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Limited edition LP offers further listen to American Folk Blues Festival’s earliest years with previously unreleased recordings of Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon, T-Bone Walker, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, John Lee Hooker, and more
American Folk Blues Festival Live in Paris 1962 • Bremen 1963 (The Lost Recordings) There are, fortunately for us all, a good number of recordings from the American Folk Blues Festival over the years, but we’re certainly not going to … Continue reading
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Tagged Brownie McGhee, Hubert Sumlin, John Lee Hooker, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Memphis Slim, Shakey Jake, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sonny Terry, Sunnyland Slim, T-Bone Walker, Willie Dixon
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The Original Blues Brothers Band hits on Last Shade of Blue Before Black with latest recording
Although it’s been decades now since the Blues Brothers Band played together in its original and most popular form (with the death of John Belushi, a.k.a. “Joliet Jake” Blues, in 1982), the Blues Brothers legacy has carried on through a … Continue reading
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Tagged Blues Brothers, Dr. John, Eddie Floyd, Joe Louis Walker, Lou Marini, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Steve Cropper
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Heritage Music BluesFest 2014 in photos
We’ve posted more than 250 photos from last weekend’s Heritage Music BluesFest to our BluesPowR Gallery, including new folders spotlighting Ana Popovic, Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch, Jarekus Singleton, Matt “Guitar” Murphy and the Nouveaux Honkies, and Damon Fowler, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Ana Popovic, Billy Branch, Billy the Kid & the Regulators, Gracie Curran & the High Falutin' Band, Hadden Sayers, Heritage Music BluesFest, Indigenous, Jarekus Singleton, Lurrie Bell, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Nouveaux Honkies, Robert Randolph, Spin Doctors, Tab Benoit, Tim Williams
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Heritage Music BluesFest 2014 recap
If you follow us on Twitter or Facebook, you know that we spent much of the past weekend at the annual Heritage Music BluesFest in Wheeling, WV, now in its 14th year, the line-up for which included Tab Benoit, Robert … Continue reading
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Tagged Ana Popovic, Billy Branch, Billy the Kid & the Regulators, Damon Fowler, Gracie Curran & the High Falutin' Band, Hadden Sayers, Heritage Music BluesFest, Indigenous, Jarekus Singleton, Lurrie Bell, Mato Nanji, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Nouveaux Honkies, Robert Randolph, Spin Doctors, Tab Benoit, Tim Williams
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Coming up on the Crossroads; double DVD, CD sets capture some of world’s best guitarists at Clapton’s fourth Crossroads festival
Having been fortunate enough to attend both nights of Eric Clapton‘s Crossroads Guitar Festival this spring, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the highlights DVD that customarily follows, scheduled for release next Tuesday. For the first time, some of the music will … 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, Crossroads Guitar Festival, 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, Los Lobos, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Quinn Sullivan, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Sonny Landreth, Steve Cropper, Taj Mahal, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes
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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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