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Boogie Chillin’ by John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker's CD "Boogie Chillin & Other Favorties" is a digitally remastered release of many of John Lee Hooker greatest blues music. Of course I'm not aware of John Lee Hooker recording anything but some great blues music but if your collection is [...]
Perhaps The Most Recorded Blues Songs of All Time
Click play and have a listen to this song while you read this post. A little while back I started fooling around with a database of over 141,000 blues recordings and found an amazing number of Willie Dixon songs had been recorded over the years [...]
Mr Mat … Mountain Men – Fine Acoustic Blues
Mountain Men was formed when a guitar playing Mr. Mat from France and harmonica playing Barefoot Iano from Australia joined forces in 2005. Their first album "Mat with Iano - Mountain Men" was released in October 2005 and when the stock was depleted they [...]
The Banjo and the Blues
Steve Martin used to joke about it how you can't play a sad song on the banjo. Then he'd play a stereotypical sad blues tune on the banjo and crack everyone up. At the time I remember joking about banjo blues with friends. The joke was on me though. In [...]
Monkey Junk – 3rd Place Blues Foundation Awards
Hey Monkey Junk was just mentioned in the XM Radio Channel 74 - B.B. King Bluesville as one of the July 6th "Top 15 Picks to Click" for an awesome song "Pay the Cost". I can't find a video or preview of that song but while searching I did manage to find [...]