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July 17, 2013175Comments

I’ll Give It An 85 – It’s Got A Good Beat And You Can Dance To It…

Remember Dick Clark and the old American Bandstand? There was the "Rate-A-Record" part where they would play a new song, and ask a couple of the dancers to rate the song

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Blues Artists

May 30, 20136Comments

Keeping Blues Guitar In The Forefront With Luther Dickinson

There may be a lot of guitarists today that claim the blues as their inspiration, but you don't often see them stripping away all the clutter from their playing to

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Blues Artists

May 28, 20136Comments

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Cookin’ With The Blues

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was one of the most active blues musicians in the last 60 years. Brown played with a number of the best blues musicians around including Albert Collins

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Blues Artists

May 23, 201310Comments

One Of The Early Kings Of The Electric Blues, T-Bone Walker

Have you ever wondered who somebody like B.B. King might have considered one of his influences? You search deep enough in music history, and there is bound to be somebody

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Blues Artists

May 21, 20136Comments

Low Down, Classic Blues From Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones

There's no confusing the real Guitar Slim with anybody trying to take on the name nowadays. Eddie Jones, the original Guitar Slim, had a very short, but also very eccentric

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Blues Artists

May 16, 20136Comments

New Orleans Country Blues Guitarist John Mooney

So what do you get when you mix some Mississippi Delta blues, with the second line beat of New Orleans, and a heavy dose of Son House? You get John

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Blues Artists

May 14, 201338Comments

Looking Back At Robert Johnson With Rory Block

There are plenty of guys that know how to sing the blues, but there are only a few women who have really taken the time and done their homework about

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discussion

May 10, 201397Comments

Mastery Is Overrated…

You might have heard many people say that it takes 10,000 hours of "work" to master a skill... I suppose there is likely a lot of truth to that if you

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Lessons

May 9, 2013168Comments