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<title>Eric Clapton</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The weight of becoming a guitar god in the '60s never seemed to slow Clapton's creativity, though he has had some close calls while overcoming addiction and other tragedies. Originally lauded for his lightning-fast guitar licks, it's arguably Clapton's soulful blues playing that merits the "Clapton is God" refrain. After performing in a slew of influential and certifiably Classic Rock bands in the '60s -- and chumming around with guitar greats like Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and John McLaughlin -- Clapton launched a successful, provocative solo career, quickly finding his own voice as a singer and ballad writer. Borrowing heavily from Freddie King, Clapton's playing continues to find new styles worthy of a blues injection: he's recorded R&B crossover hits, unplugged singer-songwriter fare, and even incognito trip-hop projects (as x-sample).
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<title>Stevie Ray Vaughan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The loss of Stevie Ray Vaughan in a 1990 helicopter crash was a rock (and blues) death on par with the loss of Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding, so deeply was the public moved. Vaughan had been the catalyst for a massive blues revival in the 1980s, with a distinctive guitar tone and a string of singles that managed to cross over to mainstream rock radio. This was somewhat detrimental to his image, as Vaughan was at heart a pure blues guitarist, and his mainstream success did more to damage any authenticity he might have enjoyed as an obscure axeman, especially with purist blues fans. But in the years since his death Vaughan's music has come to represent a pinnacle of Texas or Modern Blues, and no longer seems like the call to arms for beer-swollen George Thorogood fans that it did at the height of his popularity. All his early studio albums are worth checking out (they're certainly better than Robert Cray's), but the real fun begins with Vaughan's live recordings, on which he repeatedly goes wholly over the top.
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<title>Bonnie Raitt</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bonnie Raitt's mellifluous voice, accomplished guitar playing and classic catalog of blues, folk, R&B, and pop songs have made her one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation. Though she made her debut in in 1971, it was not until 1989's <i>Nick of Time</i> and 1991's <I>Luck of the Draw</I> that Raitt achieved the enormous commercial success fans and critics had been predicting for decades.
<br><br> The daughter of Broadway star John Raitt, Bonnie Raitt began playing guitar at age 12 and was immediately attracted to the blues. In 1967 she left her L.A. home to enter Radcliffe, but dropped out after two years and began playing the local folk and blues clubs. Dick Waterman, longtime blues aficionado and manager, signed her, and soon she was performing with Howlin' Wolf, Sippie Wallace, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and other blues legends. Her reputation in Boston and Philadelphia led to a record contract with Warner Brothers.
<br><br> Raitt's early albums were critically lauded for her singing and guitar playing (she is one of the few women who play bottleneck) as well as her choice of material, which often included blues as well as pop and folk songs. Most of Raitt's repertoire consists of covers, and she has gone out of her way to credit her sources, often touring with them as opening acts. Her sixth album, <i>Sweet Forgiveness</i> (Number 25, 1977), went gold and yielded a hit cover version of Del Shannon's "Runaway" (Number 57, 1977). <i>The Glow</i> (featuring her first original tunes since three on <i>Give It Up</i>) (Number 30, 1979) was produced by Peter Asher, but it did not sell as well as its predecessor.
<br><br> A Quaker, Raitt has played literally hundreds of benefits over the course of her career. She was a founder of M.U.S.E. (Musicians United for Safe Energy), which in September 1979 held a massive concert at Madison Square Garden, with other stars such as Jackson Browne, James Taylor, and the Doobie Brothers. It was later commemorated on a three-LP set. In 1982 she released her eighth LP, <I>Green Light</I> (Number 38, 1982), a harder-rocking effort aided by her backup band, the Bump Band, which included veteran keyboardist Ian MacLagan (of the Faces and the Stones) and Raitt's longtime bassist and tuba-player, Freebo, remained a constant sideman through her various backup bands. They toured with Raitt in mid-1982, greeted by the usual critical acclaim. Her work also appeared on the platinum 1980 <i>Urban Cowboy</i> soundtrack, with the country song "Don't It Make You Wanna Dance."
