"Fornaciari, who had been invited to the event in memory of the 46th John Belushi's birthday. After a concert together, they registered the videoclip of the famous Zucchero song ""Per Colpa Di Chi?"" at the House of Blues. In 1997, an animated sitcom with Jake and Elwood was planned, but scrapped after only eight episodes were produced. To promote ""Blues Brothers 2000"" (1998), Dan Aykroyd, James Belushi and John Goodman performed at the halftime of Super Bowl XXXI, along with ZZ Top and James Brown. The performance was preceded with a faux news report stating the Blues Brothers had escaped"
"The Blues Brothers The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on ""Saturday Night Live"". Belushi and Aykroyd fronted the band, in character, respectively, as lead vocalist ""Joliet"" Jake Blues and harmonica player/vocalist Elwood Blues. The band was composed of previously well-known musicians, and debuted as the musical guest on the April 22, 1978, episode of ""Saturday Night Live"", opening the show performing ""Hey Bartender"", and later ""Soul Man"". In 1978, the band released their debut album, ""Briefcase Full of"
"Gospel blues Gospel blues or holy blues is a form of blues-based gospel music that has been around since the inception of blues music, a combination of blues guitar and evangelistic lyrics. Notable gospel blues performers include Blind Willie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Reverend Gary Davis and Washington Phillips. Blues musicians such as Boyd Rivers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Sam Collins, Josh White, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Willie Mctell, Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes and Skip James have recorded a fair number of Gospel and religious songs, these were often commercially released under a pseudonym. Blues musicians who became"
"was not initially fashionable during the hippie counter-culture era. The Blues Brothers started in 1978 as a living salute to the blues, soul and R&B music of the 1950s and 1960s that was not in vogue by the late 1970s. The Blues Brothers' creed was that they were ""on a mission from God"" as evangelists for blues and soul music. The Black Crowes formed in 1984, initially dedicated to reviving 1970s style blues-rock. They started writing their own material in the same vein. Since the Copyright Act of 1909, United States musicians have had the right to record a version"
"Charlie Musselwhite Charles Douglas ""Charlie"" Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, or bands such as Canned Heat. He has often been identified as a ""white bluesman"". Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Elwood Blues; the character played by Dan Aykroyd in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Musselwhite was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi to white parents. In a 2005 interview, he said his mother had told him he was of distant Cherokee"
"play with their original keyboardist. While not all members appeared in the original film, the full band included: At times, other members have included: The Blues Brothers The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on ""Saturday Night Live"". Belushi and Aykroyd fronted the band, in character, respectively, as lead vocalist ""Joliet"" Jake Blues and harmonica player/vocalist Elwood Blues. The band was composed of previously well-known musicians, and debuted as the musical guest on the April 22, 1978, episode of"
"a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album. In 2014 and 2015, he won a Blues Music Award in the category Best Instrumentalist – Harmonicist. Charlie Musselwhite Charles Douglas ""Charlie"" Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, or bands such as Canned Heat. He has often been identified as a ""white bluesman"". Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Elwood Blues; the character played by Dan Aykroyd in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Musselwhite"
"devout, or even practicing clergy, include Reverend Robert Wilkins and Ishman Bracey. List of gospel blues musicians Gospel blues Gospel blues or holy blues is a form of blues-based gospel music that has been around since the inception of blues music, a combination of blues guitar and evangelistic lyrics. Notable gospel blues performers include Blind Willie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Reverend Gary Davis and Washington Phillips. Blues musicians such as Boyd Rivers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Sam Collins, Josh White, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Willie Mctell, Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes and Skip James have recorded a fair number"
"The Holmes Brothers The Holmes Brothers were an American musical trio originally from Christchurch, Virginia. Mixing sounds from blues, soul, gospel, country, and rhythm & blues, they have released twelve studio albums, with three reaching the top 5 on the ""Billboard"" Blues Albums Chart. They have gained a following by playing regularly at summer folk, blues, gospel, and jazz festivals. They have recorded with Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel, Odetta, Phoebe Snow, Willie Nelson, Freddie Roulette, Rosanne Cash, Levon Helm and Joan Osborne, and have gigged all over the world—including performing for President Bill Clinton. They won the Blues Music Award"
