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Terraplane Blues - Colin Linden

Of how many artists can it be said that they’re getting better, 33 years into their recording career? Colin Linden can certainly be considered a member of that select club based on From The Water, the 11th solo…

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Homesick - The Steady Rollin' Men

Xavier Berland and Jean-Noël Aunet, friends since their early childhood, start learning the guitar in 2009 at the age of 14, listening to AC/DC. Self taught, they find inspiration later in the music of the greatest artists like…

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The Stuff Is Here - Cleo Brown

Cleo Brown, later Cleo Patra Brown (December 8, 1909 – April 15, 1995) was an American blues and jazz vocalist and pianist. Brown was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and sang in church as a child. In 1919 her…

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The Guy With A "45" - Allen Bunn

Talk about a versatile musician: Alden Bunn (aka Tarheel Slim) recorded in virtually every postwar musical genre imaginable. Lowdown blues, gospel, vocal group R&B, poppish duets, even rockabilly weren't outside the sphere of his musicianship. However, spirituals were…

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Take a Swig - The Pumpers

The Pumpers are a blues band based out of Eastern Iowa and includes multiple members of the Iowa Rock N Roll Hall of Fame and the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame. Collectively the Pumpers have over 170 years…

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Baby Please Don't Go - Bernie Pearl

The blues is life itself to Bernie Pearl. A guitarist with an upbeat, finger-poppin' picking style he learned at the elbows of bluesmasters Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, Mississippi Fred MacDowell, and others. Yet, Bernie Pearl is no…

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