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Earwig Music relays important part of Chicago music history through Cadillac Baby’s Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection
Chicago label Bea & Baby Records and its subsidiaries may never have achieved the same recognition as others like Chess, Alligator, Delmark and Vee-Jay, but listening to the new four-CD set Cadillac Baby’s Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew "Blueblood" McMahon, Bobby Saxton, Carey Bell, Detroit Junior, Earl Hooker, Earwig Music Company, Eddie Boyd, Eddie Taylor, Hammie Nixon, Homesick James, Hound Dog Taylor, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, L.C. McKinley, Lee Jackson, Little Mack Simmons, Michael Frank, Narvel "Cadillac Baby" Eatmon, Robert Lockwood Jr., Singing Sam Chatmon, Sleepy John Estes, Sunnyland Slim, Tall Paul Hankins, Willie Hudson, Willie Williams
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Final recording of David “Honeyboy” Edwards, new CD/DVD presents Mississippi bluesman tellin’ what he knew about the blues and some of its biggest legends
It’s hard to believe that next week already marks five years since the passing of Delta bluesman David “Honeyboy” Edwards. But a new CD/DVD package of a 2010 show from Honeyboy, joined by longtime manager and harmonica player Michael Frank … Continue reading
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Tagged David Honeyboy Edwards, Jeff Dale, Michael Frank, Robert Johnson
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Blues Lyrics of the Week: Pittsburgh Blues
It’s been just over a year now since the passing of the Southern-born (some reports say Bessemer, Alabama; others, Vicksburg, Mississippi) but Pittsburgh-raised bluesman known as Louisiana Red. And although Red never did make it back to Pittsburgh after the … Continue reading
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Tagged Louisiana Red, Michael Frank
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In fond memory of Willie Big Eyes Smith
Late last week, the blues world lost another of its legends with the passing of drummer and harmonica player Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, who in death is reunited with such former bandmates as the great Muddy Waters and keyboardist Pinetop … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Margolin, Calvin Fuzz Jones, David Honeyboy Edwards, George Mojo Buford, Kenny Beedy Eyes Smith, Michael Frank, Muddy Waters, Pinetop Perkins, Willie Big Eyes Smith
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Farewell, Honeyboy Edwards
By now, you’ve likely heard about the death of one of the last true Mississippi Delta bluesmen, the talented David “Honeyboy” Edwards, who, as some of you may know, was managed for the past nearly three decades by Pittsburgh native, harmonica … Continue reading
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Tagged David Honeyboy Edwards, Michael Frank
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2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival Recap
To see more photos from the 2010 Crossroads Festival, please visit our BluesPowR Gallery. Eric Clapton and his friends sure are getting good at putting on a show, as they proved once again Saturday during the third installment of Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival at Chicago’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Lee, Allman Brothers Band, B.B. King, Bill Murray, Buddy Guy, Cesar Rosas, Crossroads Guitar Festival, David Hidalgo, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Earl Klugh, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Honeyboy Edwards, Hubert Sumlin, James Burton, Jeff Beck, Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa, John Mayer, Johnny Winter, Jonny Lang, Keb Mo, Michael Frank, Pino Daniele, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Ronnie Wood, Sheryl Crow, Sonny Landreth, Stefan Grossman, Steve Winwood, Susan Tedeschi, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes, ZZ Top
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