FB Doug Meet

Search This Blog

Loading...

@mrjyn

August 4, 2009

B & B World » Bed Canopy Pink

Bed Canopy Pink

Pink Four Point Bed Canopy Mosquito Net Fits Twin Full
Bed Canopy Pink		 $ 21.99
Pink Bed Canopy Mosquito Netting Fits Twin Queen
Bed Canopies Pink		 $ 17.99
Pink Four Corner Bed Canopy Mosquito Net Queen King
Bed Pink Canopy		 $ 25.99
Pink Ruffle Hoop Bed Canopy Mosquito Net Twin Queen
Bed Pink Canopies		 $ 16.99
Pink Lace Topped White Bed Canopy Mosquito Net Queen
Pink Canopy Bed		 $ 16.99
Disney Princess Pink Bed Canopy New Iop
Pink Canopy Beds		 $ 8.00
Pink Girl Princess Bed Canopy Netting Mosquito Net Bag
Pink Canopies Beds		 $ .99
Mystere Pink Exotic Bed Canopy Netting Mosquito Net
Pink Canopies Bed		 $ 8.99
Mystere Pink Gingham W Daisy Bed Canopy
Canopy Bed Pink		 $ 8.99
Mystere Pink Princess Bed Canopy Netting Mosquito Net
Canopy Beds Pink		 $ 16.00
B & B World » Bed Canopy Pink

B & B World » A Real Time Bedding Mashup

A Real Time Bedding Mashup

Eventually this site will be a full guide to bed and bedroom furniture and accessories. Until that time however, I have fashioned a real time bedroom search engine*.

* I am using the word search engine loosely here

Below is a list of the most recent tweets and flickr photos concerning beds and bedrooms. More feeds to come.

Real Time Bedding

B & B World » A Real Time Bedding Mashup

10 Camera Mashup : Camera Check

10 Camera Mashup


Eventually this site will be a full guide to cameras & camera news online. For now, I have fashioned a real time camera mashup. Below are the 10 most recent tweets and picuters from flickr about cameras

More feeds to come.

Real Time Cameras

10 Camera Mashup : Camera Check

Michael Jackson 'Thriller' demos unearth lost gems | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times

Michael Jackson 'Thriller' demos unearth lost gems

02:10 PM PT, Aug 4 2009

Mj In the continuing rush by Michael Jackson fans to celebrate his musical legacy, sales of his most popular songs and albums have set records since his unexpected death in June.

But for the more hardcore historians, it’s meant digging deeper to find the most obscure and often unreleased material possible. In the case of the “The Unheard Music” blog, that search has uncovered a trove of studio demos for Jackson’s legendary “Thriller” album produced by Quincy Jones -- the famed recording that won the Grammy for album of the year.

While many longtime fans have been collecting these versions for years, for the rest of us it’s a fascinating and ultimately rewarding glimpse into the inner workings of a classic.

There are songs that didn’t make the final cut, like “Hot Street,” which houses a potentially great chorus amid dated synthesizer sounds, and a solid if relatively pedestrian ballad, “Carousel.” An early take on “Billie Jean” stands out due to a bleating keyboard bass line instead of the cool funk of the final version.

From there it dives into random outtakes and studio detritus, such as a vocal snippet from a song called “Groove of Midnight” that features Jackson and an engineer discussing his hair growth (Jackson shouts out Sebastian hair products). There’s even a clip of “Starlight,” which was the original title of “Thriller” before Jackson decided it needed to be something catchier.

But the real find here . . .

. .  .is “Love Never Felt So Good,”  a fantastic song that features a multi-tracked Jackson singing over just a piano and finger snaps. It’s a classic vocal performance, rich with his trademark emotion and percussive singing style. It’s truly baffling how this song was never developed further or simply released as is.

Altogether, this collection of demos is an intriguing glimpse into the blueprints of the bestselling album of all time.

