Shattered mix
Mix of different styles competent standard raw blues, r&b, country rock. Not very unique but the blues is well done. You might want to jump the r&b tracks.
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Review by BarbaricArcticE
Stunning. Brilliant. Blues about as good as it gets. This is one everyone likes, even if they didn't realize they were a blues fan. If you like guitar it's a double whammy winner. Discovered Magic Sam on emusic and REAL glad I did.
Chicago R&B Style Blues
Magic Sam (1937 - 1969)began his career in Chicago in the fifties. Great raw blues singing and quitar with a R&B Flavor.
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Scene: Chicago Blues, 1948-1968
By John Morthland, eMusic Contributor
Chicago began filling up with blues artists—Blind Blake, Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Sunnyland Slim, Memphis Slim—in the 1920s and '30s--but what we know as "Chicago blues" is a postwar phenomena, a term mostly used to describe electric band blues with Mississippi Delta roots. Its first true star was Muddy Waters, whose earliest Chicago music was mostly made by himself on electrified slide guitar alongside a stand-up bassist. As he grew successful, Muddy began adding musicians… more »