Special Edition: Two late-breaking news items -- Dec 11, 2013

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Here are two late-breaking items.
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The Guide published a MAJOR news and events edition on Tuesday. It's still current and still available right here, at a separate click, and it features NINE News Features and hundreds of concerts, club gigs, coffeehouse shows, and plenty of other events -- happening this week and well into next year.
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   In this Special Edition... 
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♪  ODETTA'S SIGNATURE SONG IN A TV SHOW TONIGHT
♪  DUSTBOWL REVIVAL IN AN IMPROBABLE LIVE SHOW, THURSDAY NIGHT
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♪  ODETTA'S SIGNATURE SONG IN A TV SHOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT
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Wed, Dec 11, on TV:
Airing three times tonight:
10-11 pm; 11:03 pm-12:03 am; and 1:07-2:07 am (Pacific & Eastern) on the FX Network channel.
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ODETTA, the late and legendary singer whose musical voice fueled the Civil Rights Movement, has a performance of her classic "FREEDOM TRILOGY" in a TV show that airs for the first time tonight.
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The song is interwoven into the storyline of the "AMERICAN HORROR STORY" series, in an episode titled "Head" (# 309) of the acclaimed television series, now in its third season.
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ODETTA recorded the "Freedom Trilogy" on four different occasions and performed it at the 1963 "March on Washington."
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Upon her passing in 2008, the front page obituary in the New York Times read, "ODETTA - Voice of the Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77."
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If you aren't familiar with "American Horror Story," you may be interested to learn this about its stars: JESSICA LANGE has received an EMMY, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actor's Guild award for her role in the series, while JAMES CROMWELL won the 2013 EMMY for his role. Among the other actors in this stellar ensemble are KATHY BATES, ANGELA BASSETT, FRANCIS CONROY, and SARAH PAULSON, along with brilliant young actors TAISSA FARMIGA, EVAN PETERS, LILY RABE, and EMMA ROBERTS.
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It all helps to keep ODETTA's memory and voice alive.
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Thanks to Douglas Yeager for information used in this piece.
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♪  DUSTBOWL REVIVAL IN AN IMPROBABLE LIVE SHOW, THURSDAY NIGHT
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Thu, Dec 12, in Santa Monica:
9 pm-2 am  Americana hotshots THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL play one of the finales in the "AFRO FUNKE'" series at Zanzibar, 1301 5th St, Santa Monica 90401 (Entrance on Arizona); 310-451-2221; www.zanzibarlive.com
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We're happily surprised we can list this event. The Guide used to list some shows at Zanzibar, fairly regularly, and the editor had performing guests on his "Tied to the Tracks" radio show to promote their gigs at the venue.
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But that's been YEARS ago. Zanzibar went all "world beat" (aka rap and hiphop in other languages, and thuddingly annoying electronica "dance") and there was no reason to pay any attention to them any more.
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Until now. Their "Afro Funke" series is in its final month, and, will wonders never cease, they remembered their old broadly-based diverse roots, and booked Americana string band DUSTBOWL REVIVAL to play there Thursday night.
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For its part, DUSTBOWL REVIVAL says, "We are ALL so pumped to be a part of the final month of the amazing Afro Funke' dance party series that has rocked at Zanzibar in Santa Monica for many years. Last west side Dustbowl Revival show of 2013 - let's groove together by the sea!"
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Venice, California-based Dustbowl Revival is a collective that merges old school bluegrass, gospel, jug-band, swamp blues and the hot swing of the 1930s to form a spicy roots cocktail that's a hoot-and-a-half of fun.
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Known for their inspired live sets, the Dustbowl Revival boldly brings together many styles of traditional American / roots Americana music. Imagine Old Crow Medicine Show meeting Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven Band in New Orleans or Bob Dylan and Fats Waller jamming with Mumford & Sons on a front porch in 1938.
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Growing steadily from a small string band playing up and down the West Coast (hundreds of shows in the last two years), DBR has blossomed into a traveling collective featuring instrumentation that often includes fiddle, mandolin, trombone, clarinet, trumpet, banjo, accordion, tuba, pedal steel, drums,  guitars, a bass made from a canoe oar,  harmonica, and plenty of washboard and kazoo for good luck.
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2013 has been a banner year for the band. Their new album, "Carry Me Home," produced by Eric Lilavois, dropped in April. Merging their vintage style with a hip, lose-your-troubles-and-start-moving vibe, the record perfectly encompasses the band’s upbeat message. Beautiful blue vinyls came in July.
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Seeking to travel more widely in 2013, the band played all over the USA, recently on the "Mountain Song Bluegrass Cruise" to the Bahamas, performing in the same lineups as The Punch Brothers, and David Grisman. In addition, they ventured to Illinois, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and in August, made their first extended East Coast tour. Back home, they opened for Trombone Shorty at the Santa Monica Pier in a big show at the end of the summer.
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More at www.dustbowlrevival.com
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For its part, Afro Funké's forte for the past decade had grown away from American music rooted in the black experience. It's been about Afrobeat, Brazilian, Dub, Reggae, Cumbia, Samba Disco, Batucada, Afro-Latin House, Indian Beats, Makossa, "and other deep-rooted Soul music from around the world." The Guide is glad to see this one night during the series' finale when Americana roots are remembered and celebrated.
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$10 cover. Venue is 21+.  Everyone MUST have ID. No credit cards for cover. ATM in building.
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