<br><br> When <i>Nine Lives</i> (Number 115, 1986) flopped, Raitt lost her deal with Warner Bros. Prince reportedly produced an album's worth of tracks with her, but they were never released. Instead, Raitt reemerged in 1989 on Capitol with her Don Was–produced breakthrough album <i>Nick of Time</i>, which smoothed out her rough bluesy edges yet avoided crass commercialism. It topped the charts, sold 4 million copies, and won an Album of the Year Grammy (one of four awards won by a thunderstruck Raitt at the 1990 gala; one was for her duet with Delbert McClinton, "Good Man, Good Woman").
<br><br> The pattern held with <I>Luck of the Draw</I> (Number 2, 1991), another Was production, which included the hit singles "Something to Talk About" (Number 5, 1991) and "I Can't Make You Love Me" (Number 18, 1991). It sold over 4 million copies and netted three more Grammys, for Album of the Year, Best Female Rock Vocal, and Best Pop Vocal Performance. Raitt earned another in 1990, for Best Traditional Blues Recording, for "In the Mood," a duet with John Lee Hooker on his album <i>The Healer</i>. Her former label Warner Bros. capitalized on Raitt's high profile by releasing <i>The Bonnie Raitt Collection</i> (Number 61, 1990), which included live duets with Sippie Wallace and John Prine.
<br><br> In April 1991 Raitt married actor Michael O'Keefe (they divorced in 1999). Raitt also cofounded the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, dedicated to raising awareness and money for influential musical pioneers left impoverished in their old age by unfair record deals and lack of health insurance. Raitt once again found success working with producer Don Was, as 1994's <i>Longing in Their Hearts</i> topped the chart and went platinum shortly after its release; it sold over 2 million copies. It included "Love Sneakin' Up on You" (Number 19, 1994) and "You" (Number 92, 1994). Around this time, Raitt had a hit with "You Got It" (Number 33, 1995) from the film <i>Boys on the Side</i>, and a minor hit with "Rock Steady"(Number 73, 1995), a duet with Bryan Adams. <i>Road Tested</i> (Number 44, 1995) is a live album.
<br><br> In 1995 Raitt became the first woman guitarist to have a guitar named for her. All royalties from the sale of Fender's Bonnie Raitt Signature Series Stratocaster go to programs to teach inner-city girls to play guitar.
<br><br> Her next effort, <i>Fundamental</i> (Number 17, 1998), produced by Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake, was a less polished collection that some viewed as a return to the fine roots- and blues-based work of her earlier, hitless days. Raitt called 1982's <i>Green Light</i> the album's "true predecessor." Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, Raitt continues to perform for and speak out on a wide range of issues, including nuclear power, reproductive freedom, and the environment. In 2002, Raitt issued <i>Silver Lining</i> (Number 13, 2002) followed by a greatest hits compilation, <i>The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003</i> in 2003. The self-produced (with Tchad Blake) <i>Souls Alike</i> (Number 19, 2005) followed in 2005. In 2006, Bonnie collaborated with Norah Jones, Alison Krauss, Keb' Mo', and Ben Harper on the DVD/CD project <i>Bonnie Raitt and Friends</i>.
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<title>B.B. King</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The undisputed king of the blues, B.B. "Blues Boy" King will go down in history as one of the most important electric guitarists and blues singers ever. King's vocals are smooth and rich as they emote wailing cries and good-hearted humor, while every sound he plays on the guitar is instantly recognizable by his distinct vibrato, vocal guitar style and authorship of hundreds of the most classic blues riffs. Drawing on the single-note playing of T-Bone Walker, King's style has influenced several of the greatest rock, blues and jazz artists of the latter half of the twentieth century, including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, among others. Most important is the fact that, with one note, B.B. King can tell a story that touches the deepest roots of your soul.
