boogie-woogie

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Long Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings blend a unique and tasty mix of Delta, Piedmont, Texas and Chicago blues, boogie-woogie, New Orleans style, and classic R&B and soul with generous helpings of original music.

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  1. noun A style of blues piano playing characterized by an up-tempo rhythm, a repeated melodic pattern in the bass, and a series of improvised variations in the treble.

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  • Guests included Justin Bond (a.k.a. Kiki of Kiki and Herb) singing glam versions of torch songs; fellow drag artist Our Lady J (a remarkable songwriter and Jerry Lee Lewis style boogie-woogie piano player); and Lisa Faith Phillips, whose performance piece concerned her career as a topless dancer and phone sex worker.
  • "Don't think of yesterday and I don't look at the clock, I like to boogie-woogie!" —  Ms Mac
  • "Johnny 99," a grim tale of a unrepentant killer from the solo acoustic "Nebraska" album, was turned into a rip-roaring rock 'n' roll number, with pounding boogie-woogie piano from Roy Bittan. —  San Jose Mercury News podcasts (all)
  • It's the first Mac-specific piece of boogie-woogie music we've heard! —  TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us
  • Don't think of yesterday and I don't look at the clock, I like to boogie-woogie. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Possibly from Black West African English (Sierra Leone) bogi(-bogi), to dance; possibly akin to Hausa buga, to beat drums.
 

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