tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55054302011-08-25T06:27:53.628-07:00BonniBlogBonniBlog, the weblog of Bonni McKeown, aka Barrelhouse Bonni, blues piano/vocalist, is dedicated to freedom of expression and for us to use our freedom in the service of peace, justice, right sharing of resources and respect for the Earth that we have been given to live on.
BonniBlog is the News section of my website, www.barrelhousebonni.comBonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-1065556012689426622010-05-26T09:52:00.000-07:002010-05-26T09:54:47.194-07:00Who Stole the Soul from the Blues?
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C.C. Copeland bass, West Side Wes drums, Killer Ray Allison guitar, and Abb Locke (hidden) on sax let the good times roll with kids after school in Donoghue Elementary, on the South Side of Chicago.
Thought I'd reprint an old column that appeared in Pioneer Press Skyline weeklyfor the neighborhood of downtown Chicago in April 2005. It's just as relevant today. Blues needs to be passed to Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-45809314179058833482010-01-03T09:47:00.000-08:002010-01-03T09:47:38.749-08:00I've been getting to know some very brave and colorful politicians on the West Side of Chicago! See my blog on Senator Rickey Hendon. http://hendonsheroes.blogspot.com/Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-89410073136422070902008-06-30T20:45:00.000-07:002008-06-30T21:33:23.996-07:00Blues & the Spirit Symposium, Dominican University, May 22-24, 2008Part 1. What do you learn at a Blues Symposium? First of all, What is a symposium? I always wondered why an academic conference had such a fancy name. Here’s what the on-line dictionary says: sym·po·si·um play_w2("S0961600") (s<!--[if gte vml 1]>Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-61981826306766810402008-06-02T14:19:00.000-07:002008-06-02T14:51:16.235-07:00Southside Chronicles 3: Monday June 2 2008 The Maxwell Street AftersPHOTOS: TOP: 57th Street Quaker House: Sophia Community Sunday night dinner. Housemates Arjuna rapper HB Sol) and Iccha with me; student activist Hannah, a dinner guest, tells Donn Wedd and daughters Julie and baby Sophia about her adventures with U.Chicago town, gown & hoodLEFT: Playing for Little Scotty (singer in Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-32226414571653317452008-06-02T14:12:00.000-07:002008-06-02T14:19:46.851-07:00 Mojo is Working, and we are too Bonni’s South Side Chronicles 5/16/08: Hunting more gigs in Chicago, Larry Taylor and I are out hanging around blues clubs again. At Rosa’s Lounge, where Mama Rosa serves drinks for all and is glad to make us some late night coffee, we sat in with one of Larry’s old buddies, Killer Ray Allison. Killer is aptly named. Scorning the wise union standard of Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-75414229865396491552008-06-02T13:17:00.000-07:002008-06-03T09:47:10.618-07:00South Side Chronicles 1 : Hyde Park May 9, 2008 Hi everybody. Here I am in urban heaven, Hyde Park, Chicago, a multicultural, intellectual bright spot bounded by expressways, ghettos, and Lake Michigan. On Woodlawn Ave. at 56-57th St. is a row of stately early 20th century campus church houses, like in Morgantown near the WVU library, where I used to hang out Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-1154922327799541082006-08-06T20:43:00.000-07:002006-08-06T20:45:27.813-07:00West Virginia writer tells story of Chicago’s wild, musical West Side For immediate release CHARLESTON WV---West Virginia freelance writer and blues piano player “Barrelhouse Bonni” McKeown spent three years on Chicago’s tough West Side, learning blues from those who grew up with it. Now she’s had a chance to portray their talents, opinions and dreams in a cover story for the Aug.-Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-1135438932043331922005-12-24T07:21:00.000-08:002006-01-15T19:26:00.083-08:00A song for 2006...These Are the Last Dayswords by Bonni McKeown,Music and arrangements by Larry Taylor, to come...These are the Last DaysCopyright by Bonni McKeown Sept. 30, 2005<?xml:namespace prefix = o />These are the Last Days, Better get yourself straightThese are the Last Days, Don’t wanna be lateThese are the Last Days, Treat everyone rightThese are the Last Days, Walk in the Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-1106535403272363012005-01-23T18:55:00.000-08:002005-01-23T19:08:58.063-08:00Blues folks: Face the Race with GraceAs hard times descend, and charges of election disenfranchisement raise unsolved American racial issues, we in the blues community have a choice. We inhabit one of the few arenas that encourage different ethnics of people to approach one other. We can wimp out, or meet the challenge. Let’s try it, what do we have to lose?Start by facing the music, so to speak.Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-1060360447332730902003-08-08T09:34:00.000-07:002010-04-14T08:21:31.036-07:00To see and join an informed dialog on today's media, go to Prof. Lessig's blog at http://lessig.org/blog
Dennis Kucinich, progressive Democratic candidate for President, will be involved in the dialog next week.
The recent Congressional action against the FCC proposal to allow media conglomerates to take over more and more radio, TV and newspapers gives me cause for hope that people are beingBonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-1057253642483281852003-07-03T10:34:00.000-07:002010-04-14T08:21:31.046-07:00Times are unbelievable in this country. A lot of people are sleepwalking, oblivious to the fact we are running out of oil and the small clique in power wants to grab it, use it up, trash the natural environment, and take all the profits, leaving the rest of us who knows where.
We do not have to let this happen. We still live in somewhat of a free country. The founders of the Constitution Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505430.post-1056387538086838642003-06-23T09:58:00.000-07:002010-04-14T08:21:31.056-07:00This is the Writings section of my web page www.barrelhousebonni.com
PEACE IS PATRIOTIC: Peaceful Patriot: my 1980 book on Vietnam noncombatant US Army medic Tom Bennett is back in style, as the thorny questions of the 1960s return to us today. The official description of the book follows:
Peaceful Patriot : The Story of Tom Bennett is the biography of a Morgantown, WV conscientious Bonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09002928073734404805noreply@blogger.com0