Jukin'

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 42:20

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John Morthland has been writing about music since the days of electronically rechanneled stereo and duophonic sound. His name has darkened the mastheads of Roll...more »

04.22.11
Recorded after a 16-year layoff, this is a strong case for the journeyman as the backbone of the blues.
1996 | Label: Blind Pig Records / IODA

Dyer grew up on Stovall Plantation, once Muddy Waters'home, a generation or two behind the Mississippi/Chicago harmonica pioneers, but his natural, unassuming synthesis of their styles is his own; he can swing as hard as Little Walter or as sweet as Sonny Boy II without aping either. Based in L.A. since 1958, he cut this in '83 — after a 16-year layoff, but you'd never know it. Mixing standards with originals, he makes a strong case for the journeyman as the backbone of the blues.

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