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<title>Muddy Waters</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Muddy Waters was one of the few key players of the postwar Chicago Blues scene who actually influenced the music that influenced him. His swollen, grandiloquent vocals were an instrument unto themselves and his beefy electric slide playing breathed new life into music heavily influenced by the Delta Blues. Waters, who grew up on the Mississippi Delta in Clarksdale listening to the music of Son House, moved to Chicago in 1943. In 1948, he recorded "I Can't Be Satisfied" and "I Feel like Going Home." The former became his first national R&B chart topper, and influenced the Rolling Stones' "I Can't Get No Satisfaction," and his 1950 song "Rollin' Stone" inspired the band's name. Waters assembled one of the meanest bands in blues history, the Headhunters, comprised of Little Walter, Baby Face Leroy Foste, and Jimmy Rogers. In 1951, Waters cranked out four hits, "Louisiana Blues," "Long Distance Call," "Honey Bee," and "Still a Fool" which rapidly climbed the charts and prompted Leonard Chess (founder of Chess Records) to play on the 1952 hit, "She Moves Me." Waters' renditions of "You Shook Me" and "I Just Wanna Make Love To You" turned on a sea of blues-obsessed British musicians who made him their new God. The Stones couldn't believe their eyes when they went to visit the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis only to find their God painting the ceiling. They put together an intimate gig and jammed with Waters on "I Just Wanna Make Love to You." By his death in 1983, Waters was already a legend in music. He had influenced the sound of Chicago Blues, as well as anyone who ever picked up on the music to which he lent his King Midas touch.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Buddy Guy</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Eric Clapton calls Buddy Guy his favorite blues guitarist. Put his amazing guitar playing together with a singing voice that is its equal and you have pure blues heaven. Guy went to Chicago in 1957 and hung out with legends such as B.B. King. He put out a series of impressive records on the Cobra label but it is his '60s work that still knocks your socks off to this day. His guitar jams and tortured vocals are so dynamic it makes one wonder why anybody ever bothered with Blues Rock. Guy's career went through a hard stretch in the '70s and '80s, but it came back with a vengeance in the '90s. Buddy Guy's music is as strong as ever and his wild, onstage energy has earned him capacity crowds at venues all over the world.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Howlin' Wolf</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Forget about Screamin' Jay Hawkins' B-movie mania and Alice Cooper's gory stage show. At 6'3" and 300 lbs., Howlin' Wolf used to approach the stage on all fours, screaming his whiskey-rotted scream, getting into character in a frightening show of pure emotional intensity that scared the living doodie out of anybody within a hundred yards of the roadhouse shacks where he played. With an influence spanning far beyond the limits of blues, Howlin' Wolf stands as one of the premier figures in American music. A supernaturally booming voice fraught with paranoia, anxiety and freaked-out possession threatens to bust the speakers wide open, even on the "easy" numbers. The band that played behind this towering giant is as much a part of the genius -- thanks to the diabolically nasty guitar work of Willie Johnson and Hubert Sumlin. Sumlin's precise single-note phrases defy all accepted blues rules. They barge in all over the place, chaotically fathering a seamless rhythm that often runs in a dissonant tangent to the rest of the band. Howlin' Wolf's best songs feature this dynamic clash of sounds; fervently repeated two-chord mantras gather a spine-shaking momentum as the Wolf twitches and shrieks his deepest fears. Howlin' Wolf may not have been the most versatile of musicians, but the sheer power of his delivery and sonic force of his music is something that has been imitated by many but matched by none.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Little Walter</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Before Little Walter, the harmonica was just an instrument for accompaniment on the back porch. Little Walter changed the instrument's role by hooking it up to a microphone and plugging into an amplifier. His tone was thick and fierce, covered in rich distortion and with enough balls to send guitarists and sax players scurrying to the back of the stage. His many recordings with Muddy Waters are some of the best the blues has to offer, not to mention his excellent collaborations with Jimmy Rogers and Otis Rush. In the 1950s he topped the R&B charts numerous times with instrumentals such as "Juke" and scowling Chicago blues like "You Better Watch Yourself." Unfortunately, his personality was as fiery as his playing; shortly after a tour with the Rolling Stones in the late '60s, he died in a street brawl.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Koko Taylor</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:26:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Veteran blues singer and reigning queen of Chicago Blues, Koko Taylor has an earthshakingly powerful voice that can swoop from a raspy low groan to gritty, paint-peeling high notes with amazing power. She has often been paired with powerful and distinctive guitar players such as Buddy Guy and Lonnie Brooks over the years, but her hard-rocking, visceral style is more than a match for any artist whom she shares the stage or recording studio with. Born in Memphis, Tenn., Taylor moved to Chicago at age 18 and eventually fell in with songwriter extrodinaire Willie Dixon, who became her mentor of sorts. Her 1966 recording of his "Wang Dang Doodle" was the last charting song for Chess Records. She has recorded steadily over the years, most consistently for Alligator Records. Live, she is an arresting presence, stalking the stage in sequined dresses sporting a mouth full of gleaming gold caps.