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Bringing you the very best in multi-discipline martial arts. Including Grappling Techniques Sai & Bo Staff Kendo and Ju Jitsu.
Few Texas bluesmen have dominated their time and place as much as LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS. He was the leading performer of traditional Texas blues for over 35 years. In the first part of this DVD Lightnin' talks of his career as a bluesman and creator of songs as well as being presented in both informal and concert performances.Sam (Lightnin') Hopkins was born in Centerville Texas March 15th 1912. Inspired by his brother he took up guitar an early age and as a youth met the legendary Blind Lemon Jefferson. Later he worked the streets of Houston with his cousin the great blues singer Texas Alexander and gained a surpassing knowledge of traditional Texas blues. In 1946 he began his 35 year recording career resulting in hundreds of singles and dozens of albums. His sly and colloquial vocals his flair for creating humorous and serious blues and his distinctive guitar style made him an outstanding blues performer.Tracks include: Mr. Charlie Mojo Hand Short Haired Woman.The second part of this DVD presents an intimate portrait of ROOSEVELT SYKES one of the outstanding blues pianists of this century. As both performer and composer he was a great influence on later pianists such as Memphis Slim and Otis Spann. Sykes reminisces about his life as a blues performer while performing both on stage and at home.Roosevelt Sykes was born in Elmar Arkansas in 1906. As a teenager he ran off to play in the barrelhouses of Helena sharpening his talent under the tutelage of blues legends such as Red-Eye Jesse Bell and Lee Pork Chop Green. He enjoyed a successful recording career for over 50 years playing hard-edged blues jazz and rhythm 'n' blues with equal aplomb. Many of his songs have become blues standards recorded by Ray Charles Little Junior Parker and John Lee Hooker.Tracks include: I Ain't Mad With You Blue Moon My Driving Wheel.
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Steve Carell (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) reprising his role as the polished preening newscaster Evan Baxter of Bruce Almighty is the next one anointed by God to accomplish a holy mission in the hilarious new comedy Evan Almighty. Blockbuster comedy director Tom Shadyac (The Nutty Professor Liar Liar Bruce Almighty) returns behind the camera for this next episode of divine intervention. This time however his cast grows two-by-two. Newly elected to Congress Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there his life gets turned upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions...
The Fighting Spirit brings you the very best in martial arts compiled and presented by Bob Sykes. Training: The Martial Arts - The Instructors Karate - Tony Sykes Wing Chun - James Sinclair Wado Ryu Karate - Shihan Sakagami The Action: The Martial Arts - The Demonstrators Wado Kai - Walter Seaton Kickboxing - Lance Lewis Thai Boxing - Ronnie Green
Take five scientists ferry them to a remote Mediterranean island leave them with only the most basic equipment and ask them to use their scientific knowledge to solve a series of challenges. How useful is science outside the laboratory?
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