#WhatsHappening for January 24, 2019

Hi kids- how goes? Hope you're all digging it. If you're not, look at the bright side: tomorrow is Friday!

Don't forget to join us this week for another kick-ass edition of Saturday Night Karaoke, live and loud at the Iron Horse Tavern in historic downtown Norcross.

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Link Wray is among the Native American artists who are featured in PBS' Independent Lens episode, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World, which creator Stevie Salas set in motion while on tour with Rod Stewart.

Salas said he began to wonder if he was "the only Indian to have ever played at (New York’s) Madison Garden?... So I started to investigate."

Salas said he'd long admired Wray, but had no idea the guitarist was a Native American. Salas said he quickly learned about Jesse Ed Davis, of Kiowa and Comanche ancestry, who performed with John Lennon. The hobby, eventually led to an exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, then the documentary- which also touches on Charley Patton, a Mississippi Delta guitarist of Choctaw and African-American ancestry, Charley Patton- who Howlin' Wolf said taught him to play guitar, jazz vocalist Mildred Bailey- said to have inspired Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra, and a number of other performers.

Co-director Catherine Bainbridge calls the performers part of a "missing chapter to this history of music."

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Justin Timberlake took some time out from his Man of the Woods tour to visit patients at a Texas children’s hospital last weekend.

Timberlake visited patients HCA Healthcare’s Methodist Children’s Hospital in San Antonio last Friday after a video of some of the children dancing in their hospital beds made its way to the singer via social media.

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Rapper DMX, who's been in jail since January of last year after being convicted of tax evasion, will be released from prison Friday, according to Vulture. He will be under supervised release for three years once he's officially processed. A judge also ordered the rapper to also repay a restitution bill of $2.3 million.

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Birthdays today include: Jools Holland of Squeeze (64); Matthew Wilder (65); Neil Diamond (78); Aaron Neville (78); and Ray Stevens (80). #MusicalBirthdays