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Pat Blythe: Women and the Blues…The Saga Continues

Posted in Opinion with tags Apollo Theater, Bessie Smith, Big Joe Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Bob Dylan, Bob Segarini, Bonnie Raitt, British blues bands, Buddy Tate, Clarence Williams, Darktown Scandals, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ida Cox, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Len Kunstadt, Lonnie Johnson, Luis Russell and Bob, Ma Rainey, Maggie Bell, Memphis Minnie, Muddy Wters, Okeh, Otis Spann, Paramount, Pat Blythe, Prestige Bluesvillealbum, Pual Butterfield Elvin bishop, Queen Vee Records, Raisin' Cain, RCA Victor, Sippie Wallace, Spivey Records, The Picture Taker, Uncrowned Queen of Blues, Victoria Spivey, White and Clark's Black & Tan Minstrels, Willie Dixon, Willie Dixon Roosevelt Sykes on September 16, 2015 by segarini

It’s Tuesday night and I have just been diagnosed with a severe case of bronchitis. Shit!!!! Not what I need right now. Tired and hacking up a lung or two the doc has just put me on some mighty powerful antibiotics. I take them for five days but they remain in my system for two weeks. I’m in London staying at my mom’s and seeing to a customer and their installation so I have no time to whinge. (….and Dr. T., if you’re reading this I was forced to go to a walk-in clinic by my sister which is why this is the first you’re hearing about this.) So, now that diatribe is over, on to the column….short and sweet.

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JAIMIE VERNON: THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTER

Posted in Opinion with tags 125th Street Station, 222's, 39 STEPS, Apollo Theater, Chris Berry, DBAWIS, Die Hard 3, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Grand Central Station, Harlem, Jaimie Vernon, Joan Jett, Kenny Laguna, Manhattan, Moving Targetz, music, New Music Seminar, New York City, Steven Shipp, The Ghost & Mr. Chicken, The Left Banke, Travel on February 23, 2013 by segarini

I’ve been posting a steady stream of travel pictures on Facebook both for posterity and to entertain the millions of ‘friends’ I have online who might be tired of my abrasive and often hostile status updates. From these postings came comments from people who dream of traveling or visiting such exotic places as Flin Flon, Manitoba or South Bend, Indiana.