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<title>Taj Mahal</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Here is a man who has closely studied and preserved the roots music of African Americans since he began playing the Boston folk scene in the 1960s. He studied the history and formulas of Caribbean, West African, Zydeco, rock, jazz, and R&B. In fact, it was always the music of Country Blues that has influenced most of his own music. After learning how to play a multitude of instruments, Taj Mahal moved to Los Angeles and teamed up with Ry Cooder to form the Rising Sons, who split after one single was released (more songs from these sessions were released in the 1990s). Taj Mahal finally recorded his first solo album in 1968, shortly before playing an incredible performance of the Banks/Parker hit, "Ain't That a Lot of Love" on the Rolling Stones' <i>Rock & Roll Circus</i> with the late, great Jessie Ed Davis on lead guitar. Following what his fans believe to be his prime years, Taj Mahal went on to experiment with whatever music genre he was infatuated with at the time, and also wrote some scores for the stage as well as television and film. Those who know his music well can testify that when he played Country Blues, the Taj was at his best. His rich soulful singing has an ultra-deep dynamic range that fits perfectly with the driving shuffle-beats and bass bounce of this particular blues subgenre.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Leadbelly</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Leadbelly, born Huddie William Ledbetter, is one of the most influential voices in American music. Though widely thought of as a blues musician (which, in part, he was), a direct line can be drawn from him to the folk protest music of the '60s, and from there to Bruce Springsteen and Billy Bragg. In the '40s, Leadbelly brought obscure American folk songs to white, urban audiences and helped spread the word about injustices in America. Like Woody Guthrie, he could do love or comedic songs, and he had a real knack for children's songs. He died a decade before his true impact was felt. It's never to late to pay your respects.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Lightnin' Hopkins</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:52:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Instantly recognizable with his wandering acoustic style and coarse, emotive singing, Lightnin' Hopkins remains one of the giants of country blues. His career as a bluesman started as far back as the 1920s, jamming with Blind Lemon Jefferson and eventually working as his personal guide, but it wasn't until the big folk blues boom of the '60s that he enjoyed any real recognition, cutting hundreds of songs for as many labels and selling-out college coffeehouses all over the country. A nimble craftsman with language, Lightnin's deeply personal lyrics could be both hilariously funny and starkly harrowing depending on his mood. He was famous for making words up on the spot to fit the occasion, making his live recordings unpredictable and of particular interest. With a staggering body of work that spans from the '60s right up to his death in the '80s and includes such classic narrative blues as "Bald Headed Woman" and the eerie "Black Ghost Blues," Lightnin' Hopkins is an essential figure in the history and appreciation of the blues.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:47:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Gatemouth was a Texas legend who played as many kinds of music as he did instruments. A true master of the blues guitar, adept with violin, harmonica, bass, and drums, as well as a fine, rough singer, Brown had never been content to be pigeonholed into any one style. Calypso, jazz, country and blues are all mixed into his folky, funky, roots-driven sound, which benefits from the breadth of his instrumental prowess. His originally stinging, trebly tone on the guitar (which was to influence the great bluesmen Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland) developed into a smoother, jazzier sound over the years and couldn't really be compared to anyone else. Brown was just as happy fiddling a hoedown, writing a blues number with biting lyrics, or playing a Big Band jazz chart. Fans kept him on the road and in the studio until illness started slowing him down in 2002. At age 81, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown survived Hurricane Katrina, only to pass away a week later from a combination of lung cancer and heart disease. You can hear the influence of his guitar in the music of everyone from Stevie Ray Vaughan to Brian Setzer.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Otis Taylor</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Mississippi John Hurt</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Charm leaked out of Mississippi John Hurt like whiskey coming out of an old barrel. Hurt was a songwriting sharecropper and laborer who went to galvanize the early '60s Folk Revival movement. He performed throughout his first seven decades but it was the last stage of his life that propelled him to national prominence. While his handful of 1929 recordings showed that his easygoing style was always in place, he just improved with age. Filled with subtlety and nuance, Hurt's music shows the bond shared between sacred and secular music, black and white styles, and folk and popular idioms. While he was only the toast of the folk and blues scenes for three years before he died, his music will forever be treasured by fans of honest, heart-warming music.