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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.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Robert Cray</title>
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<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>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.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Taj Mahal</title>
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<category>Soul Blues</category>
<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>Buddy Guy</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<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>Joe Bonamassa</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:50 -0800</pubDate>
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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>Kenny Wayne Shepherd</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:58 -0800</pubDate>
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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.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Keb' Mo'</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:43:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Keb' Mo's unique style lies somewhere between the soul of Delta Blues and the melodic feel of contemporary folk, bundled in a story-like framework. Whether delivering a sparse solo song or fully arranged bluesy pop, Mo's rich vocals and earthy acoustic plucking attract both newer and older blues audiences, as evidenced on his stunning self-titled debut <I>Keb' Mo'</I>. His songwriting style occasionally disturbs purists; like Robert Cray, Keb' Mo' has found ways to write a blues tune without remaining in the traditional twelve-bar format. Nonetheless Keb' Mo' has made quite a niche for himself on many adult alternative radio stations, due in part to the polished, warm sound of his compositions.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Jonny Lang</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jonny Lang rocketed out of his adopted hometown of Minneapolis at the age of 13, astonishing the world with his splashy guitar playing and a grizzled bluesman's voice that seemed to belong to someone five times his age. The tow-headed boy had dreamed big, obsessively learning how to play guitar, then convincing his parents that he should forgo school and take to the road. "My mom eventually was okay with it, and just told me to 'Be safe and call home a lot.'" <br><br>
The risk paid off, and Lang quickly shot to the top of the blues charts, earning his first platinum record by the time he was sixteen for <I>Lie To Me</I>. He picked up his second platinum album for <I>Wander This World</I> in 1998 -- the same year he opened for the Rolling Stones. In 1999, he performed at Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura's inauguration, then traveled to the White House to perform for Clinton (where he presented the president with an autographed Fender Guitar). The next month he was personally invited to perform at Mick Jagger's 56th birthday party at the musician's estate in the South of France, where he jammed with Jagger, Bono, Elton John and Ron Wood. But then the wunderkind seemed to drop off the face of the earth, not releasing any more albums for five years.<br><br>
Lang was not idle during that time. He gigged sporadically with the likes of B.B. King, Aerosmith, and Jeff Beck; got married to actress Haylie Johnson; quit his two-pack a day cigarette habit; gave up drinking; moved to Los Angeles; and all but turned his back on his beloved blues. When his third album, <I>Long Time Coming</I>, appeared in mid-2004, the musician was not only sampling Eminem, but had also cut down on his trademark guitar pyrotechnics and eliminated any blues laments. Instead, his songs now explored the space between rock and seductive soul.<br><br>
"I'm not a blues singer," he explained unapologetically, "and I'm not really a blues writer either, or anything. I just feel like I love singing things that take a journey melodically." The journey this still-young musician is currently taking seems to follow a much more spiritual path. He not only became a committed Christian, but began penning lyrics for many of his own songs -- something he hadn't previously done, and something that made <I>Long Time Coming</I> a more coherent and fully-realized effort than his earlier albums.
- Jaan Uhelszki]]></description>
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<title>Susan Tedeschi</title>
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<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>Johnny Winter</title>
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<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>Tommy Castro</title>
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<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>Robben Ford</title>
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<category>Jazz Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In terms of style, Robben Ford doesn't like to be pinned down to any particular genre. His crisp guitar playing remains the one constant, lending a high level of quality to anything he does. His impressive rÃÂÃÂ©sumÃÂÃÂ© boasts collaborations with legends such as George Harrison, Joni Mitchell, and Miles Davis. He also formed the chart-topping group the Yellowjackets (which he subsequently left) and his current group, the Blue Line. Ford has mastered both jazz and blues but has proven to be more enduring with the latter genre, playing with a pristine touch and a soulful, expertly phrased guitar style.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Gary Moore</title>
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<category>Instrumental Guitar Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Moore has always enjoyed a devout following among guitarists, from his early swashbuckling days as Thin Lizzy's lead guitarist to his many rock, Fusion, and blues solo projects. Moore's balance of technically savvy licks and raw, emotional soul keeps the fans rabid. It was <I>Still Got the Blues</I> (1990) that finally solidified Gary Moore's reputation as a top-flight guitarist, achieving critical and commercial success with a back to the basics approach that put Moore's fiery Blues Rock guitar front and center. Later albums continue with that approach, including <I>After Hours</I> (1992), which featured heavy-hitting guests including B.B. King and Albert Collins.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Jimmy Thackery</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:26 -0800</pubDate>
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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>Peter Malick</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Peter Malick is a blues guitarist who spent years playing with the biggest names in the business (Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and James Montgomery are only the beginning), but drug addiction sidelined his career for years. Malick cleaned up and slowly rebuilt his reputation, with breakout fame finally coming when one of his collaborators, Norah Jones, ended up becoming a huge star. Malick's recordings with Jones were compiled on 2003's <I>New York City</I> and became one of the rare blues albums to crossover to the pop charts. A real pro, Malick plays all styles of roots music, and he fits in nicely on FM radio.
