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<title>Howlin' Wolf</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:56:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Forget about Screamin' Jay Hawkins' B-movie mania and Alice Cooper's gory stage show. At 6'3" and 300 lbs., Howlin' Wolf used to approach the stage on all fours, screaming his whiskey-rotted scream, getting into character in a frightening show of pure emotional intensity that scared the living doodie out of anybody within a hundred yards of the roadhouse shacks where he played. With an influence spanning far beyond the limits of blues, Howlin' Wolf stands as one of the premier figures in American music. A supernaturally booming voice fraught with paranoia, anxiety and freaked-out possession threatens to bust the speakers wide open, even on the "easy" numbers. The band that played behind this towering giant is as much a part of the genius -- thanks to the diabolically nasty guitar work of Willie Johnson and Hubert Sumlin. Sumlin's precise single-note phrases defy all accepted blues rules. They barge in all over the place, chaotically fathering a seamless rhythm that often runs in a dissonant tangent to the rest of the band. Howlin' Wolf's best songs feature this dynamic clash of sounds; fervently repeated two-chord mantras gather a spine-shaking momentum as the Wolf twitches and shrieks his deepest fears. Howlin' Wolf may not have been the most versatile of musicians, but the sheer power of his delivery and sonic force of his music is something that has been imitated by many but matched by none.
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<title>Memphis Minnie</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Arguably the most important of the female blues artists, Memphis Minnie performed for over 40 years, recorded over 100 sides, pioneered the use of electric guitar and sketched out the blueprint for urban/Chicago blues with her personalized style of songwriting. Minnie was born Lizzie Douglas in the Algiers district of New Orleans in 1897, and by the time she was 13, she had run away from home and was playing guitar and performing her own music on the streets and in the juke joints of Memphis, Tenn. Her first singles appeared in 1929, and soon Minnie became the biggest name among female blues musicians thanks to constant performing throughout the Depression and World War II. Her 1930 move to Chicago is often cited as influencing rising stars like Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Jimmy Rogers. Minnie remained active until the 1950s, when she retired from performing due to health issues. She died of a stroke in 1973.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>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>Lonnie Mack</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:49:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lonnie Mack's locomotive, whammy-crazed guitar has been a genre-transcending musical treasure since his rambling instrumental version of "Memphis" was released back in 1963. After buying one of the first Gibson Flying V's ever made, Mack honed his craft as a session-man for such big names as James Brown and Freddie King. He went on to release the single "Memphis" and a series of critically praised but commercially unsuccessful records featuring his monstrous guitar capabilities and a countrified, grizzly vocal style. The Mack's guitar playing is a dynamic mixture of bluesy soul, Rockabilly stomp and blazing, barely-in-control speed, and it certainly influenced Stevie Ray Vaughan's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink showmanship. Just about every student of the guitar has heard his name; unfortunately few are familiar with his generation-spanning influence.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Junior Parker</title>
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<category>Memphis Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:08:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Big Walter "Shakey" Horton</title>
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<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>Sleepy John Estes</title>
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<category>Memphis Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:51:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Years leading a work gang left their mark on Sleepy John Estes' vocal style. As a result, he will always be remembered for his keening wail, often referred to as "crying the blues." A Country Blues master who recorded incessantly over the course of a sixty-year career (on almost as many labels), he performed some of the most broken-down, lamenting blues ever heard. Running up and down the neck in semi-folk, acoustic patterns, his guitar style is similar to that of Leadbelly, but his biggest strength has always been his singular voice. With his high-pitched vocals that recall Robert Johnson and his material that harks back to less psychically intense artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson, Sleepy John Estes is a good introduction to the sounds and imagery of early blues. For the seasoned blues enthusiast, however, Sleepy John is nothing less than an essential figure in the blues pantheon.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Memphis Jug Band</title>
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<category>Early American Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With a revolving lineup of singers and musicians, Memphis Jug Band performed old-timey hokum/Dixie-styled classics in the Delta regions from the pre-war era until the 1960s. Incorporating a variety of string and wind instruments (including kazoos!), the band's music takes a whimsical, circus-like feel. The amazing thing about these songs is the light-hearted approach to such subjects as cocaine addiction and mental illness. These blues may appeal more to fans of Michigan J. Frog than Howlin' Wolf, but with their influence easily detected in the work of countless post-war Memphis bluesmen, Memphis Jug Band's place in history cannot be disputed.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup</title>
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<category>Memphis Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:57:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Robert Wilkins</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 13:52:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Robert Wilkins was first recorded in the 1920s playing steady-rollin' Country Blues that showcased his marvelous ability as a picker. With a wandering open-tuning style, Wilkins' music has that loosely structured feel that evokes images of dirt roads and passing freight trains. One of his songs, "That's No Way To Get Along," was lifted by the Stones as the basis for "Prodigal Son."
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Ollie Nightingale</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:08:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Frontman for Ollie & the Nightingales, a Stax Records vocal group with a testifying Southern Soul sound that drew from Gospel and R&B. Several artists in the group went on to solo careers. Their records were produced by Isaac Hayes and engineered by Steve Cropper.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Jackie Brenston</title>
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<category>Classic R&amp;B</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:51:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Singer and saxophonist Brenston is the vocalist on the classic "Rocket 88" which many critics claim is the first Rock and Roll song to be waxed. The song was released by Chess records in 1951 under the group name "Jacke Brenston and His Delta Cats" and promptly went to the top of the R&B charts. The group backing Brenston on the record was actually Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm. Brenston was not able to follow up with any where near the success of "Rocket 88" and by the 60's he had retired from the business after working for some time as a sideman. He died bitter and broke at the age of 49 in 1979.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Dr. Isaiah Ross</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bluesman Ross recorded for Sam Phillips' Sun Records, as well as innumerable other labels throughout his career. He sings in a wildly rough, soulful voice while accompanying himself on guitar and harmonica. His playing is raw and intense: a thumping, rolling, modal boogie not unlike that of John Lee Hooker. Ross was unique in his own way for acting as a proto one-man band in the 1950s, after he had already recorded with a full band. His style lives on in the work of artists like R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Gus Cannon</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:34 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As a child, jug band blues progenitor Gus Cannon made his first guitar out of a frying pan and a raccoon skin. By the time he led his own band in the 1920s (Cannon's Jug Band Stompers), he was also playing the banjo, piano and fiddle, with the banjo eventually becoming his instrument of choice. In 1963 folk revivalists the Rooftop Singers scored a No. 1 hit with Cannon's "Walk Right In," and Stax Records quickly unearthed the long-dormant bluesman and recorded a set of his songs. The resultant record was limited to only 500 copies, a fact that explains Cannon's obscurity to this day. He played a form of blues that sounded old-timey -- a sort of country ragtime music -- with the banjo as the main instrument.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Washboard Sam</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>20 Miles</title>
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<category>Memphis Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Stripped-down, stompin' rhythms created by a stark drumkit, singing guitar and howling vocals. There's fire in the belly of this soulful duo consisting of Judah and Donovan Bauer (the former being the guitar player for Jon Spencer Blues Explosion).
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>J.D. Short</title>
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<category>Acoustic Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:46:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[More than just a footnote in the annals of blues history, J.D. Short was highly esteemed among fellow players for his talented harp playing and the singular style of his vocals. Possessing a powerful, sonorous voice capable of expressing an immense emotional range, Short's gifted singing made his takes on blues standards particularly poignant and convincing.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Joe Hill Louis</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Franklin </title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Jack Kelly</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:56:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Hambone Willie Newbern</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:08 -0700</pubDate>
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