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Seasick Steve</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:00:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Chris Smither</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:49:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Country Blues singer-songwriter and guitar player Smither got his start in the Cambridge, Mass., coffeehouses during the folk revival of the 1960s. He was an influential performer on the circuit, and Bonnie Raitt, who was also on the scene at the time, has covered a number of his songs. Smither recorded several records at that time but nothing much came of them, and he spent a good part of the '70s in an alcoholic haze. Since cleaning up, Smither has given his career a full throttle revival with a constant schedule of touring and critically praised releases. His style involves intricate guitar fingerpicking and percussive foot tapping that backs up his powerfully bluesy voice.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Sonny Terry</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Born into a musical family, the blind Sonny Terry learned how to play harmonica to earn his keep, and ended up creating a signature sound widely admired and perhaps even more widely imitated. Terry toured for years with Brownie McGhee, riding a wave of renewed interest in folk music that began in the late 1950s. He thrilled audiences with his earthy Acoustic Blues, and his harmonica work is still among the loveliest to be found: tightly woven, countrified, and engaged in a perpetual dialogue with other instruments. His trademark high-pitched yawps -- which he emitted between phrases almost without volition -- were directly imitated by countless musicians. Nonetheless, there's nothing like hearing an original, and that he is -- a down-home, down-to-earth original whose work could make a stone shed tears.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Blind Willie McTell</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Although Blind Willie McTell went by a handful of other aliases, his singing and prodigious guitar playing are unmistakable staples of the blues. From the 1920s to the late 1950s, his songs offered excellent insight into the man who invented his own style of guitar playing. McTell could read music as well as write it in Braille, and from listening to his songs, it's evident his twelve-string improvisations were not only brilliant, but revolutionary. In the studio, McTell almost always played the twelve-string acoustic guitar. Unlike many of his contemporaries who utilized resonators and dobros, McTell leaned on his instrument's ability to sound like two guitars by picking and sliding all over the neck. His early recordings were hypnotic narratives full of exquisite guitar lines and extraordinary vocal performances that set a powerful and moody backdrop for his stories. The man's style effortlessly traversed from knee-slapping Ragtime to more dissonant and spacious Acoustic Blues. McTell died in 1959 of a brain hemorrhage.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Big Bill Broonzy</title>
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<category>Early American Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:52:42 -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>Bukka White</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not even Keith Richards could play an open G tuning like Bukka White. Not only did he slide up and down the neck with the grace, finesse, and dexterity of a clock maker, but he also infused a rhythmic style to his playing that has yet to be duplicated. White's career had two lives. From the 1930s to '40s, he played Delta Blues with open wounds bleeding from his songs. His eerie narratives of hard living crept into his warble-mouthed musings, as his hands pulled otherworldly tones and slap-knock rhythms from an old National steel guitar. When the blues revival hit hard in the '60s, White's music resurfaced after a ten-year hiatus -- this time more song-driven and accessible to younger crowds. He became well-known as a driving live performer, creating myths of dance floors being broken by his hypnotized audiences worked up into berserk dancing frenzies.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Mississippi Sheiks</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:46:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This influential duo consisted of Walter Vincson on acoustic guitar and vocals and Lonnie Chatmon on fiddle and vocals. The Sheiks played a type of blues that incorporated elements of country, vaudeville, Ragtime and jazz, and they performed and recorded prolifically in the South throughout the 1930s. Chatmon came from a musical family -- his brothers Bo and Sam, both recording artists in their own right, sometimes joined the Sheiks. The duo's most famous song, "Sitting On Top of the World", has been covered by Cream and Howlin' Wolf among others.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Skip James</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the first Delta bluesmen to be recorded, Skip James was an artist with a highly individual sound and a forceful, idiosyncratic personality that shone through his music. At the heart of his sound is the combination of his keening, mournful tenor voice and his complex guitar and piano playing. Like many Delta Blues artists, James played his guitar in an open tuning, and he matched contrapuntal moving lines to droning open strings in a manner that has not been imitated since his death. Even though James benefited from the blues revival of the 1960s, he was by all accounts a distrustful and slightly bitter artist who rightly felt that he was an unrecognized genius who'd spent his life getting ripped off by the vagaries of the corrupt music business. His slightly odd, nonstandard tunes have been reverently recorded by artists ranging from Cream to Fred Frith.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Lonnie Johnson</title>
