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Blues is a genre and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre developed from roots in traditional African music, combined with European American folk music. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll, is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. The blue notes (or "worried notes") which are often thirds or fifths which are flatter in pitch than in other music styles, are also an important part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect called a groove.
Blues as a genre possesses other characteristics such as lyrics, bass lines, and instruments. The lyrics of early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current structure became standard: the so-called AAB pattern, consisting of a line sung over the four first bars, its repetition over the next four, and then a longer concluding line over the last bars. Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative, often relating troubles experienced within African American society.
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper, and rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie style. Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples" (1956), "Boom Boom" (1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966) – the first being the most popular race record of 1949.
There is some debate as to the year of Hooker's birth in Coahoma County, Mississippi, the youngest of the eleven children of William Hooker (1871–1923), a sharecropper and Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (born 1875, date of death unknown); according to his official website, he was born on August 22, 1917.
John Clayton Mayer (/ˈmeɪ.ər/; born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and raised in nearby Fairfield. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, but disenrolled and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1997 with Clay Cook. Together, they formed a short-lived, two-man band called Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer continued to play local clubs—refining his skills and gaining a following. After his appearance at the 2001 South by Southwest Festival, he was signed to Aware Records, and then Columbia Records, which released his first EP, Inside Wants Out. His following two full-length albums—Room for Squares (2001) and Heavier Things (2003)—did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the single "Your Body Is a Wonderland".
Though Mayer started his career mainly performing acoustic rock, he began moving towards the blues genre that had originally influenced him as a musician. By 2005, he was collaborating with blues artists such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton. Forming the John Mayer Trio, he released a live album in 2005 called Try!, and his third studio album Continuum in 2006. Both albums received wide critical acclaim, and Continuum earned Mayer a 2007 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. He also won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change". That album was followed by Battle Studies in 2009, a return to pop, with a number-one grossing tour.
Actors: Ernst Grissemann (actor), Wolfgang Ambros (actor), Marianne Mendt (actress), Alf Poier (actor), Hubert von Goisern (actor), Hubert von Goisern (actor), Hubert von Goisern (actor), Jason Mraz (actor), Manuel Rubey (actor), Ludwig Hirsch (actor), Johann Ernst Hinterseer (actor), Otto Lechner (actor), Otto Lechner (actor), Otto Lechner (actor), Attwenger (actor),
Genres: Music,Actors: Ernst Grissemann (actor), Wolfgang Ambros (actor), Marianne Mendt (actress), Alf Poier (actor), Hubert von Goisern (actor), Hubert von Goisern (actor), Hubert von Goisern (actor), Jason Mraz (actor), Manuel Rubey (actor), Ludwig Hirsch (actor), Johann Ernst Hinterseer (actor), Otto Lechner (actor), Otto Lechner (actor), Otto Lechner (actor), Attwenger (actor),
Genres: Music,Actors: Eddie Lebron (producer), Wayne Chang (actor), Eddie Lebron (editor), Eddie Lebron (director), Eddie Lebron (writer), Edward X. Young (actor), Elizabeth Lee (actress), Jun Naito (actor), Jun Naito (actor), Kristen Hung (actress), Daniel James (composer), David Horowitz (actor), David Horowitz (producer), Daniel Horowitz (producer), Sung-Mo Cho (actor),
Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi,Actors: Jhonny Obando (actor), Jim York (producer), Lazaro Colado (writer), Lazaro Colado (director), Lazaro Colado (editor), Lazaro Colado (producer), Wisler Josaphat (miscellaneous crew), Josuez Georgus (actor), Estalin Ordonez (actor), Mark Charles (actor),
Plot: Born with a genius level IQ to uncaring, cocaine addicted parents, young Cesar 'Blues' Inocentes grew up expecting nothing, wasting his gift selling drugs on the corner with his friends. When they attack a rival, his retaliation takes 'Blues's' best friend's life and forces him to rethink his life and his gift.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Anant Singh (producer), Grant Swanby (actor), Michael Dube (actor), Helena Spring (producer), Chris April (actor), Dean Slater (actor), Leslie Mongezi (actor), Louis Minnaar (actor), Tyrone Keogh (actor), Melanie Jankes Golden (editor), Vaneshran Arumugam (actor), Presley Chweneyagae (actor), Daphne Williams (producer), Sizwe Msutu (actor), Heather S. Michaels (actress),
Plot: Told through the stories of five former prisoners, this is the story of political activists sent to the notorious Robben Island prison in the 1960s by the apartheid regime, who rise above their incarceration by creating a football league and finding an outlet for their passion and commitment to discipline through the Beautiful Game.
Keywords: africa, african, convict, docudrama, five-word-title, island, island-prison, nelson-mandela, political-prisoner, prisonActors: Akin Omotoso (director), Robbie Thorpe (producer), Thomas Gumede (actor), Mduduzi Mabaso (actor), Bubu Mazibuko (actress), Ronnie Nyakale (actor), Obed Baloi (actor), Salah Sabiti (actor), Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe (actor), Zikhona Sodlaka (actress), Siyabonga Radebe (actor), Linda Sokhulu (actress), Rolie Nikiwe (director), Esmeralda Bihl (actress), Nolwazi Shange (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Nick Rotundo (editor), Gary Howsam (producer), Pete Postlethwaite (actor), Lewin Webb (director), Jamie Brown (producer), Barbara Gordon (actress), Norman Orenstein (composer), Janet-Laine Green (actress), Henry Czerny (actor), Lewin Webb (producer), John Boylan (actor), Lauren Bacall (actress), Roman Podhora (actor), Alan Sutton (miscellaneous crew), Pauline Burt (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Jeff Sackman (producer), James Toback (writer), Peter Locke (producer), Edward R. Pressman (producer), Joe Pingue (actor), Donald Kushner (producer), Joey Lauren Adams (actress), John Neville (actor), Sarah Michelle Gellar (actress), Eric Stoltz (actor), Al Franken (actor), Adrian Grenier (actor), Phillip Jarrett (actor), Alan Abrams (miscellaneous crew), James Toback (director),
Plot: College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" plays out against a background of love, sex, basketball, crime and experimentation. Action and philosophy in young people's quest to discover their true identity.
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Keywords: christmas, family-relationships, independent-film, private-detective, runawayWoke up in the morning
And I found that you're gone
Just a note "I am sorry"
And you left me alone
I can hardly remember
What happened last night
Guess we went to a party?
Did we get in a fight?
I need you so badly
Baby why did you go?
Woke up in the morning
I've had too much to drink
I don't know where my pants are
I'm still to drunk to think
You took my beer with you
In the fridge is the phone
I'm trying to call you
Why aren't to home
I need you so badly
Baby why did you go?
Woke up in the morning
And I found that you're gone
Just a note "I am sorry"
And you left me alone
I can hardly remember
What happened last night
Guess we went to a party?
Did we get in a fight?
I need you so badly