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<title>Taj Mahal</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:21 -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>Langhorne Slim</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[He's a carpetbagger, a dandy, a boy scout and a lady killer: He's Langhorne Slim, country folk troubadour of New York City. Taking his name from the Virginia town he grew up in, Slim (born Sean Scolnick) blends blues, bluegrass, gospel and a little rock 'n' roll into a rollicking tent revival soundtrack. Some have called his choirboy-in-heat vocals and creaky, jangly instrumentation a throwback, but they're missing the point. Langhorne Slim is a traditionalist, making vintage music with a distinctly modern gleam to it. It's all about persona ÃÂ either you like him or you don't. We do.]]></description>
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<title>Two Gallants</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The duo of guitarist and singer Adam Stephens and drummer Tyson Vogel formed in San Francisco in 2002, taking their band name from a story out of James Joyce's <i>Dubliners</i> and gaining a local following in the Bay Area for their scruffy, blues-colored rock. A wider national reputation was quick to follow after relentless touring and a handful of self-released efforts. The band signed with Saddle Creek records in 2005, and won UK audiences at both the Reading and Leeds festival that year. Saddle Creek released <i>What the Toll Tells</i> in 2006 and a self-titled LP followed in 2007.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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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>Fink</title>
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<category>Downtempo</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:43:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding his unsavory alias, Fink -- aka Brighton, England's Fin Greenall -- makes unusually tender music. What might be even more remarkable is the way he bends strikingly different genres to his will, putting his stamp upon each. Fink began recording for London's Ninja Tune in the late '90s; in 2001 he released his debut album, <I>Fresh Produce</I>, a collection of understated beat collages patched together out of breezy soul samples and bits of movie dialogue. Unusually inspired for an album so decidedly downtempo, the record suggested Fink as a potential heir to Kruder & Dorfmeister's cozy throne. Instead, he followed up in 2006 with <I>Biscuits for Breakfast</I>, a fully formed piece of acoustic soul. Featuring brushed drums, chiming guitars, stabs of organ and Greenall's strikingly intimate voice -- dudes, think twice before you put Fink on a mix for your girlfriend -- the album betrayed nary an electronic touch. With 2007's <I>Distance and Time</I>, coproduced by Lamb's Andy Barlow, Fink opened up his sound and sense of space, but the attention remained focused intently upon Greenall at his heartbroken best. He continues to record electronic music as Sideshow.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Ruthie Foster</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:39:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Dave Van Ronk</title>
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<category>Folk Revival</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:49:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dave Van Ronk was one of the best Folk-Blues musicians of the 20th century. His retrospective, rustic, perfectionist performances and arrangements of classic Acoustic Blues songs go unmatched by anyone else obsessed with old time music. Most anyone who has ever played the Acoustic Blues in Van Ronk's native home of New York has been tutored by this talented singer-songwriter. Bob Dylan spent a lot of time with Van Ronk in 1961 shortly after making the move from Dinkytown, Minnesota. Van Ronk began recording professionally in 1959 when he released <i>Ballads, Blues and a Spiritual</i> on Moses Asch's Folkways label. When he was a merchant seaman, folk songstress Odetta encouraged Van Ronk to play the Classic Jazz that he was infatuated with at the time. Van Ronk was soon turned on to the energetic and enthusiastic Greenwich Village coffeehouse folk scene, where he learned how to draw a large crowd and fingerpick a guitar like the great Piedmont pickers. His deep, grumble and rasp-inflected singing -- as well as his obscure knowledge of hillbilly jug-band standards and swarthy drinking songs -- appealed to the folkies who were constantly searching for purists to teach them about the history of these rich American musical traditions. Van Ronk continued to record (for Alcazar Records) and play folk music festivals throughout the greater United States until his death in 2002 at age 65.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Jorma Kaukonen</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:07:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kaukonen is a founding member of San Francisco psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane. His stinging, blues-based lines formed the basis for many of the band's songs. Kaukonen and Airplane's bassist eventually left the band to form Hot Tuna, which started out as a vehicle for Kaukonen to show off his considerable Acoustic Blues fingerpicking skills. Songs by the Reverend Gary Davis as well as other Delta Blues players were a mainstay of their sound, though the band eventually morphed into an electric band that mixed blues with extended sonic explorations. He now runs a guitar school in rural Ohio.