Michael Jackson 'Thriller' demos unearth lost gems | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times

The Unheard Music: Michael Jackson - Thriller Demos

Michael Jackson - Thriller Demos


Whether you like MJ or not, you have to recognize his contributions to pop music and the changes that came because of them. Because of this, a lot of attention has been paid to Thriller and it's success, although not much has been said about the creative process between MJ and Quincy Jones. Bruce Swedien, one of Michael's engineers who worked with him throughout his adult career, is publishing a book about Michael in the studio, but how much will be divulged is in question and, of course, it's much nicer to hear the sessions than to read about them. So, it is with great pleasure that I present a selection of demos and rough versions of songs that did and didn't make the cut from the Thriller sessions. As for details regarding the source of these recordings, unfortunately I know as much as you do. I received these from a post via Guitars 101 which contained no further details about their origins. They clearly sound like high-generation cassette dubs, but they could be from around 1999 when reissues of Michael's first four adult albums were being produced and researched or far earlier. Otherwise, the only things I've done to these files is clean up the tags and file names, so take solace in the fact that they haven't been unnecessarily altered. My only disappointment with these files, apart from the mediocre sound quality, is that MJ and Quincy's version of the Yellow Magic Orchestra's Behind The Mask is not present. Maybe it'll show up in the near future with his family and label preparing to cash in on his death, but until then we'll have to settle for the Greg Phillinganes version which is based on Michael and Quincy's work. Well, that or Eric Clapton's version. Let's pretend I didn't write that last sentence.


Michael Jackson - Thriller Demos

01 Trouble
02 Hot Street
These are clearly professionally produced recordings, but I'm assuming these versions weren't considered final. Hot Street isn't bad but both it and Trouble don't seem release ready compositions.

03 Billie Jean
This is another demo recording, although unlike the version featured on the Special Edition reissue of Thriller (not to be confused with the 25th anniversary edition, the Special Edition has bonus cuts and interviews with Quincy Jones. there are no remixes from Kanye West or anyone of the sort.), this has mostly finished lyrics and is the complete song. The synths sound a little like something Moroder would use.

04 Love Never Felt So Good
A short piano and vocal recording. Actually, this one is quite nice, but who knows if it got any further than this nice little demo.

05 Nite Line
Another rather complete demo recording, just like Trouble and Hot Street. Decent song, but it was to leave it off the album.

06 The Girl Is Mine
07 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
More demos sessions. The Girl Is Mine is a solo demo with a string section and everything. It doesn't sound like a synthesized string section so it's odd if this was just meant to be a demo, but it's pretty short so who knows. As for Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', like Billie Jean, this is a rather complete recording. It's kinda rough and MJ doesn't sound like he's worked out his performance yet, but the basic idea is all here including the mama-say-mama-saa-mamoko-sa thing at the end.

08 Thriller (Starlight Session Excerpt)
09 Baby Be Mine (Session Excerpt)
10 Billie Jean (Session Excerpt)
11 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (Session Excerpt)
12 Hot Street (Session Excerpt)
13 P.Y.T. (Instrumental Excerpt)
These recordings all appear to be excerpts of sessions with Michael singing over what seems to be finished tracks. The vocals are definitely not finished, and in several places you'll notice different lyrics. This is most notable on Thriller which features the original chorus when the song was known as Starlight. How I wish the full versions of these recordings were out there! Again, they may show up sometime in the near future as there will be a lot of archival research in the very near future, if it hasn't already begun.

14 Groove Of Midnight
Apparently this song was recorded by Siedah Garrett. This doesn't sound like a demo let alone a complete song. This sounds more like Michael messing around while waiting for the tape to be restarted. Whatever it is, it's not much and is more confusing than enlightening.

15 Carousel (Complete Version)
This song almost made the album, but was replaced by Human Nature. Michael Sembello is one of the co-writers. Nice enough track, definitely b-side or compilation worthy.

16 There Must Be More To Life Than This
This track originally listed Freddie Mercury as a co-performer, but he is clearly not here. Just a very polished performance of Michael singing this fine number.

17 Trouble (Alternate Source)
18 Hot Street (Alternate Source)
19 Nite Line (Alternate Source)
There is nothing different between these tracks and the other versions contained here other than someone cleaned up the audio a little bit. If they didn't sound a little better I wouldn't have bothered posting them, but I'm not promising any real clarity here.
The Unheard Music: Michael Jackson - Thriller Demos

Hamlet Cigars - Headless Cigar Smoker - UK Advert

Bad #MichaelJackson Fan #Art @mrjyn @nichopoulouzo #youtube #video

#Bad #MichaelJackson Fan #Art @mrjyn @nichopoulouzo #youtube #video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygYUXqSwVms

The Racing Granny Story Part1

Once They lived in Eastbourne
Once they were unknown
Then they travelled to the Planet Mars
And now, they're SUPERSTARS!

