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Muddy Waters 100: Muddy Waters 100

Read "Muddy Waters 100" reviewed by James Nadal


When a local guitarist and blues singer in Clarksdale, Mississippi named McKinley Morganfield made his first field recording at the Stovall plantation, on August 31, 1941, he had no idea where this music would take him. By the time he plugged his guitar into an amplifier on Chicago's Southside in 1943, he had become Muddy Waters, a man whose unique voice and sound would influence American popular music in the second half on the 20th century. Muddy Waters 100 is ...

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Heritage Blues Orchestra: And Still I Rise

Read "And Still I Rise" reviewed by James Nadal


If ever there was a perfect title for a blues record, it has to be And Still I Rise , serving notice that the Heritage Blues Orchestra is a revival force with which to be reckoned. The group dishes out pure blues, blending greasy gut-bucket, hallelujah gospel, down home country, Chicago's South Side and everything in between. Fronted by venerable veterans Bill Sims Jr. and Junior Mack, on vocals and guitars, and also featuring singer Chaney Sims, this record is ...

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Keith B. Brown: Delta Soul

Read "Delta Soul" reviewed by Robert R. Calder


Delta Soul has interesting notes, in terms of both music and liner commentary. Like the various much older, now gone bluesmen he emulates, Keith B. Brown took up guitar on the side, though the side of a college education, majoring in history. Like old bluesmen he played what was around to be heard, but like the people responsible for the blues revival which began forty years back, he realised there was a lot more to a few things which normal ...


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