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Alberta Hunter
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“ if you are at the end of your journey,weary, worn and nothing seems the same you’re not alone my love’s eternal,Remember my name.”
So it is with these lyrics, we recognize Alberta Hunter, a jazz and blues singer from the early days of the jazz age. She has been inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. She was a prolific performing and recording artist of the 20’s and ‘30’s having cut sides with legends of the era as Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Eubie Blake, Louis Armstrong, Lil Hardin, and Duke Ellington. In 1977, after an extended layoff she triumphantly reemerged on the music scene at the age of eighty two, returning to the stage and studio. A true jazz pioneer, survivor, and admirable example of class, let us remember her name.
Alberta Hunter left her hometown of Memphis just shy of her twelfth birthday, and went to Chicago to become a blues singer. She lived with a family friend, worked odd jobs, and became a cook. By 1911, she landed a singing job in Chicago’s tough South Side, at a bordello named Dago Franks. She learned the blues first hand from living the life, learning from the ground floor the meaning of the blues. She stayed on at Dago Franks until 1913, moving on to ot
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Jr. Gone Wild
Canadian country/punk rock band
Musical artist
Jr. Gone Wild is a Canadian country/punk rock band based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[2] The band toured for a number of years and recorded several albums in the 1980s and 1990s. After disbanding in 1995, the group began performing and recording again in 2013.
History
[edit]The band was founded in Edmonton in 1982. Its original members were Mike McDonald,[3] Tom Wolfe, Adele Wolfe, and Bill (Will) Pontez.[4]
They played several gigs in Calgary including The Calgarian Hotel and The National Hotel but after only a few gigs broke up. McDonald eventually took the band and the name back to Edmonton, where he had previously fronted the band Joey Did and the Necrophiliacs, later known as Malibu Kens, (McDonald, Dobek, Scott Alloy, Dennis Lenarduzzi).[citation needed]
The band's next members were Mike McDonald, David Lawson, Dave "Dove" Brown,[4] and Ed Dobek. They recorded their first album, Less Art More Pop, in 1986 on the BYO label.[4][5]
Dobek and Lawson left the band in 1988. The band continued with McDonald and Brown, Steve Loree and Paul Paetz. The group went on a number of tours and experienced some personnel changes. The band
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