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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...

Robert Johnson's 10th Anniversary Bashes -

(Frankfurt, DE) - The local Robert Johnson club is celebrating 10 wondrous years of existence in the German nightlife scene. Proud club and label owner Ata -the head honcho at Playhouse- has set up a number of fantastic events to celebrate the venue's achievement.

The celebration begins on Friday June 19th...

Delta blues - The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south, the Mississippi River on the west to the Yazoo River on the...

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,...

Chicago blues - The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by adding electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to the basic guitar/harmonica Delta blues. The music developed mainly as a result of the "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South...

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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