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<category>Early American Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:52:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lonnie Johnson is probably one of the most important links between the birth of blues music as a regional idiomatic art form and American popular music from jazz to rock. As a guitarist, he was a hugely influential presence, shaping the playing of innovators from Charlie Christian to B.B. King, and by extension, Chuck Berry and countless rockers. He was a dazzling single string player, bringing the guitar from a primarily rhythm instrument to prominence as a lead instrument. He was a ubiquitous presence on jazz sessions in the 1920s playing on records with Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. An excellent singer, his smooth uptown sound could be seen as an influence on R&B balladeers like Charles Brown and Nat Cole. Johnson was also able to adapt when the folk blues revival of the '60s came along playing expertly in that style.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Etta Baker</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:08:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Etta Baker is considered one of the foremost purveyors of Piedmont blues, an acoustic blues style that emerged in the Mid-Atlantic region combining, ragtime, delta blues, country string bands and bluegrass. Baker learned the style from her father, and although she has only been recorded a handful of times, she has spent her life (80 years so far) practicing and perfecting the unique fingerpicking style. After appearing at various festivals throughout her life, Baker has been approached by record companies to go for a larger slice of the music industry pie, but time and again the absolutely fantastic guitar player has opted to devote herself to her family and personal life rather than enter a studio or go out on the road.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Bo Carter</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:52:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon's lyrics proved him the master of the double entendre, from "Banana in Your Fruit Basket" to "Let Me Roll Your Lemon" to "My Pencil Won't Write No More." His solo work from the late 1920s to the early '40s is stunning, with Robert Johnson-influenced guitar work weaving multiple bass and treble parts simultaneously. This finger-picking wizard -- the half-brother of blues legend Charlie Patton -- was also a singer, with a high, sweet voice touched with a slight vibrato. Carter spent a good deal of time playing in his brother Lonnie's band, the Mississippi Sheiks, which showcased his multi-instrumental skills on guitar, banjo, clarinet and more for string/jug-band classics.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Geoff Muldaur</title>
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<category>Folk Revival</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:06:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Geoff Muldaur performs authentic-sounding Acoustic Blues, showcasing his talent as a picker as well as his singular vocals. With a wavering, nasal delivery, Muldaur embraces rather than attempts to hide his New York roots. The result is uncommonly honest old-time blues recorded in the modern era.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Robert Pete Williams</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 08:33:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Robert Pete Williams' unusual melodies and maverick tunings made him one of the most appreciated folk-blues performers of the post-war period in America. Discovered in a Louisiana prison by intrepid folk aficionados, Williams eventually gained his freedom and went on to wow audiences around the country with the down-home, authentic blues sound that was all the rage in the early 1960s. While he definitely cashed in on a folk trend, Williams' playing had been with him since he first strung up a cigar box as a teenager. Even today the blues man's guitar playing sounds fresh and unusual, while his voice seems to arise from some elemental place that's as timeless as it is fundamentally human.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Charlie Parr</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:11:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Tommy Johnson</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Blind Boy Fuller</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:52:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[North Carolina bluesman Blind Boy Fuller was an extremely influential and popular performer in the 1930s whose legacy might be even larger today had he not died at the age of 34. He was an acoustic guitarist of uncommon stylistic skill, at home with slide, fingerstyle, and Ragtime. Like many entertainers of the day, he knew and recorded popular songs as well as blues. He was also known for a series of openly suggestive hokum blues songs, full of raunchy double entendres that no doubt contributed to his popularity. He was such an influential figure for Brownie McGhee that McGhee began his career under the moniker Blind Boy Fuller No. 2.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Sleepy John Estes</title>
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<category>Memphis Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Years leading a work gang left their mark on Sleepy John Estes' vocal style. As a result, he will always be remembered for his keening wail, often referred to as "crying the blues." A Country Blues master who recorded incessantly over the course of a sixty-year career (on almost as many labels), he performed some of the most broken-down, lamenting blues ever heard. Running up and down the neck in semi-folk, acoustic patterns, his guitar style is similar to that of Leadbelly, but his biggest strength has always been his singular voice. With his high-pitched vocals that recall Robert Johnson and his material that harks back to less psychically intense artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson, Sleepy John Estes is a good introduction to the sounds and imagery of early blues. For the seasoned blues enthusiast, however, Sleepy John is nothing less than an essential figure in the blues pantheon.