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Blues Won’t Let Me Take My Rest
What could be better than another edition of our BluesPowR Radio Hour to help keep your holiday season grooving? How about another edition that’s actually two more shows jammed into one?! Here for your listening pleasure is another two hours … Continue reading
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Tagged Arlen Roth, Bob Corritore, Buddy Guy, Colin John, David Gogo, Deb Callahan, Debbie Davies, Gaye Adegbalola, Guy Davis, Henry Gray, James Cotton, Jimmy Burns, John Earl Walker, John Primer, Johnny Winter, Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, King King, Long Tall Deb, Lucky Peterson, Mitch Woods, Monkeyjunk, Murali Coryell, Omar Coleman, Rick Vito, Robert Cray, Robin McKelle, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Sam Butler, Sugar Brown, Tad Robinson, The Hurt Project, Zakiya Hooker
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Latest releases from daughters of the blues Shemekia Copeland, Zakiya Hooker help keep blues, fathers’ legacies alive
Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of blues history will be familiar with the names – and probably at least a few of the songs – of blues masters John Lee Hooker and Johnny Clyde Copeland. But with both bluesmen … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Youngblood Hart, Billy Gibbons, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Copeland, Robert Randolph, Shemekia Copeland, Zakiya Hooker
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Fathers and Sons (and daughters too)
Last week’s post regarding Elmore James, Jr., got me to thinking about some of the other children of blues greats who are helping to keep the genre alive through their own music. A few (in no particular order) who jump to mind: Shemekia … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Dixon, Bernard Allison, Big Bill Morganfield, Buddy Guy, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall, Doyle Bramhall II, Elmore James, Elmore James Jr., John Lee Hooker, John Lee Hooker Jr., Johnny Copeland, Kenny Beedy Eyes Smith, Kenny Neal, Luther Allison, Magic Slim, Mud Morganfield, Muddy Waters, Nick Holt, Phil Guy, Raful Neal, Robert Nighthawk, Sam Carr, Shemekia Copeland, Willie Big Eyes Smith, Willie Dixon, Zakiya Hooker
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