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Luther Allison</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 10:34:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Many people in various music circles consider Luther Allison (1939-1997) to be the Jimi Hendrix of the blues. Allison took a Chicago Blues skeletal frame and added his own interpretive embellishments of soul, reggae, jazz, funk and rock. Like Hendrix, Allison would lose himself in guitar mantras and often jam his shows out for up to four hours. In his youth, he was the second youngest of fifteen kids living in a house on the cotton fields of Widener, Arkansas. Allison played the organ in church and sang Gospel as a child. He grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry and B.B. King on his father's radio, which inspired him to hang out in blues clubs during his teenage years. He befriended Charles Waters (son of Muddy) when he was eighteen. Before long, this friendship lead to a priceless musical education; Allison was soon sitting in with Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and Howlin' Wolf.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Sonny Boy Williamson</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sonny Boy Williamson is thought by many American music enthusiasts to be one of the end-all, be-all blues legends. He was one of the few crooners to have played with Robert Johnson, the man who allegedly sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Williamson bummed around the U.S., drank heavily (whiskey was his poison), and eventually landed a posh job hosting a radio show for about fifteen years. KFFA's <i>King Biscuit Time</i> was the first blues-focused radio show to ever juice through a radio transmitter onto the public airwaves. His dark, autobiographical recorded material personifies the blues. Williamson's songs were marinated in an unaffected, melancholic paranoia and delivered with gritty, sinister wit. His phenomenal harmonica playing was celebrated most in Europe, where he would dazzle the crowds with passionate bursts of tuneful blues harp honks and passionate wailing. His vocals were deep and breathy accounts of hard living. In 1955, he first recorded "Don't Start Me to Talkin'" for Chess Records, a song that did well on the R&B charts. Williamson later fell in love with England, where he would play with the Yardbirds and Eric Burdon's band the Animals (who he called "de Mammimals"). One of his final recorded songs, "I'm Trying to Make London My Home," was played with Jimmy Page on guitar. Sonny Boy Williamson was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1980, fifteen years after the heart attack that took his life in 1965.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Elmore James</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Elmore James was the best bottleneck player to pick up an electric guitar, and an exceptionally good singer and single note player as well. The combination of James's groundbreaking distorted guitar tone and energetic, loud-as-hell vocals changed the face of blues and rock music. Among his blues followers were B.B. King and Hound Dog Taylor, while just about every major rock guitarist has drawn from his playing: Hendrix sometimes claimed him as his number one influence, Stevie Ray Vaughan emulated his sound and played James' "The Sky is Crying," Van Halen's "Ice Cream Man" was a James cover. James played with, and learned from, Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson before leading his band, the Broomdusters (named after his trademark update of Johnson's "Dust My Broom") to outplay any challengers with their raucous, gritty Chicago Blues.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Charlie Musselwhite</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:55:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Along with Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite was one of the first white bluesmen to make a name for himself, earning praise from heavyweights such as Big Joe Turner. His harmonica playing has always been simple and direct -- he certainly has the skills to play whatever he wants, but Musselwhite chooses not to overplay, electing to emote instead. The same goes for his warm and almost casual vocal style. Though a player of hard driving electric Chicago Blues for most of his life, you can almost hear a gritty country influence in his harp style. This is further reflected when he picks up a guitar as he's occasionaly known to do -- his playing has a raw Delta feel to it, sounding especially sweet when he overdubs harmonica.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Mike Bloomfield</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:04:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the first instrumentalists of the 1960s and '70s rock era to became a bona fide star, Michael Bloomfield is the classic tragic music business figure. Growing up in Chicago in the late '50s, he haunted the city's Southside blues clubs as a teen, befriending and sitting in with giants such as Howlin' Wolf and Big Joe Williams. He became an expert guitarist and a virtual walking encyclopedia of all blues idioms, electric and acoustic, standard and slide. He found acclaim as a founder and guitarist in the Butterfield Blues Band, and was a featured player on Bob Dylan's <i>Highway 61 Revisited</i>. After leaving Butterfield, he helped form the influential, horn-laden Blues Rock band Electric Flag, as well as appearing on the chart-topping <i>Super Session</i> record with Al Kooper and Stephen Stills. Despite the fact that he influenced a generation of guitarists and was a revered player, his output from the latter part of his career is spotty at best. He spent most of his time at home shooting heroin and occasionally writing scores for porn films. He died of an overdose at 38.