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Before British Invasion hit North America, a blues movement, often ignored in the US, took Europe by storm. This helps explain why so many of the Brit bands were Blues-based. 15 August 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News The American Folk Blues Festival was a music festival that toured Europe as an annual event for…
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Great set and multi-camera recording from the 2022 festival in Portugal. The Waterboys Concerto – North Music Festival Porto 2022 North Music Festival Maio 2022 (Portugal) Setlist Medicine Bow Be My Enemy Still a Freak Nashville, Tennessee Blackberry Gir Glastonbury Song Where the Action Is Rosalind (You Married the Wrong Guy) All Souls Hill This…
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From Frank Sinatra to Jimi Hendrix to Prince, Ostin coaxed a wide variety of musicians to the label, and then gave them the elbow room they needed to be creative. Photo: Dean Martin, from left, Mo Ostin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr. (Warner Records Archives) 03 August 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media…
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Wow. A restored video of the concert. I gather the show is sometimes referred to as THE NEXT TO LAST WALTZ. And trust me, the music, playing and singing is 100 times better than anything in The True Last Waltz. They could have (should still) have released this authentic show rather than Scorseses’ hyped drug…
Temporary changes to Clipper Media News Blog 17 July 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Hello dear readers. I just wanted to let readers know that ALL posts pertaining to the recent and ongoing conflict have been temporarily taken off-line. Some jurisdictions have recently criminalized the posting of dissenting views pertaining to the…
The performance marked the first time heād played the song since 2007 and the first time heās changed his setlist on his current tour in the past 37 shows. Photo: Image: Roger Garfield / Alamy Hear Bob Dylan Cover The Grateful Deadās āFriend of the Devilā in Concert 13 June 2022 | JACOB UITTI |…
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The US says that amending its sanctions against Syria is critical to ‘preventing a total energy collapse in Beirut.’ It is beyond comprehension how a country that demands others adhere to the rule of order, and is spending billions of dollars ‘defending’ democracy in Ukraine, can subject an entire, already impoverished nation to suffer daily…
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The tapes for this historic Ella Fitzgerald concert languished in a private collection until a few years ago. This is the first complete concert recording of one of her songbook albums Photo: Ella Fitzgerald performing at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, one year before an Irving Berlin concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Ella at the…
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A study recently published inĀ Nature Human Behaviour revealed that an 8-month-old infant can punish antisocial behavior. 10 June 2022 | Eurasia Review For millennia, philosophers have pondered the question of whether humans are inherently good. But now, researchers from Japan have found that young infants can make and act on moral judgments, shedding light on…
Migration continues to dominate the discourse and polarizes communities across the political spectrum. And will for the foreseeable future. 08 June 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News The award-winning African documentary project that goes inside the lives of migrants 05 June 2022 | Liani Maasdorp and Julia Cain | The Conversation For far too long the…
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Call it by its real name – economic warfare. The US wants to control all of the things they do not actually produce. Photo: A man stands in front of a Huawei store in Beijing on April 27. The company remains a global leader in telecoms innovation and retains a dominant market position both globally…
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Spain’s National High Court has summoned Mike Pompeo to explain an alleged plot to assassinate Julian Assange. Photo: Mike Pompeo and Julian Assange 06 June 2022 | ParsToday Judge Santiago Pedraz summoned Pompeo to appear in the Madrid court to testify in the case, investigating a local security firm suspected of being used by the…
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