Tag Archives: The Blues Brothers

Through the 1990s, Howard & the White Boys became among Chicago’s favorite local blues rings before slowly growing their reach beyond the Windy City. The music group created in 1988 some of the users — Dan Bellini (acoustic guitar/harmonica), Howard McCullum (vocals/bass), Steve Asma (acoustic guitar), Jim Christopulos (drums) — …

Ironic, but H. Lee Atwater, a traditional Republican who done the promotions of Ronald Reagan and George Bush (controlling the latter’s 1988 presidential marketing campaign) and it is acknowledged with providing the system with hype phrases like “welfare queens,” “bad empire,” and Willie Horton, was a Southern spirit and blues-loving …

Although John Belushi was most widely known being a Television and film actor, he enjoyed a substantial amount of success past due in his tragic career as you half of the blues revival act the Blues Brothers. Created on January 24, 1949, and elevated in Illinois, Belushi demonstrated great guarantee …

Because the bassist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Donald “Duck” Dunn became, like Adam Jamerson at Motown, the person who supplied a groove for a whole era to dance to. In Dunn’s case it had been the renowned Memphis record label Stax/Volt, where he laid down basslines for spirit …

Whether celebrated being a sincere tribute or derided being a tongue-in-cheek put-on, the Blues Brothers — Joliet Jake and his silent sibling Elwood — was being among the most well-known sets of the later ’70s; what began like a skit within the strike NBC tv sketch humor series Saturday Night …

Through the 1970s, Steve Martin was probably the most successful standup comedian in the us, generating the amount of commercial success — sold-out arena performances, platinum documents, strike singles, and delirious buff adulation — usually reserved for rock and roll stars. Although his profession continued to encompass stints as an …

Although originally conceived because the imaginary subject of the music documentary, Vertebral Tap became a genuine band — a parody rock band, to be exact — following film’s release. The joke started with the discharge of 1984’s THAT IS Vertebral Touch, a satirical Rob Reiner film starring stars Michael McKean, …