- 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>Josh White</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Extremely well-versed in the countryside blues vocabulary, though perhaps better known as a quasi-Cabaret performer, Josh White came up in the Piedmont scene of the 1930s and '40s and apprenticed with the likes of Blind Joe Taggart and Blind Blake. With a refined voice that seemed more suited to Vocal Jazz than the more rugged blues of his native Mississippi, White made his way to the urban centers of the '40s, picking up on the fashionable trends in music as he went. While the latter half of his career is characterized by forays into Cabaret (as well as a sex-god Lounge act), White's early recordings are some of the finest in the Folk-Blues catalog.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Reverend Gary Davis</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:32:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A figure as legendary for his influence on other musicians as for his musical output, Davis first became known as a guitar virtuoso in the 1920s, when he played frequently on the streets. Renowned for his sophisticated guitar technique and his synthesis of folk, blues, and jazz, he also possessed a deep, powerful voice that was gruff yet melodious. Religion played an important role in the life of this blind musician, exemplified by his experiences in the Carolinas as a traveling gospel preacher. He began recording in the '40s after moving to New York City (when he was already an ordained priest) and later had a profound impact on the bohemian folk music scene of the '50s. As a mentor to many folk revival musicians, Rev. Davis transmitted his style to a new generation that revered his guitar mastery and the profound simplicity of his lyrics about troubles and redemption.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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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>John Renbourn</title>
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<category>British Folk</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:05:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the '60s, fingerpicking was all the rage among folkie guitarists; the playing style renders notes clean and distinct -- just the opposite of the strum-it-to-death approach usually taken by neophyte guitarists. It's the difference between an eyedropper and a garden hose, musically rendered. The two men primarily responsible for the rise of fingerpicking in the U.K. were John Renbourn and Bert Jansch. The two were actually roommates for a brief time in the mid-1960s, putting together in their spare time a collection of original material interspersed with subdued traditional ballads and anglicized blues. Still influential today, the recordings were released in 1966 as <I>Bert and John</I>. The album inaugurated one of the most important collaborations in modern folk, as the two then went on to form Pentangle. An important British Folk band astounding in its range of reference, Pentangle brought together Celtic Folk, blues, antique ballads, modern jazz and Continental guitar styles. Since his days with Pentangle, Renbourn has remained a tireless explorer of new directions in guitar-based folk, incorporating new influences from Indian music to medieval carols.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Rory Block</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:52:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Singer-guitarist Rory Block, a long time fixture on the folk and blues scene, interprets the music of Delta and Country Blues masters such as Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, and Son House with an uncanny intensity and rare originality. She plays her acoustic guitar with a slashing, thumping style that recreates, rather than copies, the spirit of the original. Similarly, Block sings with clear, unaffected fervor, establishing her own identity.