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<title>John Lee Hooker</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Blues musician John Lee Hooker helped define the post-World War II electric blues with his one-chord boogie compositions and his rhythmic electric guitar work. His deep voice was inimitable. Historically, he was one of the great links between the blues and rock & roll.<br><br>
Hooker was one of 11 children. He sang at church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. His first musical instrument was an inner tube stretched across a barn door. In his adolescence he was taught rudimentary guitar technique by his stepfather, William Moore, who often performed at local fish fries, dances, and other social occasions in the late '20s; another early influence was Blind Lemon Jefferson. In 1931 Hooker went to Memphis, where he worked as an usher at the Daisy Theater on Beale Street. He moved to Cincinnati in 1933 and sang with gospel groups like the Big Six, the Delta Big Four, and the Fairfield Four.<br><br>
His career eventually took root in Detroit in the late '30s. He began recording in the late '40s. Hooker was exclusively a singles artist for his first few very prolific years. His first release, "Boogie Chillen," issued on the Modern label, was an instant million-seller and a jukebox hit. "I'm in the Mood" sold a million copies in 1951; the blues-record market was soon saturated with Hooker material on myriad labels, often released under such pseudonyms as Birmingham Sam, John Lee Booker, Boogie Man, John Lee Cooker, Delta John, Johnny Lee, Texas Slim, and Johnny Williams. His only pop chart entry was with "Boom Boom" (Number 60, 1962), later recorded by the Animals. In 1959 he cut his first album for Riverside Records and made his debut performance at the Newport Folk Festival. He toured Europe extensively in the early '60s. In the mid-'60s he toured and recorded frequently with Britain's Groundhogs.<br><br>
By 1970, Hooker was living in Oakland, California. He teamed up with Canned Heat for <i>Hooker 'n' Heat</i> (Liberty), which made inroads on the American charts (Number 73) and abroad. Charlie Musselwhite and Van Morrison joined Hooker in 1972 for <i>Never Get Out of These Blues Alive</i>, the release of which roughly coincided with Fantasy's double-LP <i>Boogie Chillen</i>, a compilation of early material and previously unreleased tapes from 1962. Hooker continued to tour and record in the '70s and '80s, often opening for rock acts like Canned Heat and Foghat. In 1980 he appeared in <i>The Blues Brothers</i> film.<br><br>
The late '80s brought a renewal of interest in Hooker. British and American rockers, including the Spencer Davis Group, the J. Geils Band, Canned Heat, and George Thorogood, had covered his songs. He sang the title role on Pete Townshend's 1989 album <i>The Iron Man</i>, which was based on a children's book. The same year he joined the Rolling Stones for their concerts in Atlantic City, New Jersey. <i>The Healer</i> (Number 62, 1989), which featured guest appearances by Carlos Santana, Robert Cray, Los Lobos, George Thorogood, Canned Heat, and others, was his biggest commercial success. The album spent 38 weeks on the chart. Hooker earned his first Grammy Award for "I'm in the Mood," the album's duet with Bonnie Raitt. In October 1990 New York's Madison Square Garden hosted an all-star concert celebrating Hooker's music. Raitt, Joe Cocker, Huey Lewis, Ry Cooder, Gregg Allman, Willie Dixon, and others joined the bluesman for the occasion. That year he also joined Miles Davis on the Grammy-nominated movie soundtrack <i>The Hot Spot</i>. (Davis reportedly called Hooker "the funkiest man alive, buried up to his neck in mud.")<br><br>
In 1991 Hooker was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; he was nominated for another Grammy for 1991's <i>Mr. Lucky</i>, which featured tracks recorded with the Robert Cray Band, Keith Richards, Ry Cooder, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Johnny Winter, Carlos Santana, and others. His 1992 release <i>Boom Boom</i> featured guest guitar work by ex–Fabulous Thunderbird Jimmie Vaughan and blues great Albert Collins.<br><br>
In early 1995 Hooker announced that he would lighten his touring schedule. Van Morrison, who played on 1995's <i>Chill Out</i>, produced 1997's <i>Don't Look Back</i>, which features appearances by both Morrison and Los Lobos. <i>The Best of Friends</i> rounds up Hooker's numerous superstar collaborations. The first biography about the bluesman, <i>Boogie Man</i>, was published in Europe in 1999, and in America the following year. In 2000 Hooker won a Grammy for lifetime achievement. He died in his sleep at the age of 83.<br><br> <i>from The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001)</i>
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<title>Kenny Wayne Shepherd</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Picking up a guitar at age seven and mastering Stevie Ray's moves by the time he was 13, Kenny Wayne Shepherd was hyped, pushed and packaged for mass consumption on a major league scale in the early 1990s. His arrival came almost simultaneously with fellow youngster guitar hotshots Jonny Lang and Zakk Wylde. The result was total over exposure and widespread dismissal by the majority of blues purists. Shepherd's debut album, <i>Ledbetter Heights</i>, however, was surprisingly genuine, forcing folks to take a closer look at the kid. Through the next several albums, Shepherd's once-ubiquitous TV appearances petered out, and he was allowed an opportunity to grow both physically and musically. After a trio of heavy duty blues rock LPs, where he played more like Jimi than Muddy, Shepherd returned to Delta blues (as well as jump and good ol' electric blues) with 2007's <i>10 Days Out (Blues From the Backroad)</i>, a refreshingly under-polished collection of live cuts featuring all sorts of guest appearances, from Hubert Sumlin to B.B. King.
