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Alicia Keys: She can leave her hat off *
A little older and a little more experienced, Alicia Keys feels confident enough to follow her monster debut the way she wants, regardless of what others say, SIMON HOUPT writes.
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Blues Legend Long John Baldry Dies at 64 *
Long John Baldry, the British blues legend who helped launch the careers of such rock greats as Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones, has died in a Vancouver hospital.
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Genius: What it is ain't exactly clear *
For those of you who were not born into the generation that dare not speak its name more than once or twice a sentence, Garth Hudson was a brilliant member of a brilliant band called the Band.
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Matrix and Cannes: Feelin' kind of blue *
LIAM LACEY listens to other hacks thrash out the merits of blue screens in the Matrix sequel and sees a film about the blues
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Roy Bookbinder & Jim Byrnes *
November 15, 2003, Vancouver, BC
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So long, PM of the blues? *
After 50 years playing the blues, going on the road, closing the bars, Dutch Mason, now 65 and in poor health, says he's truly retiring after one more party this Saturday.
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Soul's budding English rose *
Somehow, a young soul diva has sprung from the thatched-cottage and cream land of Devon, ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN writes.
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Still rolling along that bluesy road *
A half-century after hitting the highway, B.B. King is still delivering his master guitar work to more than 200 audiences a year. BRAD WHEELER rides with a legend.
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The queen of girl rock, Wanda Jackson *
Promoters in the fifties used to describe Wanda Jackson as the female Elvis, though her career path runs closer to Al Green's. Like the king of southern soul, the queen of rockabilly got religion in the early seventies, and put her jukin' music aside in favour of gospel.
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City of Augusta gets down on James Brown *
The city of Augusta doesn't feel good about James Brown.
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Festival Express: All aboard the new rockumentary classic (Lacey review) *** 1/2
Pulled out of archives, garages and more than 30 years of legal limbo, about 70 hours of film have been carefully assembled into what amounts to a new rockumentary classic, Festival Express.
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Jeff Healey: A chameleon by any other name *
It doesn't matter whether Jeff Healey is playing rock, blues, jazz or swing, MARK MILLER writes -- he's in it for the pure joy of making music the audience will love
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Songwriter's Cafe *
Monday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m., Whistler, BC
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