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John Mayall (selected by): Picking the Blues: Pioneers of Boogie Woogie

by Robert R. Calder
March 21, 2007

Veteran English blues performer John Mayall's “reminiscences" here aren't “of great blues figures" but of encounters, often via recordings, of the very best barrelhouse, blues and boogie woogie piano music. Barrelhouse piano combined various different proportions of blues, ragtime and dance rhythms in the hands of technically unorthodox players. Jelly Roll Morton spoke ...