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Blues Masters, Vol. 4: Harmonica Classics
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Masters of the Delta Blues: The Friends of Charlie Patton
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Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics
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Avalon Blues: A Tribute to the Music of Mississippi John Hurt
: :No musician ever applied a gentler touch to songs of murder, sex, and salvation than Mississippi John Hurt. The country bluesman enjoyed a career revival through the folk festival boom of the early 1960s, and his influence continues to ripple, as this varied and vital tribute attests. Produced by Peter Case (who teams with Dave Alvin on 'Monday Morning Blues'), the album's renewal of classic Hurt extends from the deadpan double entendres of 'Candy Man' delivered by Steve Earle and son Justin to Taj Mahal's trademark lilt on 'My Creole Belle' ...
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Negro Work Songs & Calls
: :No musician ever applied a gentler touch to songs of murder, sex, and salvation than Mississippi John Hurt. The country bluesman enjoyed a career revival through the folk festival boom of the early 1960s, and his influence continues to ripple, as this varied and vital tribute attests. Produced by Peter Case (who teams with Dave Alvin on 'Monday Morning Blues'), the album's renewal of classic Hurt extends from the deadpan double entendres of 'Candy Man' delivered by Steve Earle and son Justin to Taj Mahal's trademark lilt on 'My Creole Belle' ...
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Slide Guitar: The Streamline Special
: :There's just something about slide guitar when it's done right, and it's definitely done right here. Streamline Special is something of a history lesson, as well; everyone from Robert Johnson ('Preachin' Blues') and Blind Boy Fuller ('Homesick & Lonesome Blues') to Muddy Waters ('I Feel Like Going Home') to Taj Mahal, whose 'Country Blues' rendition is one of the highlights of this collection. There's the deceptively down-tempo 'Two Timin' Woman' from Casey Bill Weldon, and Bukka White's 'Special Streamline,' where he does a train sound with his guitar that puts Aerosmith's ...
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Sacred Steel: Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music In Florida
: :The idea that recordings exist of bluesy, intense gospel fueled by and starring the electric steel guitar might strike one as strange. But that very thing has transpired for decades in the Jewel and Keith Dominions of the Church of the Living God, and, as this mid-'90s recording demonstrates, the results are brilliant. Sonny Treadway displays the agile virtuosity of Chet Atkins on 'At the Cross' and Glenn Lee's mournful, nimble, dulcet licks on 'Call Him by His Name' recall B.B. King at his fiercest. However, such facile comparisons really do ...
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Roots N' Blues: Retrospective 1925-1950
: :The idea that recordings exist of bluesy, intense gospel fueled by and starring the electric steel guitar might strike one as strange. But that very thing has transpired for decades in the Jewel and Keith Dominions of the Church of the Living God, and, as this mid-'90s recording demonstrates, the results are brilliant. Sonny Treadway displays the agile virtuosity of Chet Atkins on 'At the Cross' and Glenn Lee's mournful, nimble, dulcet licks on 'Call Him by His Name' recall B.B. King at his fiercest. However, such facile comparisons really do ...
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Deep River of Song: Black Texicans - Balladeers And Songsters Of The Texas Frontier
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: ALAN LOMAX COLLECTIONTitle: BLACK TEXICANS-BALLADEERSStreet Release Date: 03/09/1999DomesticGenre: BLUES TRADITIONAL COLLECTIONS :One-fourth to one-third of the cowboys in the Old West were African American, a fact virtually erased from history. But one listen to this entry from the Deep River of Song series of the Alan Lomax Collection sets the record straight. Men with prosaic names like Phineas 'Flatfoot' Rockmore, 'Butter Boy,' Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt, and James 'Iron Head' Baker recast British ballads to fit their own experiences ('St. James Hospital'), ...
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Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: ALAN LOMAX COLLECTIONTitle: BLACK TEXICANS-BALLADEERSStreet Release Date: 03/09/1999DomesticGenre: BLUES TRADITIONAL COLLECTIONS :One-fourth to one-third of the cowboys in the Old West were African American, a fact virtually erased from history. But one listen to this entry from the Deep River of Song series of the Alan Lomax Collection sets the record straight. Men with prosaic names like Phineas 'Flatfoot' Rockmore, 'Butter Boy,' Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt, and James 'Iron Head' Baker recast British ballads to fit their own experiences ('St. James Hospital'), ...
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