- Nick Dedina]]></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>The Jeff Healey Band</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:50:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With the hit "Angel Eyes," this blind Blues Rock guitarist is known for playing his Fender flat on his lap.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Watermelon Slim</title>
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<category>Country Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:00:28 -0700</pubDate>
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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>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>Seasick Steve</title>
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<category>Delta Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:00:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>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>Patrick Sweany</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:36 -0700</pubDate>
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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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<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.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Roomful of Blues</title>
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<category>Jump Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:13:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Steaming band takes the horn-filled approach to its limits. Guitarists Duke Robillard and Ronnie Earl were both members at one time, borrowing from Swing to create an energetic type of blues.]]></description>
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<title>Janiva Magness</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:06:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Rory Gallagher</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Irish born singer-songwriter and guitarist Gallagher was a Boogie Rock road warrior. He recorded prolifically and was much admired by his peers during his short life. Gallagher began his professional recording career with a power trio called Taste. The band enjoyed some chart success in England in the early 1970s, and it established Gallagher as a singer and guitarist of note in the crowded post-Cream landscape. He followed Taste with numerous recordings under his own name, all marked by his soulful vocals and slashing, white-knuckle guitar work. Gallagher was equally adept at Electric Blues and Country Blues; he often mixed the two in a manner similar to that of his heroes Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Gallagher died in 1995 at the age of forty-six from complications due to cirrhosis.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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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>Coco Montoya</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<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>Chris Duarte </title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Holmes Brothers</title>
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<category>Retro Soul</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With a name like Holmes you're thinking, "They better be good." They are. The Holmes Brothers blend Blues Rock with three-part Gospel harmonies to create something that's extremely difficult to listen to standing still. The Brothers are a power trio made up of Wendell and Sherman Holmes, as well as their friend Popsy Dixon singing falsettos and beating the skins with moving and rhythmic precision. They can take an old Southern Church standard and make it sound sinful in it's aural indulgence. The Brothers are festival favorites and have been recording music since 1989.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Scott H. Biram</title>
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<category>Alt Country</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:49:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>James Hunter</title>
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<category>Blue-Eyed Soul</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Marcia Ball</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:13:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Marcia Ball is one of the best-known artists to come out of the fertile Louisiana-Texas delta that spawned such greats as Janis Joplin and Lonnie Brooks. Her Boogie-Woogie piano playing draws from Swamp Rock and Zydeco to achieve a unique flavor, while her songwriting always returns to the blues. Authentically southern and unforced, these tracks illustrate Ball's great feel for both slow blues and Boogie-Woogie. Her smoky, intriguing vocals do justice to every tune, while the piano swings mischievously behind her. A southern artist to her core, Ball draws on the best music of her region to impressive effect.
- 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>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>Guitar Shorty</title>
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<category>Electric Blues</category>
<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>Debbie Davies</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:51:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Debbie Davies plays the Blues Rock with all the gusto of an old timey, juke-joint house musician. Her amazing guitar playing invokes old blues spirits of the past as she noodles her vintage tones into timeless melodies. Davies' voice is an extremely soulful and gritty instrument unto itself. In 1986 she joined up with John Mayall's wife's all-female blues band, Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs. She left the Cadillacs in the late 1980s to play with Albert Collins's Icebreakers before joining another all-female blues band (Fingers Taylor and the Ladyfingers Revue) in 1991. This proved to be short lived. The same year she began fronting her own band and has since recorded for the San Francisco label, Blind Pig.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Lonnie Brooks</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:43:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Lonnie Brooks</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Classic showman Lonnie Brooks has been performing his mean blues guitar since the late 1950s. With a lean, gritty guitar sound that stings you down to the bone, Brooks (occasionally known as 'Guitar Junior') hits to the core of your emotions, effortlessly melting different blues styles together. His guitar playing, influenced by Long John Hunter and B.B. King, takes short bends to their limits, with a slightly dirty, singing sound reminiscent of Albert King. Brooks' vocals waver with a sustaining vibrato that contains all of the sweetness of B.B. King, perfectly rendering his tale-telling songs. Brooks started out playing Zydeco and Swamp Blues with Clifton Chenier, then went on to record with blues greats such as Sam Cooke, Koko Taylor, Hubert Sumlin and Jimmy Reed. His synthesis of Soul, Funk, Chicago and Swamp Blues provides a modern edge to his songwriting, which includes the classics "In the Dark" and the father-in-law fearing "Voodoo Daddy."]]></description>
