Natalie Maines, Ben Harper Find 'Faith' on 'Letterman'
Dixie Chick Natalie Maines stepped out on her own last night on the Late Show With David Letterman , performing "Take It on Faith" from her new solo debut, Mother.
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Dixie Chick Natalie Maines stepped out on her own last night on the Late Show With David Letterman , performing "Take It on Faith" from her new solo debut, Mother.
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You hear people say things like, "food doesn't taste right" or "I just can't see people right now."
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Singer-guitarist Ben Harper is helping to raise money for the family of Australian pro skateboarder Lewis Marnell, whose untimely death in January at the age of 30 left his family in dire financial straights.
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Booker T. Jones , Justin Timberlake , Alabama Shakes and Mavis Staples will perform tonight at the White House as part of a stacked celebration of Memphis soul.
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There are some of you that will see there is a review of Ben Harper's newest realease on Nine Bullets and immediately move on to something else.
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Born in Mississippi, Musselwhite is regarded as one of the most respected blues musicians in the world.
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Natalie Maines is plotting her first tour since 2006, and what will be her first-ever solo tour.
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Last night (February 8) in Los Angeles, Bruce Springsteen was the subject of an all-star tribute at the GRAMMY MusiCares Person Of The Year ceremony.
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Tickets for The Postal Service (with Jenny Lewis and Laura Burhenn in tow) show at Barclays Center go on sale today at 10 AM.
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If a case needs to be made for blues music in the mainstream – and really, given the story of Adele, it shouldn't – this meeting of crack talents from two generations fits the brief.
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They say that age brings wisdom--and so it is that more than a few of the older among us chuckled when younger music fans were puzzled by the reaction met by this week's announcement of the Coachella Festival lineup!
Read MoreBen Harper has been hiding in plain sight for nearly 20 years, delivering handsome hybrid folk blues – sometimes politicized, sometimes heartbroken – in his signature high-tenor whisper, while playing slide guitar with flashes of Hendrixian fire.
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New Music Monday spans a dizzying range of styles, from rootsy stuff to jazz, from blues to classic rock.
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Blues legend Taj Mahal can lay credit to putting Ben Harper on the road to success.
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Big names don't delve in "small" productions that often, which is reason alone why this collaboration between Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite is a happy occasion.
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Ben Harper has teamed with renowned harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite to create Get Up!, a piercing song-cycle of struggle and heart, slated for release on February 4 2013.
Read MoreWeve got a brand new video trailer for the upcoming Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite.
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Taken from their 'Get Up!' album, listen to 'I Don't Believe A Word You Say' by Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite.
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Ben Harper's 12th studio album will be on Stax Records and with Charlie Musselwhite.
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Jones also covers a rare and splendid Van Morrison song from his glorious, and often overlooked, Veedon Fleece album from 1974.
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Soul man Ben Harper has assembled his favourite ballads (and a new song) for 'By My Side'.
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Ben Harper has handpicked 12 choice ballads from his twenty year career to be part of a new retrospective entitled By My Side.
Read MoreHe played "Long May You Run" in its original upbeat country-folk version (his formerly funereal pump organ rearrangement has been temporarily retired), a jangly "Love and Only Love" and the organ hymn, "Mother Earth."
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"Atlantic City," the second song off Bruce Springsteen's 1982 Nebraska , was originally a quiet, haunting number that tells the tale of a man who takes his lover to the titular locale as he's partaking in organized crime as a way to redeem "debts no honest man can pay."
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Click here to see the full gallery of photos from Ben Harper's performance at the Santa Barbara Bowl last week.
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For this first in a series of flashbacks, let's go back five years from today and up four years from The Roots' inaugural 2003 Bonnaroo gig, and we have Questlove at Bonnaroo '007 (the year, as has been noted, web video broke) sharing, between witticisms, in the honest, easy tones arrived at through a life in music, a chronicle of his band's unique relationship to this festival.
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