Bi The Way Trailer

BI THE WAY - Premiering at SXSW Film Festival 2008!

Come see BI THE WAY: March 8th at 9 PM (Alamo Lamar 1), March 11th at 7 PM (Dobie Theater), or March 13th at 6:30 PM (Dobie Theater)!

For more details, please visit:
http://2008.sxsw.com/film/screenings/...

And check out our party, happening Saturday night, March 8th at the Enchanted Forest in Austin! Visit http://2008.sxsw.com/film/parties_and...

Send questions/comments to info@bithewaymovie.com

Jonathan Postal, Photographer

Jonathan Postal, Photographer

Jonathan Postal, Photographer

Jonathan Postal Photography:
www.jonathanpostal.com

commercial photography
Portrait – Includes photographs of Spain, the cartoonist who drew Trashman; Jerry "The King" Lawler, the professional wrestler; Wayne Wang the director of the films Joy Luck Club, Smoke, and Snow Falling on the Cedars; Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Record Studios in Memphis and the first person to record Elvis Presley; Bob & Tom of the nationally syndicated Bob & Tom Radio Show; Elmore Leonard, the novelist who wrote Get Shorty; Timothy Dalton; Richard Linklater, the director of the films Mall Rats and Slackers; Wanda Wilson, owner of the P&H Bar and Grill; and Craig Brewer, the independent film maker of The Poor And Hungry.
Travel and Lifestyle - Travel photography from places including as Memphis, Tucson, Phoenix, Route 66, New Mexico, Austin, Texas, St. Louis, Houston, Mane, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando Florida, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Montreal Canada, Detroit, San Francisco, Fresno California, Nashville and Knoxville Tennessee, Toledo Ohio, Denver Colorado, New Orleans Louisiana, and Mississippi, Connecticut, and Tijuana, Mexico.
Editorial - Includes editorial photography shot on assignments for various magazines and books.
Published Editorial - This section displays covers and page layouts as they appeared when published in magazines and books. It includes a Mojo Magazine cover featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan, New Orleans Magazine covers, a Guitar World Magazine cover with Brian Setzer, Eye Magazine covers, a Skin Art magazine cover, a Time Out magazine cover, an album cover for CBS records for The Leon Thomas Blues Band, and a Rolling Stone Magazine cover.
Advertising - Features reproductions of advertisements that Jonathan Postal photographed for clients such as Max Factor, Long Life Beer, SAS, and Baptist Memorial Hospital.
Music - Contains portrait photographs of musicians including Chuck Berry; Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats; Deborah Harry of Blondie; Jimmie Vaughan; Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones; Alejandro Escovedo; Bo Diddly; Jay Farrar of Sun Volt and Uncle Tupelo; Willie Nelson; Blind Mississippi Morris; Cordell Jackson, the Rockin Granny; Albert King; Adrian Balew; and Hank Willams III.
Fashion - Fashion photography for clients such as Vogue Vanity, Vogue Pelle, Caroline Charles and Liz Claiborne.
Still Life - Samples of Jonathan Postal's still life, table top, and product photography.
Architecture - Architectural photographs of the exteriors of skyscrapers, office complexes, resorts, churches, and houses, as well as interior photographs of homes.
Catalog - Sample of Jonathan Postal's catalog photography
Corporate - Sample of Jonathan Postal's corporate photography

