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Two decades after release on CD, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings’ Classic Blues compilation available on vinyl for first time
As much as we enjoy listening to the new blues music being released, occasionally we just have to go back and remind ourselves of some of the classic blues that helped to get the genre to where it is today. … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bill Broonzy, Big Joe Williams, Brownie McGhee, Champion Jack Dupree, David Honeyboy Edwards, Elizabeth Cotten, Etta Baker, Henry Townsend, Josh White, Lead Belly, Lightnin' Hopkins, Little Brother Montgomery, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Slim, Pink Anderson, Rev. Gary Davis, Roosevelt Sykes, Sonny Terry
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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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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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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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Tagged Memphis Slim
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