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    1. Featured Top 10 list

      Steve Holtje’s Top Ten — July 25

      This week’s birthday celebrants.

      1. Pylon guitarist Randy Bewley, July 25, 1955

      2. “Sunny” composer Bobby Hebb, July 26, 1941

      3. Classical pianist Angela Hewitt, July 26, 1958

      4. Country singer/“Ode to Billie Joe” writer Bobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter), July 27, 1944

      5. Blues singer/guitarist/songwriter Junior Kimbrough, July 28, 1930

      6. Italian conductor Riccardo Muti, July 28, 1941

      7. Jazz guitar innovator Charlie Christian, July 29, 1916

      8. British singer/songwriter Kate Bush, July 30, 1958

      9. Jazz pianist Hank Jones, July 31, 1918

      10. Bauhaus/Tones on Tail/Love and Rockets guitarist Daniel Ash, July 31, 1957

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      Welcome to the new Bigtakeover.com!

      11 July 2010

      On behalf of all of us here at bigtakeover.com and Big Takeover Magazine, I bid you welcome to our newly redesigned site! Looks cool, doesn’t it? Our print magazine is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, going back to a good 15 years or so before there was any electronic media. So the timing is perfect. Our endeavor has come a long, long way from the days of typing, Xeroxing, reducing, stapling, folding, mailing, shipping, and selling at gigs, and we are celebrating this long three decades of service and commentary in three distinct ways this year.

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      Big Takeover #66 (Special 30th Anniversary Issue) is in stores now!

      11 July 2010

      We only come out twice a year, every Spring and Fall, so you don’t want to miss one of our jam-packed 192-page issues! Read on for a quick description of the new issue’s contents.

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