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Get Way Back - A Tribute to Percy Mayfield
ListenGet Way Back - A Tribute to Percy Mayfield by Amos Garrett

Amos Garrett waited a long time to make this homage to one of America’s greatest blues singer-songwr...

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1928 Sessions
Listen1928 Sessions by Mississippi John Hurt

It’s been 80 years since Mississippi John Hurt recorded the thirteen sides for Okeh that later made ...

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Burnin'
ListenBurnin' by John Lee Hooker

When John Lee Hooker made the transition from regional indies to the larger independent label Vee-Ja...

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The Essence Of Muddy Waters Founder of the Delta Blues Return Of A Legend The Essence Of Bessie Smith

Blues Basics by John Morthland

This one’s for all you folks who are starting to explore the blues. The idea is to show the considerable diversity in a truly great genre of music that's too often dismissed with a curt, “It all sounds the same.” Here are twelve gems in twelve different blues genres, and the truth is, there’s plenty more categories than that — like big-band blues or swamp blues, for example — so this doesn’t even cover all the bases, but it's a start. If you already know the difference between B.B., Albert and Freddie Kin...
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Blind Blake Vol. 2 (1927-1928)

Blueslore #01: Elgin Movement by John Morthland

While writing recent columns about Robert Johnson and Harmonica Frank Floyd, I stumbled across the fact that both men professed to be jazzed by Elgin movements. “She’s got Elgin movements/ from her head down to her toes,” Johnson sings in the 1936 “Walkin’ Blues.” And on the 1972 “Movement Like an Elgin,” Harmonica Frank echoes, “She’s got movements like an Elgin/ from her head down to her toes.” Johnson, it’s worth noting, lifted the line intact from Blind Lemon Jefferson’s 1928 “Change My Luck Blues,” and the phras...
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Top Blues Tracks

  Listen Track Name Length Download
1. Listen Nobody Stays
Artist:
Robin Rogers
3:35 Download
2. Listen Full Moon Tonight 4:20 Download
3. Listen One of Those Days 4:23 Download
4. Listen If It Wasn't for Loving You 4:14 Download
5. Listen Without You 3:48 Download
6. Listen To Make It Right 4:14 Download
7. Listen thickfreakness
Artist:
The Black Keys
3:48 Download
8. Listen Love Appetite 3:03 Download
9. Listen Cuttin' It Close 4:47 Download
10. Listen Impossible 4:13 Download
Matthew Sweet
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