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Jimmy Reed</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you don't already know that Jimmy Reed is a king of popular blues standards, then read on. Now dig -- if you have ever heard anyone play "Bright Lights, Big City," "Baby, What You Want Me to Do," "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby," "Big Boss Man," "Going To New York," "You Don't Have to Go," "Boogie In the Dark," "High And Lonesome" or "Honest I Do" then you have heard the sweet Delta influenced stylings of tunesmith Jimmy Reed. His easy-going blues songs have been covered by everyone from Elvis to The Rolling Stones to Charlie Rich to Bob Dylan (not to mention an endless sea of UK and US Garage bands). Reed was notorious for getting so sauced that he could barely stand up before suddenly snapping to and hitting the stage with all the gusto of a skilled and sober musician. Because his music was so kicked back and accessible, many musicians found his timeless blues songs naturally approachable and playable. From the 1950s to the 1960s Reed sold almost as many records as the better known B.B. King. He passed away in Oakland on August 29, 1976.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Big Walter "Shakey" Horton</title>
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<category>Memphis Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Along with Walter Jacobs (Little Walter), Walter "Shakey" Horton was one of the most innovative and important harmonica players to emerge from Chicago's Southside blues scene of the 1950s. Playing his instrument through a tube amplifier and using reverb and distortion, Horton could make his harmonica sound almost like a tenor saxophone. He played extensively throughout the South and recorded prolifically in Memphis before moving to Chicago in the late '40s. Once there, he was in great demand as a sideman, playing and recording with everyone from Muddy Waters to Otis Rush. He played and recorded up until his death in 1981. His sound is marked by a massive tone, relaxed, behind-the-beat phrasing, and nary a wasted note.]]></description>
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<title>Little Milton</title>
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<category>Urban Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Known as both a stinging blues guitarist and a powerful Soul singer, this Mississippi native has long made a name for himself by combining the best of those two worlds. Since the 1950s, he's recorded for top-notch labels like Sun, Chess, Stax, and Malaco, alternating between straight Electric Blues (most of his Sun catalog), horn-driven, Funk-tinged Soul Blues ("That's What Love Will Make You Do"), and pure Memphis soul ("Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around the World)"). Throughout his career, he's proven able to adapt his blues-rooted sensibilities to a variety of settings, without losing that all-important visceral quality.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Junior Wells</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Simply one of the greatest bluesmen in history. Listen to the classic Electric Blues sound he helped invent, along with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, in Chicago in the 1940s. Wells' work paved the way for everyone from Eric Clapton to Jimi Hendrix and beyond. His baritone shouts, moans, soars, growls, and pleads; his harmonica solos are concise and soulful. Meanwhile his backing band grooves like few bands in history. Listen to them shuffle, stomp, riff, boogie, and rock together; listen to the piano and guitar weave in and out of each other, trading licks and choruses on occasion. Horn sections and backing vocals also make brief appearances.]]></description>
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<title>Son Seals</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:19:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Maybe he learned a few things about the guitar from playing drums behind blues great Albert King in the '60s, but by the time Seals grabbed an axe in the early '70s, he could tear apart a set, leaving strings and audience in his messy wake. As a singer, Seals fills a song with grit and deep soul, but his finger work has earned him his reputation. His playing is extremely raw, filled with a stinging energy. There's nothing pristine about the way Seals plays -- though he can dig into a fast-picked crescendo with ease, his music is all about direct emotionality, and his feelings come straight through his guitar.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Willie Clayton</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:52:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Paul Butterfield</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The distorted squall of harmonica that drives songs such as "Born in Chicago" made Paul Butterfield one of the most influential characters in introducing young white audiences to electric blues in the 1960s. Alongside other Chicago blues icons like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, Butterfield fused 12-bar blues forms with elements of rock and hard-driving RnB for a sound that became synonymous with their hometown. Unlike other Chicago icons, Butterfield was white, affluent and classically schooled. After studying flute as a youth, he entered the University of Chicago, where he eventually put together a band with Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield and signed to Elektra for a 1965 debut. His influence peaked in the late '60s, when he played both the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, and though his popularity declined through the '70s and '80s, he continued to perform widely until his death from a heart attack in 1987. His pivotal impact on rock music can be heard in the bluesy overtones of seminal classic rock from bands like the Rolling Stones, the Animals and the Yardbirds, as well as garage-rock revivalists like the White Stripes and Black Keys.