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OPINION - Tottenham’s shiny alien spaceship is turning this corner of N17 on its head

Comment: Just as Spurs the football club wants to throw off its image as under-achievers, could the new stadium transform the fortunes of one of London’s most maligned districts?

Evening Standard

Your acoustic blues playing will come on leaps and bounds with new fingerpicking patterns – here are 10 you need to know

Ditch the pick and dive into these fingerpicking style guitar lessons on some of blues guitar's finest fingerstylists, including Eric Bibb, Rory Gallagher and Leo Kottke

Guitar World

“I don’t want the old blues to die – if they do, I’ll be dead, too”: John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Ronnie Wood all followed in his footsteps of Big Bill Broonzy, the blues pioneer with a guitar style that’s impossible to copy

William ‘Big Bill’ Bronzy picked up a guitar in Chicago around 1920, and became the first of the original blues masters to tour Europe. His powerful voice and unique country-blues guitar style would shape the future of the genre in the US and the UK

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“Rich Robinson was doing a Facebook Q&A and I commented with a video of me playing one of his songs… long story short, it led to me playing with the Black Crowes”: How Argentina native Nico Bereciartua became the US rock institution's new guitar wingman

From chatting with Robinson on social media to opening for Aerosmith in arenas, Bereciartua's star has had a rapid ascent. He discusses his favorite guitars for slide, his six-string chemistry with Rich Robinson, and why playing with the Black Crowes is the greatest honor of his life

Guitar World

Influencers want to hack your high mortgage rates for a new car or an extra vacation. 'This can be a great strategy,' housing market expert says—but only if you can really budget for it

Want to save $83,000 over the 30-year life of a mortgage on a $300,000 home? Think carefully about what you’re really pursuing.

Fortune

Paramount decides it won't sell majority stake in BET Media Group, source tells AP

BET won’t be sold after all: Paramount Global decided against selling the majority stake of the network

The Independent UK

“With an SG, I can let out my visceral, animalistic side as a player. That’s difficult for me to attain with anything else”: How Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka is embracing primal guitar and blues heroes

Greta Van Fleet’s blockbuster new album, Starcatcher, finds Kiszka paying his dues to Robert Johnson and Albert King, all while searching for new ways to wrestle thunder and lightning from his trademark Gibson ’61 Les Paul SG

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Ahead of the BET Awards, a look back at how the work helped hip-hop grow and thrive

“Rap City.”

The Independent UK

Eric Clapton announces exclusive show at Liverpool M&S Bank Arena

The guitar legend last played at the arena in 2009

Liverpool Echo

We came for Reb Beach and Steve Morse covering Crossroads. We stayed for the guitar faces

Beach ranked Morse alongside Jeff Beck, calling him “one of the great guitarists of our time,” after they performed this electrifying cover of Crossroads

Guitar World

Meet The Curse of K.K. Hammond, the spooky resonator blues connoisseur who prefers modern guitars and gives them names like “Hell’s Belle” and “Swamp Bitch”

The Robert Johnson and Skip James enthusiast acknowledges there will be “some lovers of vintage Nationals out there who’ll be horrified”, but she thinks her heavily customized contemporary resonators “just sound better”

Guitar World

Angus Young on Eddie Van Halen, the differences between Bon and Brian, and his guilty secret

in 1992 Vic Garbarini spent three days on the road with AC/DC and got one of the most revealing interviews with Angus Young ever – now published online for the first time

Metal Hammer

Two arrests after Florida father found fatally shot next to his unharmed four-year-old child

The child’s mother, 25-year-old Rachel Moore, and her former stepfather Jason Layne Curtis, 53, have been arrested

The Independent UK

Why are there so few Black team owners in US professional sports?

A look at the fortified glass ceiling that casts a shadow over one of the most exclusive clubs in the world

The Guardian - US

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Mississippi is home of the blues and key to civil rights past. Locals tell the story

With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous Blues Trail. Civil rights leaders are noticing some are now hungry for more context about the music's origins.

The Independent UK

Mississippi GOP governor now backs longer Medicaid for moms

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is doing an abrupt about-face on an issue Democrats have been hammering him on this election year

Chronicle Live

Newcastle private school teacher struck off for 'producing child sex images'

Robert Johnson taught at Dame Allan's School in Fenham between 2010 and 2020

Tribune News Service

Down to the Crossroads: A Northerner explores the birthplace of the blues

Jerry Holt gazed at the old cotton gin at historic Dockery Farms with a bit of wonder. The massive red, rusty Murray 90 machine looked hauntingly familiar. Suddenly, memories came flooding back on this sun-dappled afternoon along the Mississippi Blues Trail.

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The Independent UK

Mississippi House seeks to control Jackson sales tax revenue

Amid a struggling water system, the Mississippi House has voted to further restrict how the capital city of Jackson can spend money from a 1% local sales tax

Chicago Tribune

As tech companies make cuts, will other industries follow? Here’s what to know about jobs in 2023

Mary Hainds had been working in sales at a small construction technology startup for about six months before she was laid off in October. In the weeks that followed, she interviewed for other tech sales jobs in earnest and received job offers.

Fortune

How to go back to the financial basics in 2023

Keep it simple, stupid.

Benzinga

What The Fed's Latest Interest Rate Hike Means For The Crypto World

The U.S.

Tribune News Service

Housing market predictions for 2023

We’re rounding the corner on 2022 and quickly heading toward a new year. That makes this a perfect time to prognosticate real estate matters for 2023. With mortgage rates escalating higher, home sales — and, in some areas, home prices — hitting the brakes, and increased uncertainty felt throughout the…

The Texas Tribune

What to know before voting for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judges

Texans will vote on three seats for the state’s highest criminal court in November. Here’s what the court does, who is running for office and what issues candidates are running on.

The Independent UK

Director: Mississippi does not track welfare program results

Mississippi’s scandal-plagued welfare program turns away most applicants for cash assistance

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