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Corey Harris

Born: February 21, 1969

Corey Harris's life and music embrace the black experience in all its dimensions. He burst onto the scene in 1995 with his debut recording “Between Midnight and Day,” an acclaimed exploration of acoustic, rural blues styles. At the time, few really grasped the scope and range of Harris's musical persona. He had solid blues credentials. After street-busking and taking small gigs wherever he could drive to from his home outside New Orleans, it quickly became clear that pigeonholing Harris as a blues musician was never going to work. A native of Denver, Colorado, Corey Harris fell in love with music at an early age, and made his own music with a toy guitar he received at the age of three

Rick Vito And Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart & Guy Davis: Blues Brothers Indeed

by Doug Collette
March 29, 2026

Not all blues musicians play blues material exclusively. In fact, some of the most notable practitioners in the genre enhance their reputations by traveling far afield for eclectic selections that freshen their fundamental point(s) of reference. Rick Vito's Slidemaster is just such an effort, while by contrast, the triumvirate of Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart and ...

Fulton Blues

By Corey Harris

Label: Music Avenue
Released: 2015
Track listing: Crying Blues; Underground; J. Gilly Blues; Black Woman Gates; Tallahatchie; Fulton Blues; Devil Got My Woman; House Negro Blues; Black Rag; Catfish Blues; That Will Never Happen No More; Lynch Blues; Maggie Walker Blues; Fat Duck's Groove; Better Way; Esta Loco.

Corey Harris: Fulton Blues

by Angelo Leonardi
January 14, 2015

Sono trascorsi due decenni dal debutto di Corey Harris in Between Midnight and Day, che fece gridare al miracolo catapultando il bluesman sulla scena internazionale. Quelle torride esecuzioni di Delta Blues suscitarono alti consensi e grandi attese (confermate dal successivo Fish Ain't Bitin'), portando il New York Times a paragoni -certo eccessivi-con Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins ...

Fulton Blues

Featuring the music of Corey Harris
Duration: 3:30
June 25, 2013

Pennsylvania Blues Festival: Palmerton, PA, July 27-29, 2012

by Wade Luquet
August 13, 2012

Pennsylvania Blues FestivalBlue Mountain Ski AreaPalmerton, PAJuly 27-29, 2012For 21 years, the Pocono Mountains have been the epicenter of the blues, attracting thousands to the bottom of a ski slope for three days each summer. Blue Mountain Ski Resort lent itself well to the fifteen national acts that performed on two ...

Special Guests Join North Carolina Symphony for a Little "Blues in the Night," May 6-7

April 14, 2011

RALEIGH, N.C.—Bluesmen Corey Harris and Phil Wiggins, sopranos Tina Morris-Anderson and Rozlyn Sorrell and other special guests take center stage with the North Carolina Symphony next month for a fast-paced journey through the history of American blues and jazz. Led by Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, “Blues in the Night" takes place at Meymandi Concert Hall, ...

Recapturing the Banjo

By Corey Harris

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Ran So Hard the Sun Went Down; 02. Prophet’s Mission; 03. Absinthe; 04. Live Your Life; 05. Walk Right In; 06 Bow-Legged Charlie; 07. Hey; 08. Little Liza Jane; 09. Five Hundred Roses; 10. Les Ognons; 11. Deep Blue Sea; 12. Simple Mind; 13. Ten Million Slaves; 14. The Way It Goes.

Otis Taylor: Recapturing the Banjo

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 30, 2008

“Se chiedete a qualcuno dove pensa che sia nato il banjo a cinque corde, sicuramente vi risponderà che proviene dal Kentucky o dalla Carolina del Nord”. Dick Weissman, che di folk revival se ne intende, non ha dubbi nell’indicare le strade della verità storica del banjo. Poi c’è quella canzoncina, “Oh Susanna”, scritta da uno dei ...

Zion Crossroads

By Corey Harris

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Ark of the Covenant; 02. No Peace For the Wicked (featuring Ranking Joe); 03. Heathen Rage; 04. Sweatshop; 05. In the Morning; 06. Fire Go Come; 07. Walter Rodney Intro; 08. Walter Rodney; 09. Afrique (Chez Moi); 10. Cleanliness; 11. Plantation Town; 12. You Never Know ; 13. Keep Your Culture