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>James Cotton</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Within the realm of Chicago Blues, there were few harp-blowers more impassioned and soulful than James Cotton. His career began in Memphis where he recorded a few singles for Sam Phillips in the early 50s. When Muddy Waters and his band came to town, James Cotton ended up taking the place of Little Walter. Cotton began recording his own records in the late 60s. A notoriously animated live performer, he continues to perform although throat difficulties have caused his voice to sound like Tom Waits coughing up gravel.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Otis Rush</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Otis Rush is a living blues legend. A scorching guitar soloist who honed his talents in Chicago's South Side in the 1950s, Rush has written scores of essential blues tunes -- "I Can't Quit You Baby," "All Your Love" and "Double Trouble" to name just a few. He's a master of the slow blues, with a honeyed voice that can coalesce into soul-shattering shouts when called for. In some ways, Rush is a male counterpart to Ruth Brown, bringing that same swinging sensibility, good humor, and pathos to his R&B-influenced blues. Rush's sound has metamorphosed over the years, but he's remained true to the Chicago sound, pouring oceans of soul into controlled, searing, magnetic performances.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Hound Dog Taylor</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hound Dog Taylor was a Chicago Blues slide guitarist heavily influenced by the music of Elmore James. He worshipped it and learned from it, then he turned it upside down and mangled it till he damn near murdered it. His jagged, grinning slide guitar-shriek is the most raggedy and over-driven sound in all of blues. The unorthodox set-up of two guitars, drums, and no bass has much to do with the primal force of his recordings. The bass parts aren't weighted down by any clunky formations, freeing second guitarist Brewer Phillips to riff along with Hound Dog, providing a fluid, spiny bottom. The tunes are almost always fast, with thunder-strike leads and explosive solos. This is life-affirmingly exuberant stuff, with Taylor's vocals as ragged and soulful as his guitar. Hound Dog played almost every night of the week all over Chicago for years, until his death in 1975.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Big Bill Broonzy</title>
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<category>Early American Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Chicago Blues artist Big Bill Broonzy, died in 1958, unfortunately missing the 1960s blues renaissance, which surely would have proved very lucrative. Broonzy was one of a wave of artists who migrated to Chicago from the deep South in the '20s and bridged the gap between Country and Urban Blues. His warm vocal style could soar and shout, or be smooth and controlled. Broonzy was a well rounded guitar player equally adept at propulsive Country Blues and swinging single note lines for small jazz combos. He recorded prolifically, hundreds of sides -- as a sideman and as a solo artist. Ironically, as time went on, Broonzy played a less sophisticated, more rural style of blues, which reflected the tastes of white, folk music fans. He was one of the first blues artists to tour Europe and consequently had an enormous influence on the first wave of English Bluesmen like Alexis Korner -- and by proxy, Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Magic Slim</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:27:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Magic Slim's are some of the deepest blues of all. He was a contemporary of '60s Electric Blues legends Magic Sam and B.B. King, but he labored away in the relative obscurity of the Chicago club circuit for almost twenty years. He finally rose to national prominence in 1977, when he recorded his breakthrough LP, <i>Born Under a Bad Sign</i>. Make no mistake: those years of dues-payin' have given Slim the soul of a warrior. His vocals contain more grit than a barrel of unwashed oysters, and his guitar playing channels raw emotion into scorching, no-nonsense licks drenched in fierce vibrato, which burn down the barn without even so much as a nudge of the distortion pedal. The Teardrops, his backing band, draw from an enormous repertoire that ranges from gut-wrenching slow blues to rag-tag shuffle-boogie, which they play with an expertly honed, off-the-cuff rawness.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>Bernard Allison</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:23:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bernard Allison, son of late blues great Luther Allison, is a Paris-based guitar player and songwriter who has spent the past fifteen years carving out a name of his own with his soulful voice and masterful guitar work. Bernard got his start right out of high school when he decided to hit the road to better learn his craft. He spent much of his time in Canada during this period, some of it with Koko Taylor, and started his own band Back Talk before leaving to join his father in Paris. Once there, he became the bandleader for his father's group and it was also there that his father taught him the showmanship befiting a bluesman. In 1989, Bernard's first album <I>Next Generation</I> (Mondo) was recorded. Over the next several years, Bernard would record three more albums: <I>Hang on</I> (Peter Pan), <I>No Mercy</I> (Inakustik) and <I>Funkifino</I> (Mondo). But it wasn&#8217;t until the 1997 release <I>Keepin' the Blues Alive</I> (Cannonball) that he finally made his long overdue American debut. Bernard's sound is a blend of traditional blues and current rock flavorings. Vocally, his range is excellent and expressive allowing him to achieve believability, which is key to the success of any bluesman.
