruul's/badge vendor (T4 helm, Light's Justice mace, Gloves of Centering, etc.) completely gemmed and enchanted properly as well, extra t4 glove token, all healing totem relics, and 3 epic/2 rare healing trinkets to switch between depending on situation
Mixed rare/epic pve enhancement and elemental sets if you want to respec also attuned to ogrila and skettis dailies for easy money
375 mining also to sell ore
normal flyer and epic ground mount
Also included in account is a 60 Night Elf Hunter (pre-bc main w/ lvl 60 epics), 51 Troll rogue, and a 29 twink Troll Hunter all on pvp servers and transferrable.
I am also the original owner and I am looking for $560 OBO and selling the account as a whole. NOT looking for trades or splitting characters.
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
eww wow.
the cyber plague
a trip to the greek islands
You got a much better deal that I did. The leather on mine was in tip top shape so I guess it was worth it. I've gotten a couple other good modern decor finds on there before. Ive been considering getting mine reupholstered in the black leather that i'm so fond of. My dog has seem to take a liking to mine as well. Its nice to see a few others out there with a love for mid century modern furniture. Keep up the good taste.
hey, I got mine too off of there... $350, it had been recovered tho... cheap leather faux leather... Waiting till whenever I buy a house, just going to have it completely redone... it's in amazing shape other wise... Cat sleeps in it mostly lol
never purchased anything from craigslist except a flatmate who was crazy
titcr, for sure.
I bought a nearly new (2 months old) sidekick 3 last year for 180 bucks. Considering they're about 350, I reckon I got an okay deal.
custom built track frame (for me) $450
I bought my PS3 for $275 about 18 months ago. Was brand new and I never have had any issues with it.
The key to buying anything on craigslist is to not ask the seller where they got their shit from.
Whole bunch of Ivanko weight plates from a closing gym at .45/lb
Mint Canon A1 body w/ auto winder, 50mm 1.8, 28mm 1.8, 20-200mm 4, and 2 canon speedlights
Nikon Nikonos II
BJ - free?
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Last Updated 9/18/19
Issue: Commercial ride-sharing companies, or transportation network companies (TNCs), have gained in popularity in dozens of U.S. cities over the past few years as a new option in the public transportation market. TNCs use mobile technology to connect potential passengers with drivers who use their personal vehicles to provide transportation for a fee. TNCs demonstrate how technological advances can lead to new business models that hold the potential to lessen traffic congestion, improve the environment, and enhance social connection.
However, the risks associated with participating in ride-sharing services are not yet completely understood and do not fit neatly into insurers current risk-pooling models, raising numerous insurance related questions. Specifically, there is increasing concern over the potential gaps in insurance coverage in the unfortunate event of an accident or injury. While every personal auto insurance policy differs, most contain exclusions when a person uses their vehicle for livery services. Several insurers have developed products to fill gaps in coverage created by commercial ride-sharing and the common use of livery exclusions in personal auto insurance.
Overview: A TNC is an organization offering prearranged transportation services for compensation using an online application or platform to connect passengers with drivers willing to transport them. Instead of hailing a cab or calling for a car service, consumers in need of a lift can download the app and connect with drivers who use their personal vehicles to pick up passengers. The app also allows users to get a price quote, track the driver's location and pay their fare using a credit card on file. The three most popular TNCs are Uber, Lyft and Via.
Ride-sharing is different, however, than taking a traditional taxi or limousine. Taxis and limousines have been licensed by the state and/or local transportation authority. The vehicles are required to be inspected and drivers must be properly licensed. In addition, taxi operators are required to have commercial insurance that protects a passenger and third parties (i.e., pedestrians or other drivers) in the event of an accident. TNCs may not be subject to the same stringent requirements that apply to taxis and limousines. Additionally, there are issues surrounding the insurance coverage provided through these programs.
The largest insurance coverage issue surrounds the driver's personal auto insurance policy. The Personal Auto Policy typically excludes coverage for livery. As a result, a TNC driver's personal auto insurance policy may not provide coverage when the driver is using his car to transport people in a ride-sharing arrangement for a fee. This applies to liability insurance, personal injury protection coverage in no-fault states, comprehensive coverage and collision, and UM/UIM.
