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Carolina Chocolate Drops release music video!
Music Maker Receives NEA Grant! Music Maker has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to present a music series in Chapel Hill! The Music Maker Roots and Leaves series will take place on Fridays,…
Continue Reading »59th annual Jimmie Rodgers Festival returns to Meridian, Mississippi
59th Annual Jimmie Rodgers Festival Boasts Music Lineup As Eclectic As Its Legendary Namesake Meridian, Mississippi, Roster Features Country, Folk, Blues, Rock and More at Multiple Venues! (MERIDIAN, MS) – May 9, 2012 – He’s known as the…
Continue Reading »Mike Portnoy's Flying Colors announce September European tour
Flying Colors, the hot new virtuoso prog rock supergroup featuring drummer Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater), guitarist Steve Morse (Deep Purple), and Neal Morse (Spock’s Beard), follow the release of their eponymous debut album with a rare European tour…
Continue Reading »Everything I Do - Maurice John Vaughn & Fred Brousse
Maurice John Vaughn (born May 10, 1952) is an American blues musician from Chicago, Illinois. He is a guitarist, saxophonist, keyboardist and singer. Vaughn began playing professionally in 1968 as a saxophonist in Chicago R&B groups. He recorded…
Continue Reading »Instrumental - Jimmy Ponder
Jimmy Ponder (born May 10, 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz guitarist. Ponder started playing guitar at age 14, and was heavily influenced by Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell. He began playing with Charles Earland at…
Continue Reading »Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
No, I really don't consider Donovan when I think of blues, but then again, Jeff beck was featured on an early album and the Allman Brothers thought enough of his stuff to do a 2 sided jam of…
Continue Reading »Search For Robert Johnson Part 5 (of 5)
The Search for Robert Johnson is a 1991 UK television documentary film about the legendary Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, hosted by John Hammond, and produced and directed by Chris Hunt. In it, Hammond travels through the American…
Continue Reading »Busy Being Blue - Paula Harris and the Eddie Neon Blues Band
Paula recently won the Golden Gate Blues Society's International Blues Challenge Competition This won her the privilege of representing the Bay Area in the International Finals in Memphis in February. There she came in Third in the world…
Continue Reading »Devil Come Knockin' - Rosco Levee
Rosco Levee is a singer songwriter and guitarist from Kent, who has been playing the guitar for the last 23 years...and he’s only 28 now! Music and writing songs is in his blood; every day he composes a…
Continue Reading »Wouldnt Mind Dying - Blind Mamie Forehand
Having made only a handful of recordings in the company of her presumed husband A.C. Forehand, the ’20s performer Blind Mamie Forehand joins a class of recording artists whose uniqueness is not in name only. While it many…
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