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Join the celebration: inaugural International Blues Music Day
Like us, you probably don’t need a special reason to go out and catch some live blues music on any given Saturday night, but this weekend offers a particularly good one. Tomorrow, Saturday, August 3rd, blues artists and fans around … Continue reading
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Tagged International Blues Music Day, Johnny Childs
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Episode 5, The BluesPowR Radio Hour
There’s no better way to enjoy these dog days of summer than listening to a hot new episode of our BluesPowR Radio Hour! Featuring another hour and a half plus of great blues music, our July 2013 edition includes tracks … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Allison, Beth Hart, Brownie McGhee, Dayna Kurtz, Finis Tasby, Frank Bang, Grand Marquis, Joe Bonamassa, Kara Grainger, King King, Lurrie Bell, Mike Zito, Mud Morganfield, Omar Dykes, Popa Chubby, Quinn Sullivan, Rory Block, Ruff Kutt Blues Band, Sonny Terry, Studebaker John, Tail Dragger, Taj Mahal, Tommy Malone, Tommy Z, Trampled Under Foot, Walter Trout
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Birthday BLOW-out: Howlin’ Wolf’s hidden charms
When we looked at our calendar and realized that today was the anniversary of the birth of blues great Chester Arthur Burnett, a.k.a. Howlin’ Wolf (1910, West Point, Miss.), we knew we’d have to do something to commemorate the occasion. With so … Continue reading
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Tagged Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon
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Taj Mahal, Shemekia Copeland, other blues faithful team to present True Blues
Not since the designation of 2003 as the “Year of the Blues” has the genre been more celebrated than it is on the newTrue Blues CD from Telarc, featuring solo and joint performances from blues greats Taj Mahal, Corey Harris, Guy … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Youngblood Hart, Corey Harris, Guy Davis, Phil Wiggins, Shemekia Copeland, Taj Mahal
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Smithsonian Folkways delivers another classic in Classic Harmonica Blues
Hard as it may be to imagine a worthy collection of blues harmonica that doesn’t include the likes of James Cotton, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Junior Wells, or Big Walter Horton, leave it to the good folks at Smithsonian … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Raines, Brownie McGhee, Chambers Brothers, Charlie Sayles, Doctor Ross, Eddie Burns, Henry Townsend, Jay Summerour, Jazz Gillum, John Cephas, John Sebastian, Johnny Shines, Memphis Jug Band, Memphis Slim, Neal Pattman, Phil Wiggins, Robert Lockwood Jr., Roscoe Holcomb, Sonny Terry
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Where did you come from, Cotton Mouth Man?: Blues harp legend James Cotton strikes a personal chord with new Alligator CD
As far as we can tell, blues harmonica giant James Cotton has never published a memoir, nor has anyone yet written a book on the life of this extraordinary bluesman, who’s been playing since age nine. And with the release … Continue reading
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Tagged James Cotton, Tom Hambridge
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Blues Lyrics of the Week: Gin House Blues
This slow but soulful blues tune recorded by such artists as Nina Simone, The Animals, and British band Amen Corner is one of our new favorite old songs after hearing it again from Andy Fairweather Low and Eric Clapton at … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Fairweather Low, Crossroads Guitar Festival, Eric Clapton
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With fourth guitar festival, Clapton and friends deliver plenty of blues at the Crossroads
Having attended two of the three previous Crossroads Guitar Festivals (the first in Dallas, as well as the most recent in Chicago), we weren’t all that sure what to think about last fall’s announcement of the 2013 installment of the renowned festival. … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Lee, Allman Brothers Band, Andy Fairweather Low, B.B. King, Beth Hart, Blake Mills, Booker T., Buddy Guy, Cesar Rosas, Citizen Cope, Crossroads Guitar Festival, Dan Aykroyd, David Hidalgo, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Earl Klugh, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Gregg Allman, Jeff Beck, Jimmie Vaughan, John Mayer, Keb Mo, Keith Richards, Keith Urban, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Philip Sayce, Quinn Sullivan, Robbie Robertson, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Sonny Landreth, Steve Cropper, Susan Tedeschi, Taj Mahal, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes
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