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For blues fans, the Juke or in this case Jook Joint has taken on the mystical place of a temple, where the Word of...
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Watermelon Slim and the Workers play the straight-up workingman's blues, for people who walk the hard road every...
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Like many of the legends of the blues, guitarist Earl Hooker moved to Chicago in the post-war years from his...
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The Allmusic blog has anice post about the music of trumpeter Woody Shaw:"Although Shaw would continue to...
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The good doctor is one angry unit. War, natural disaster, and global warming are destroying everything that he...
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It's hard not to break into a spontaneous grin when listening to slide guitarist and vocalist Hound Dog Taylor. The...
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Big Road Blues has a two part post on their blog about the pre-war bluesman Tommy McClennan, with some mp3...
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The era before Chess Records was a vibrant one for blues music in Chicago with the likes of Tampa Red, John Lee...
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Sad news yesterday about the death of pianist Esbjorn Svensson: "Esbjörn Svensson, the genre-defying...
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In his spoken introduction to this album, McDowell recounts the history of his blues, before making his famous...
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