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Chess Blues Rarities
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Sonny Boy II: The Chess Years
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A Brief History of American Roots Music
1903: While waiting on a train in the Mississippi Delta, W.C. Handy heard “a lean loose-jointed Negro” play slide guitar with a knife while singing strange lines, each one repeated three times. Handy...
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Masters of the Blues Harp
“Dear Tim: You’ve bitched about the Confederate Flag, bashed bro-country, dissed Eric Clapton, trashed EDM, maligned Parrotheads… It’s not that we disagree with you on any of that stuff, but… Is there...
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The Box Set is Dead… Long Live Our Favorites
Remember the box set? Actually, in a year or two we might be asking ourselves, remember compact discs? I came fairly late to the CD party – which is probably a good thing, because a research team...
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Chess Blues Rarities
The real Leonard Chess (seated) with Phil at right A few months ago, my blogging buddy April asked me what I thought about the movie “Cadillac Records,” a glossy look back at the birth of modern...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sonny Boy II: The Chess Years
America’s greatest musical export? That’s easy – Chess blues and rock ‘n roll. New Orleans R&B might be a close second, and you can’t deny the lasting, global impact of jazz greats like Miles...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Brief History of American Roots Music
1903: While waiting on a train in the Mississippi Delta, W.C. Handy heard “a lean loose-jointed Negro” play slide guitar with a knife while singing strange lines, each one repeated three times. Handy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Masters of the Blues Harp
“Dear Tim: You’ve bitched about the Confederate Flag, bashed bro-country, dissed Eric Clapton, trashed EDM, maligned Parrotheads… It’s not that we disagree with you on any of that stuff, but… Is there...
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