"Shaffer, it led to the creation of their Blues Brothers characters. Backed by such experienced professional R&B sidemen as lead guitarist Steve Cropper, sax man Lou Marini, trumpeter Alan Rubin, and bass guitarist Donald ""Duck"" Dunn, the Blues Brothers proved more than an ""SNL"" novelty. Taking off with the public as a legitimate musical act, they performed live gigs and in 1978 released the hit album ""Briefcase Full of Blues"" (drawn from the fact that Aykroyd, as ""Elwood Blues"", carried his blues harmonicas in a briefcase that he kept handcuffed to his wrist, in the manner of a CIA courier;"
"Married Couple in America"" (1980), ""Honky Tonk Freeway"" (1981), ""Perfect"" (1985), ""Hero and the Terror"" (1988), ""Phoenix"" (1998) and ""The Mothman Prophecies"" (2002). He has also acted in numerous television shows including ""Night Court"" as well as working as a voice actor, and can be heard in """", """" and in the game, """". Murphy Dunne Murphy Dunne (born June 22, 1942) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for being the keyboardist/pianist for the Blues Brothers in the 1980 film ""The Blues Brothers"", a role he reprised in the sequel, ""Blues Brothers 2000"". His father was"
"In 1999, the group was inducted into the International Gospel Music Hall of Fame, which is located in Detroit, Michigan. (*) – Denotes a Grammy Award nomination, for that particular album The Williams Brothers (gospel group) The Williams Brothers is an American traditional black gospel music group from Jackson, Mississippi, they were formed in 1960 by Leon ""Pop"" Williams, who was the Williams' father, and early on the Williams' brother Frank Douglas was a member. At its inception, The group consisted of three brothers, Doug Williams, Leonard Williams, Melvin Williams, and their cousin, Henry Green and a non-family member Maurice"
"Blues Brothers would take over. According to an April 1988 interview with Aykroyd in the ""Chicago Sun-Times,"" Aykroyd saw Sam & Dave as a teenager at the Montreal Expo in 1967, and said they were one of his biggest influences for creating The Blues Brothers. Aykroyd convinced director John Landis to include the Jake and Elwood Blues characters listening to ""Hold On, I'm Comin and ""Soothe Me"" while riding in the Bluesmobile in the 1980 film ""The Blues Brothers"" as a tribute to Sam & Dave. Also in 1979, Sam & Dave opened shows for The Clash on their U.S."
"city of their births. In 2015 Campbell and James were posthumously honored with keys to the city of Montego Bay by the St. James Parish Council. The Blues Busters The Blues Busters was a vocal duo from Jamaica formed in 1960, consisting of Philip James (9 March 1941-1989) and Lloyd Campbell (31 December 1941-1992). The Blues Busters was the most consistently popular Jamaican male duo of the early 1960s, and among the Jamaican artists who performed at the 1964 New York World's Fair. They initially worked in cabaret shows to tourists in Kingston and Jamaica's north coast, but got their"
"Brothers but as themselves: ""Belushi/Aykroyd - Have Love Will Travel"" (Big Men-Big Music). In 2004, the musical ""The Blues Brothers Revival"" premiered in Chicago. The story was about Elwood trying to rescue Jake from an eternity in limbo/purgatory. The musical was written and composed with approval and permission from both the John Belushi estate (including his widow, Judith Belushi-Pisano) and Dan Aykroyd. The Blues Brothers featuring Elwood and Zee regularly perform at House of Blues venues and various casinos across North America. They are usually backed by James Belushi's Sacred Hearts Band. The Original Blues Brothers Band tours the world"
"joining John Goodman, Joe Morton, and 10-year-old J. Evan Bonifant as the new Blues Brothers. Franklin and Brown were among the celebrities returning from the first film. There were also musical performances by Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Paul Shaffer, B.B. King, and Eric Clapton, among others. Dozens of artists were packed into an all-star band called The Louisiana Gator Boys. Even with many returning cast members, the film was considered a box-office failure, only generating a little over $14 million in sales, and critics' reactions were negative. The Blues Brothers (film) The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical comedy"
"and ""Reaching Out"", 1997's ""Saints Hold On"", 1998's ""Standing Room Only"", 2001's ""Thank You"", and 2004's ""Stand Up! Live"". The group's albums ""Another Step Forward"", ""The Vision Becomes Clearer"", ""Standing Room Only"", and ""Thank You"" charted on the ""Billboard"" Gospel Albums chart. The Detroit, Michigan-based black gospel group, The Christianaires started in 1989 and ceased in 2004. They were made up of two pairs of siblings from their outset the brothers, Arnold and Ronald Brown, and the other two brothers, Paul and Tyrone Porter, which they were cousins the Browns and Porters. They would add with the departure of two"
