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...finalists find legal representation. Asked if the deal was fair, Maile Misajon of Eden's Crush hesitates: "I would really hate to answer that question. I'd probably go in a direction I don't want to go." Certainly less than sweet deals aren't new (ask any '50s bluesman). But on a show that purports to open the backstage door, why no mention of the signing--certainly one of the most important aspects of a new band's life...
...talk about American music without talking about Black people and Black musical forms. And you cannot discuss Black music without taking it account its edginess (think of bluesman Robert Johnson, bebop innovator Charlie Parker, rocker Little Richard, soulman Otis Redding, et al.), its rebelliousness (anyone from Big Mama Thornton to Jimi Hendrix) and the fact that edginess and rebelliousness ultimately appeals to white young people as much as it does to Black young people. That and "white music" suffering slumps from time to time made the white embrace of hip-hop inevitable - has there really been anything interesting happening...
...Children believed to have been fathered by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, legendary bluesman, who died last month...
...July 1, the Sundance-winning Genghis Blues, by enfant terrible Roko Belic, had its theatrical debut. The documentary, which follows bluesman Paul Pena's pilgrimage to a Mongolian border town, resuscitated the career of King of Mongolian Throat Singers Kongar-ol Ondar...
...judgments than any other biographical canvas should be," Guralnick writes, switching quickly from slowdown to full stop. "I know of no sadder story." Any of the black bluesmen Guralnick loves and writes about so well could tell him a dozen before a dropped dime hit the floor. But no bluesman, and few entertainers of any kind, has managed to achieve the sheer dimension of Presley's story. Just as Elvis' girth fascinated fans and the press during his last, misbegotten years, so too it is the outsize scale of Presley's life that makes the story irresistible. Or, at least...