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Article: Interview

Reverend Zen: Angels, Blues and the Crying Moon

Read "Reverend Zen: Angels, Blues and the Crying Moon" reviewed by David King


The New York group Reverend Zen has released its debut album, Angels, Blues & the Crying Moon (Blackjack Music, 2006), that is quickly garnering music industry acclaim around the world. Platitudes aside, Reverend Zen's true genius lies in its music. The album is everything a great album should be: melodies that hang in your head like ...

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Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: Black Cat Bone/Dust My Broom; Can't Be Satisfied; Caledonia; Dealin' with the Devil; Rocket 88; I Done Got Over It; How Long Can a Fool Go Wrong; Mama Talk to Your Daughter; Love Her with a Feeling; Trouble No More.

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Article: Album Review

Muddy Waters / Johnny Winter / James Cotton: Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down

Read "Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down" reviewed by Doug Collette


The partnership of guitarists/vocalists Johnny Winter and Muddy Waters in the late-seventies was a collaboration in the truest sense of the word. The success and recognition that arose from their teamwork-- Hard Again (Blue Sky, 1977) and I'm Ready (Blue Sky, 1978), which both won Grammys-- inspired them to take to the road. Winter and Waters ...

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Article: Wide Open Jazz and Beyond

Muddy Waters

Read "Muddy Waters" reviewed by Peter Madsen


Muddy Waters! Muddy Waters! Muddy Waters! Damn this man could sing and play the blues. Lately I've been listening to his very first recording done for the Library of Congress in 1941 in the fields of the Mississippi Delta. Absolutely some of the finest music ever!! Beginning in 1933 music researcher and ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Blues

Read "Blues" reviewed by Ed Kopp


The blues is the progenitor of most popular music in America, but it hasn't always gotten the respect it deserves. The recorded history of the blues proves the point. Prior to World War II, very few white people had ever heard any authentic blues music. Up until the late 1950s, blues labels could only afford to ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

A Brief History of the Blues

Read "A Brief History of the Blues" reviewed by Ed Kopp


When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues. While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond ...

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Muddy Waters

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2004

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Article: Interview

Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music

Read "Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...

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Streamlined Woman

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2001
Track listing: Train Fare Home/ Sittin' Here Drinkin'/ Streamlined Woman/ Kind-Hearted Woman/ Little Geneva/ Canary Bird/ Screaming and Crying/ Down South Blues/ Rollin' Stone/ Walkin' Blues/ You're Gonna Need My Help/ Rollin' and Tumblin' Part I/ Rollin' and Tumblin' Part II/ Sad Letter Blues/ Early Morning Blues/ Appealing Blues/ Louisiana Blues/ Evan's Shuffle/ Mean Red Spider/ You're Gonna Miss Me

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Muddy Waters: Streamlined Woman

Read "Streamlined Woman" reviewed by Al Rearick


Trust the British to go and dig up as much blues roots as possible. The blues as a music form was born in the states with folks like Robert Johnson, Son House and Muddy Waters. It was a blend of art culture that trickled into American interest, but, like so many other artforms, soon faded into ...


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