The Blues Foundation of Memphis presents annual awards named for this "Father of the Blues"
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Memphis blues - Wikipedia  The Memphis blues is a style of blues music that was created in the 1910s  1930s by ... W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues" published the song "The Memphis Blues". ... Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture (4. print. ed.) ... Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
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Gibson presents Handy Blues Awards  Juszkiewicz will host the annual Handy Awards VIP party at the Gibson Beale Street ... The Handy Awards, named for W.C. Handy, "Father of the Blues," are ... by The Blues Foundation, a Memphis-based non-profit organization established to...
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Spotlight Biography: Jazz & Blues - Smithsonian Education  Featured here are three of America's preeminent blues and jazz musicians: Bessie Smith, W.C. ... In 1912 his first published piece, "Memphis Blues," was a hit. ... In 1941 Handy published his appropriately-named autobiography Father of the Blues. .... Blues Foundation, Host of the annual W. C. Handy Award for blues artists...
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Origins of the blues - Wikipedia  Little is known about the exact origin of the music now known as the blues. No specific year can ... were present prior to the creation of the modern blues, and are common to most .... He became a popular and prolific composer, and billed himself as the "Father of the Blues"; ..... Wikimedia Foundation  Powered by MediaWiki.
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The Blues Foundation Announces Performers For 22nd Annual WC ...  Apr 24, 2001 ... MEMPHIS, TN - The Blues Foundation has announced the ... "The Blues Foundation Presents The 2001 W.C. Handy Blues Award Nominees (Vol. ... The Handy Awards are named in honor of W.C. Handy, "Father of the Blues.
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Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Singer of Memphis Blues Ballads, Dies at 83 ...  Jun 24, 2013 ... Bobby Blue Bland, a singer who brought together the blues and balladry in ... Unlike peers such as B.B. King, who befriended him in the 1940s and featured ... killed himself playing Russian roulette in 1954, were Beale Streeters. ... No Love in the Heart of the City, later covered by the band Whitesnake.
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Spike Lee and the 'Slavery' of the Blues - The New York Times  Jul 29, 1990 ... Lee saw the struggle embodied by his own father, Bill Lee, a bassist and ... tour without a band," Bill Lee wrote of Charlie Parker in an essay included with the ... which is releasing the soundtrack album of "Mo' Better Blues," to mix a ... as much he does Bill Lee and the earlier generations of jazz musicians.
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A composer and pianist, Scott Joplin is known as the "king of ragtime."  Rare Framed Martin Luther King Special FDC First Day Issue Stamp NY Times Jan 13 1979 ..... Bessie Coleman Black Heritage Stamp | Flickr - Photo Sharing! .... Jackie Robinson August 2, 1982 Jackie Robinson is honored by the U.S. Postal Service ... I come from a family of writers and Langston Hughes has been very...
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Career Highlights - Hank Williams Jr.  He is the only son of Audrey Williams and country music superstar Hank Williams. .... Wins his first major awards when All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight is named ... Hank Williams, wins CMA Awards for Best Vocal Event and Best Music Video. ... Hank, Jr. becomes the first ever country artist to win an Emmy.
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W. C. Handy - TheInfoList.com  Handy wrote in his 1941 autobiography, Father of the Blues ..... Handy published a book on African-American musicians, Unsung Americans Sung (1944).
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jeopardy/117_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  READER'S DIGEST: AMERICA'S BEST | For best movie, Reader's Digest chose .... READER'S DIGEST: AMERICA'S BEST | The Digest calls this city America's best tourist attraction saying it has "its own king" & is home to the blues | Memphis.
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W.C. Handy | Memphis Music Hall of Fame  In 1914, he made his fame  and fortune  writing and publishing The St. Louis Blues, ... In his groundbreaking 1941 autobiography Father of the Blues, Handy ... Handy became famous, if not rich. Pioneering black bandleader James Reese Europe adopted the song to accompany headlining dance team Vernon and...
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Remembering Etta James, "The Matriarch of the Blues" - Yahoo  Jan 20, 2012 ... On Friday, "Matriarch of the Blues" Etta James died from complications of leukemia. ... A foster home runaway, James scored her first hit, "Dance With Me Henry," ... During a career high from 1960-63, she had 10 records on the R&B charts. ... Beyond popping up in films and commercials, "At Last" is now the...
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Memphis Downtowner Magazine  Visit charming towns and vibrant Mississippi River cities, explore historic ports of call, .... Eighty acres of rolling hills, stately trees, statuary, and beautiful gardens ... The Mortimer Levitt Foundation, a family charity dedicated to reviving band shells, .... World-class museum with 18 galleries showcasing 10,000 years of Lower...
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Beale Street Brass Notes - Beale Street  Klein was classmate of Elvis Presley at Humes High School, and now hosts an ... Around this time, blues musician Son House moved to Robinsonville and Johnson ... He won a Grammy Award for The Thrill Is Gone, which was later marked .... Stokes died of a stroke in Memphis, Tennessee on September 12, 1955.
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Coretta Scott King - Chicago Tribune  Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Coretta Scott King consoling her daughter, Bernice, at the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968 was taken by Moneta Sleet Jr. The veteran Ebony photographer became the first Black man and the first Black photographer to win the Pulitzer Prize...
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A Brief History of the Blues - All About Jazz  Aug 16, 2005 ... The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, ... Traditional county blues: A general term that describes the rural ... The Texas blues, Memphis blues, and St. Louis blues consist of a ... when he/she said 19th century did he/she meant 1900's or the 1800's .... Keep Me Singing [LP].
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W.C. Handythe Father of the Bluesdies - Mar 28, 1958 ...  On this day in History, W.C. Handythe Father of the Bluesdies on Mar 28, 1958. ... a middle-class African-American family that intended for him a career in the church. ... the time he wrote his 1941 memoir, Father of the Blues, although Stepfather ... A 1927 copy of "The Everyday Song Book," featuring lyrics to "Happy...
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Tracing the evolution of the blues - The Boston Globe - Boston.com  Mar 9, 2004 ... Home >; A&E >; Books ... "Up until I was 25," wrote Eric Clapton, one of Johnson's latter-day disciples, ... After he married young, his wife died in childbirth. ... scored a hit in 1959 on Johnson's shuffle "Sweet Home Chicago," an ... of his work, entitled "The King of the Delta Blues Singers," which grabbed,...
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International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame | International Bluegrass ...  After the five finalists have been selected, the panel again votes to select the ... takes place each year during the International Bluegrass Music Awards Show. ... The Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe, is one of the only people to have ... than half a century he nurtured the music that took its name from that of his band.
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Bobby Blue Bland | Memphis Music Hall of Fame  Few artists are as distinctly Memphis as soul pioneer Bobby Blue Bland. ... Like lots of Memphis kids in the late 1940s, he worked a menial day job, in his case at a ... A key figure in the evolution of rhythm & blues into modern soul, Bland, with a ... group of future greats known as The Beale Streeters, including B.B. King,...