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<title>Muddy Waters</title>
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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.
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<title>Joe Bonamassa</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A blues guitarist first but also a lover of great rock riffs, Joe Bonamassa is liable to pull out just about anything in live performances. Sections from Yes' "Starship Trooper" are well documented but Bonamassa also tosses in the "mosh" part from Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers" at times, a riff any rock fan hears in his or her sleep. Often cited as the best guitarist of his generation, Bonamassa tends toward the chorded lead asides of Billy Gibbons and bears an almost uncanny resemblance to Cream-era Clapton more than Stevie Ray Vaughan or B.B. King, although those two influences are still very much present in Bonamassa's playing. They're just not the first names that come to mind when he takes a solo. Like many of his peers -- Kenny Wayne Shepherd, "Monster" Mike Welch, etc. -- Bonamassa was sitting in with bands and playing live shows before he was a teenager, and his first album, <i>A New Day Yesterday</i>, came out when he was just 23 years old, in 2000. Subsequently Bonamassa steadily toured and released records, with eight under his belt thus far, <i>Live From No Place In Particular</i> being the most recent.]]></description>
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<title>The Derek Trucks Band</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Child prodigy Derek Trucks is a fiery guitar slinger whose slow-burn slide style owes a lot to the legends of the blues. Like a younger version of Stevie Ray Vaughan (sans the been-at-the-bottle-too-long growl), Trucks' jams duplicate the dips and twists of Buddy Guy and Al King. A kid no more, Trucks now fronts his own band, a formidable blues unit deeply rooted in Southern Rock soil.
- Chad Driscoll]]></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>Susan Tedeschi</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:42:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<I>Billboard Magazine</I> has called Susan Tedeschi "honest-to-God great." She spins out steaming, cinematic blues with her smoking hot guitar. Think of a passionate and sultry mix of Etta James and Bonnie Raitt.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Robert Cray</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Finding a modern audience has earned Cray some criticism he wouldn't get if he was a struggling club performer. He has a clean, singing guitar, strong songwriting abilities, and a soul voice more Sam Cooke than Muddy Waters. His unique mix of blues, rock, and soul has taken another turn of late: Cray's latest album celebrates that glorious Stax Records sound of the '60s. While their styles are different, Cray could arguably be compared to Ray Charles, another performer who ably crossed blues, soul and pop barriers.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Albert King</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Albert King's 6'4" stature was dwarfed only by the massive sound he made when he wrapped his huge hands around a Flying V guitar, pulling rather than pushing on the strings due to his left-handed, upside-down approach. King's trademark wailing blues guitar complemented his deep, heavy vocals, either one of which could touch your soul. Among his greatest admirers were Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and especially Stevie Ray Vaughan, each of whom pilfered many of King's famous licks and passed them on to new generations. The imitation didn't faze King, who confidently reassured his followers that he could outplay any one of them on any given night. On his classic hit "Born Under a Bad Sign," King was backed by Booker T. and the MG's, who provided a Stax Soul foundation that he drew upon for many of his later hits. Though King is somewhat underappreciated, the majority of rock and blues guitar players know the man's riffs, if not his name.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Johnny Winter</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Texas guitar legend Johnny Winter became a seeming overnight star in 1968 with the release of his first album on Columbia records. Winter was and remains an incendiary guitar player and a gruff, authoritative vocalist. An exceptionally fluid and dynamic soloist on both standard and slide guitar, his records in the 70's tended towards rock excess, but by the end of that decade he had returned to a much more pure blues approach which continues today. Along the way Winter was instrumental in helping the career resurgence of Muddy Waters, producing and playing on a number of acclaimed records. Winter was an important influence on a whole generation of musicians, including Chris Whitley and Stevie Ray Vaughn
