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<title>Little Walter</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Before Little Walter, the harmonica was just an instrument for accompaniment on the back porch. Little Walter changed the instrument's role by hooking it up to a microphone and plugging into an amplifier. His tone was thick and fierce, covered in rich distortion and with enough balls to send guitarists and sax players scurrying to the back of the stage. His many recordings with Muddy Waters are some of the best the blues has to offer, not to mention his excellent collaborations with Jimmy Rogers and Otis Rush. In the 1950s he topped the R&B charts numerous times with instrumentals such as "Juke" and scowling Chicago blues like "You Better Watch Yourself." Unfortunately, his personality was as fiery as his playing; shortly after a tour with the Rolling Stones in the late '60s, he died in a street brawl.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Charlie Musselwhite</title>
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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>James Cotton</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Within the realm of Chicago Blues, there were few harp-blowers more impassioned and soulful than James Cotton. His career began in Memphis where he recorded a few singles for Sam Phillips in the early 50s. When Muddy Waters and his band came to town, James Cotton ended up taking the place of Little Walter. Cotton began recording his own records in the late 60s. A notoriously animated live performer, he continues to perform although throat difficulties have caused his voice to sound like Tom Waits coughing up gravel.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Paul Butterfield</title>
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<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>Jimmy Reed</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you don't already know that Jimmy Reed is a king of popular blues standards, then read on. Now dig -- if you have ever heard anyone play "Bright Lights, Big City," "Baby, What You Want Me to Do," "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby," "Big Boss Man," "Going To New York," "You Don't Have to Go," "Boogie In the Dark," "High And Lonesome" or "Honest I Do" then you have heard the sweet Delta influenced stylings of tunesmith Jimmy Reed. His easy-going blues songs have been covered by everyone from Elvis to The Rolling Stones to Charlie Rich to Bob Dylan (not to mention an endless sea of UK and US Garage bands). Reed was notorious for getting so sauced that he could barely stand up before suddenly snapping to and hitting the stage with all the gusto of a skilled and sober musician. Because his music was so kicked back and accessible, many musicians found his timeless blues songs naturally approachable and playable. From the 1950s to the 1960s Reed sold almost as many records as the better known B.B. King. He passed away in Oakland on August 29, 1976.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Sonny Boy Williamson</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sonny Boy Williamson is thought by many American music enthusiasts to be one of the end-all, be-all blues legends. He was one of the few crooners to have played with Robert Johnson, the man who allegedly sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Williamson bummed around the U.S., drank heavily (whiskey was his poison), and eventually landed a posh job hosting a radio show for about fifteen years. KFFA's <i>King Biscuit Time</i> was the first blues-focused radio show to ever juice through a radio transmitter onto the public airwaves. His dark, autobiographical recorded material personifies the blues. Williamson's songs were marinated in an unaffected, melancholic paranoia and delivered with gritty, sinister wit. His phenomenal harmonica playing was celebrated most in Europe, where he would dazzle the crowds with passionate bursts of tuneful blues harp honks and passionate wailing. His vocals were deep and breathy accounts of hard living. In 1955, he first recorded "Don't Start Me to Talkin'" for Chess Records, a song that did well on the R&B charts. Williamson later fell in love with England, where he would play with the Yardbirds and Eric Burdon's band the Animals (who he called "de Mammimals"). One of his final recorded songs, "I'm Trying to Make London My Home," was played with Jimmy Page on guitar. Sonny Boy Williamson was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1980, fifteen years after the heart attack that took his life in 1965.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Junior Wells</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Simply one of the greatest bluesmen in history. Listen to the classic Electric Blues sound he helped invent, along with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, in Chicago in the 1940s. Wells' work paved the way for everyone from Eric Clapton to Jimi Hendrix and beyond. His baritone shouts, moans, soars, growls, and pleads; his harmonica solos are concise and soulful. Meanwhile his backing band grooves like few bands in history. Listen to them shuffle, stomp, riff, boogie, and rock together; listen to the piano and guitar weave in and out of each other, trading licks and choruses on occasion. Horn sections and backing vocals also make brief appearances.]]></description>
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<title>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>Slim Harpo</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Carey Bell</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Lazy Lester</title>
