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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,...

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...

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...

Roamin' And Ramblin' - It's funny how popular music always seems to get such a bad name for itself when it's just starting out. Everything from early Delta bues to rock and roll has been referred to as "The Devil's Music" at one time or another in its existence. Yet while other music always...

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