Alfredo Flores

Freelance music and entertainment reporter

University of Missouri-Columbia

Bachelor of Journalism Magna Cum Laude 2001

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Washington Post Express
Circulation 180,000 daily

CD Beating Back Babylon: Thievery Corporation
Written by Express contributor Alfredo Flores
Washington Post Express. January 29, 2000

Party Time: Grupo Fantasma Wants Their Money
Written by Express contributor Alfredo Flores
Washington Post Express. January7, 2009

Good Mornings: John Legend
Written by Express contributor Alfredo Flores
Washington Post Express. December8, 2008

A Tuneful Martian Invasion: Los Enanitos Verdes
Written by Express contributor Alfredo Flores
Washington Post Express. November 13, 2008

CD Review: Q-Tip, 'The Renaissance'
Written by Express contributor Alfredo Flores
Washington Post Express. November 4, 2008

Alterna-Rican: Calle 13
Written by Express contributor Alfredo Flores
Washington Post Express. October 22, 2008

Evolving Manifesto: Talib Kweli
Written by Express contributor Alfredo Flores
Washington Post Express. October 20, 2008.

Unplugged & Charged Up: Julieta Venegas
Written by Express contributor Alfredo Flores
Washington Post Express. September 5, 2008

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Washington City Paper. Washington, DC
Circulation 90,000 weekly

Author: Alfredo Flores Author: Flores Issue: 2009/02/19 Issue Volume: 29

B.B. King

Friday, Feb. 20, at DAR Constitution Hall

By Alfredo Flores Posted: February 18, 2009

It�s fitting that one of the most recognizable musical instruments in the world is named for the subject of a fight so big it burned down a nightclub. One night in the mid-1950s, the relatively young �Beale Street Blues Boy� (later known as B.B. King) was doing a show at the Arkansas club Twist when two men began trading blows over a woman named Lucille, upsetting a kerosene stove in the process. After evacuating the inferno, King went back in to retrieve his $30 acoustic guitar. King and a better guitar, a version of Lucille he had custom-made, have played 15,000 shows in the last 50 years, during which time King has written genre-crossing hits like �Thrill Is Gone� and �Every Day I Have the Blues,� and developed a knack for bringing home hardware�he just won his 15th Grammy for his most recent studio album, One Kind Favor. In the liner notes for his 1968 album Lucille, King states his guidance has come from the guitar herself: �Lucille don�t want to play anything but the blues. Lucille is real, when I play her it�s almost like hearing words, and of course, naturally I hear cries.�

On Tap Magazine. Washington, DC