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Blind Blake</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Bob Brozman</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:55:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Henry Townsend</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:30:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As a master of both blues guitar and piano, Henry Townsend helped define the St. Louis sound from the 1920s on, though he spent more time as a coveted session player than on his own work. Rediscovered during the folk boom of the '60s, Townsend put out a slew of new albums showcasing his ability to slap, pick, pluck and slide his guitar into more emotional states than a mime in a train station. His clipped howl of a voice doesn't hurt either, as it leaps and melts like butter on a hot biscuit, gently caressing lyrics about love, women and the blues.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Robert Wilkins</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 13:52:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Robert Wilkins was first recorded in the 1920s playing steady-rollin' Country Blues that showcased his marvelous ability as a picker. With a wandering open-tuning style, Wilkins' music has that loosely structured feel that evokes images of dirt roads and passing freight trains. One of his songs, "That's No Way To Get Along," was lifted by the Stones as the basis for "Prodigal Son."
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Alastair Moock</title>
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<category>Country Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:26:07 -0700</pubDate>
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- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Robert Belfour</title>
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<category>Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:08:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Raised in the hills of Northern Mississippi, the aged Robert Belfour was steeped in Country Blues traditions. A self-taught guitarist, Belfour plays acoustic guitar that flows and twangs under his seasoned voice.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Corey Harris</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:10:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>K.C. Douglas</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Douglas was a Mississippi blues man born in 1913 who relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid 1940s. Unlike other West Coast blues men like Lowell Fulson, who played sophisticated Urban Blues, Douglas continued to play primarily solo acoustic Country Blues in the style of artists like Tommy Johnson and Jesse Fuller. He apparently benefited some from the blues revival of the late 1950s and early '60s, recording a number of albums for the West Coast-based Arhoolie label, among others. His song "Mercury Blues" has been covered often, most notably by Steve Miller, David Lindley and Alan Jackson. Jackson's and Miller's versions were both on multi-million selling albums.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Sonny Terry &amp; Brownie McGee</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Otha Turner</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:45:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lifelong Mississippi farmer Otha Turner was one of the very last of the fife blues players, a tradition that almost never saw recording. His two albums, <I>Everybody Hollerin' Goat</I> (1998) and <I>From Senegal to Senatobia</I> (1999), were once among the only documents, aside from personal memory, that the form ever existed. Throughout his life, Turner, along with a collection of friends and relatives that played with him as the Rising Star Fife and Drum Corps, performed exclusively at cookouts and parties at his own and local farms. The group appeared on a comp titled <I>Mississippi Blues in Memphis, Vol. 1</I> in 1993, but it wasn't until 1998 (when Turner was 90 years old) that he and his family self-released the album <I>Everybody Hollerin' Goat</I>. A year later, Turner collaborated with African musicians, called the Afrossippi All Stars, on the Fat Possum release <I>From Senegal to Senatobia</I>. Turner died in 2003, just as he was receiving wider recognition through such channels as NPR and <I>Good Morning America</I> and planned to record a third album. His protege and granddaughter Sharde Thomas has since taken up his fife in the Rising Star band.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Paul Rishell</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:25:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Barbecue Bob</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:52:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Born Robert Hicks in Georgia in 1902, Barbecue Bob was one of the reigning stars of what were called "race records" in the late '20s. He sang his blues songs in a clear and articulate tenor devoid of the heavier accent of Mississippi singers, and his singing was most often paired with rhythmically hard-driving acoustic 12-string guitar playing. He died of pneumonia at the age of twenty-nine, missing the folk/blues revival of the '60s from which so many of his contemporaries benefitted.