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<category>Swamp Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lazy Lester is a harmonica-playing blues crooner who wears a beat-up cowboy hat and a perpetual smile. He's been churning out swampy tunes with the pulsing energy of his native Louisiana since the mid-1950s. Lester's music is rooted in the steady-rollin' style of Jimmy Reed and Slim Harpo, employing similar rhythms in infectious songs, often backed by a full band. With his gritty singing and a baying-bloodhound harp style, Lazy Lester is great to listen to when you been drankin' bourbon for who knows how many days straight and that damn woman is gawn agin.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Kim Wilson</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:13:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As front man for the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Kim Wilson has proven to be a consummate performer and devoted blues lover. But it's in his solo work that he truly shines. A musician's musician, many consider Wilson to be one of the premier blues harmonica players in America. His style is grounded in the past -- as evidenced by the many classic blues and R&B tunes he covers -- but it's also uniquely his own. And his vocal style rivals -- or outshines -- any blues singer out there today: his tone is buttery and rich, slightly scarred, and never in a hurry. Raw and yet refined, this contemporary blues will make you be glad that you've got the blues.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Snooky Pryor</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Without selling many records, Snooky Pryor's honky-tonkin' Harmonica Blues helped put the Chicago sound on the map during the late '40s and '50s. Still going strong, he's finally received the recognition he's always deserved. His sound is a solid example of how Country Blues were urbanized.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>William Clarke</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:33:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Clarke was a master of the blues harmonica, particularly the chromatic harp, a type of harmonica with a much wider tonal range than a regular one. He was a protégé of the great Los Angeles blues artist and chromatic harp specialist George "Harmonica" Smith. Clarke thoroughly absorbed the Chicago Blues harmonica styles of folks like Little Walter and James Cotton, and then incorporated the influence of saxophone players such as Gene Ammons and David "Fathead" Newman to come up with his own darkly sophisticated, swinging sound. Clarke was also a powerful singer and a songwriter of great originality who carefully sidestepped the usual clichés inherent to the blues form. After twenty years of developing his sound, hard touring, and recording, Clarke died suddenly in 1996 at the age of forty-five.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Big Walter "Shakey" Horton</title>
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<category>Memphis Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Along with Walter Jacobs (Little Walter), Walter "Shakey" Horton was one of the most innovative and important harmonica players to emerge from Chicago's Southside blues scene of the 1950s. Playing his instrument through a tube amplifier and using reverb and distortion, Horton could make his harmonica sound almost like a tenor saxophone. He played extensively throughout the South and recorded prolifically in Memphis before moving to Chicago in the late '40s. Once there, he was in great demand as a sideman, playing and recording with everyone from Muddy Waters to Otis Rush. He played and recorded up until his death in 1981. His sound is marked by a massive tone, relaxed, behind-the-beat phrasing, and nary a wasted note.]]></description>
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<title>George "Harmonica" Smith</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:50:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Studebaker John and the Hawks</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Studebaker John formed the Hawks in the 1970s and has been a major contributor to the Chicago Blues scene ever since. An equally formidable talent on both the harmonica and slide guitar, this native Chicagoan cranks out dirty, ragged blues in the houserockin' tradition of Hound Dog Taylor. In between the blaring vamps and raspy harp chooglin', his choked voice twists itself up into a whiskey-drenched shriek as he sings alternately mournful blues and party-startin' scorchers. Supported by the solid backing of the Hawks, John treats slide blues classics and originals with the reverence and passion of a loyal student.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Sonny Boy Williamson I</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Billy Boy Arnold</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After a short tutoring period from Sonny Boy Williamson, Billy Boy Arnold rose to prominence for his meaty and jagged harmonica work. Through a convincing mix of rural Mississippi blues and more modern Chicago electric style blues, Arnold produced solid pop-oriented blues records in the late &#8216;50s. He also performed on Bo Diddley&#8217;s self-titled debut single, as well as on its flip-side, &#8220;I&#8217;m a Man;&#8221; furthermore, his own &#8220;I Wish You Would&#8221; was a staple of the Yardbird&#8217;s live set for some time. He faded from public view in the late &#8216;60s, only to re-emerge in the mid-&#8216;90s with renewed vigor.]]></description>
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<title>Curtis Salgado</title>
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<category>Chicago Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:27:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hearty, soulful blues led by Salgado's rich vocal belting and harp playing. Before embarking on his strong solo efforts, Salgado was also lead singer for the Robert Cray Band as well as Roomful of Blues.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Satan and Adam</title>
