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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play heavy funky music which sounds very Bluesy and technically it is Blues. But when Clapton opens his mouth and sings a line like, "I'm going down to Rosedale with my rider by my side," you can be sure he has never been to Rosedale, probably doesn't know where it is (it's in Mississippi), and obviously didn't write the song. The lyric is from Cream's version of "Crossroads," written in 1936 by Robert Johnson and the line itself doesn't actually appear in Johnson's "Crossroads" but is from another Johnson song, "Traveling Riverside Blues...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...show, J. B. Hutto plays all night at Peppers Lounge and goes to work in a body shop in the morning to make payments on his guitar and feed his kids. You've probably never heard of J. B. Hutto but superstars like Clapton and Butterfield have and they know that without Hutto and hundreds of anonymous Bluesmen like him there would be no Blues, not to mention a Blues revival...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...This is another story about Biafra. We all know about Biafra--it's where a million people have starved to death in the past six months. One million people. Think about that for a minute. There are almost five thousand Harvard undergraduates. If each one of us died two hundred times, that would be almost a million deaths. Almost, but not quite. Yes, we all know about Biafra...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Who Cares About Biafra Anyway? | 2/25/1969 | See Source »

...know-how attained, money remains the other obstacle for black business. A Roxbury businessman, encountering difficulty collecting collateral for a bank loan, asked Williams for backing. Freedom Industries sold him old supermarket shelving, refrigerators, and cases at $1000, and the bank, accepting his acquisition as collateral equal to $9000, granted him the loan...

Author: By Nancy C. Anderson, | Title: A New Power In Roxbury; The Ghetto Means Money | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

...doesn't take any media theorists to tell us the importance of good photographers to a newspaper, and our PHOTO BOARD provides the people we need to cover the news. You may not know a Leica from a light-meter when you start the Photo Board comp, but by the time we're ready to elect you, you'll know how to take good pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking for Something Extra? | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

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