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Dr. Isaiah Ross</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bluesman Ross recorded for Sam Phillips' Sun Records, as well as innumerable other labels throughout his career. He sings in a wildly rough, soulful voice while accompanying himself on guitar and harmonica. His playing is raw and intense: a thumping, rolling, modal boogie not unlike that of John Lee Hooker. Ross was unique in his own way for acting as a proto one-man band in the 1950s, after he had already recorded with a full band. His style lives on in the work of artists like R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Casey Bill Weldon</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:59:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Guitarist/singer Casey Bill Weldon primarily recorded from the 1920s through the '40s, and managed to straddle a line between Urban and Country Blues with nothing more than his voice and guitar. A veteran of numerous different jug bands and former husband to singer/guitarist Memphis Minnie, he's primarily remembered for his jumping solo arrangements and cleanly articulated lines played with a bottle neck slide. His controlled and fluid playing, as well as his sophisticated phrasing, display a horn-like ring to them at times.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>John Jackson</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:54:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Virginia native John Jackson plays a form of acoustic Country Blues that differs from the Mississippi Delta version of the form in its almost gentle finger picking intricacy. Jackson plays everything from rags and waltzes to Tin Pan Alley Pop and blue country yodels in the style of Jimmie Rodgers. Discovered like so many others during the Folk boom of the 1960s, Jackson has since recorded a number of albums for the Arhoolie and Rounder labels. His voice is a powerfully idiosyncratic instrument, combining a strong baritone with very articulate phrasing and a rural Virginia accent that almost sounds English.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Jesse Fuller</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:28:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jesse Fuller was San Francisco's most famous one-man band, playing a variety of homemade instruments off various parts of his body while singing and strumming guitar chords. His music was a mild version of Country Blues filtered through the innovation and imagination of his self-accompaniment, and his voice had a warm, soothing, textured tone that was later compared to Cat Stevens. Fuller's major hit, "San Francisco Bay Blues," was covered by Janis Joplin, and his "Beat it on Down the Line" was often performed by the Grateful Dead.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Buddy Moss</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Gary Lyn</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:47:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>J.D. Short</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:46:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[More than just a footnote in the annals of blues history, J.D. Short was highly esteemed among fellow players for his talented harp playing and the singular style of his vocals. Possessing a powerful, sonorous voice capable of expressing an immense emotional range, Short's gifted singing made his takes on blues standards particularly poignant and convincing.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Frankie Lee Sims</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:47:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cousin of the honorable Lightnin' Hopkins and ardent devotee of the Country Blues culture (Texas style), Frankie Lee Sims rocked the late 1940s and early 1950s with a crunchy, dirty tube-toned, Electric Blues guitar style all his own. Sims' fevered playing pumped a healthy dose of octane boost into the gas tank of his near satanic sound, often inviting the likes of Smokey Hogg and Lil' Son Jackson along for the ride.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Pops Staples</title>
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<category>Country Soul</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pops Staples did not release a record of his own until 1992, but his name has been synonymous with country-flavored Gospel and blues since he and his daughters started putting out records as the Staple Singers in the 1960s. His much-imitated, spectral guitar lines have been echoed by the most respected purveyors of American Roots rock, from Steve Cropper to Robbie Robertson to CCR. Staples' vocal style is the link between Mississippi John Hurt and Curtis Mayfield -- high-register, refined, and shrouded in deep Soul. In the latter days of the Civil Rights movement, the Staple Singers were outspoken in their commitment to change, performing uncompromising music that confronted and discussed the social upheaval enveloping the country at the time. Pops' career began as far back as the 1930s, and over the years he's worked with just about everyone from Robert Johnson to the Band. He's one of a handful of musicians who, without really being a household name, is among the most important figures in American music.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Julius Daniels</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Bill Wence</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:37:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Bill Phillips</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:03:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Mance Lipscomb</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:49:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Frank Hutchison</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Henry Thomas</title>
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<category>Early American Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Itinerant singer/guitarist Thomas' music works on a level that bridges the gap between blues and whatever came before the blues. Recording in the 1920s and '30s, his music is like dance music from some forgotten time. He backs himself on guitar with a propulsive, hybrid picking/strumming style, singing in a high and very spirited tenor voice. The available recordings feature a lot of unavoidable surface noise, but the spirit and intent are right there.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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