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Blues Brothers</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:29:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever craved plain white toast and four fried chickens understands that the Blues Brothers were on a mission from god. Joliet Jake and his brother Elwood were created by the late, great John Belushi and his partner Dan Aykroyd. The duo began as a way to warm up the audience before <i>Saturday Night Live</i> broadcasts, but soon became a semi-regular act on the show, and later graduated to a legitimate touring band with hit albums and a feature film. Their trademark look was inspired by the modernists of English subcultural yore, blues enthusiasts who donned three-button black suits, skinny black ties, porkpie hats and Wayfarer sunglasses. Backed by the likes of guitarist Steve Cropper and bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn (legends from the Stax studio's house band), as well as other well-known session players, the Blues Brothers covered standards from the Stax-Volt vaults with genuine affection. Although they began as a sketch, the two turned a new generation onto classic blues and soul.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Peter Green</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Peter Green is best remembered as the original impresario behind Fleetwood Mac. He founded the band and then left, reportedly because they refused to donate all of the proceeds from their records to charity. Green was immediately deemed insane and encouraged to make other arrangements. During his brief tenure with the Mac, however, he delivered some of the finest blues guitar work in rock 'n' roll. His fluid playing style was smooth enough to charm a snake right out of its skin. Green's almost mythical status as an electric guitar demi-god has been heightened by his reclusiveness and his aura of deranged genius.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Walter Trout </title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:54:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Coco Montoya</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:26:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Singer/guitarist Montoya has a pretty heavy pedigree. The Southern California native started out as a drummer, not picking up a guitar until he was bitten by the blues bug in his early twenties. He came to the attention of the late, legendary Texas guitar slinger Albert Collins, who hired him for a couple of tours and albums. Montoya followed this gig with a very high profile stint with British blues legend John Mayall, a bandleader who gave Peter Green, Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor -- the triumvirate of British Blues guitarists -- their start in the business. Mayall gave Montoya a lot of room on the bandstand, which ultimately paved the way for his solo career. He is a strong, expressive singer who especially shines on slow ballads. As a guitarist, he has taken the icy economy of Albert Collins' playing and used it to forge his own incendiary style.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Freddie King</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:32:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the three Kings of electric guitar, Freddy (or Freddie) co-owned many of the most classic blues riffs with B.B. and Albert. He got a slightly rawer sound than his fellow Kings, playing bright, snappy licks plucked with thumb and fingers on his Fender Stratocaster. Although he was born in Texas, King had more of a Chicago Blues sound, drawing influence from artists such as Robert Lockwood Jr. and Jimmy Rogers. Defining his style early, King had initial success with instrumentals like "Hideaway." His rough, loud, powerful vocals came later, when he started belting out songs like "Big Legged Woman." Eric Clapton was one of the most notable performers influenced by King, basing his entire sound on a love for King's music. Live in concert was the best way to experience the original, who tore up the stage with his large and slashing guitar presence.]]></description>
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<title>Elvin Bishop</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Elvin Bishop dropped out of his second year at the University of Chicago to dive head first in the local blues scene. Fascinated by what he was hearing around him, he met up with Paul Butterfield and joined the Butterfield Blues band. He split from the outfit in 1968 to experience the crazy musical melting pot that once was San Francisco, where the sonic diversity crept into his sound in the form of a gospel, country, and blues hybrid. On the famous Fillmore stage, Bishop often sat in with the likes of B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and even the late, great Jimi Hendrix. He soon formed the Elvin Bishop Group and recorded the notorious "Fooled Around and Fell in Love." Bishop currently resides in San Francisco where he enjoys gardening and the occasional gig.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>R.L. Burnside</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Forget those dolled-up, pentagram-sportin', tattooed rock 'n' rollers that comprise his audience of late -- the bona fide bad-ass is up onstage. You wanna talk hard livin'-- nothing beats the real life rigmarole of old bluesmen like R.L. Burnside. Coming out of the deep South in the 1930s, Burnside was one of the artists featured in Richard Grant's article on the wild lives of elder bluesmen on Fat Possum Records in the March 27, 1999, edition of British daily <I>The Daily Telegraph</I>. It said that Burnside went to prison in the 1940s for murder. He allegedly shot a man in the back of the head, but only served three months thanks to a plantation owner who needed Burnside to work the next planting season. A grimly practical Burnside told his label, "I didn't mean to kill nobody. I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord." As rugged and rowdy as his reputation, Burnside's overdriven Delta Blues slide guitar playing is fierce and blistering. His singing is heartfelt, though often mumbled and slurred. Live shows chug along like a steam engine overheating. His massive cult following comes in all shapes and sizes.
