Mellencamp, Travis take on the great beyond
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Reflective sets by seasoned talents John Mellencamp and Randy Travis lead the pack of music CD and DVD releases today.
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
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Great Vintage Blues 5: Sonny Terry Brownie McGhee
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
I wasn’t very familiar with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee before starting this little blogging project, but as soon as I heard them, I knew I had...
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I Found This
Random Thoughts from Reno (Free subscription) | 23/03/2008
terrific video on YouTube featuring blues greats Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, T-Bone Walker, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee. What a lineup! It's from a DVD collection called The American Folk Blues Festival , which consists of several volumes of performances in the 1960s. Everybody who was anybody in the area of blues and was still alive at the time is on these collections. The Hendrix estate produced...
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"Hello Children, Everywhere" - Uncle Mac's Children's Favourites
Havering On (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Back in 1954 the BBC's idea of pop music was a reflection of mainstream taste with ladies and gentlemen singers who annunciated their words and delivered good wholesome material. They also recognised the fact that children were interested in music, although in those far off days it was of course not pop music. The BBC Light Programme's solution for catering to younger people's musical interests was...
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Chicago - The Blues - Today! Vol. 1
Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 09/10/2007
In 1966, when the recordings in this set first came out, blues wasn't quite as well understood or appreciated outside the black community as it is today. In fact, it's safe to say that these recordings opened the door wide and helped change American music forever. Although some jazz fans had been hip to blues since the first 78rpm records started coming out in the 1920s, all but a few of them saw...
