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The
Kennedy Center Honors will be broadcast on network television December
30. They hold special meaning to Blues fans this year inasmuch as
the following Blues musicians were involved in a tribute to Morgan
Freeman: Koko Taylor performed with Blues Music Award Willie "Big
Eyes" Smith (harp) and Bob Stroger (bass), as well as Kenny
Smith (drums), Frank Krakowski (guitarist), and Shunsuke Kikuta
(guitar) from her band, Blues Machine.
As
if that was not enough, Blues Hall of Famers Honeyboy Edwards (guitar)
and Pinetop Perkins (piano) also performed for Morgan. And then,
the King himself--B.B. King and his band--performed in tribute to
his fellow Mississippian.
Clint
Eastwood and Denzel Washington were also there to pay tribute to
Morgan, a Blues fan and co-owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club in
Clarksdale, Mississippi.
In
addition, multiple Blues Music Award-winner Bettye LaVette sang a
tribute to The Who's Peter Townsend and Roger Daltrey and Beyonce,
who plays Etta James in the current film Cadillac Records was part
of the tribute to Barbara Streisand. The event, which was held earlier
in the year, will be shown on TV on December 30.
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