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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 ...
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Richmond Blues
:Album Description:In Richmond Blues, guitarist-singer John Cephas and his harmonica-player partner Phil Wiggins personify the century-old blues sound of the Piedmont, the Appalachian foothills running from Richmond to Atlanta. Drawing from roots of ragtime, ballads, country, old-time string band, rhythm and blues, and more, Richmond Blues is a musical roadmap of the Virginia Piedmont tradition. While Cephas calls it 'part of my heritage, part of my soul,' their sound is at the same time distinctly modern, a kind of 'urban acoustic blues.' 32-page booklet with ...
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Into the Blues
:Album Description:Into the Blues is the album that Joan Armatrading was always meant to write. Immediately you can tell how much she enjoys playing the blues as her guitar belts out these 13 hits. :On the surface, yes, this is a blues album; mostly, though, it's a Joan Armatrading album--which means she'll follow blues forms and conceits wherever she damn well pleases. On 'Liza,' she takes the 'Mannish Boy' groove across the tracks for a pick-up on the wrong side of town; on 'There Ain't ...
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Come Away with Me
: : Norah Jones Photos (by Danny Clinch) More from Norah Jones Not Too Late Feels Like Home The Little Willies
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La Bamba: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
: : Norah Jones Photos (by Danny Clinch) More from Norah Jones Not Too Late Feels Like Home The Little Willies
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The Allman Brothers Band
:Album Description:UK pressing from one of the most influential rock groups of the 70's. Features 7 tracks including 'Stormy Monday', 'Trouble No More', 'Whippin' Post' and more recorded live at the American University in Washington D.C. on December 13, 1970. Castle Music. 2005.
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The Complete Studio Recordings Mississippi John Hurt
: :Gentle, graceful, subtle, sweet--these aren't descriptions generally applied to the blues, but they offer a sense of Mississippi John Hurt's uniqueness and enduring legacy. Rediscovered during the 1960s folk boom after last recording in the late 1920s, Hurt cut the three albums compiled here when he was in his early 70s. His conversational phrasing sounds as natural as breathing, while his ragtime-tinged fingerpicking on acoustic guitar reveals more complexity the closer you listen. Beyond blues classics like 'Candy Man' (the sly sensualist wasn't referring to ...
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Voodoo
: 's Best of 2000:Like Robin Hood working on a tip from Chuck D, D'Angelo has stolen back the soul that was missing from the just-add-water R&B scene. Voodoo is a simmering cauldron of sound, a magical collection. Stained with sweat, longing, and rage, this is an album with trouble on the brain. But it also includes sacred sweet nothings and rapturous raw rhythms to get you through the night. --Lizz Mendez Berry Amazon.com:Halfway through the languid midtempo ballad 'Send It On' from D'Angelo's new sophomore ...
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Leave the Light On
: :This album's title cut finds the veteran folk-blues troubadour, now in his early 60s, pondering the possibility of living to be 100, thus setting the thematic tone for an uncommonly reflective, meditative set. The ragtime Zen of 'Open Up,' the philosophical 'Seems So Real,' and the rock-bottom despair in his cover of Peter Case's 'Cold Trail Blues' all suggest that the virtuosic fingerpicker and evocatively smoky vocalist has reached a point in his life where he's pondering the biggest issues of mortality, a perspective that ...
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