Tag Archives: Bob Dylan

Rev. Gary Davis, The Harlem Street Singer (video)

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Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, (April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972) was a powerful gospel and folk blues singer and masterful acoustic guitarist, “truly, one of the supreme talents to emerge from the Piedmont tradition” (Bruce Bastin, Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast [Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986, p. 330). Continue reading

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HW Pick: Bob Dylan, 132nd Street and FDR Drive, Harlem, 1963,

Richard Avedon,  Bob Dylan, Singer, 132nd Street and FDR Drive, Harlem, November 4, 1963. Continue reading

The United Palace Theater, 1930, Harlem, NY

The United Palace Theater, originally known as Loew’s 175th Street Theatre, is a church and live music venue located at 175th Street and Broadway in Washington Heights in New York City. Continue reading

The 53rd Grammys, Tonight At 8 pm

I love the Grammy’s, it’s great attention deficit TV. Not many awards given out, with the remainder  performances, and stunts. This year, there are appearances, including Dr. Dre with Eminem and Bob Dylan with The Avett Brothers, a tribute to Aretha Franklin featuring Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Cee-Lo Green and Gwyneth Paltrow joined by the puppets (no, Alicia Keys, where’s the humanity).  Continue reading

My Organic Soul: Jesus To Jay Z

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My Organic Soul: From Plato to Creflo, Emerson to MLK, Jesus to Jay-Z by Jacqueline Rhinehart

A Journal to Help You Discover Yourself through Words of Wisdom from Visionaries Past and Present

 

With a foreword by Chuck D, this hiply packaged journal book comes with quotes from the tapestry of time: from the Bible but also from history’s and the present’s most listened to and respected voices including: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dave Chappelle, Plato, Kanye West, President Theodore Roosevelt, and Bob Dylan. With quotes, scripture, and questions primed to uplift, inspire, and transform, and with pages for journaling, writing music, or just venting and letting it all out, MY ORGANIC SOUL draws on quotes from the past and mingles them brilliantly with today’s wisdom to reach an audience both young and young at heart: seeking the answer life’s ultimate question: “Who Am I?”  Continue reading