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Chicago Tribune
A heated discussion on race, gender and the blues Black artists sing the blues ...
Chicago Tribune
"Now we have blues festivals that have no black artists," said Billy Branch, an internationally active Chicago blues harmonica virtuoso, vocalist and bandleader. "That's insane. That's crazy. None. I mean zero." Branch and others also decried the ...

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Are the blues getting too white?
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
"Now we have blues festivals that have no black artists," said Billy Branch, an internationally active Chicago blues harmonica virtuoso, vocalist and bandleader. "That's insane. That's crazy. None. I mean zero." I suppose part of the problem is that a ...

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NOLA.com
Plaquemines Parish Council and Parish President Billy Nungesser can both claim ...
NOLA.com
By Allen Powell II, The Times Picayune The state attorney general has waded into a long-running feud between the Plaquemines Parish Council and Parish President Billy Nungesser about the powers granted to each governmental branch.

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ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)
seepex NaOCI Metering Pump
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)
When Billy Branch, Maintenance Supervisor of the Moores Bridges Water Treatment Plant in Norfolk Virginia, found that the hydraulic diaphragm metering pumps the plant used for producing and pumping chloramine were having performance issues, ...


 
Austin Chronicle
Vinyl Platters: 7&7 Is
Austin Chronicle
Our suggestion for the new Boxing Lesson 7-inch (New Fortune Records): enjoy the catchy flipside, "Better Daze," Trent Reznor enslaved by Billy Joel. Band of Mercy's baby-shit brown vinyl Conquest (Metastasis Records) requires a strong tolerance for ...

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Race, gender and the blues: Hot topics to bubble up at major symposium
Chicago Tribune
"Why is it that someone of the stature of Lonnie Brooks or Sugar Blue or Billy Branch should be opening for someone who hasn't been seasoned, someone who hasn't cut his or her teeth?" Lest blues devotees fear that the conference will be focused on the ...
Nobody Gets Out of Here Without Talking 'Bout the Blues. And Race. And Gender.Patch.com

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knox.VillageSoup.com (subscription)
Sugar sweet blues in Monday series
knox.VillageSoup.com (subscription)
Norcia has appeared on nearly 50 albums including the 1999 Best Traditional Blues Grammy-nominated "Superharps" collaboration with fellow harmonica virtuosos James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite and Billy Branch. In the 1990s, Norcia spent seven ...