"time. Two singles were released from the album: ""Rubber Biscuit"", which reached number 37 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and ""Soul Man"", which reached number 14. Album – Billboard (North America) Singles – Billboard (North America) Briefcase Full of Blues Briefcase Full of Blues is the debut album by The Blues Brothers, released on November 28, 1978, by Atlantic Records. It was recorded live on September 9, 1978 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, when the band opened for comedian Steve Martin. The album consists of covers of blues and soul songs from the 1950s to 1970s. The album"
"many of the biggest living influencers of the rhythm and blues genre together, such as Ray Charles, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, and John Lee Hooker. The band formed also began a successful tour under the Blues Brothers marquee. 1998 brought a sequel, ""Blues Brothers 2000"" that, while not holding as great a critical and financial success, featured a much larger number of blues artists, such as B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Charlie Musselwhite, Blues Traveler, Jimmie Vaughan, and Jeff Baxter. In 2003, Martin Scorsese made significant efforts to promote the blues to a"
"Blues"", and opened for the Grateful Dead at the closing of Winterland Arena in San Francisco. They gained further notoriety after spawning a Hollywood comedy film in 1980, ""The Blues Brothers"". After the Belushi's death in 1982, the Blues Brothers continued to perform with a rotation of guest singers and other band members. The band reformed in 1988 for a world tour and again in 1998 for a sequel film, ""Blues Brothers 2000"". The genesis of the Blues Brothers was a January 17, 1976, ""Saturday Night Live"" sketch. In it, ""Howard Shore and his All-Bee Band"" play the Slim Harpo"
"Brothers Band. One blues rock performer, Jimi Hendrix, was a rarity in his field at the time: a black man who played psychedelic rock. Hendrix was a skilled guitarist, and a pioneer in the innovative use of distortion and audio feedback in his music. Through these artists and others, blues music influenced the development of rock music. Santana, which was originally called the ""Carlos Santana Blues Band"", also experimented with Latin-influenced blues and blues rock music around this time. At the end of the 1950s appeared the bluesy Tulsa Sound merging rock'n'roll, jazz and country influences. This particular music style"
"regular gig, and later became the setting for the song ""Defense and Desire"". The group shared an apartment on Bergen Street in Brooklyn, New York, along with their high school friend, singer Chris Barron. A second band that Popper and Hill founded, called The Trucking Company, soon became The Spin Doctors with Barron as their frontman. The two groups would often share the stage, playing non-stop concerts of multiple sets. Their first show together was at a Columbia University fraternity party and their second was at a Jamaican-themed restaurant near Times Square in New York City. During this time, Blues"
"The Blues Busters The Blues Busters was a vocal duo from Jamaica formed in 1960, consisting of Philip James (9 March 1941-1989) and Lloyd Campbell (31 December 1941-1992). The Blues Busters was the most consistently popular Jamaican male duo of the early 1960s, and among the Jamaican artists who performed at the 1964 New York World's Fair. They initially worked in cabaret shows to tourists in Kingston and Jamaica's north coast, but got their big break when they were asked to accompany Sam Cooke on his tour of the island in March, 1961. Taking inspiration from Cooke, on returning to"
"Blues Brothers"" were born in Calumet City, and so is the orphanage they grew up in which they save ""on a mission from God"" by paying $5000 in property taxes from a $10,000 record deal at their concert, as well as ""Ray's Music Exchange"" that holds the famed Ray Charles ""Shake Your Tail-Feather"" scene of the movie. In the book and film ""The Silence of the Lambs"", Buffalo Bill is thought to be hiding in Calumet City, when he is actually in Belvedere, Ohio. The Calumet City scenes in the film were filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, however. Lily Tomlin's prim"
"became one of Hollywood's staples. Following the success of The Blues Brothers on ""SNL"", Belushi and Aykroyd, with the help of pianist-arranger Paul Shaffer, started assembling studio talents to form a proper band. These included ""SNL"" saxophonist ""Blue"" Lou Marini and trombonist-saxophonist Tom Malone, who had previously played in Blood, Sweat & Tears. At Shaffer's suggestion, guitarist Steve Cropper and bassist Donald ""Duck"" Dunn, the powerhouse combo from Booker T and the M.G.'s and subsequently almost every hit out of Memphis's Stax Records during the 1960s, were signed as well. In 1978 The Blues Brothers released their debut album, ""Briefcase"