- 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>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>Frankie Lane</title>
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<category>Celtic Folk</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:47:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Exquisite slides and twangs reverberate in Frankie Lane's dobro guitar playing. Sparse yet rich in textures, his instrumental compositions would make the perfect soundtrack music for <I>Local Hero</I> Part II.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Noah Earle</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:32:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Victor Johnson</title>
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<category>Singer-Songwriter</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:27:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Color Fred</title>
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<category>Folk</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:51:14 -0700</pubDate>
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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>Ellen McIlwaine</title>
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<category>Folk-Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Mary Flower</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:26:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Jay Nash</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:07:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Tom Ball &amp; Kenny Sultan</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Forest Sun</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:00:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Van Veen</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:39:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Paul Curreri</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:43:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Furry Lewis</title>
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<category>Memphis Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Furry Lewis' recordings stand as an important link from the traditional early blues and Ragtime of the late 19th century to the music of the following century. Though mostly overlooked until the 1960s, Lewis recorded amazing songs in the '20s that still stand the test of time, and he picked up his guitar to make more when he gained appreciation years after he began. He was a great Memphis storyteller, singing tales with earthy moans and the hint of a lisp. His guitar playing was top-notch, mixing slide guitar with altered tunings and fingers that seemed to have minds of their own. Lewis' playing is intricate and ever-changing; he never played a song the same way twice. Altering the steady bass and treble lines of his deft fingerpicking (and even the lyrics to original and traditional songs), Lewis brought it all together in loosely set structures. His versions of "Kassie Jones" and "John Henry" are some of the best blues recordings in history.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Datri Bean</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Quincy</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:26:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Josh White Jr.</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:30:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Josh White Jr. (son of outspoken blues legend, Josh White) is a renowned folkie who has been playing music since he was four years old. He had a little college campus folk hit in 1962 with "Do You Close Your Eyes," a song that is covered by many coffee house musicians to this day. His bluesey folk musings are blessed by his soulful, rich, timbered vocal stylings. Much like his father, Josh White Jr. plays at a mellow pace and leaves room for musical embellishments, which he confidently executes on the acoustic six-string. Parents will be glad to know that his children's music includes some of the most celebrated folk songs since Peter, Paul and Mary.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Sandy Bull</title>
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<category>Progressive Folk</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 08:27:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Koerner, Ray &amp; Glover</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:23:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Minneapolis-based Acoustic Blues trio were signed to the fledgling Electra Records during the ascendancy of the Folk-Blues revival of the 1960s. "Spider" John Koerner, Dave "Snaker" Ray and Tony "Little Son" Glover played with a raw energy and a sense of almost reckless, hard-edged abandon that separated them from other Folk-Blues artists of the day -- many of whom seemed like tourists in an exotic musical landscape by comparison. The group members went their separate ways in the '70s, pursuing solo careers and coming together every now and then to record.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Marjorie Thompson</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:05:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Rebecca Padula</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:48:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Clarence Edwards</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:35:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Louisiana blues from a singer/guitarist who melds Slim Harpo's unhurried cool with the easy shuffling melodicism of Jimmy Reed.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Aireene Espiritu</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:34:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Juggernaut Jug Band</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:15:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Albert and Gage</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:27:30 -0700</pubDate>
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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>Houston Jones</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:15:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Frankie Armstrong</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.13629&amp;rws=%2Fblues%2Ffolk-blues%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>British Folk</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:45:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[British soprano singer Frankie Armstrong's supple voice is known for singing folk ballads, both a cappella and with acoustic instrumentation. She's also worked with Dave Van Ronk interpreting Bertolt Brecht songs, and she's set the poems of William Blake to music. Whatever she sings rings clear.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>The Pagan Jug Band</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 7 Mar 2009 12:22:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Black Ace</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4685&amp;rws=%2Fblues%2Ffolk-blues%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 Apr 2009 23:04:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Black Ace</rhap:artist>
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<title>Stephen Taylor</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:32:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Stephen Taylor</rhap:artist>
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<title>Hans Theessink</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Theesink, a native of the Netherlands, is an expert Acoustic Blues guitar player and singer-songwriter who imbues his material with the history of the blues while concurrently bringing it a sensibility that's all his own. A sure-handed bottleneck slide and standard acoustic guitar player, he easily brings forth a wide spectrum of sounds, from the Delta Blues of Robert Johnson to the more urbane sounds of Big Bill Broonzy. He has a deep, rumbling voice that's resonant enough to overcome the trace of a Dutch accent. He consistently surrounds himself with great players and often uses brass for a funky New Orleans feel.
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<title>Cannon's Jug Stompers</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Matt Cox</title>
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<category>Folk-Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:21:28 -0700</pubDate>
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