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<title>Lonnie Brooks</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:43:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Classic showman Lonnie Brooks has been performing his mean blues guitar since the late 1950s. With a lean, gritty guitar sound that stings you down to the bone, Brooks (occasionally known as 'Guitar Junior') hits to the core of your emotions, effortlessly melting different blues styles together. His guitar playing, influenced by Long John Hunter and B.B. King, takes short bends to their limits, with a slightly dirty, singing sound reminiscent of Albert King. Brooks' vocals waver with a sustaining vibrato that contains all of the sweetness of B.B. King, perfectly rendering his tale-telling songs. Brooks started out playing Zydeco and Swamp Blues with Clifton Chenier, then went on to record with blues greats such as Sam Cooke, Koko Taylor, Hubert Sumlin and Jimmy Reed. His synthesis of Soul, Funk, Chicago and Swamp Blues provides a modern edge to his songwriting, which includes the classics "In the Dark" and the father-in-law fearing "Voodoo Daddy."]]></description>
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<title>Willie Dixon</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Willie Dixon was one of the best blues songwriters to ever walk the planet -- the songs he wrote affected the entire course of blues music, not to mention rock and roll. His deep bass voice and acoustic bass playing were not initially focused on when Dixon began working with Chess Records, but rather his down-to-earth songs such as "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Spoonful" and "Little Red Rooster." It was later in his career that Dixon became a performer as well as writer, singing gritty odes to the back alley and mastering the double meaning in lyric writing. Every single blues artist is influenced by Dixon, and it was partly due to classic renditions of his songs that Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf came to fame. With covers (credited or not) by The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Led Zeppelin, Dixon shaped the way that rock was supposed to sound, and the attitude that rock stars were to take with them on stage.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Earl Hooker</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:13:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Earl Hooker was an awe-inspiring slide guitarist and one of the architects of Chicago Blues. Though he was a star in his own right, other musicians loved his unique sound and he was a sideman on numerous projects (a blessing because his vocal chops aren't up to his guitar work). These performances are often his best -- since Hooker got the chance to bounce off of such equals as Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, and Sonny Boy Williamson. Hooker's brilliant guitar work actually fit into any musical occasion and his soulful, gritty sound worked just as well in country and jazz contexts as straight blues.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Memphis Minnie</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Arguably the most important of the female blues artists, Memphis Minnie performed for over 40 years, recorded over 100 sides, pioneered the use of electric guitar and sketched out the blueprint for urban/Chicago blues with her personalized style of songwriting. Minnie was born Lizzie Douglas in the Algiers district of New Orleans in 1897, and by the time she was 13, she had run away from home and was playing guitar and performing her own music on the streets and in the juke joints of Memphis, Tenn. Her first singles appeared in 1929, and soon Minnie became the biggest name among female blues musicians thanks to constant performing throughout the Depression and World War II. Her 1930 move to Chicago is often cited as influencing rising stars like Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Jimmy Rogers. Minnie remained active until the 1950s, when she retired from performing due to health issues. She died of a stroke in 1973.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Pinetop Perkins</title>
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<category>Boogie-Woogie</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Perkins has only begun to lead a band with his powerful vocals and rolling boogie-woogie piano during the last few decades, but his accomplishments as a sideman were crucial to many classic recordings. His work with Muddy Waters in the '70s is enough to put him in the blues hall of fame.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Sonny Boy Williamson I</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Jimmy Rogers</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rogers was one of the finest blues musicians to ever pick up a guitar and a harmonica -- or to bellow a full-bodied melody. His career began on harp, alongside legends such as Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Boy Williamson. But when he picked up a guitar he began to make a real name for himself. Rogers recorded rhythm guitar for countless studio sessions at Chess Records where he defined the Chicago style, backing everyone from Little Richard to Howlin' Wolf. His bread and butter collaborations were with Muddy Waters and Little Walter, a triumvirate of blues masters seldom matched. In the '70s he added a bit of Soul and a bit of Funk, working with Leon Haywood before returning to more traditional blues in the '80s and '90s. Rogers passed away in 1997.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Little Johnny Taylor</title>