- Dennise Lite]]></description>
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<title>Tommy Castro</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:45:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Tommy Castro is a bad boy of the blues. His music incorporates sultry, slow ditties with dirty guitar tones as well as soul-saturated, up-tempo rock 'n' roll songs with wailing Stratocaster leads. Castro sings in a kicked-back, nonchalant style that seems to always be chasing (or trying to keep up with) the backbeat of his songs.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Koko Taylor</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<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>Albert Collins</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The late Albert Collins was an important and influential blues artist with an unmistakable sound. Playing a Fender Telecaster with his fingers through a hundred-watt amplifier, Collins produced a lead guitar sound that was brittle, biting, and funkily syncopated. His cool tone, and a number of early instrumentals he cut with titles like "Frosty" and "Sno-Cone," earned him the title "The Iceman." In the early 1960s Collins led big horn bands, but played with smaller bands and bounced from label to label after that. He signed with Chicago's Alligator records in the '70s, became a star attraction on the international blues circuit, and was a bona fide blues superstar by the time of his death in 1993. He was an important influence on a whole generation of guitarists, from Billy Gibbons to Stevie Ray Vaughn and Robert Cray.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Charlie Musselwhite</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<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>Jimmie Vaughan</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:01:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Mike Bloomfield</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<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>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>North Mississippi Allstars</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:55:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fiesta-ready trio meld hearty swaths of Delta Blues with rollicking alternative rock. Think of a more Boogie Rock Violent Femmes morphing with the old Beastie Boys while a pensioner nicknamed Blind-something-or-the-other plays lead guitar.]]></description>
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<title>Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:52:16 -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>Johnny "Guitar" Watson</title>
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<category>Funk</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 2 Aug 2009 08:58:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons sings "with my New York brim and my gold tooth displayed" on "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide," he might well be describing the legendary Johnny "Guitar" Watson, whose 14-karat smile and natty, pimped-out image sometimes overshadowed his monstrous musical talent. Watson came up in the fertile Houston, Tex., music scene of the 1950s and was heavily influenced by the swinging sounds of T-Bone Walker and Gatemouth Brown. After starting out as keyboard player, guitar became his primary instrument and he earned his nickname with his dazzlingly mercurial technique. In 1960s Los Angeles, he worked as a leader as well as a sideman, often with singer Larry Williams. When Watson reemerged in the mid-1970s with his "gangster of love" persona, his new sound combined hard Funk and soulful ballads. He became hugely successful on R&B charts in the U.S. and around the world. He died onstage in Japan in 1994.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Shuggie Otis</title>
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<category>Soul Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:39:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The prodigiously gifted son of legendary band leader Johnny Otis sprang to fame in the late '60s and early '70s while still a teenager. Although he could play numerous instruments, he is probably most closely identified as a guitarist. His playing is an amalgam of blues styles reflecting a love for players like B.B. King and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. He issued numerous albums of R&B and West Coast blues, and the Brothers Johnson had a million-selling hit record thanks to a cover of his "Strawberry Letter 23" in 1977.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>John Mayall</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:54:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>T-Bone Walker</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:43:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As one of the first Electric Blues guitarists, Texas-born T-Bone Walker influenced the course of blues history with his direct, emotional, single-note lead guitar. Along with a few other players (such as jazz pioneer Charlie Christian), Walker plugged his guitar in to make it stand out among the other instruments of his band. Sustaining bends, stinging yet elegant licks, fast-picked single notes -- each has their roots in Walker's fluid playing. His singing was powerful and versatile as well, effortlessly delivering a soft ballad as easily as leading some steamy Jump Blues. Among the artists who have cited him as a primary influence are none other than B.B. King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Albert King. These three musicians -- and basically every rock and blues artist -- exhibit elements of Walker's style, elaborating on his pioneering runs. The song "They Call it Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just as Bad)" is a certified classic, while many of Walker's other songs are regularly covered as well.
