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Gibbs Statement on Obama Birth In Hawaii

January 3rd, 2010 26 comments

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BORN IN THE USA?
CNN wrong once again birth record not destroyed
Hawaii contradicts network boss’ claim that Obama certificate no longer exists.
By Jerome R. Corsi

Directly contradicting CNN chief Jon Klein who ordered host Lou Dobbs to quit discussing President Obama’s birth certificate the Hawaii Department of Health affirmed that no paper birth certificates were destroyed when the department moved to electronic record-keeping.

“I am not aware of any birth certificate records that have been destroyed by the department,” Janice Okubo, public information officer for the Hawaii DOH, told WND. “When the department went electronic in 2001, vital records, whether in paper form or any other form, [were] maintained. We don’t destroy records.”

Okubo affirmed that beginning in 2001, all vital records, including birth records, moved to electronic formats.

“Any records that we had in paper or any other form before 2001 are still in file within the department,” she insisted. “We have not destroyed any vital statistics records that we have.”

Last Thursday, Klein, CNN’s U.S. president, told staffers of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” the issue of Obama’s birth certificate and his eligibility to be president is a “dead” story.

Full story here: http://tiny.cc/kV11b

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Mississippi JOHN HURT

December 17th, 2009 2 comments

Born John Smith Hurt in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi and raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt learned to play guitar at age 9. He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances, earning a living as a farm hand into the 1920s. In 1923 he partnered with the fiddle player Willie Narmour as a substitute for his regular partner Shell Smith. When Narmour got a chance to record for Okeh Records as a prize for winning first place in a 1928 fiddle contest, Narmour recommended John Hurt to Okeh Records producer Tommy Rockwell. After auditioning “Monday Morning Blues” at his home, he took part in two recording sessions, in Memphis and New York City. The “Mississippi” tag was added by Okeh as a sales gimmick. After the commercial failure of the resulting records, and Okeh Records going out of business during the Great Depression, Hurt returned to Avalon and obscurity, working as a sharecropper and playing local parties and dances.

In 1963, however, a folk musicologist, Tom Hoskins, inspired by the recordings, was able to locate Hurt near Avalon, Mississippi. Seeing that Hurt’s guitar playing skills were still intact, Hoskins encouraged him to move to Washington, D.C., and begin performing on a wider stage. His performance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival saw his star rise amongst the new folk revival audience. Before his death he played extensively in colleges, concert halls, coffee houses and also on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, as well as recording three further albums for Vanguard Records. The numbers his devotees particularly liked were the ragtime songs “Salty Dog” and “Candy Man”, and the blues ballads “Spike Driver Blues” (a variant of “John Henry”) and “Frankie”.

Hurt’s influence spanned several music genres including blues, country, bluegrass, folk and contemporary rock and roll. A soft-spoken man, his nature was reflected in the work, which remained a mellow mix of country, blues and old time music to the end.

Hurt died in November 1966 from a heart attack in Grenada, Mississippi.

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Doctor Ross : “Thirty Two Twenty” – (Fortune Records) Flint, MI blues!

December 17th, 2009 5 comments

http://www.myspace.com/fortunerecordsdetroit
Doctor Ross was a one man band and blues master!

Doctor Ross : “Thirty Two Twenty”
1958 Blues straight outta Flint, MI

BIO:
Doctor Ross
October 21, 1925 May 28, 1993 “Doctor Ross the harmonica boss”,

Biography by Jason Ankeny
Isaiah “Doc” Ross was a throwback to a bygone era; a true one-man band, he played harmonica, acoustic guitar, bass drum and high-hat simultaneously, creating a mighty racket harking back to the itinerant country-blues players wandering the Delta region during the earlier years of the 20th century. Born Charles Isaiah Ross on October 21, 1925 in Tunica, Mississippi, he took early inspiration from the music of Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller and Sonny Boy Williamson I; primarily a harpist — hence his nickname “The Harmonica Boss” — he only added the other instruments in his arsenal in order to play a USO show while a member of the army during World War II. (The “Doc” moniker was acquired because he carried his harmonicas in a doctor’s bag.) Upon his release from the military, Ross settled in Memphis, where he became a popular club fixture as well as the host of his own radio show on station WDIA; during his club residency he was witness to a number of brutal murders, however, and swore off appearances in such venues during the later years of his life. During the early 1950s, Ross recorded his first sides — among them “Chicago Breakdown” — for labels including Sun and Chess; in 1954 he settled in Flint, Michigan, where he went to work as a janitor for General Motors, a position he held until retiring. In 1965 he cut his first full-length LP, Call the Doctor, and that same year mounted his first European tour; as the years passed Ross performed live with decreasing frequency, however, and was infamous for backing out of shows to catch his beloved Detroit Tigers on television. Upon winning a Grammy for his 1981 album Rare Blues, he experienced a career resurgence, and played festival dates to great acclaim prior to his death on May 28, 1993.

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(2009-interview) HANSON BROTHERS w/John Wright THE DIY CHANNEL PUNK EMPIRE MONTREAL

December 17th, 2009 3 comments

THE HANSON BROTHERS
Years active: 1984-
Formed in: Victoria, British-Columbia, Canada
Style: Punk-Rock, Puck-Rock

SUDDEN DEATH RECORDS
http://www.suddendeath.com/

MYSPACE
http://www.myspace.com/hansonbrotherscanada

Location: Il Motore
City: Montreal, Canada
Date: April 23rd 2009

Camera: JF HAYEUR
Interviewer: ADINA DORIA
Uploaded by: JF HAYEUR
http://www.myspace.com/punkempire

© 2009 PUNK EMPIRE THE DIY CHANNEL
© 2009 THE HANSON BROTHERS
© 1996 SUDDEN DEATH RECORDS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanson_Brothers
The Hanson Brothers are a Canadian punk rock band based in Vancouver, British Columbia and led by John and Rob Wright and Tom Holliston, all members of the punk rock band Nomeansno.

The Hanson Brothers’ band name references characters in the cult ice hockey film Slap Shot. Heavily influenced by the music of the Ramones and the sport of ice hockey, the band appears to be a self-conscious attempt to construct a set of simplistic Canadian male personas and accordingly simple music that alludes to the sorts of deeper philosophical issues NoMeansNo is prone to tackling[1]. The band’s music is frequently referred to as “puck rock.”

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Public Image Ltd. – Death Disco

December 3rd, 2009 15 comments

Promo Video
First Single From Metal Box UK #18 1979
Death Disco UK #20
The song Was Written to his Mother Eileen Lydon

© 1979 Virgin Records Ltd
Voice:John Lydon
(The)Bass: Jah Wobble
Guitar: Julian Keith Levene
Drums: Richard Dudanski

Websites
John Lydon: www.johnlydon.com
Julian Keith Levene: www.murderglobal.com
Jah Wobble www.30hertzrecords.com
Pil Fansite www.fodderstompf.com

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