Topic: B.B. King
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Want to hear Obama sing the blues? Best chance is tonight on PBS.
At a recent White House blues concert, which airs on PBS Monday night, President Obama joined the guest artists for a few bars. When did the White House first become a musical venue?
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Obama sings the blues with Mick Jagger, B.B. King (+video)
President Obama took the microphone Tuesday to sing a few bars of 'Sweet Home Chicago' during a blues concert at the White House. Are Mick Jagger and B.B. King in danger of being upstaged? You decide.
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Top Picks: Jane Eyre, the best of Bach, a post-superpower America
The newest update of Jane Eyre, a master pianist plays Bach, a dark 'what if' novel looks at a dystopian future United States, and more recommendations.
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The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll, by Preston Lauterbach.
A groundbreaking history of the black juke joints that birthed rock 'n' roll.
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In Pictures: Who's who on The Voice
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The Voice eliminates eight singers this week
The Voice, on NBC, eliminated four contestants Tuesday. Another four are scheduled to depart in a special results show on The Voice Wednesday.
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Top Picks: 'Bill Moyers: The Language of Life,' a funny Bob Dylan album, Joe Bonamassa's 'Dust Bowl,' and more
Bill Moyers' DVD anthology on spoken poetry, live recordings of a Bob Dylan concert, Joe Bonamassa's latest album 'Dust Bowl', and more recommendations.
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Pinetop Perkins was 'one of the last great Mississippi Bluesmen'
Pinetop Perkins, an old school bluesman with the gravelly voice, for years had played the rickety bars among the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta, and toured far beyond them with rock pioneer Ike Turner in the 1950s.
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Top picks: Guitar festival redux, 'A Town Called Panic,' 'Rubicon,' and more recommendations
Highlights of Crossroads Guitar Festival in local movie theaters, a marvelously inventive Belgian animated film on DVD, AMC's new espionage series, and more top picks.
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Top Picks: Ellen DeGeneres, Eric Clapton, PBS documentary on William Kunstler, and more recommendations
Ellen DeGeneres' new cable comedy special, Eric Clapton at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago, lawyer William Kunstler as the subject of a PBS documentary, and more top picks.
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Photo exhibit offers an intimate look at America's jazz ambassadors
Black jazz legends were sent abroad as part of a State Department diplomatic push even while segregation continued back home.
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Review: 'Soul Power'
Concert footage not to be missed in this documentary about the music superstars who performed before the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman fight in 1974.
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Obamas head to New York - no aerial tour of Statue of Liberty planned
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DVDs and CDs for the elementary crowd
From fairies to pandas and penguins, with a little Beethoven thrown in, these movies and music will keep children watching again and again ... and again.
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Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff
Hip-shaking blues from Taj Mahal, a documentary tribute to Pete Seeger, karaoke-style singalong to 'Mamma Mia!' and more.
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From our files: The nonconforming George Carlin
The irreverent comedian, who died June 22, was interviewed by the Monitor in 1973 after a transitional time for his standup routine in which, he says he had discovered his true character - himself.
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A subway hero's year of living famously
In an era of 'empty celebrity,' an ordinary man who performed an extraordinary act of heroism got more than 15 minutes of fame – but the freebies and swag are running out.
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