Another significant concern is determining at what point in time a driver is operating the vehicle for hire. There are three periods in the ride-sharing business model: Period 1: App on, waiting for ride request; Period 2: Ride request accepted, no ride-share passengers in the vehicle; and Period 3: Passenger in vehicle. Most state laws regarding TNCs include similar language. Several state laws combine Period 2 and Period 3 as described above and require higher limits of insurance while the driver is actively engaged in a ride.
The largest TNCs have policies on their drivers that include commercial auto, liability, and collision coverage, with several offering $1 million single limit on primary liability coverage. Primary coverage typically applies only to periods 2 and 3, when a ride request is accepted or a passenger is in the vehicle. Some of the large TNCs say they have filled the insurance gap with extended excess policies, although such policies are mostly secondary and lack first party coverages such as comprehensive and collision. Additionally, insurers are beginning to respond to recently enacted legislation by offering new insurance products. The coverage types and limits vary by insurer, but many of these emerging products provide coverage through an endorsement for livery services particularly during period 1 when limited contingent coverage is provided by the largest TNCs. On-demand insurance startups, such as Slice Labs, are also creating products to give consumers that ability to quickly switch between being a commercial or personal driver through an app on their phone. More information on insurance issues surrounding TNCs can be found by reviewing the materials from CIPR's Commercial Ride-Sharing and Car-Sharing Event, held on August 16, 2014.
Status: Insurance regulators oversee insurance companies and insurance agents, not TNCs. The insurance laws and regulations apply to the insurance company and the insurance producer issuing the insurance policy to the TNC or the individual driver. However, as TNCs have gained in popularity, state insurance regulators are taking action and working with the TNCs to ensure consumers are adequately covered. The NAIC and at least 25 state insurance departments have issued bulletins cautioning consumers of the potential limitations of insurance coverage. Additionally, at least forty-six states and territories have enacted legislation to set insurance coverage rules and standards for TNCs.
Uber X worked with several personal lines insurers and trade associations to develop a TNC insurance compromise model bill (TNC Model Bill). The TNC Model Bill includes express permission of personal auto policies to exclude coverage for TNC-related driving, mandatory primary liability coverage during Period 1 of at least $50,000 bodily injury per person, $100,000 bodily injury per incident and $25,000 property damage depending on state law, and mandatory primary liability coverage during Period 2 of at least $1 million. Coverage may be maintained by the TNC, the TNC driver or a combination of the two. TNC coverage is not contingent upon a denial of claim payment from the person's personal auto policy (PAP). Under the TNC Model Bill, personal auto insurers are granted a statutory right of contribution against TNCs for erroneously paid claims. The TNC Model Bill does not require coverage for medical payments, personal injury protection, collision and comprehensive (other than collision), as well as uninsured motorist (UM) and underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage.
The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) adopted a model act based off of the TNC Model Bill to regulate insurance requirements for TNCs and their drivers. The NCOIL model includes a couple of modifications from the TNC Model Bill. The modifications include language requiring disclosure if there is a lien on the vehicle to be used for TNC services and adding to the section on rating agencies used to determine which surplus lines insurers are eligible to provide coverage for TNCs.
To study regulatory issues related to insurance coverage for transportation sharing and other emerging sharing economy products, the NAIC Property and Casualty Insurance (C) Committee appointed the Sharing Economy (C) Working Group in 2014. The Working Group developed a white paper regarding commercial ride-sharing, Transportation Network Company Insurance Principles for Legislators and Regulators. The white paper was adopted at the NAIC 2015 Spring National Meeting. The Working Group disbanded in 2018, but the Innovation and Technology (EX) Task Force, the Auto Insurance (C/D) Working Group, and the Property and Casualty Insurance (C) Committee continues to monitor these issues.
