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Country blues - Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) refers to all the acoustic, guitar-driven forms of the blues. After blues' birth in the southern United States, it quickly spread throughout the country (and elsewhere), giving birth to a host of regional styles. These include Memphis, Detroit,...

Music Review - Sleepy John Estes - On 80 Highway -

Recorded just three years before his death in 1977 (Elvis Presley wasn’t the only musician of note to die that year), On 80 Highway is a collection of 17 studio tracks by blues vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Sleepy John Estes. Accompanied by longtime cohort Hammie Nixon on vocals, harmonica, and...

Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers -

Robert Johnson is a man enveloped in myth: until 1973 no photograph of him was known to exist; a legend persists that his extraordinary guitar style that sounds like two men playing at once was obtained when he exchanged technique for his eternal damnation at a lonely crossroads; there is...

Pinetop Perkins & Friends - This guy has to be one of the world's oldest working musicians. Born in 1913, Joe Willie Perkins has just celebrated his 95th birthday, having been nicknamed 'Pinetop' after a tune by Pinetop Smith that he used to play, errsome time ago. A master of blues and boogie woogie piano,...

Blues Queen Koko Taylor Dies -

"The Queen of the Blues", Koko Taylor, died today (June 3) in her hometown of Chicago following complications in surgery. It is believed the complications stemmed from a previous operation on May 19th to correct a gastrointestinal bleed. The Grammy Award-winning singer was 80 years old.

It was only a month...

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