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Willie Dixon: Wille Dixon's Big Three Boogie

by Joe Milazzo
December 1, 2001

What remains to be written about Willie Dixon? He will most likely never be known much for his bass playing, but rather because he was arguably the preeminent blues lyricist of the post-war era, an activist and agitator for the rights of musicians of the folk tradition, and the guiding spirit of one of this country's ...

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Steve Freund: I'll Be Your Mule

by Joe Milazzo
July 1, 2001

With a form as venerable and yet malleable as the blues, it is the manner of expression as much aswhatis expressed that carries a performer. Some may bristle at this idea, and say it places style above substance. But style, a personal sense of fashion, an idiosyncratic bearing... whatever you choose to call it, this quality ...

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Michael Messer: King Guitar

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by Joe Milazzo
May 1, 2001

What makes a blues performance “authentic"? It's a question loaded with an excess of assumptions (about ethnicity, about geographic origins, and about the content of an individual's character), but any answer can only be found in what transpires between an artists and his or her audience. If the blues is more than just a form, if ...