Feature: Blues Bash
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Music Review: Luther Allison Underground— Luther puts on a clinic for anybody who wants to learn how to build a lead.
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Music Review: Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan On The Jimmy Reed Highway— ...a great CD filled with superlative performances by great musicians.
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Music Review: Bob Brozman - Post Industrial Blues— A recording that utilizes instruments from around the world and from different eras in history to make a thoroughly contemporary CD.
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Interview: Blues Guitarist Lurrie Bell— "I wouldn’t change a thing; music is my life and always will be."
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Music Review: The Musicians Of New Orleans City Of Dreams: A Collection Of New Orleans Music— New Orleans might go from being a City Of Dreams to be the city that lives only in our dreams.
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Music DVD Review: A Journey Through The Blues: The Son Seals Story— These folk loved what they did to the extent that they sacrificed their lives and their health for their music.
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Music Review: Lurrie Bell - Let's Talk About Love— It's not often that popular music can transcend personal tragedy with dignity and sincerity, but Lurrie Bell has done just that.
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Music Review: Deering & Down - Break This Record— This soulful duo prove there is still gold up in the tundra, you just have to look for it different places now
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Music Review: Sleepy John Estes - Sleepy John Estes On The Chicago Blues Scene— You can buy this disc for its historical significance...but the best reason for getting a copy is that it's great music.
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Music Review: Big Mama Thornton - Big Mama Thornton— Almost every female singer of popular music who performs rock and roll owes a debt of gratitude to Big Mama Thornton.
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Music Review: Melvin Taylor - Dirty Pool — Blues guitarman extraordinaire Melvin Taylor just might be Chicago's best kept secret.
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Music Review: Stacy Mitchhart Gotta Get The Feeling Back Again— Stacy Mitchhart plays some of the best down to earth Blues music I've heard in a long time.
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Music Review: Robben Ford - Truth — Your standard, basic Robben Ford album. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Music DVD Review: Koerner, Ray, & Glover Blues, Rags & Hollers: The Koerner, Ray & Glover Story— Blues, Rags & Hollers: The Koerner, Ray & Glover Story is a great tribute to three fine musicians who might have fallen through the cracks of memory without it
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Music DVD Review: Tail Dragger: My Head Is Bald - Live at Vern's Friendly Lounge — My Head Is Bald by Tail Dragger is an experience that shouldn't be missed by anyone who loves and adores the Blues.
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Music Review: Harry "The Hipster" Gibson - Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?— Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine? is a fitting tribute to a consummate artist.
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Music Review: Gina Sicilia Allow Me To Confess— "Allow Me To Confess" has gone a long way to restoring my confidence in the next generation of Blues musicians
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Music Review: Watermelon Slim - The Wheelman — If you want a taste of what real blues are made of you need to look no father than The Wheelman.
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Concert Review: Watermelon Slim And The Workers – Route 66 Road House, Oklahoma City, OK 06/01/2007
— At the end of the day, what you have is a group of guys that just want to make good music.
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Music Review: John Lisi and Delta Funk - Dead Cat Bounce & Cashman - Texassippi Stomp— Two new hard-hitting blues albums from 219 Records.
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Music Review: Candye Kane - Guitar'd And Feathered— Candye Kane is well on her way to becoming one of the great female vocalists of our generation.
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Interview: Watermelon Slim Part 2
— if you really want to get to know the man, buy his music. What you hear is truly what you get.
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Music Review: Watermelon Slim And The Workers The Wheel Man
— They play every song like it could be their last, and every note like there could be no tomorrow.
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Carey Bell: A Harmonica Falls Silent— The world is short on original voices today, and we don't have that many that we can spare them easily.
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Music DVD Review: Carey and Lurrie Bell - Gettin' Up Live— Here are two more players who can be added to that list of folk whose names should be known the world over.
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Music Review: James Blood Ulmer - Bad Blood In The City: The Piety Street Sessions — As good as Birthright was, I think that Bad Blood In The City: The Piety Street Sessions is even better.
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Music Review: John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - In The Palace Of The King— You can't go wrong with the latest from the legend and master; the godfather of British blues.
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Music Review: Roxanne Potvin - The Way It Feels— the throaty delivery of a cabaret singer and can play a pretty mean Telecaster.
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Music Review: Barrelhouse Buck McFarland - Alton Blues— When I listened to Barrelhouse Buck McFarland it felt like I was finally hearing Blues piano played like it was supposed to be played.
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Music Review: Cowboy Roy Brown - Street Singer— Street Singer is one of the more eclectic collections of tracks I've ever seen put together by a performer.