fine art photography
Culture & Subculture – Black and White fine art photographs documenting various activities integral to the cultural fabric of America, ranging from boxing, mud wrestling, strip clubs, and burlesque girls to ballet, the classic car culture, bikers, and true believers in the Baptist Church.
Another Roadside Attraction – Color fine art photographs of roadside landscapes along Old Route 66 in the American Southwest, including photos of the Cadillac Ranch and the Dinosaur Parks.
Twenty Images – This section is a rotating portfolio of 10 Black and White photographs focusing on one subculture from Jonathan Postal's larger body of fine art work documenting various aspects of the cultural life of America. It currently features Shout Baptist Church Services, but it will be changed every few months. Future content may include boxers, ballerinas, mud wrestlers, Elvis impersonators, dancers, or even cowboys.
Polaroid Transfers– These are images made using a process which transfers the emulsion of a Polaroid photograph onto a piece of paper during the developing process.
Infrared– These black and white fine art photographs are made using infrared film, which reads a different wave length of light than standard film and human vision. It interprets tones differently and lends a slightly dreamy quality to the images.
Punk Rock and New Wave– These are photographs taken in the 1970’s and early 1980’s documenting the inception of the Punk and New Wave music movements in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. This section includes photographs of The Clash, Deborah Harry and Blondie, Joan Jett and the Runaways, Devo, Iggy Pop, David Byrne of the Talking Heads, Billy Idol of Generation X, Television, Hugh Cornwall of the Stranglers, The Sex Pistols, PIL, The Ramones, Readymades, The Avengers, Crime, The Nuns, The Mutants, Sting and The Police, The Cramps, Mink DeVille, The Damned, The Dead Boys, and The Dictators.

Portrait photography
Weddings – Jonathan Postal photographs weddings in a reportage style using black and white 35mm film.
Animals – Sample of Jonathan Postal's animal photography
Children – Sample of Jonathan Postal's children photography
Madonna and Child – Sample of Jonathan Postal's Madonna and Child photography
Intimate – Sample of Jonathan Postal's intimate photography
Seniors – Sample of Jonathan Postal's senior photography
Family – Sample of Jonathan Postal's family photography
Portraits – Sample of Jonathan Postal's portrait photography

Writing
Route 66 – This travel diary describes the photographer's experiences during his recent trip down Old Route 66 in the American Southwest.
Tijuana – This travel diary describes the photographer's recent trip Tijuana, Mexico.
New Orleans – This travel diary relates photographer's experiences during a documentary photo assignment in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Toledo – This travel diary sardonically muses about life in Toledo, Ohio.
Knoxville – This travel diary describes the photographer's experiences during a documentary photo assignment Knoxville, Tennessee.

Biography
Biography – The biography of photographer and musician Jonathan Postal, who has done many interesting things in the time since his birth in New York City, such as playing in rock bands including Readymades and the Avengers, and traveling around the world on photo assignments. Postal currently resides in Memphis, TN and works as a freelance professional photographer.
Exhibitions – Chronological listing of exhibitions of Jonathan Postal's fine art photography at galleries and museums around the world.
Jonathan Postal, Photographer

Jonathan Postal, Photographer

Jonathan Postal, Photographer

Guitars at half mast, please. Billy "Flying Saucers Rock and Roll" Lee "Red Hot" Riley is dead | Memphis Flyer

Posted by Chris Davis on Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:53 PM

5cb3/1249234453-billy_lee_original_headshot.jpg

Guitars at half mast, please. Billy Lee Riley, the Sun Studio rockabilly artist who recorded atomic age classics such as "Flying Saucers Rock and Roll" and "Red Hot" is dead. It was recently reported that Riley, who had been in poor health since taking a bad fall in 2005, was suffering from the final stages of terminal cancer.

On August 30th, there will be a memorial show in Newport, Arkansas, featuring Sonny Burgess and the Pacers, WS Holland and his band, Travis Wammack, Carl Mann, Smoochy Smith, Ace Cannon and his band, Jr. Rogers, Warren Crow, J.M. VanEaton, Dale Hawkins, C.W. Gattin, and the Blues Brothers Band.

We'll have more to say about this influential and under-sung Memphis artist, in the meantime here's a clip from a live performance in 2003.


Sing All Kinds | Memphis Flyer

Links to blues- folk-art- museums, festivals in Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, United States, a broad @mrjyn

Links

Here are some links to blues- and folk-art-oriented organizations, museums, festivals, and so on in Clarksdale, the greater Mississippi Delta, the United States, and abroad. We of course cannot verify the information contained on these web pages. If you have a question it is best to contact the organization directly.

One of our international blues partners:

This page sponsored in part by:

CLARKSDALE WEB SITES...
Planning a trip to Clarksdale soon? Check out these sites for more information. Also, always feel free to call or e-mail us with questions or to get on our weekly Delta "CAT HEAD" Update e-list.

Directory of Clarksdale, Mississippi area businesses

Clarksdale Web Info - clarksdalewebinfo.com provides area news and excellent web links for music, events, stores, hotels and much more.

