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AFBF 1970/ The Complete Sessions
AFBF 1970/ The Complete Sessions The 1970 edition of the annual American Folk Blues Festival was, for the first time since its beginning in 1962, much less attended than the previous...
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AFBF 1972/ The Complete Sessions
AFBF 1972/ The Complete Sessions For an unknown reason to me, there were no AFBF tour in 1971. The 1970 edition was probably too unsuccessful commercially and even musically? Whatever, for...
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BLUES GUITAR MASTERS Volume 10/ CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN, 1964-66
CLARENCE 'Gatemouth" BROWN 1964-66BLUES GUITAR MASTERS/ Volume 10 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (born 18th April 1924 at Vinton, La - † 10 September 2005 at Orange, Tx) is of course a...
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TEXAS BLUES/ Volume 9
TEXAS BLUES/ Volume 09 After our Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown post, let's stay in Texaswith a 9th volume of our popular series about "Texas blues"... yesterday of course and as usual in this...
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MERCY DEE WALTON/ Complete Recordings
MERCY DEE WALTON/ Complete Recordings (revised and updated) Ce pianiste texan est aujourd'hui trop oublié. On ne retient souvent de lui le seul fait qu'il...
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NEW ORLEANS BLUES/ Volume 2
NEW ORLEANS BLUES/ Volume 2 Let's go back once again to New Orleans, folks! For this new volume of our New Orleansseries, we are starting with singer, guitarist/ bassist Billy...
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CLARENCE GARLOW/ Complete Recordings
CLARENCE GARLOW/ Complete Recordings (updated and revised) Clarence Garlow, un des grands pionniers de la musique louisianaise de l'après guerre et le premier à populariser le Zydeco, est né...
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KING KARL/ Louisiana Swamp Music
KING KARL/ LOUISIANA SWAMP MUSIC(updated and revised) Avec King Karl, nous retournons en Louisiane pour un genre entre blues, rock, pop, cajun etc... communément appelé Swamp Pop et dont...
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SHELTON DUNAWAY/ Louisiana Swamp Music
SHELTON DUNAWAY/ LouisianaSwamp Music Although he has recorded quite a number of 45s under his own name, singer and saxophonist Shelton Dunaway is generally associated with the famous...
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LOS ANGELES BLUES/ Volume 4
LOS ANGELES BLUES/ Volume 4 This fourth volume of our Los Angelesblues series gathers four quite obscure artists.We start with Andy Belvin. I didn't find much about this singer who...
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ERVIN "BIG DADDY" RUCKER/ Complete Recordings
ERVIN "BIG DADDY" RUCKER/ Complete Recordings Despite the fact he has recorded more than 30 titles, enjoyed some minor hits and played music spanning a career of at least three decades...
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NEW YORK CITY FOLK BLUES FESTIVAL
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DAVE DICKERSON/ Piedmont blues
DAVE DICKERSON/ PIEDMONT BLUES Here we have almost all of the recordings made by West Virginia bluesman and songster Dave Dickerson, certainly a very obscure figure of the so-called...
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LITTLE MACK SIMMONS/ Complete Recordings 1959-76
LITTLE MACK SIMMONS/ Complete Recordings 1959-76 Little Mack Simmons (né à Twist, Arkansas le 25 janvier 1933) a été quelque peu dans l'ombre des autres harmonicistes de Chicago. S'il n'est...
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LEE JACKSON/ Complete Recordings
LEE JACKSON/ Complete Recordings Lee Jackson est un de ces acteurs importants du Chicago blues de l'après-guerre qui reste injustement méconnu hors d'un cercle restreint d'amateurs....
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ALBERT COLLINS/ BLUES GUITAR MASTERS Vol. 5 (repost, new links)
ALBERT COLLINS: Blues Guitar Masters Vol. 5 Né dans une famille de métayers de Leona (Texas) le 1 octobre 1932, Collins commence très jeune à jouer autour de Houston, apprend la guitare en...
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TEXAS BLUES/ Volume 10
TEXAS BLUES/ Volume 10 The 10the opus of our Texas Blues (Yesterday as usual on this blog!) is more focused on three blues artists who were also (or even more) soul oriented, although...
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MASTERS OF BLUES GUITAR: DANNY OVERBEA (Complete Recordings)
MASTERS OF BLUES GUITAR: DANNY OVERBEA Daniel Dorsey Overbea naît le 3 janvier 1926 à Philadelphie, Pennsylvanie de Sylvester Overbea et Irene Dorsey, une famille musicale qui officie...
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JOE JOHNSON/ LOUISIANA SWAMP MUSIC
JOE JOHNSON/ LOUISIANA SWAMP MUSIC For this new portrait of Louisiana's musicians, let's put the focus on the singer and sometimes guitar and harmonica player Joe Johnson. It's certainly not...
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EARL HOOKER/ Complete Studio Recordings
EARL HOOKER/ Complete Studio Recordings Although Earl Hooker was highly praised by his pairs, he never gained the recognition his talents should have brought him. Earl Zebedee...
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