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72 year old Leslie Johnson aka the mighty Lazy Lester still goin' great!
Filmed at the 2006 blues festival held in Alta, Norway, way north of the arctic circle. Backed by Norwegian band Myrhen's Dam & Mike Adcock from The Cadillac Kings guesting on some great N.O. style piano.(apologies for the crazy camerawork in the middle, too much apple juice)
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Lester Young is featured here. If you look closely you might see violinist Stuff Smith in the audience clapping along and guitarist Teddy Bunn on the side lines diggin' the band.
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Somerville Theater 8-25-07 Somerville, MA.
with Dave Maxwell on piano
"Cotton Pickin' Blues" at the Boston Blues Festival Legends Revival
Song featured on the "Live at the Boston Blues Festival vol.II" CD
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After a recent presentation at Demos in New York, our very own Simran Sethi sat down with Lester Brown to talk about his latest book "Plan B 2.0', what gold and bottled water have in common and what we can do to help the new economy rise. Brown is a renowned environmental thinker and president of the Earth Policy Institute which is a nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C.
Video duration: 285 seconds
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Lester "Roadhog" Moran and his backup band, the Cadillac Cowboys, are the legitimate talents of country music vocalists the Statler Brothers and are arguably the most successful lampooning of country music ever. This is from their 1975 appearance on "Pop Goes the Country" with Ralph Emery.
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Biographer Douglas Daniels discusses his groundbreaking biography of Lester Young, the legendary tenor saxaphonist whose career spanned swing and bebop eras.
Series: Humanitas [11/2002] [Humanities] [Show ID: 6893]