Mississippi Tourism web site - free info for visitors

Clarksdale Press Register newspaper on-line; search for blues articles; sign up for updates

Juke Joint Festival & Related Events - The 5th annual is coming April 17-19, 2009 in the old downtown... outside, at Cat Head, the jukes and more. Fest is Sat., April 18 with related blues events in town Friday through Sunday! Very cool.

Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival - Fest in August. Make plans now. Dates listed here for this and other fests. Check bottom of "Guide To Clarksdale" page for hotel info.

Delta Blues Museum - the one and only... see Muddy's cabin and much more!

Miss Del's General Store - Feed, Seed & Everything You Need! (From gourmet chocolate and cheese to jewelry and bath & body... PLUS the usual plants and seeds, of course.) ALSO, down the street at the old gas station is a weekly Miss Del's Farmer's Market during the summer months.

Studio 61 Recording - record blues in its home.

Bluestown Music - vintage guitars and music supplies downtown.

BluesSource.com - Gary Miller moved here and opened this used record store and information source in 2007.

Ground Zero Blues Club and Cotton Company Apartments - co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman and attorney Bill Luckett with Howard Stovall.

Ground Zero Blues Club Music/Vincent Productions - DVD music film/production company based in Clarksdale.

ShackUp Inn & Cotton Gin Inn (Hopson) - Delta's most unique "B&B" (bed & beer); sometimes a little music. ALSO, the Sunday after the Helena blues fest is the annual Pinetop Perkins Homecoming.

Riverside Hotel - Stay where Ike Turner lived and Bessie Smith died; rustic outside, accommodating inside. Best host in the world: Frank "Rat" Ratliff.

The Loft at Hopson Plantation - Another cool place to stay (beside the Shackup Inn, near Hopson Commissary).

The Big Pink Guesthouse - B&B in the pink house on John Lee Hooker Lane, downtown.

Blues Hound Flat - Cool, new flat (apartment) in a wonderful old building in the heart of downtown Clarksdale.

Uncle Henry's Place - rustic B&B at nearby Moon Lake with incredible Creole cooking

The Belle Clark - Closed B&B.. recently purchased...

Madidi Restaurant - fine restaurant co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman and lawyer Bill Luckett

Quapaw Canoe Co. - John Ruskey's canoe-adventure tours on the Mississippi.

Clarksdale Tourism site - Lists sights to see.

WROX radio station - Clarksdale's historic oldies, blues and gospel station since the 1940s. 1450AM or 92.1FM plus on-line... featuring the CAT HEAD DELTA BLUES SHOW sponsored by First National Bank and Fiser Insurance of Clarksdale every Saturday 7-9pm. Listen on-line at www.wroxradio.com.

Middleton Realty - they found OUR house; maybe they can find YOURS. See web banner above.

Fiser Insurance Agency - Co-sponsor of "Cat Head Delta Blues Hour" on WROX radio. Contact Jimmy Wilson for an insurance quote on your auto, home and more! They also have a realty company.

Stan Street/Hambone Gallery - Clarksdale-based blues painter who moved here like we did!

Isle of Capri Casino Entertainment Resort - Located in Lula, MS... supporter of Juke Joint and Sunflower River Blues Festivals.

Blues-related RADIO in the Greater Delta region

WROX radio station - Clarksdale's historic oldies, blues and gospel station since the 1940s. 1450AM or 92.1FM plus on-line... featuring the CAT HEAD DELTA BLUES SHOW sponsored by First National Bank and Fiser Insurance of Clarksdale every Saturday 6-8pm. Listen on-line at www.wroxradio.com.

King Biscuit Time - Sunshine Sonny Payne hosts this ancient show (12:15pm weekdays) from KFFA in Helena, AR.

Southern Soul Radio - Internet station from Jackson, Mississippi. Great southern soul.

WEVL - Blues and other programming from Memphis, TN. Host yearly "Blues on Bluffs" concert series.

XM Satellite Radio - Bill Wax's "Bluesville" calls Cat Head most Thursdays around 4pm CST for a "live" Delta Update!

Blues (and Gospel) Festivals and Events in the Delta Region

See Cat Head's "LIVE MUSIC" page for tons more festivals with this year's dates!

Juke Joint Festival & related events - The 5th annual is coming April 18-20, 2008. Awesome!

Highway 61 Blues Festival in Leland, MS, June.

Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival - Aug. 8-10, 2008 (plus Cat Head's fabulous Mini Blues Fest on Sunday!). Make plans now. Check bottom of "Guide To Clarksdale" page for hotel info. Check "Live Music" page for line-ups... main fest and Cat Head's!

Howlin' Wolf Memorial Blues Festival See "Live Music" page on this web site.

Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival in Greenville, MS, September. See "Live Music" page.

Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival (formerly King Biscuit Fest) in Helena, Arkansas in October. See "Live Music" page.

Foundations, organizations, and other interesting blues-related sites.

"M for MISSISSIPPI" film/cd project - Broke & Hungry Records and Cat Head Presents... "A Journey through the Birthplace of the Blues" -- COMING FALL 2008 (pre-order DVD/CD today at www.mformississippi.com).

Mississippi Blues Highway Organization - an ad hoc group of Miss. blues interests.

XM Radio - Bill Wax chats with Cat Head about the Delta Thursdays just past 5pm EST (4pm CST).

WEVL - Memphis radio... with blues and more. "Blues On The Bluffs" concert info (click here).

www.mississippipolitical.com - Good source for Mississippi news. Tons of links on their BLUES page.

The Blues Foundation, of Memphis, Tennessee.

"Blues World" - Great blues resource site with links, etc.

www.BluesLinks.nl - Blues Links is an excellent source for international blues web links.

More To The Blues web site of "live" blues gigs around the U.S.

Dick Waterman's web site - He knew, managed and photo'd many Delta blues greats.

American Dream Safari - Music tours of Memphis and the Delta in Tad Pierson's '55 Caddy.

Sharon McConnell "lifecasts", amazing 3-D masks of contemporary blues players.

Great page of BLUES LINKS - tons of stuff... great resource

Center for Southern Folklore, Memphis, TN.

Blanche K. Bruce Foundation, Rosedale, MS.

www.willie-king.com, Juke joint legend.

Junior's Juke Joint, Jr. knows blues, jukes and good ole Southern cooking!

Jesse Mae Hemphill Foundation - she's still the coolest

Goner Records guide to Memphis, Plan ahead. Have more fun.

Blindman's Blues Forum - Blues information and discussion.

Alluvian Hotel - Not a "blues site" per se, but a luxurious place to say while you visit the Delta. 

Folk Art links

American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY

American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

The Folk Art Society of America

Intuit, Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL.

SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments), Los Angeles

Magazines of Interest

Blues & Rhythm - Excellent British magazine on real blues. Check it out on-line. Buy it at Cat Head.

Blues Matters - Nice, pocket-size British blues magazine. (Featured Clarksdale in 2005.) Buy on-line.

Raw Vision - Essential folk and outsider art magazine available at Cat Head.

King Biscuit Time - Read "Cat Head's Update" in every issue for news on the Delta. FREE at Cat Head.

Living Blues - Published out of Oxford, Mississippi and available at Cat Head.

Big City Blues - Check out the column by C'dale's Joni Mayberry. Available at Cat Head.

Blues Revue - Possibly the best-selling popular blues magazine.

Juke Blues - Another great publication from overseas.

No Depression - The "Alt-Country" bible... with occasional blues reviews/articles

Bluespeak - Excellent internet blues magazine.

Memphis Mojo - Memphis-based internet magazine. VERY useful for tourists!

Museums

Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, MS. The original. Better than ever.

WROX Museum, Clarksdale, MS. Local radio and cultural history.

Rock 'N Roll & Blues Heritage Museum, Clarksdale, MS. New collection of awesome blues and rock memorabilia -- from a Dutch-born, Delta transplant named Theo!

Highway 61 Blues Museum, Leland, MS. Just an hour south of Clarksdale.

Delta Cultural Center, Helena, Arkansas. Across the River from Clarksdale.

Tunica Museum, Tunica, MS. Discover the blues and history of Tunica County.

Blues & Legends Hall of Fame - Cool, little FREE blues museum inside Horseshoe Casino in Tunica, MS.

Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum - Steve LaVere's museum/gallery in Greenwood, MS.

Delta Music Museum, Ferriday, Louisiana. Across the River from Natchez.

Mississippi John Hurt Museum, Avalon, MS. Near Greenwood.

Rock 'n' Soul Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.

Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, Tennessee.

National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis Tennessee. A must!