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<category>Retro Soul</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With his slender, loving voice and popping, electric delivery, Little Johnny's crooning could send anyone -- male or female -- into orbit. Less guttural than Bobby Bland, this veteran performer and multiple hit-maker is bluesy enough to grab your heartstrings and give them a welcome yank.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not to be confused with the other two Luther Johnsons ("Georgia Snake Boy" Johnson or "Houserocker" Johnson) "Guitar Jr" Johnson is a searing Electric Bluesman with a confident, energized style. Though he was born in Mississippi, Johnson's playing represents the essence of Chicago's West Side. His warm solos are filled with stark bends, distorted single-note leads and fuzzy power chords that drive rocking twelve-bar blues. His sound recalls primary influence Magic Sam, with whom he cut his teeth playing in the 1960s before moving on to work with Muddy Waters and the Nighthawks in the '70s. The past few decades have seen some great solo albums featuring his raw guitar and Gospel-influenced vocal style.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Billy Boy Arnold</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After a short tutoring period from Sonny Boy Williamson, Billy Boy Arnold rose to prominence for his meaty and jagged harmonica work. Through a convincing mix of rural Mississippi blues and more modern Chicago electric style blues, Arnold produced solid pop-oriented blues records in the late &#8216;50s. He also performed on Bo Diddley&#8217;s self-titled debut single, as well as on its flip-side, &#8220;I&#8217;m a Man;&#8221; furthermore, his own &#8220;I Wish You Would&#8221; was a staple of the Yardbird&#8217;s live set for some time. He faded from public view in the late &#8216;60s, only to re-emerge in the mid-&#8216;90s with renewed vigor.]]></description>
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<title>J.B. Lenoir</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:43:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Early recordings by this enigmatic and patently unusual Chicago bluesman of the 1950s and 1960s. Lenoir has a high, almost womanly voice that swings and breaks over jazzy, sax- and piano-driven blues that form a clear pre-cursor to the impending rock 'n' roll explosion.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>The Jaggerz</title>
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<category>Blue-Eyed Soul</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Seventies boogie-rock band now goes the blusey R&B route, adding horns to their danceable blues grooves. Perfect music for dancing at blues festivals.]]></description>
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<title>Tampa Red</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:55:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A singer and guitarist of enormous influence, Tampa Red's thirty-year recording career yielded hundreds of recordings. Primarily known as a blues guitarist, Red played hokum, Swing, Ragtime, pop, jazz and just about anything else that was popular from the 1920s to the '50s. He was a slide guitarist with an uncommonly precise and linear touch whose playing couldn't have been further removed from the slashing Delta styles of people like Charlie Patton or Bukka White. His articulated phrasing and singing, melodic lines are closer to that of a horn player than any guitar player performing at the time. He is probably most famous for his work with pianist Georgia Tom Dorsey. In the 1930s the two cut a number of sides of outrageously risquÃ© songs, many of which have become cult classics.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Sunnyland Slim</title>
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<category>Piano Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:21:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Chicago blues piano player Sunnyland Slim was an innovative player, and a prolific recording artist as both a leader and a sideman throughout his professional life, which lasted for more than 50 years. His playing exemplified Chicago blues piano in its combination of percussive attack, rolling, cascading streams of notes, and syncopated rhythmic sophistication. His influence can be traced directly to both of Muddy Waters longtime sidemen Otis Span and Pinetop Perkins. Slim can be heard as a sideman on recordings from Muddy Waters to Chuck Berry, as well as many, many other blues luminaries. And as a singer, he had a big, rough-hewn voice.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup</title>
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<category>Memphis Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Doc &amp; Merle Watson</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:45:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Jimmy Dawkins</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:04:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A lesser known peer of Magic Sam, Jimmy Dawkins is a very accomplished and talented bluesman who's been on the Chicago scene since the mid '50s. He plays with a steady, mid-tempo slash, stretching his sad songs into five and six minute pieces that showcase his fiery, emotive playing.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Carey Bell</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Kinsey Report</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Although they were never really able to spark the same magical fire as that found on their first album (<i>Edge of the City</i>), The Kinsey Report maintained a healthy and honest sounding hybrid of driving, Chicago Blues with Funk and rock music. When they were on, the band's family chemistry carried the music to near intergalactic soundscapes without sounding contrived or affected.
