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Allen Toussaint - downloadAlbum: The River In Reverse
NewsBRMC, Tokyo Police Club join Bumbershoot billBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club, Tokyo Police Club, Fergie, and John Legend have joined the lineup for Seattle's Bumbershoot Music and Arts festival. The festival has revelad its complete lineup, which also includes Kings of Leon, The Shins, Panic! At The Disco and Crowded House. The 37th annual festival is set to take place September 1-3 at the 74-acre Seattle Center. This year, festival organisers have introduced several greening initiatives such as using bio-diesel generators and banning Styrofoam to make it the greenest Bumbershoot in its nearly four-decade history. The event also includes three comedy stages, a film component, visual art exhibitions and dance and theatre performances. In addition, the songs of Nick Drake have been reinterpreted through film, writings, paintings and recordings and will be on display. Date-specific tickets are currently available at a 30-percent discount for $25, and three-day passes are available for $75. Prices will increase to $95 for a three-day pass and $35 for one day beginning Friday (July 13). Elvis Presley songwriter dies Elvis Presley songwriter Ben Weisman has died after suffering from a stroke and pneumonia. Weisman died at a long-term care hospital in Los Angeles on Sunday (May 20). He was 85. The songwriter, whom Presley dubbed the "mad professor", wrote nearly 60 songs for the legendary singer including 'Follow That Dream', 'Fame And Fortune', 'Crawfish' and 'Rock-a-Hula Baby'. He began writing for Presley in 1956 at the request of his music publisher Jean Aberbach. Weisman also wrote for a host of other legendary artists, including The Beatles and Barbra Streisand. He was born on November 16 in 1921, in Providence before he was raised in New York. He studied classical piano as a teenager and at the Juilliard School Of Music. |
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