- Jessy Terry]]></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>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>Marvin Sease</title>
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<category>Retro Soul</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:52:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Duke Robillard</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:49:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Duke Robillard has been involved in almost every kind of blues-derived music since he first formed the seminal group Roomful of Blues in 1967. Pulling licks from a seemingly inexhaustible arsenal of blistering guitar riffs, Robillard has shown the same roots-reverent brilliance in everything from Rockabilly to slick city blues to his current fascination with swinging Jazz Blues. In the frequently over-glitzed and all too often generic world of whiteboy blues, this consummate guitar stylist stands out, garnering critical praise as well as a fervent legion of fans.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Son House</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Ronnie Earl</title>
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<category>Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:49:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Performing with Roomful of Blues and on his own, Ronnie Earl has always proved to be one of the top modern blues guitarists, equally able to swing and to play soulful single note blues in the tradition of T-Bone Walker.
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<title>Popa Chubby</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:34:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Popa Chubby's guitar sound is soaring and explosive, generally starting with soulful blues licks and working its way up to stratospheric Hendrix psychedelia. A member of the new breed of Okeh blues revivalists, Chubby is first and foremost a showman. He thrives on stage, winning numerous competitions and bowling over audiences with his massive sound and large demeanor. Chubby's albums showcase different aspects of his playing, from his acoustic songwriting to his from-the-gut singing (which sounds similar to fellow big-blues-man John Popper), always concentrating on his excellent guitar-slinging skills.
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<title>Lowell Fulson</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:42:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Few blues artists have worn as many hats as Lowell Fulson. He's got a massive discography behind him and an even more massive talent for experimentation. He's tried everything from acoustic and rural to urban and electric to R&B, and he's still going strong. Listen for a few minutes to Fulson's dead-on delivery and pristine guitar playing and you'll understand why his career has spanned half a century -- few can sing the blues so well yet sound free of self-pity at the same time.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Luther Allison</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<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>Big Mama Thornton</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Vaughan Brothers</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:29 -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>Johnny Otis</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Otis is a seminal figure in the development of West Coast R&B, 1950s rock 'n' roll, and Blues Rock. He discovered, produced and wrote songs for numerous artists, led his own very successful bands, recorded hit records, and fathered Bay Area Blues Rock guitar hero Shuggie Otis, whose song "Strawberry Letter 23" was a massive hit for the Brothers Johnson in 1975. Otis started out as a drummer, playing in big bands in the '40s and eventually began producing R&B records. Along the way he discovered Big Mama Thornton, Little Esther, Etta James and others, producing their records and backing them up with his band. He scored a major rock 'n' roll hit in 1957 with the often covered "Willie and the Hand Jive." Throughout the '60s and the '70s his band -- billed as the Johnny Otis Show -- was a major attraction in clubs and on the festival circuit. He continues to perform and is a disc jockey with a blues and R&B radio show in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Guitar Shorty</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Guitar Shorty is a fiery performer who's been known to take a solo standing on his head. His deep, gritty vocals and slashing guitar style more than back up his raucous stage theatrics.
- Jessy Terry]]></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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