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Beth Hart’s Gritty, Gut…

Beth Hart is shaping up as the kind of promising newcomer who could make … more »

Churchwood: The Beefheart of …

Churchwood is a blues-rock quintet hailing from Austin, Texas; Churchwood… more »

Re-Documenting the Blues

Austrian collector Johnny Parth launched Document Records in 1986 in orde… more »

Sacred Steel Goes Secular

Sacred steel is one of America’s ultimate outsider musics. Most who… more »

How Elmore James Invented Met…

Elmore James is often demeaned as a one-trick pony — or, in his cas… more »

Big Bill Broonzy: The Blues A…

Consider Big Bill Broonzy. Here’s a guy who wrote such blues standa… more »

The Weird World of One-String…

I saw my first diddley bows in 1996, at the rural Delta home outside Lexi… more »

Who in the World is Ironing B…

With the recent release of his new-old Ninth Wonder of the World of Music… more »

The Unjustly-Overlooked Bulle…

Bullet Records of Nashville doesn’t turn up often in discussions of… more »

Sonny Landreth’s Ambien…

Elemental Journey is the 11th solo album from Sonny Landreth, and by far … more »

The Soul of Ric & Ron Re…

[Listen to the playlist that accompanies this feature here] Ric & Ron… more »

Lazy Lester: The Return of th…

Lazy Lester, the last of the Big Four of swamp blues, is enjoying one of … more »

Hubert Sumlin: The Blues are …

Hubert Sumlin, who died of heart failure on Dec. 4, 2011, at age 80, had … more »

New This Week: Kathleen Edwar…

Hello! Welcome! It starts with a trickle, but always ends in a deluge: th… more »

The Chitlin’ Circuit: C…

For years, the Chitlin’ Circuit – the network of mostly-South… more »

Telling You About the Blues, …

Let me tell you about Let Me Tell You About the Blues, a series of three-… more »

Bobby Blue Bland: The Singer…

Until his health gave out on him, Bobby Blue Bland was the singer’s… more »

Eden Brent and Paul Oscher: T…

Before moving into 2011, I wanted to address a pair of albums that I coul… more »

The Black Fiddler’s Unl…

In the 19th century, the most popular instruments played by black musicia… more »

This Is The (British) Blues

It’s tempting, given the relative paucity of Americans, to suggest … more »

Gus Cannon and the Rise of Ju…

Jug band music originated in Louisville, Kentucky, around 1905, but reach… more »

The Postmodern Blues of Joe L…

Can there be any doubt that Joe Louis Walker has finally arrived? Between… more »

The Mississippi Sheiks

They’re the beneficiaries of a rather unlikely tribute album and a … more »

Texas Guitar

Postwar, electric blues guitar in Texas all derives from T-Bone Walker, s… more »

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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal

By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor

As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »

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