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Cotton Pickin' Blues - Lousiana Red
The current blues scene in the U.S. and Europe is characterized by a wide variety of styles and musicians. However, as the years go passing by there are fewer and fewer artists left that were active during the…
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I was raised on a healthy mix of New Orleans Ragtime Funk, Hard Driving 70s Classic Rock and Heavy Metal. Discovered Pure Delta Blues when I began to play Harp at age 18. Guitar shortly followed and I…
Continue Reading »Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley
Birthday Exclusive Please enjoy a new exclusive Bob Marley Wallpaper! Click to see download options Nesta Robert Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981), more widely and commonly known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter…
Continue Reading »Council Spur Blues - Robert Curtis Smith
Robert Curtis Smith is a hard working farm laborer in upper Mississippi. He supports a wife and eight children by driving a tractor ($3 a day top) during the farming season, by hunting rabbits in the winter. He…
Continue Reading »Country Boys Get the Blues - Charlie Daniels
People think of Charlie Daniels as a country or gospel fiddle player but prior to hitting it rich with the tremendously popular but uninspiring "Devil Went Down to Georgia" he actually had a real decent blues band. Here's…
Continue Reading »Country girl - Lucille Spann
b. Mahalia Lucille Jenkins, 23 June 1938, Bolton, Mississippi, USA. Spann sang gospel to start with, both in Mississippi and later in Chicago, where she lived in her early teens. In the 60s, she met the great blues…
Continue Reading »Country Woman - Will Batts
Fiddler Will Batts was the primary instrumentalist in Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band, a popular string band whose music owed a heavy debt to the blues as well as minstrel songs, vaudeville numbers, reels and rags. Born…
Continue Reading »County Jail - Big Maceo Merriweather
Big Maceo Merriweather (March 31, 1905 – February 23, 1953) was an American Chicago blues pianist and singer, active in Chicago in the 1940s. Born Major Merriweather (or Merewether) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, he was a self-taught…
Continue Reading »Coventus, The Eye Of The Heart - Norine Braun - New Release Review - Ellis James, guest writer
I just received the newest release,Coventus, The Eye Of The Heart, from Norine Braun. The opening track, Lightning Strikes Twice displays an nterplay between smooth guitar, keyboard and wonderfully comforting and well trained voice elicit memories and best…
Continue Reading »COW COW BLUES - COW COW DAVENPORT
Charles Edward "Cow Cow" Davenport (April 23, 1894 – December 3, 1955) was an American boogie woogie piano player. He also played the organ and sang. He was born in Anniston, Alabama. Arnold Caplin, on the liner notes…
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