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Various Artists, Calypsos From…
If rap is black America's CNN, calypso was the West Indian's news… more »
The Black Lips, Good Bad Not E…
Clocking in at a lean thirty-six minutes, Good Bad, Not Evil represents a… more »
Various Artists / Birdman, Jim…
In the course of his 40-plus year career, Memphis mainstay Jim Dickinson … more »
Lord Invader, Calypso in New Y…
Lord Invader (aka Rupert Westmore Grant, born in Port of Spain in 1914), … more »
Lord Kitchener, Klassic Kitche…
Lord Kitchener was calypso's Cassius Clay: A singer whose sense of hu… more »
Jimmie Rodgers, Classic Sides…
Born in 1897 near Pine Springs, Mississippi and discovered 30 years later… more »
Johnny Otis, The Essential Rec…
The father of Shuggie Otis and the man who discovered Etta James, Big Mam… more »
Fats Waller, A Career Perspect…
The son of a preacher at Harlem's famed Abyssinian Church, Fats Walle… more »
Django Reinhardt, Django In Ro…
To call Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt the greatest European … more »
Django Reinhardt, Django In Ro…
To call Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt the greatest European … more »
Django Reinhardt, Django In Ro…
To call Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt the greatest European … more »
Django Reinhardt, Django In Ro…
To call Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt the greatest European … more »
The Staple Singers, The Best O…
Gospel patriarch Pops Staples learned guitar at Charlie Patton's feet, an… more »
Miles Davis, Bags’ Groov…
Christmas Eve, 1954, was an auspicious night for American music. Down in … more »
The Swan Silvertones, Heavenly…
Thanks to Claude Jeter's unearthly falsetto, which was the single gre… more »
Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Cor…
Monk's third album for Riverside was the first devoted to the pianist… more »
Skip James, Complete Early Rec…
Skip James, who alternated between pimping, preaching and piano teaching,… more »
Classic Calypso
First recorded in 1914, calypsos dominated Caribbean music for the next f… more »
The Music of Memphis
Two decades after Graceland opened its doors and turned Elvis 'wood-p… more »
Various Artists, Cult Music of…
The spiritual music of Trinidad and Tobago influenced calypso in much the… more »
William Bell
Born in Memphis in 1939, William Bell arrived at Stax in 1961, and quickl… more »
The Eloise Trio, The Originals…
Eloise Lewis was born in Florida and raised in the Bahamas, and somewhere… more »
Wilmoth Houdini, Poor But Ambi…
Frederick Wilmoth Hendricks, who appears to have been born in Port of Spa… more »
Lord Melody, Calypso Through t…
Like the Mighty Panther, Fitzroy Alexander (aka Lord Melody) sang in the … more »
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