Committees Active on This Topic
Additional Resources
Map of state-level ridesharing laws
2016, R-Street
Sharing a Ride, Not the Risk
February 2015, CIPR Newsletter
Transportation Networking Companies Coverage Report
January 2015, Colorado Division of Insurance
Sharing a Ride, But Not Insurance: Protect yourself as a ridesharing passenger
December 2015, NAIC Consumer Alert
Sharing a Ride, But Not Insurance: Ridesharing drivers may face insurance coverage gap
December 2015, NAIC Consumer Alert
Commercial Ride-Sharing and Car-Sharing Issues
August 2014, CIPR Summer Event Materials
Ride-sharing: New Technology Creates Insurance Challenges
July 2014, CIPR Newsletter
Media queries should be directed to the NAIC Communications Division at 816-783-8909 or email@example.com.
Jennifer Gardner
Data Coordination and Statistical Analysis Manager
NAIC Center for Insurance Policy and Research (CIPR)


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Did you know that young children who have practiced Yoga since early on have improved concentration, coordination, emotional awareness enhanced social skills?
Yoga with your baby in special Mummy & Baby yoga classes also offers moms a gentle way to re-enter the world after the initial weeks following birth.
Our specially developed Mommy & Baby Yoga classes are for new moms from 6 weeks post-partum and encourage moms out of their nesting cocoons by slowly getting them moving again in a healthy and beneficial way while bonding with baby.
This age is an important milestone as before that, baby is more vulnerable to the outside world and still needs to build immunity and acquire some head control, while mom needs to recover from the process of birth which has depleted her on many levels, especially if mom has had a Caesarean.
Classes are gentle (no previous yoga experience required!) but help alleviate tension in the upper back from holding and feedback baby and offer exercises to help strengthen the core and tighten the abdomen and pelvic floor especially if you have diastasis recti (splitting of abdominal muscles). The classes are designed to help you in your recovery from birth, both natural and Caesarean, by regaining strength, energy and flexibility while helping babies by nurturing their developing body and worldly awareness.
From 6 weeks after birth, yoga with your baby helps you:
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As an omnivore, I often have issues eating purely vegetarian dishes. Having been raised in a country at a time when meat was a commodity, most of my diet as a child have been vegetable based, seasoned with either lard, bacon, or bones. In my nearly 20 years in America, I've had no shortage of meat, yet I've only begun to appreciate meals that are completely vegetarian.
I found this pasta recipe on foodandwine.com not looking for a specifically vegetarian dish, but it looked so good and so easy that I decided to try it as a weekday meal with some steamed mussels. I have to say that this is a dish that I will definitely make again, and also serve to my vegetarian and vegan friends when possible.
The bread crumbs and roasted almonds adds crunchy texture to the pasta dish that is unexpected but very much welcomed. I used salted smoked almonds from the central market bulk department, which added an additional level of flavor to the dish.
To make the pesto, I first rehydrated some dry packed sun dried tomatoes in warm water for about an hour. The recipe called for oil packed sun dried tomatoes, but the dry packed ones are much healthier, and produce the same results. If you choose to use oil packed sun dried tomatoes, you don't have to rehydrate it.
Th rehydrated tomatoes are squeezed of excess water, then blended with garlic, salted, smoked, roasted almonds, along with olive oil, then seasoned with salt and pepper.
The mixture is transferred to a bowl and set aside until the pasta is cooked.
I would highly recommend making your own bread crumbs because the store bought ones are too fine. Since I was going to serve bread with the pasta anyways, I took the end pieces and broke them down to about 1/4 inch pieces. Then the bread crumbs are browned in a small pan with some olive oil.
The bread crumbs are transferred to a small bowl and set aside until ready to be used.
I cooked the pasta following the package instructions. You can use any pasta, the recipe called for spaghetti, but I substituted fettuccine since I had it in the pantry already.
The pesto is tossed into the fettuccine with some pasta cooking water until the sauce clings to the pasta.
The bread crumbs and chopped parsley are sprinkled on top of the pasta, and it is ready to serve.


text: Young Wife in a Bus (2017) sinopsis Kokomi, who suffered from the discomfort husband who watches all of his every move, accidentally rejoins with Ryosuke first love. Ryosuke rescues Kokomi from being harassed by the police on the bus, Kokomi, who was tired of marriage, once again ran against Ryosuke. Meanwhile, the husband suspects Kokomi and starts to get more attached to her.