Next week is Jus' Blues Music Awards week in Memphis, Tennessee and this 10th anniversary event promises to be a real liver-quivering three-day span of music and entertainment. The party kicks off on Wednesday night, August 4, 2010 with the "Night of the Living Legends" dinner at the historic Daisy Theater on Beale Street. Held in recognition of the Jus' Blues Music Awards 2010 honorees, the theme of the evening is a tribute to blues great Albert King; among the guests are soul legends Eddie Floyd and William Bell, and blues artists Mable John and Chick Willis.
A collection of intelligent, musically interesting songs that also happen to have been written in response to events of the last eight years.
Music has always had the power to inflame people's passions. From ultra nationalist songs that whip up hatred against others to religious music that inspires devotions, music has the potential to have the strongest and most immediate emotional impact of all the arts. Therefore, it's little wonder that down through the years music and songs...
