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Nice and Strong - The Paul deLay Band

Paul Joseph deLay (January 31, 1952 – March 7, 2007), was an American blues vocalist and harmonicist from Portland, Oregon.Paul deLay was born January 31, 1952 in Portland, Oregon.His musical career started in the early 1970s with a band called "Brown Sugar", which...

Mississippi Blues - Mary Flower and Thad Beckman

Mary Flower is an award-winning American musician and music educator on the independent Yellow Dog Records label. A blues and ragtime fingerstyle guitarist and vocalist, she combines intricate syncopated Piedmont style fingerpicking with lap-slide guitar.In 2000 and...

Interview and performances - Savanna Coen

Hmmm. I guess I began my singing career at age five, when, as the story goes, I sang the Cinderella classic, “So This Is Love,” at my kindergarten talent show, leaving numerous moms in tears. However, it took four more years without singing, followed by a...

Rolling Stone - Paris Slim & Peter Dammann

Guitarist Frank "Paris Slim" Goldwasser is no stranger to those who've been paying attention to the West Coast blues scene over the last two decades. Born in Paris, France in 1960, his initial blues inspiration came from Hound Dog Taylor's "NATURAL BOOGIE" LP. After...