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Yes We Can!
:Album Description:2008 release. Maria Muldaur's roots are in the Folk revival of the early '60s, a time when figures like Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan were making bold statements about the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other burning issues of the day. More than four decades later, in the face of political and social issues in which the stakes are equally high, Muldaur assembles a group of legendary female performers to lend their voices in a critical examination of where we are as a nation and where we're going. The guest ...
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Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings
: :Mississippi John Hurt recorded 13 country-blues songs for the Okeh Electric Records company in 1928. Then he vanished. Actually, he never went anywhere. Indeed, he never strayed from his hometown of Avalon, Mississippi. He simply put the guitar down. It was the Great Depression, times were tough, money was scarce, and he needed to work. Nearly 30 years later, a blues enthusiast tracked him down, took him back to Washington, D.C., and suddenly Mississippi John's musical career resumed as quickly as it had finished. He recorded again, but these first songs ...
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Keep It Simple
: :'I can't even crack a frown since the blues slipped out of town,' sings Keb' Mo' on 'Prosperity Blues,' with a patented big wide grin you can practically hear. It's a witty and accurate assessment of his approach to the often lowdown genre. Even on the album's title track, where Mo's tough National steel slide playing is most prominent, he's concerned with the daunting amount of coffee choices at his local java emporium. Call it the middle-class blues then, as Mo' wraps his grits-and-honey voice around another set of gently rolling, ...
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Loaded
: :'I can't even crack a frown since the blues slipped out of town,' sings Keb' Mo' on 'Prosperity Blues,' with a patented big wide grin you can practically hear. It's a witty and accurate assessment of his approach to the often lowdown genre. Even on the album's title track, where Mo's tough National steel slide playing is most prominent, he's concerned with the daunting amount of coffee choices at his local java emporium. Call it the middle-class blues then, as Mo' wraps his grits-and-honey voice around another set of gently rolling, ...
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The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969, Vol. 3
:Description:Tracklistings 1. BIG MAMA THORNTON- Hound Dog 2. ROOSEVELT SYKES- Gulfport Boogie 3. BUDDY GUY- Out Of Sight 4. DR. ISAIAH ROSS- Feel So Good 5. JOE TURNER- Flip, Flop & Fly 6. SKIP JAMES- All Night Long 7. SKIP JAMES- Crow Jane 8. BUKKA WHITE Got Sick & Tired 9. SON HOUSE Death Letter Blues 10. HOUND DOG TAYLOR Wild About You 11. KOKO TAYLOR Wang Dang Doodle 12. SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE McGHEE-Stranger Blues 12. SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE McGHEE- Burnt Child (Afraid of Fire) 14. SONNY TERRY & ...
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No Paid Holidays
:Album Description:Watermelon Slim is a relatively new luminary of the blues, rapidly building a career behind four albums and constant touring. In 2008 Slim was nominated for six awards, a feat matched only by the likes of B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Robert Cray. Slim has twelve nominations in the last two years, a feat unmatched in the event's 29 years. The highly anticipated follow up to 'The Wheel Man' is entitled 'No Paid Holidays' and features Lee Roy Parnell on slide guitar.
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Closer to the Sun
:Album Description:Watermelon Slim is a relatively new luminary of the blues, rapidly building a career behind four albums and constant touring. In 2008 Slim was nominated for six awards, a feat matched only by the likes of B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Robert Cray. Slim has twelve nominations in the last two years, a feat unmatched in the event's 29 years. The highly anticipated follow up to 'The Wheel Man' is entitled 'No Paid Holidays' and features Lee Roy Parnell on slide guitar.
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American Primitive, Vol. 1: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36)
: :Ignore the low fidelity of this 26-track compendium, and you have one of the most interesting gospel compilations ever released. Most of these songs were recorded among a variety of 'race' labels between 1926 and 1936, mostly for Paramount and Vocalion. Copious liner notes provide the needed details for each track, along with an essay by label chief/folk legend John Fahey. Soundwise, some of these tunes are indeed primitive--there are more hisses and pops than a Mongolian BBQ. But underneath the surface noises, in tracks by Elder J.J. Hadley (a.k.a. Charley ...
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Just Like You
: :Keb' Mo's 1995 Grammy-winning eponymous debut firmly lodged the Los Angeles-born singer-guitarist in the contemporary blues pantheon. His sophomore effort, Just Like You, is slick in comparison to the virtuosic, bare-bones Keb' Mo', but it's nevertheless an irresistible and accomplished album. While songs such as 'Perpetual Blues Machine' and 'You Can Love Yourself' are classic Mo', with their canny lyrics and facile slide and acoustic guitar licks, the sapfest 'Just Like You' (with guests Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne) and the clichéd 'The Action' are hard to stomach. Toward the end ...
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Earthquake Weather
: :This title is manufactured 'on demand' when ordered from Amazon.com, using recordable media as authorized by the rights holder. Powered by CreateSpace ', this on-demand program makes thousands of titles available that were previously unavailable. For reissued products, packaging may differ from original artwork. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply.
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