Word: musician
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...makes an announcement. It's House of Blues Day in Massachusetts--well, for two more hours, anyway--and Tigrett commences the jam. And friends, this is the mother of all blues jams. Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) and the Blues Brothers Band kick off the show, followed by delta blues musician Honeyboy Edwards and Robert Johnson's stepson, Robert Lockwood Jr., who learned guitar from the Great One himself. Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, a Chicago guitar kingpin who has shared the stage with the likes of Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, the Allan Brothers and the Rolling Stones, sweats out the loudest...
Will the first-years in Straus get their housing choice because they are kept awake by the strains of Flathead, the mediocre street musician? What will be the renumeration for the inhabitants of Canaday because their dorm is just plain ugly...
Evidently Acevedo believes that a musician's job is only to entertain his or her fans, but unfortunately, some of today's music stars recognize that some things are more important than selling albums and making money. Sinead O'Connor does not care if her album sales suffer as long as she makes people aware of an issue that she rightly sees as important...
There are, of course, intelligent citizens of goodwill who also ignore politics. One of the glories of our society is that they can do so safely. The engineer, chemist or doctor hard put to keep up with the demands of his profession for study and knowledge; the artist, musician or scholar totally engrossed in her field -- in a totalitarian society they would not be allowed to be apolitical. To advance in their professions they would have to join The Party and devote some time to propagandizing for it. In a democratic country a physicist can pass up any participation...
Small said he finds that the Nameless "plays an absolutely vital role for an acoustic musician...