Cat Head

Michael Jackson 'Milk of Amnesia' Dr. Conrad Murray Warning! @mrjyn

"I've Got a Woman" performed by The Mississippi House Rockers Live at The Echo Lounge in 2009!

Last Of The Mississippi Jukes
Update Flash Player image
Last Of The Mississippi Jukes
True Blues music by The Mississippi House Rockers Blues Band performing live at a true Mississippi Juke Joint The Echo Lounge in Meridian Mississippi. The Mississippi House Rockers were featured in the documentary "Last of The Mississippi Jukes" starring Morgan Freeman featuring the Subway Lounge in Jackson Mississippi. Jimmy King the owner of the Subway Louge is seen here singing with The House Rockers!

Starring: Chris Thomas King, Bobby Rush, Greg "Fingers" Taylor

Directed By: Robert Mugge

Genre: Documentary, Black, Music

Synopsis: A close look at the disappearing venues where rural blues originated. A Starz Original Production. USA - 2002 - TV14

© 2002 STARZ ENCORE ENTERTAINMENT

Cat Head

To purchase this video from us, call us at (662)624-5992, or send us an email. Price does not include shipping (or sales tax for Mississippi residents). Call or email for final cost.

  • JUKE; 1997 Yellow Cat Productions; VHS only, $22.
Last of the Mississippi Jukes, A Robert Mugge Film; 2003 Sanctuary; DVD only, $25.
Cat Head

Now on YouTube - Local News - NYTimes.com

News Near You draws from a variety of sources. VidSF prepares to videotape a segment with Ronn Vigh.

Published: August 2, 2009

With its ability to collect articles and sell advertisements against them, Google has already become a huge force in the news business — and the scourge of many newspapers. Now its subsidiary YouTube wants to do the same thing to local television.


A local video from VidSF in San Francisco, the “Weekly Show” with Ronn Vigh. VidSF is run by three friends who despise the local TV diet of fires and homicides.

YouTube, which already boasts of being “the biggest news platform in the world,” has created a News Near You feature that senses a user’s location and serves up a list of relevant videos. In time, it could essentially engineer a local newscast on the fly. It is already distributing hometown video from dozens of sources, and it wants to add thousands more.

YouTube says it is helping TV stations and its other partners by creating a new — but so far not fiscally significant — source of revenue.

But news media companies may have reasons to be wary. Few TV stations have figured out how replicate profits on the Internet. YouTube can easily act as another competitor.

So for now, most of the YouTube videos near you come from nontraditional sources: radio stations, newspapers, colleges and, in the case of a fledgling San Francisco outfit called VidSF, three friends who despise the local TV diet of fires and homicides.

“It really levels the playing field,” said Kieran Farr, a founder of VidSF who covers the city’s culture and uploads his segments to YouTube.

News Near You, started in the spring, is only part of YouTube’s push into news video. This summer, the company invited the more than 25,000 news sources listed on Google News to become video suppliers. The site is also promoting videos from ABC News, The Associated Press, Reuters and other outlets.

This year, it began featuring breaking news videos — including ones submitted by citizens in Iran, where protests are being captured by cellphone users — on its home page.

So far, the localized videos are no replacement for a print or TV diet of news. On Sunday, visitors near Baltimore saw a news report about a teen assistance program; in Chicago they saw a WGN-TV feature about street performers; and in Los Angeles, they saw a review of an electric motorcycle produced by The Los Angeles Times. Producers often count the views in hundreds, not thousands.

To date, nearly 200 news outlets have signed up with YouTube to post news packages and split the revenue from the advertisements that appear with them. In addition, Google searches now show YouTube videos alongside news articles, helping the videos reach a wider audience.

YouTube’s sheer breadth — it is visited by 100 million Americans each month — makes it a powerful force for promotion, as well as a potential threat to entrenched media companies. And those companies already have more than enough to worry about: much of the local media marketplace has collapsed in recent years as classified ads have moved online, automakers have curtailed ad spending and news and entertainment options have proliferated.

YouTube, meanwhile, is still trying to turn a profit nearly three years after it was acquired by Google. Because copyright concerns prevent it from placing ads on amateur videos, it has striven to sign up professional partners to seed the site with ad-friendly content. News is one obvious option.