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<title>Deborah Coleman</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Emotion-soaked singing sets you up for Coleman's thick, meaty guitar solos, which hit below the belt with stinging ferocity. The band's music is straight-ahead Modern Blues, but it's Deborah's show, and her fiery guitar playing will let you know.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Junior Kimbrough</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:00:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The unsettling groove of Junior Kimbrough's apocalyptic drone-blues is a direct descendent of the murky Delta wail encountered in recordings of Mississippi Fred McDowell. Whereas McDowell was a slide player, however, Kimbrough rarely uses a slide, preferring to pick out abbreviated riffs and slowly build upon them, repeating the main theme and growing it in intensity with a slow-funk rhythm section and second lead providing both a foundation and tangential off-shoots. Kimbrough's records were recorded live, usually in the Mississippi juke joint that he owned until his death in 1998. The recordings increase with a palpable, sweaty intensity as they proceed, much like a jam session. This is true Delta Blues, recorded in the 1990s but with none of the showmanship or soul-sucking precision of the majority of Modern Blues. No slick recording techniques -- just these dark, hypnotic lines throbbing over and over with Kimbrough's wasted voice calling out in a mantra-like fashion.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>John Hammond, Jr.</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:11:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hammond's pedigree may have gotten him through the door (he's the son of legendary Columbia Records A&R man John Hammond, Sr.), but his uncommon talent as a blues player has sustained his career for nearly forty years. Hammond seems to channel the spirit of Mississippi Delta bluesmen Robert Johnson and Skip James through his singing and guitar and harmonica playing. He doesn't do this by playing their music note for note, but rather by capturing some part of their rhythmic intensity and hard-edged urgency. He started recording in the mid-1960s and was a leading light of the folk/blues revival, making highly acclaimed records with the folks who would become known as the Band and composing the evocative soundtrack for the film <i>Little Big Man</i>. He has recorded more than twenty-five albums and is a staple on the international blues concert and festival circuit.]]></description>
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<title>Chris Thomas King</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:49:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Anders Osborne</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:14:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A Swedish-born, New Orleans-based guitarist/vocalist, Osborne is the kind of guy who's more likely to get a gig at the House of Blues than he is to actually have the blues. Van Morrison-style Soul and Louisiana blues/Funk influences filter in and out of his laid-back, listener-friendly offerings.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Bernard Allison</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:23:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bernard Allison, son of late blues great Luther Allison, is a Paris-based guitar player and songwriter who has spent the past fifteen years carving out a name of his own with his soulful voice and masterful guitar work. Bernard got his start right out of high school when he decided to hit the road to better learn his craft. He spent much of his time in Canada during this period, some of it with Koko Taylor, and started his own band Back Talk before leaving to join his father in Paris. Once there, he became the bandleader for his father's group and it was also there that his father taught him the showmanship befiting a bluesman. In 1989, Bernard's first album <I>Next Generation</I> (Mondo) was recorded. Over the next several years, Bernard would record three more albums: <I>Hang on</I> (Peter Pan), <I>No Mercy</I> (Inakustik) and <I>Funkifino</I> (Mondo). But it wasn&#8217;t until the 1997 release <I>Keepin' the Blues Alive</I> (Cannonball) that he finally made his long overdue American debut. Bernard's sound is a blend of traditional blues and current rock flavorings. Vocally, his range is excellent and expressive allowing him to achieve believability, which is key to the success of any bluesman.
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<title>Ted Hawkins</title>
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<category>Singer-Songwriter</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 7 Jun 2009 07:59:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ted Hawkins was a truly original Singer-Songwriter with a voice like Sam Cooke and a slightly skewed lyrical sense. His most memorable songs mirror the upheaval and disappointment of his turbulent life; at the same time, he was capable of gentle emotion and touching revelations -- he could express the most intimate of sentiments without sounding mawkish. The music is equal parts soul and folk with dashes of country in the intricate picking and sometimes forlorn vocals. Hawkins' songs are haunting in their honesty and reveal a deep well of pain in poetic, complex lyrics. A sadly unrecognized Venice Beach street performer for most of his career, Hawkins' big break came way too late and he died of a stroke on the eve of his success. His recordings are undeniably essential -- the only testament to this unique and gifted performer.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Shemekia Copeland</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:35:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The daughter of late Texas Blues singer/guitarist Johnny "Clyde" Copeland seems to have inherited his musical gifts. She sings in a hard-edged, brassy voice that hints heavily at Gospel and R&B influences. On record she's backed up by some of the best blues players in New York, as well as blues great Joe Louis Walker.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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