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Maria Muldaur channels the blues
THERE AREN’T many artists that have endured as long and with as much dignity and acclaim as Maria Muldaur. The legendary singer, who came up in the Greenwich Village folk […]
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Drink Small, ‘a God-given man’
The 81-year-old singer and guitarist, known around the world as The Blues Doctor, still resides in Bishopville.
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Lady sings the blues: Ruthie Foster
“Everybody else was doing traditional folk songs. I wanted to do something really different. I guess that kinda started the mix for me.”
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Guitar hero
Last week, Joe Bonamassa was in New York City, where two sold–out nights at the Beacon Theatre were taped for a live DVD. Among his onstage guests was the iconic […]
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‘There’s always hope in it’
One of the cornerstones of hardscrabble Chicago blues is the harmonica. It’s an integral part of the electric blues framework, like the violin in a proper orchestra. Blues harp, of […]
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Cotton is King
James Cotton is the reigning monarch of the blues harmonica players. Born in 1935 in tiny Tunica, Miss., he was, as a young boy, tutored by none other than Sonny […]
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SMF: Michael Burks & Delta Blues
In many ways Michael Burks doesn’t fit the stereotype of a bluesman. He’s on the young side, for one, being “only” 54 — fairly underripe by blues standards. He was […]
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Key change
WHAT’S GOTTEN into Eric Culberson? After two decades of kicking around every club in town, most recently as the blues player to beat, Culberson — inarguably, Savannah’s finest electric guitarist […]
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How ’bout them Georgia blues?
Years of playing solo gigs, from dark coffeehouses to bustling clubs to the busy subways of Boston, have given Kyle Shiver an edge. He’s a blues player, with a steely […]
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Bonnie Raitt returns to the Mercer Theater
BACK IN the ‘70s and ‘80s, when phenomenal singer and slide guitarist Bonnie Raitt was more of a stellar club act than the superstar female icon of blues and rock-influenced […]
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Mose Allison at the Jazz Corner
Mose Allison **** ALONG WITH Jandek, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Charles Aznavour, Lee Hazelwood, Lenny Bruce and Tom Verlaine, Mose Allison is easily one of the absolute coolest stage performers […]