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|  | | Backstage Pass Redcar Jazz Club
Alongside this history of Redcar Jazz Club runs a social commentary of that explosive decade - the 1960s - when England was the coolest place on the planet
div>span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">From its early origins in 1958 featuring Trad jazz bands, by the time Carnaby Street became famous in the mid 60s the title Redcar Jazz Club was already a misnomer. Like many other clubs in the country, it wasn’t solely featuring jazz any more, but presenting top R&B and blues artists like T-Bone Walker, Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart and John Lee Hooker. Then when the audience’s tastes changed to rock, the club booked The Who, Free, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Cream, Joe Cocker, Deep Purp | |  | | Copper City
They called it the Wild West, and this is a tough no-nonsense western set on the border of Arizona and Mexico.
p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt">As the crow flies, Cananea stands about 25 miles south of the border, in /span>st1:place>st1:city>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt">Sonora/span>/st1:city>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt">, /span>st1:country-region>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt">Mexico/span>/st1:country-region>/st1:place>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font- | |  | | Desperadoes
When Floyd Benson and Emmett Green’s gang held up the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad on the 26th June, 1883, the railroad immediately posted a reward for their capture and drafted in the Pinkerton Detective Agency. But when a bible-punching bounty hunter caught and hanged one of the gang, then crossed the line by going after Floyd Benson’s girl, the hunted stopped in their tracks and became the hunters.
Bible-punching bounty hunter Preacher Creech had a weakness. Women. He was hunting the Benson Gang, responsible for holding up the westbound train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad in Prowers County on 26th June, 1883. Floyd Benson and Emmett Green might have been notorious desperadoes, and train robbers too, but what Preacher Creech did shocked even them. Even with every lawman in Colorado looking to bust them and the railroad setting the Pinkertons on their trail, Floyd and Emmett stopped in their tracks and the hunted became the hunters.
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When prospector Morgan Clay found a mountain full of gold, he thought all his troubles were over, but they were just beginning. It seemed like they were lining up one after another. Kiowa Indians, gunslingers, women. Every single one of them gunning for Morgan Clay.
There was no tougher place than the Old West. And Morgan Clay’d had a tough life. He knew a man could spend every waking hour striving to make money. Enough to keep his head above water. And maybe a little extra for the finer things. Then when he does get lucky and gets a little something, he thinks he’s solved his problems. But only then his real troubles start. Suddenly he has to fight off the rest of the world who are trying to take it away from him.
div style="text-indent: 0.25in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Flat broke, prospector Morgan Clay, had already given up. Beaten, de | |  | | Fight At Hueco Tanks
The Apaches hated and feared Jim Tanner. He always brought them back. Dead or alive. When Chato, would-be war chief, believed the Great Spirit had chosen him to lead his people to freedom, broke out of the San Carlos reservation, Jim Tanner was sent to hunt him down.
span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt">The Apaches hated and feared Jim Tanner. They called him i>El Cazador/i>, The Hunter, because he always returned them to the reservation. Dead or alive. Before the i>Americanos/i>, the white men, had come to claim all the wild country, the Apaches had roamed free, riding wherever the game ran. But the West was changing. The i>Americanos/i> had corralled the Indian Nations one by one, promising peace for eternity on the lands granted to them, and also agency beef when the hunting was poor. But when promises were broken, the Apaches grew angry. | |  | | Quantro Story
The trail of vengeance had lasted two long years, forcing Quantro to use his guns on four men. Now it was over and he decided to try his hand in Mexico. The Arizona desert was hot after the cool mountains of Colorado, but things were to grow hotter. On the trail behind was the son of a man he had killed only weeks earlier and who was eager to carve a notch on his gun. Riding towards him from the south was a renegade Apache and a white man. And then there was the hungry buzzard circling above.
div style="margin: 0in 42.5pt 0pt 0in">span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt">When Quantro found himself bleeding to death from a bullet wound, he wondered if this day would be the last he would ever see the sun rise. The old west was a hard unforgiving place and there was no place more unforgiving than i>Mesa del Diablo/i>, the Devil’s Plateau, in /span>span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt">Arizona/span>span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt">. There, the merciless sun seared and charred the desert and sucked the life out of everything that didn’t have spines or s | |  | | Scarborough Fair
When America needed a hero, John Paul Jones stood up. This is a fictionalised account of him becoming a legend at the battle of Flamborough Head in 1779.
span style="font-family: Courier New">During the American War Of Independence, the fledgling United States Congress was anxious to smash Britain’s domination of the seas and disrupt British trade routes. The French, knowing any such disorder could only benefit them too, were eager to help. King Louis XVI promised to furnish and arm a ship to be commanded by an American officer who would have free access to French ports./span>
span style="font-family: Courier New">John Paul Jones was chosen to be that officer. Born plain John Paul on July 6, 1747 at Arbigland in G | |  | | Sunset Be Glory
On the glorious Yorkshire coast from Teesmouth to Whitby, Saltburn's king of the smugglers fights to protect his empire.
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div>span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Napoleonic Wars cost the crown dearly. As the King’s Revenue Service mercilessly squeezes every penny from taxable goods, England’s smugglers discover their backs against the wall. In North Yorkshire, the leg |
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