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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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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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Blues Lyrics of the Week: Don’t Care How Great You Are…

“Don’t care how great you are, Don’t care what you worth. When it all ends up, You got to go back to Mother Earth.” – Mother Earth, Memphis Slim Here’s an old Memphis Slim tune that’s also been done by Johnny Winter and others over … Continue reading

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