“Google can only gain by splitting revenue with people who have feet on the street in local markets,” said Terry Heaton, a senior vice president at AR&D, a company that advises locally focused media organizations.

Google said in June that it was pleased with YouTube’s trajectory and indicated that it expected the site to be profitable in the not-too-distant future, but did not specify when.

While YouTube can gain by adding local video, it remains to be seen whether established news outlets will benefit. Google’s scraping of print headlines and links has led some to assign blame to the company for the financial struggles of newspapers. The chief executive of Dow Jones recently called Google a “digital vampire” that was “sucking the blood” from newspapers by harvesting their free articles.

What YouTube is doing is somewhat different. It is not sending digital spiders around the Web to collect videos automatically; instead, it is asking news outlets to sign up as partners and promising a wider audience for their material.

YouTube’s push to organize local news video began in earnest in the spring when the News Near You module was introduced. The module uses the Internet address of a visitor’s computer to determine the user’s location and whether any partners are located within a 100-mile radius. If so, seven days of local videos are displayed.

Now on YouTube - Local News - NYTimes.com

Blues News From Clarksdale | Sing All Kinds | Memphis Flyer

Blues News From Clarksdale

Posted by Andria Lisle on Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:00 AM

45c1/1249337213-ap1010012.jpgUnlike their rock-and-roll counterparts, who are busy over-analyzing the death of music magazines or pondering the navigational routes of social networking sites, blues fans Roger Stolle and Jeff Konkel aren't content to cool their heels while the music biz struggles to reinvent itself for modern times.

Last year, the duo, respective owners of the Clarksdale, Miss.-based Cat Head record label and retail store and the Missouri-based Broke and Hungry CD imprint, combined their mission via M for Mississippi: A Road Trip Through the Birthplace of the Blues, a blues tourism-oriented documentary film that celebrates contemporary performers such as guitarists Duck Holmes, T-Model Ford, Robert "Bilbo" Walker and the late Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson, who succumbed to cancer on July 22.

As Stolle told me back in May, "the main goal of the project was to get people to come to Mississippi and to promote these artists so they get booked other places. It's easy to sell the idea of blues museums or institutions that celebrate the blues of the past, but we wanted to promote the idea that even in the 21st century, you're able to travel here and experience the blues yourself."

One week later, the DVD won a Blues Music Award. And in late July, Stolle and Konkel took the show on the road to the Notodden, Norway Blues Festival, where they screened the documentary and staged a showcase with Ford, Robert Belfour, and 80-year old L.C. Ulmer (pictured above).

This weekend, the entire crew will repeat their performances — on their home turf this time, at the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival in downtown Clarksdale. Bettye Lavette headlines the free, two-day festival, which also features James "Super Chikan" Johnson, Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm, Shardee Turner and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, and more. Go here for a complete schedule.

If you head down to C'dale, don't miss the Cat Head Mini Blues Fest, slated for Sunday morning, or the myriad nighttime club shows, such as harmonica great Big George Brock's Saturday night gig at the Hopson Commissary. And be sure to check out the latest Mississippi Blues Trail markers erected by the state's Blues Commission.

Blues News From Clarksdale | Sing All Kinds | Memphis Flyer

Billy Lee Riley dies at 75; rockabilly pioneer did 'Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll' - Los Angeles Times

Billy Lee Riley
Charlie Gillett/Redferns
Billy Lee Riley, performing in 1956, is best-known for his 1957 singles “Flyin’ Saucers Rock and Roll” and “Red Hot.” He also worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles.

Billy Lee Riley dies at 75; rockabilly pioneer did 'Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll'

Charlie Gillett/Redferns
Billy Lee Riley, performing in 1956, is best-known for his 1957 singles “Flyin’ Saucers Rock and Roll” and “Red Hot.” He also worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles.
The raucous performer and songwriter recorded for Sun Records for four years and later worked as a studio musician in L.A. His other big single was 'Red Hot.'
By Dennis McLellan
August 4, 2009
Billy Lee Riley, a rockabilly pioneer and songwriter who recorded for the legendary Sun Records label and is best remembered for his 1957 singles "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" and "Red Hot," has died. He was 75.

Riley died Sunday of colon cancer that had spread to the bone at a hospital in Jonesboro, Ark., said his wife, Joyce.
Billy Lee Riley dies at 75; rockabilly pioneer did 'Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll' - Los Angeles Times
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)