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‘Shake ‘Em On Down’ created the cutting edge for blues
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Many rivers converged to make a New Orleans classic: ‘Iko Iko’
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The long flight of Muddy’s ‘Honey Bee’
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Still a mystery who wrote ‘One Way Out’
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‘Early in the Morning’– samba, rumba and history
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‘Walkin’ Blues’ still has legs
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Waters’‘Trouble No More’ came out of Estes’‘Someday Baby Blues’
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1,000 Jazz Albums You Should Hear Before You Die – The Complete List
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‘Back Door Man’– good blues is rarely about behaving yourself
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‘Somebody’s got to go’– the path from from blues to rap
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Jazz April Birthday: Herbie Mann
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Jazz April Birthday: Buster Williams
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Joan Osborne and Keith Cotton perform ”Work on Me”. Then Joan Osborne performs “That’s Where It’s At” along with the Holmes Brothers. April 19, 2013.
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Joan Osborne and the Holmes Brothers are a recipe for soul. April 19, 2013.
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‘Another Man Done Gone’– a powerful tale of woe on a chain gang
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Jazz April Birthday: Charles Mingus
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Bo Diddley’s ‘Before You Accuse Me’ influential as the master
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Still ‘Broke and Hungry’ 80 years later
Blind Lemon Jefferson circa 1926 The Blues Time MachineBroke and HungryDownload Blind Lemon Jefferson was one of the defining guitarists of Texas Blues of the 1920’s. Influenced by the country and...
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