Michael Thomas (author)
Michael Thomas is an American author.
He won the 2009 International Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel" Man Gone Down", receiving a prize of € 100,000.
" Man Gone Down" is also recommended by" The New York Times".
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Gennethleia
Genethlia( Greek: Γενέθλια) is the name of a Greek song last covered by Notis Sfakianakis.
The song is in the zeimbekiko style, meaning that it is played to a 9 /8 beat.
Robert Johnson
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer, songwriter and musician.
His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians.
Johnson's poorly documented life and death have given rise to much legend.
The one most closely associated with his life is that he sold his soul to the devil at a local crossroads to achieve musical success.
He is now recognized as a master of the blues, particularly as a progenitor of the Delta blues style.
As an itinerant performer who played mostly on street corners, in juke joints, and at Saturday night dances, Johnson had little commercial success or public recognition in his lifetime.
He participated in only two recording sessions, one in San Antonio in 1936, and one in Dallas in 1937, that produced 29 distinct songs (with 13 surviving alternate takes) recorded by famed Country Music Hall of Fame producer Don Law.
These songs, recorded at low fidelity in improvised studios, were the totality of his recorded output.
Most were released as 10-inch, 78 rpm singles from , with a few released after his death.
Other than these recordings, very little was known of him during his life outside of the small musical circuit in the Mississippi Delta where he spent most of his life; much of his story has been reconstructed after his death by researchers.
His music had a small, but influential, following during his life and in the two decades after his death.
In late 1938 John Hammond sought him out for a concert at Carnegie Hall, "From Spirituals to Swing", only to discover that Johnson had died.
Brunswick Records, which owned the original recordings, was bought by Columbia Records, where Hammond was employed.
Musicologist Alan Lomax went to Mississippi in 1941 to record Johnson, also not knowing of his death.
Law, who by then worked for Columbia Records, assembled a collection of Johnson's recordings titled "King of the Delta Blues Singers" that was released by Columbia in 1961.
It is widely credited with finally bringing Johnson's work to a wider audience.
The album would become influential, especially on the nascent British blues movement which was just getting started at the time; Eric Clapton has called Johnson "the most important blues singer that ever lived.
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Musicians such as Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Robert Plant have cited both Johnson's lyricism and musicianship as key influences on their own work.
Many of Johnson's songs have been covered over the years, becoming hits for other artists, and his guitar licks and lyrics have been borrowed and re-purposed by many later musicians.
Renewed interest in Johnson's work and life led to a burst of scholarship starting in the 1960s.
Much of what is known about him today was reconstructed by researchers such as Gayle Dean Wardlow.
Two films, the 1991 documentary "The Search for Robert Johnson" by John Hammond, Jr., and a 1997 documentary, "
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl, the Life and Music of Robert Johnson," which included reconstructed scenes with Keb' Mo' as Johnson, were both attempts to document his life, and demonstrated the difficulties arising from the scant historical record and conflicting oral accounts.
Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in its first induction ceremony, in 1986, as an early influence on rock and roll.
He was awarded a posthumous Grammy Award in 1991 for "The Complete Recordings", a 1990 compilation album.
His single "Cross Road Blues" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, and he was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
In 2003, David Fricke ranked Johnson fifth in "Rolling Stone" magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Last Fair Deal Gone Down
"Last Fair Deal Gone Down" is a song by American blues musician Robert Johnson.
It was recorded during Johnson's third recording session in San Antonio, Texas, on November 27, 1936.
The song was released on a 78 rpm record in April the following year by Vocalion Records as the second side of "32-20 Blues".
It was included on the first reissue of Johnson's songs, "King of the Delta Blues Singers" in 1961.
In 1990, it was released on compact disc as part of "The Complete Recordings" box set, and in 2000 it was included in Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol.
4.
The song connects some scenes of gambling, work and romance, by situating them on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad.
The expression "Deal Go Down" comes from the card game "Georgia Skin".
The railroad serves as more than a setting; Max Haymes finds, in the one unclear verse, a furious description of the convict lease work used when the railroad was laid, before Johnson was born.
Elijah Wald agrees that the song features lyrics and structure of an archaic work song, similar to "
It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad"; the traditional melody and structure were adapted from Charley Patton's record, "You're Gonna Need Somebody
When You Die" (1929), its lyrics discarded.
David Brackett describes the musical changes, "Johnson modifies this arrangement, simplifying the high-register slide part... and adding a contrasting syncopated figure in the middle of the recording (but omitting the sermon).
" But Wald traces also lyrics borrowed from the song "Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down", recorded by Fiddlin' John Carson among others, which might have suggested to Johnson some of the changes in arrangement.
Artists who later interpreted the song include Keb Mo, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Todd Rundgren, C.W. Stoneking and the Blue Tits, Crooked Still, and Beck in concert.
Oscar R. Ewing
Oscar R. Ewing (March 8, 1889 - January 8, 1980) was a 20th-century American lawyer, social reformer, and politician who was one of the main authors of the Fair Deal program of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
Dead Shrimp Blues
" Dead Shrimp Blues" is a song written by Robert Johnson.
It is from the recording sessions of November 26 and 27, 1936, in San Antonio, Texas along with" 32- 20 BluesThey're Red HotCross Road BluesWalkin' BluesLast Fair Deal Gone Down Preaching Blues" and" If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day".
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.

Question: Which award the performer of song Last Fair Deal Gone Down got?
Answer: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award