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<category>Urban Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:40:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Satan and Adam is an unlikely guitar and harmonica duo that built up a sound and an audience playing on the streets of New York in the 1980s. The duo's unique sound came from electric guitarist Sterling (Satan) Magee's propulsive, funky rhythm sound and the percussion instruments he played with his feet, combined with Adam Gussow's fat-toned harmonica playing. Magee sings with the fervor of a southern Soul shouter. In addition to recording several albums, the duo were included in U2's movie <i>Rattle and Hum</i>.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Howlin' Bill</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:27:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Gary Primich</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:04:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Mark Hummel</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:15:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Known as one of the hardest working artists on the current blues circuit, this veteran Bay Area singer/harmonica player is out most nights with his road-hardened band making new converts. His records showcase an artist who is very comfortable with all sorts of blues, from Jump Blues to Chicago, Texas and the Gulf Coast. He is a formidable harmonica player with the impeccable taste to surround himself with the best players available.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Jazz Gillum</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If he hadn't been shot dead in 1966, Jazz Gillum's name would undoubtedly be better known than it is. In the '30s and '40s, Gillum played as a session harpist on innumerable blues recordings in addition to recording his own material, and he was considered the best harmonica player of his time -- second only to Sonny Boy Williamson. While interest in his music seems to be of largely historical purpose, Gillum's spare, forlorn style is an integral part of the very basis of Harmonica Blues.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Willie Foster</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 May 2009 01:50:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The real deal. Foster is a Delta singer playing shuffling tracks like he knows what it feels like to be down and out. His deep, gritty voice sings and hums the audience into submission, before his excellent, Jimmy Reed style harmonica honks and sustains till everyone in his range has the blues just as hard as he does. Not for the weak, synthesizer loving pop-blues fan, this is earthy and low down music driven by a stinging back-up band.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Jerry McCain</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Bill "Jazz" Gillum</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:11:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bill "Jazz" Gillum was an Early Blues harmonica player best known for his work with Big Bill Broonzy. He played in a Pre-War, pre-Sonny Boy(s) Williamson style largely constructed by himself -- a high-ended, keening wail and he worked as a sideman on countless records of the era. Upon his return from WWII, his sound was out of vogue, resulting in almost no recorded material dating from the last 20 years of his life. ]]></description>
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<title>Buster Brown</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:55:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Delta Wires</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:58:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bay Area seven-piece infuses traditional Delta Blues with rock guitar energy and a swinging brass section. At a blues festival, this is the band that blows away the headliner with their charm and energy.]]></description>
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<title>Willie "Big Eyes" Smith (dr...</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>DeFord Bailey</title>
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<category>Harmonica Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:46:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Syl Johnson</title>
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<category>Soul</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:21:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Syl Johnson brought a big, dripping gob of down-home Memphis soul to his native Chicago Blues. Though he fronted many top bands in the 1950s with his impassioned vocals and harp work, he really caught fire as an R&B act in the '60s. He combined James Brown's urban funkiness with sheets of Al Green's chicken shack sensuality. Johnson tackled social issues on his album <I>Is it Because I'm Black</I> years before Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone or Stevie Wonder got politicized. He came out of retirement in the '90s after discovering how often young rappers were sampling his songs.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Sugar Ray &amp; The Blue Tones</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hard-shuffling barroom blues that borrow equally from Chicago, Texas, and the Gulf Coast. Like the Fabulous Thunderbirds, this stellar ensemble makes a big sound out of the combination of a tight but funky rhythm section, dazzling guitar and harmonica interplay, and swaggeringly authoritative vocals.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Big Foot Chester</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Raw, dirty, lowdown blues led by a vocalist who sounds like he's borrowed the microphone from his harmonica player. The guitar player isn't shabby either, stinging and slicing between twinkling piano runs.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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