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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…
Continue Reading »Lookin' For A Home - Olive Brown
If the blues seems to be the only musical genre named after a color, the performer named Olive Brown represents a small part of the music's unique color wheel. Brown changed her name from Olive Jefferson and apparently…
Continue Reading »New Release - Joel DaSilva & The Midnight Howl - Self titled - Review
I'm listening to the new self titled release by Joel DaSilva and the Midnight Howl and it's great! It opens with Let's Not Fight, a Texas style blues, with so real down home Texas style guitar playing. Hangin'On,…
Continue Reading »NEA Funds Music Maker's Chapel Hill Series
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - Music Maker is proud to announce a spring music series at Southern Village in Chapel Hill, N.C., that will be offered free to the public. The Roots and Leaves Series will feature traditional music on…
Continue Reading »Excellent Concert Footage - Bob Margolin
Bob Margolin, (born May 9, 1949, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States)and featured here with Mike Sponza, is an American electric blues guitarist. His nickname is "Steady Rollin'". Bob Margolin was born and raised in Brookline. He started playing guitar…
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