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One Track Mind: Koko Taylor "Merry, Merry Christmas" (1992)— Koko Taylor's houserockin' Christmas original will put the spunk in your holiday party.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Candye Kane - White Trash Girl— There's a lot more to this girl than just one dimension of the blues.
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Blues Legend Robert Lockwood Jr. Dies at 91— One of the last living links to blues icon Robert Johnson has died at 91.
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Blues Bash Interview: Thomas Ruf Of Ruf Records (Part Two)— ... if it's not worth spending my personal precious lifetime working on it, it's a waste of time for me.
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An Interview with Devon Allman - Like Father, Like Son— Allman Brothers Duane and Gregg took the world by storm in 1969. Now, another Allman is set to do just the same...
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Music Review: Ruf Records Anthology: 12 Years Of The Blues Crossing Over
— ...two discs provide a sampling of what Thomas Ruf considers the highlights of twelve years of music.
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Blues Bash Music Review: The Billy Gibson Band - Southern Living— “It was cheap and I could easily make sounds with it.”
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Blues Bash Music Review: Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog— Howlin' Wolf's odds and ends collection is good enough to be called an essential release.
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The Music Makers Relief Foundation: Helping Restore The Blues— They are one of the best and brightest hopes for keeping the Blues alive today.
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Blues Bash Interview: Kenny Neal— Blues ambassador, historian, and genuinely nice guy Kenny Neal says, "Everybody is somebody."
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Blues Bash Interview: The Bluesers— The "Canadian Delta" strikes blue!
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Blues Bash Music Review: Daddy Mack Blues Band - Bluestones— Rhythmic string section, a deep graveled voice, and a tone that takes you away from your problems and transports you to another world.
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Blues Bash Music Review: James Ulmer - Birthright— Birthright is modern album of ancient blues. Declared "one of the most important blues records of 2005".
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Blues Bash Ruf Records: Keeping The Blues Alive
— Ruf Records are this year's recipient of the Keeping The Blues Alive award for Record Companies.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Rory Block - The Lady And Mr. Johnson— A lifelong student of Robert Johnson completes her dissertation. She passes with flying colors.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Studebaker John - Between Life and Death— Between Life and Death is chock full of the good stuff coming from Chicago's Quadruple Threat.
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Blues Bash Concert Review: Joe Bonamassa - Live At Blues Alley— I don't think smaller venues like Blues Alley are going to be able to contain Joe Bonamassa much longer.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Derrin Nauendorf - The Rattling Wheel— A fantastic new release from this Australian Singer-Songwriter.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Otis Taylor - Below The Fold— Otis Taylor has got the blues and he’s pissed about it.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Aynsley Lister - Everything I Need— He's not here to conquer anything but your love of good music.
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Blues Bash Music Review: David Rotundo - Blues Ignited— They commit themselves to each song like it's the last thing they might ever do in their lives.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Canned Heat - Instrumentals 1967 - 1996— Throughout the decades of their existence, they have had the ability to play outside the box with style and flair.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Robben Ford - "Lovin' Cup"— A Blues influenced edition of One Track Mind.
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Blues Bash: The Legendary Robert Johnson— Robert Johnson, at the crossroads of the blues.
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Blues Bash Interview: No Questions Asked, They Are The Answer!— We applaud mediocrity and watch as the transient players in the music industry come and go. Isn’t it about time there was a change?
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Blues Bash Music Review: Lost Sounds: Blacks And The Birth Of The Recording Industry 1891 - 1922— ...a fascinating glimpse into the lives of musicians prior to the days of the music that we most associate with the modern era of Black music.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Jen Elliott & Bluestruck - 8 Days Down— City Canyon Records' rock 'n' soul revelation.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Kim Wilson - Lookin' For Trouble— The Fabulous Thunderbirds frontman Kim Wilson shows us he's "Tuff Enuff" for real this time.
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Blogcritics Celebrates the Blues— Come help Blogcritics celebrate the blues!
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Blues Bash Music Review: Grayson Capps - Wail and Ride— If you like New Orleans/Delta blues by poetic musicians with a little bit of dirt under their fingernails, this is for you.
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Blues Bash Music Review: John Lee Hooker - Hooker— The blues is "in him, and it got to come out."
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Blues Bash Music DVD Review: Carlos Santana Presents Blues Live At Montreux 2004— I can honestly say I've never heard Carlos Santana play quite the way he does here with Bobby Parker, Gatemouth Brown, and especially Buddy Guy.
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