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Woody Guthrie - Live Wire -

Despite Guthrie’s status as one of the greatest politically conscious troubadours of all time, and the influential shadow he cast across Bob Dylan and beyond, his actual music can sound remarkably ephemeral. It’s almost like it’s become lost, buried beneath piles of high-profile tributes and accolades that have accrued...

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...

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,...

Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down -

When Ry Cooder recorded his first two albums, collections of songs by the likes of Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie that evoked the desperate times of the Great Depression, he could scarcely have imagined that 40 years later he’d be singing of the same old problems, but...

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