Lightning in a Bottle

Ostensibly a record of one mighty blues show, this film goes beyond the tag of concert film and achieves something more: a living history lesson, tracing the evolving sound of the blues.

"...and from a clowning Bill Cosby (who guest-schticks alongside Ruth Brown, Mavis Staples, and Natalie Cole as they belt..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A United Kingdom

A film on love, race, and royalty

"...tribal prince Seretse Khama (Oyelowo) and London office clerk Ruth Williams (Pike) in 1948, an interracial union the British..."

March 3, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Opposite Sex (And How to Live With Them)

"...Starring: Arye Gross, Courteney Cox, Kevin Pollack and Julie Brown. Let's face it folks. The quest to find Mr...."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Director David Lowery Reminisces About His Texan Outlaw Tale

AFF's Texas Focus Series Presents: Ain't Them Bodies Saints.

"...The horizon tinges with a deep shade of a golden-brown as the two leads Ruth (Rooney Mara) and Bob..."

Aug. 12, 2015 Screens Post by Neha Aziz

Sxsw

"...have to make some hard decisions: Tony Bennett, Junior Brown, and Peter Wolf at the Austin Music Hall Thursday..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

ACL Interview: Dynamites feat. Charles Walker

Nashville Northern soul combo’s epic journey

"...NYC in 1961. Following a stint with onetime James Brown bandleader J.C. Davis, he formed Little Charles & the..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Music Post by Greg Beets

Sheet Music

"...The decades have not been kind to James Brown's 1962 breakthrough, Live at the Apollo. At 31 minutes,..."

May 28, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Dancing About Architecture

On Your Marks

"...be a place to (paisley) park for blocks... Louisiana's Ruth Brown features a previously unrecorded Sarah Brown song on..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Music Column

Bill Carter

"...decades of Austin-centric compositions in league with his wife, Ruth Ellsworth, cements to his resume covers by Waylon Jennings,..."

April 5, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Bill Carter Tackles the Unknown

Waterloo Records in-store today previews new album

"...songwriter. His material – often written with his wife Ruth Ellsworth Carter – has been recorded most famously by..."

Jan. 29, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...during the Depression, and getting an education watching Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Mel Ott hit long balls; Grand..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Rosie Flores

"...spin on rollicking pre-rock & roll gems, including Roy Brown's "Love Don't Love Nobody," Ruth Brown's "I Want to..."

March 22, 2019 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White

This collection is a lively, loving document of Fort Worth

"...and snapshots, commissioned events and candids of legendary entertainers (Ruth Brown, T-Bone Walker), athletes (Jackie Brown, Joe Louis), and..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970

"...a spot for local station WLAC. Etta James and Ruth Brown, who appear on disc two for cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof "What'd..."

May 7, 2004 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Wop-bop-a-loo-bop

Little Richard, the pompadour himself, raps a little

"...LR: Gospel. Mahalia Jackson, Brother Joe May, Marion Williams, Ruth Brown, Roy Brown, Fats Domino. Fats wasn't singing rock..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Tapestry Dance Company's April Fools

This remount of the tap troupe's valentine to vaudeville brought the old art form back with delights in abundance

"...a blond wig and sequined red gown, delivering the Ruth Brown chestnut, "If I Can't Sell It," backed by..."

May 11, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Preaching Beyond That Choir

San Fran Bishop Yvette Flunder has some 'mighty real' revelations

"...that it goes, you know? And that's a sad truth. So you can stay as long as you play,..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

DVDnds

"...• Ruth Brown and Bonnie Raitt teaming up on "Mama He..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Record Review

Honeydripper Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

"...the roots of rock & roll. Atlantic Records pioneer Ruth Brown waxes nostalgic on the weary "Things About Coming..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Page Two: Personalizing the Mythic

How a former president's understated decency and the hectic birth of rock & roll electrified Toronto screens

"...Willie John, she was a protégé and friend of Ruth Brown's and, as a Raylette, sang backup on many..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Other Janis

Saying goodbye to Janis Martin.

"...an early age for stardom, incorporating R&B influences like Ruth Brown into otherwise white hillbilly rock. RCA jumped on..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

DVDnds

DVDnds

"...most important indie label. Disgracefully, iconic archival footage of Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Cream,..."

July 20, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Pinetop Perkins

"...Mind," Madeleine Peyroux's jazzy "He's Got Me Goin'" and Ruth Brown, so sexy crooning "Chains of Love" with Pinetop..."

April 22, 2005 Music Review by Margaret Moser

TCB

The Hole in the Wall and the Motards return, and things get smoky at City Hall

May 23, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

The Memphis Blues Again

Sheet Music

"...Beale Street benefactor, glowing atop a parade limo, 1955. Ruth Brown, all 200% woman of her. Smilin' Louis Jordan..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Shemekia Copeland Wicked (Alligator)

"...Fool You're Looking For" to the tag-team repartee of Ruth Brown and Copeland on the rollicking "If He Moves..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Music Review by Jay Hardwig

Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Sharon Bridgforth's works aren't meant to be read silently," Suzy Spencer writes. "Some folks would say that's like eating barbecue without the sauce. But if it's good barbecue, you can do without the sauce because it has plenty of flavor on its own."

"...Bull-jean sings the blues -- Ma Rainey, Ruth Brown, Coco Taylor, Etta James. But when Bridgforth writes..."

July 28, 2000 Books Feature by Suzy Spencer

Top 10 1999/National

"...2. Ruth Brown, A Good Day for the Blues (Bullseye Blues..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Century of Women in Music (Rhino)

Box Sets

"...wails of midcentury standard bearers Billie Holiday, Patti Page, Ruth Brown, Wanda Jackson, and crash landing onto modern notables..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Review by Kate X Messer

The Jive Bombers Hit the Deck, It's the Jive Bombers (Texas Jamboree)

"...the records they dig -- Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, Ruth Brown, and Louis Jordan -- Hit the Deck ......."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Review by David Lynch

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