"by comedian Dan Aykroyd, who developed the Blues Brothers based on what he had seen in the Walsh brothers. Aykroyd modeled Elwood Blues on Donnie Walsh, while John Belushi's Jake Blues character was modeled on Hock Walsh. In their first album as the Blues Brothers, ""Briefcase Full of Blues"" (1978), Aykroyd and Belushi featured three well-known Downchild songs closely associated with Hock Walsh's vocal style: ""I've Got Everything I Need (Almost)"", written by Donnie Walsh, ""Shotgun Blues"", co-written by Donnie and Hock Walsh, and ""Flip, Flop and Fly"", co-written and originally popularized by Big Joe Turner. All three songs were"
"Slaves and their descendants created the blues by adapting the field shouts and hollers, turning them into passionate solo songs. When mixed with the Christian spiritual songs of African American churches and revival meetings, blues became the basis of gospel music. Modern gospel began in African American churches in the 1920s, in the form of worshipers proclaiming their faith in an improvised, often musical manner (testifying). Composers like Thomas A. Dorsey composed gospel works that used elements of blues and jazz in traditional hymns and spiritual songs. Ragtime was originally a piano style, featuring syncopated rhythms and chromaticisms. It is"
"Briefcase Full of Blues Briefcase Full of Blues is the debut album by The Blues Brothers, released on November 28, 1978, by Atlantic Records. It was recorded live on September 9, 1978 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, when the band opened for comedian Steve Martin. The album consists of covers of blues and soul songs from the 1950s to 1970s. The album reached number one on the ""Billboard"" 200 and went double platinum; according to Blues Brothers member Dan Aykroyd, the album has sold 3.5 million copies in all. It is among the highest-selling blues albums of all"
"relationship woes or sexual worries. Lyrical themes that frequently appeared in prewar blues, such as economic depression, farming, devils, gambling, magic, floods and drought, were less common in postwar blues. The writer Ed Morales claimed that Yoruba mythology played a part in early blues, citing Robert Johnson's ""Cross Road Blues"" as a ""thinly veiled reference to Eleggua, the orisha in charge of the crossroads"". However, the Christian influence was far more obvious. The repertoires of many seminal blues artists, such as Charley Patton and Skip James, included religious songs or spirituals. Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Willie Johnson are examples"
"The Williams Brothers (gospel group) The Williams Brothers is an American traditional black gospel music group from Jackson, Mississippi, they were formed in 1960 by Leon ""Pop"" Williams, who was the Williams' father, and early on the Williams' brother Frank Douglas was a member. At its inception, The group consisted of three brothers, Doug Williams, Leonard Williams, Melvin Williams, and their cousin, Henry Green and a non-family member Maurice Surrell. Later on the group would add Derrick Horne, Maulty ""Tuff"" Jewell IV, Pharis ""June Bug"" Evans, Jr., Ralph Lofton, Jr., and Terrell Midge Gatlin. They released 42 albums with various"
"Broers, the older brothers had worked independently as a duo under the name Christo en Cobus starting 1992. The last release as a duo was in 2007 after which they concentrated on the Boers with four studio albums including a gospel album. Meanwhile, the youngest brother Stephan Snyman had been developing a music career on his own using the name Nic Stevens. Stephan is also a multi-instrumentalist playing the piano, guitar and the trumpet. He has three albums to his name including a full album of cover of Bryan Adams songs. Broers (band) Broers or alternatively Die Broers is a"
"The Aces (blues band) The Aces was one of the earliest and most influential of the electric Chicago blues bands in the 1950s, led by the guitarist brothers Louis and Dave Myers, natives of Byhalia, Mississippi. The brothers originally performed as the Little Boys. With the addition of the harmonica player Junior Wells, they rechristened themselves the Three Deuces and then the Three Aces. With the enlistment of the drummer Fred Below in 1950, they became the Four Aces and finally the Aces. Influenced in large part by jazz, they developed an urbane, sophisticated style well ahead of its time;"
"member Ron ""Pigpen"" McKernan. Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles was a regular haunt for the original Blues Brothers in the early days of the band. Belushi and Aykroyd became fixtures at the recording studio, while fellow Blues Brother Steve Cropper called Cherokee his producing home. Whenever they needed a bass player, they were joined by another Blues Brother, Donald ""Duck"" Dunn. During this time, Cropper, along with producing partner and Cherokee owner Bruce Robb, worked on a number of music projects with the two comedians/musicians, including Belushi's favorite band, Fear, and later Aykroyd's movie ""Dragnet"". The Blues Brothers Band continues"