Great Fun at Atlanta Blues Society Meeting Sunday

I thought that since I’m writing the Atlanta blues examiner column now at http://www.examiner.com/x-32020-Atlanta-Blues-Examiner. I should join the Atlanta Blues Society. Since Ken is always with me (my husband), I got a membership for him, too. We went to our first meeting Sunday at Blind Willie’s. We met some great people and got to hear [...]

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Atlanta Blues Examiner Column

I am now the Atlanta Blues Examiner for Examiner.com. I am writing several columns a week to let people know what’s going on blues-wise around Atlanta: blues clubs, concerts, news, history, and more. Please check it out! http://www.examiner.com/x-32020-Atlanta-Blues-Examiner

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Susan Tedeschi Austin City Limits Video

Susan Tedeschi is one of the female blues singers I feature in my book, T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do, available at Amazon.com. She is an awesome performer!

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Review of T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do at blues.about.com

I knew that Rev. Keith Gordon had reviewed T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do for Blues.about.com a few months back, but I couldn’t find the review. Today I did. Here’s an excerpt and the link: Author Rhetta Akamatsu has a lot of interests, and one of them is blues music. When reading about the blues, [...]

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Review for “T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do”

Blues Women in a Class by Themselves, August 15, 2008 By Gretchen Lee Bourquin (Minneapolis, MN) – See all my reviews When I first heard of Rhetta Akamatsu’s new book T’aint Nobody’s Business If I Do: Women Blues Singers Old and New I was intrigued. The book chronicles the lives and struggles of the great [...]

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