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<p>For those (like me) who love independent bookstores, Stepson of the Blues is now being sold in Hyde Park (home of the Obamas) at 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th St.&nbsp; Stop in and pick up your copy:</p>
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<p>(Those who like to order stuff on the web can also find the book on the "Shop" page of this website.)</p>

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<p>The New York based artist support group Fractured Atlas has profiled Bonni's co-authored book <em>Stepson of the Blues</em>, the autobiography of Chicago bluesman Larry Taylor.&nbsp; In an interview with <a href="http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/2010/06/11/featured-member-profile-bonni-mckeown-and-stepson-of-the-blues/">Fractured Atlas</a>, Bonni talks about her fund raising efforts as an independent publisher on Peaceful Patriot Press.&nbsp; Find out how you can support her project, tax deductible!&nbsp; Fractured Atlas also helps artists with insurance and other business matters.</p>
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<p>Stepson of the Blues, Larry Hill Taylor's autobiography which Bonni co-authored, has been published in June 2010 by Peaceful Patriot Press.&nbsp; The book and its authors contributed to dialogs about African American musicians and the blues at the Blues and Spirit Symposium and the Chicago Blues Festival.  <a href="http://www.stepsonoftheblues.com">www.stepsonoftheblues.com</a></p>
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<p>Bonni brought the Chicago School of Blues to Sweet Home WVa the first weekend of March 2010
For this trip, West Virginia horn standouts Bob Redd, trumpet, and Dugan Carter, sax, joined CSB's Killer Ray Allison, CC Copeland, West Side Wes and Bonni. Larry Taylor came as a guest singer for their  concert at West Virginia State College. Dugan's jazz band Full Flavor opened the concert, arranged by Lady D (Doris Fields) and the Charleston Blues Society to honor local African American musicians. Lady D…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6141733/chicago-school-of-blues-wv-tour-march-2010">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>I love the blues. And I’m not the only one. This 20th century form of African American music has spread around the world, because it is a universal cry for understanding of the joys and sorrows people go through every day. Relationships, mean bosses, poverty, injustice, but also love and fun: that’s what makes blues songs.  The late Willie Dixon, Chicago bass player and songwriter, said it best:  “Blues is the facts of life.”  Telling the facts of your life, you find people other people in the same boat…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6141732/etiquette-and-blues-at-donoghue-school">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Hampshire County WV friends and musicians rejoined Frederick County VA (the Revolutionary War era mother of both counties) on Nov. 20 2009 for a Barrelhouse Bonni concert at the Handley Library.  Francis and KC Chilcoat, Steve and Terry Bailes, and Michael Hasty (who sat in on harmonica for the Jimmy Reed tune "Bright Lights Big City") trooped across the state line for Bonni's appearance in the Little Noon Music series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D5bLzeR_qY
 Gene Babb and Glenene of the library…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6141731/noon-concert-in-winchester-va">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Rock for Kids, the charity that offers music instruction for underprivileged children, opened up a door on the West Side of Chicago and the School of Blues walked--or danced--right in! Students and staff at Chalmers Elementary School at Roosevelt &amp; California heard the Great Migration tales of Abb Locke's arrival, broke and hungry, in Chicago, before he hooked up with Howlin' Wolf to play sax. They sang along with Ray Allison on "Mustang Sally" and "Just my imagination' and got down with CC Copeland's…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6141730/chalmers-kids-love-school-of-blues">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>On Friday Aug. 14, the Chicago School of Blues, a band of veteran South and West Siders organized by Bonni for summer blues programs sponsored by Rock for Kids, gave a show for 115 children from South Side homeless shelters at Buddy Guys Legends. Rock for Kids worked with the summer tutoring program Chicago Hopes to bus the kids, ages 1 through 15, and their mothers downtown for the program. Bonni gave a little blues history and urged the group to "Let the Good Times Roll." Guitarist Ray Allison led the…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6141729/chicago-school-of-blues-teachers-rock-for-kids-at-buddy-guy-s">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Charleston WV's vibrant black music history--and the current talented musicians--will be enjoyed by all at a Charleston Blues Society concert Feb. 29 at the Unitarian Universalist Church
Our blues society has begun collecting this history, which goes back to the Appalachian blues players up the hollers outside of town, but also to the sophisticated 1930s-40s swing bands that played in our city  clubs and arenas.  WVU Jazz professor Dr. Christopher Wilkinson highlighted the colorful history of these…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6141735/uu-church-swings-on-feb-29-with-heritage-revue">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>The controversy over where the blues originated, do your homework. It came from the bowels of slaves and former slaves and their descendents. Call it what you want,race card or whatever, Bonni has the right to say what she believes as well as you or anyone else. However  she is mostly right in the fact that like most everything else that African-Americans have contributed to this society it has never been fully recognized nor appreciated and others have been the opportunist. Ask the foreigners who play…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6141734/marshall-petty-it-s-the-truth-ruth">Read more</a></span></div>
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