Blues Beat: Warmer weather brings more live music
Domenic Forcella
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Check out the Danny Draher Trio at Sasso s Coal Fired Pizza pn Saturday.Domenic Forcella / Contributed photo
Festival planning is under way, and with more live music on weekends, all this activity leads to a sense of optimism for the blues community.
Danny Draher is back in town, for a couple of weeks. You’ll find the Danny Draher Trio at Sasso’s Coal Fired Pizza, Saturday in downtown Torrington, from 6-9 p.m. The trio is Draher on guitar/vocals, Lonnie Gasperini, B3 organ and Steve Peck, drums.
Several of yesterday’s winners at the Grammy Awards had connections to Memphis and the Mid-South, leading many music insiders to scratch their heads and tell themselves there must be “something in the water.”
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Show Transcript SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA NATS WILL GANSS, ABC NEWS NEW YORK JACKSON S OWN BOBBY RUSH WON HIS SECOND GRAMMY YESTERDAY. THE 87-YEAR-OLD S SONG RAWER THAN RAW WON IN THE BEST TRADITIONAL BLUES ALBUM CATEGORY. RUSH WON HIS FIRST GRAMMY IN 2017 AT
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 7:27 AM CDT Mar 15, 2021 Jackson s own Bobby Rush won his second Grammy.The 87-year-old s song, Rawer Than Raw, won the Best Traditional Blues Album category.Rush won his first Grammy in 2017 at the age of 83. He also has an autobiography coming out soon called, I Ain t Studdin Ya. Also Sunday, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift both made history at the 2021 show.
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Over the course of a 70-year career, Bobby Rush has made his mark on America’s legacy of blues music.
He’s been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, and Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame. He has won 12 Blues Music Awards and in 2017, at the age of 83, he won his first Grammy Award.
Hailing from Louisiana, Rush got his breakthrough in 1971, when his song
Chicken Heads climbed the Billboard R&B chart and was certified gold. He then had two more gold-certified records with
Sue in 1981 and
Ain’t Studdin’ Ya in 1991.