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<title>Big Bill Morganfield</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:27:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The son of blues legend McKinley Morganfield (aka Muddy Waters), Big Bill Morganfield is making his own mark on the tradition. He's capable of putting a dark, introspective spin on Electric Blues, evoking in his guitar playing Mississippi Delta shaman Robert Johnson but retaining the deep, masculine baritone voice of his father. On one tune, he quotes Johnson's famous "Crossroads Blues," but adds his own verse, building on the black magic invoked in the older tune: "When you're going to the river, put your left hand in." But Morganfield's not always serious or spooky; he also plays goofy Jump Blues romps that resemble his father's classic "I Want to be Loved."
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>Robert "Junior" Lockwood</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In addition to being a stunning guitarist, Lockwood has an integral place in blues history; he learned the trade from the legendary Robert Johnson. Though he slips into gritty acoustic fingerpicking like his mentor, Lockwood is a master of many aspects of the guitar, having been one of the first to pick up an electric, and later moving on to the twelve-string. The talents he picked up from Johnson and Sonny Boy Williamson made Lockwood quite a teacher himself -- he became a strong influence on Muddy Waters and B.B. King, among others. His voice developed into a strong, commanding presence over the years, complementing his electric and acoustic Delta Blues mastery. His work spans the 20th century, and reflects the many changes the blues have gone through.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Homesick James</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Homesick James' gravelly voice is almost as distinctive as the slide guitar playing that made him a blues revival favorite three decades ago. Cousin to Elmore James -- and his erstwhile rhythm guitarist -- James toured well into the late '90s, and kept up his notoriously randy and good-humored schtick while warbling classic, beautifully delivered blues.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Paul Filipowicz</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:47:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Roosevelt Sykes</title>
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<category>Piano Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Often bolstering his Piano Blues boogie with Gospel-inflected vocals and off-color double meanings, Roosevelt Sykes remains a much loved figure as well as one of the form's idiom-authors. His irreverent, good-time blues is rooted in the rolling stride-style of the pre-war innovator Fats Waller. With the tunes ".44 Blues" and "Night Time is the Right Time" to his credit, coupled with his supernatural mastery of the instrument, he is the standard by which many blues pianists are measured.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Legendary Blues Band</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:51:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Straight-ahead Chicago Blues from a band comprised of players who had been at the core of Muddy Waters' touring and recording band throughout most of the 1970s. At one time or another, the band has included Pinetop Perkins on piano, Jerry Portnoy on harmonica, Willie Smith on drums, and a rotating cast of guitar players.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Lucky Peterson</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:43:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lucky Peterson is one of the most gifted bluesmen performing today. A consummate keyboardist, guitar-player, and vocalist, Peterson was a talented child who started performing on stage when he was just three years old. Though he came of age well after the blues boom of the 1950s, Peterson absorbed that era's penchant for vibrant, emotive blues that deals equally in joy and despair. Over the years, he has developed a smooth, rich style that's polished without sounding over-produced. Peterson swings effortlessly over classic Electric Blues, with a clear and unforced horn of a voice blowing to the accompaniment of crisp, well-placed instrumentation.
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<title>BOB E LEE</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:55:34 -0700</pubDate>
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