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Since it’s Black History Month, we’re going to take a look at some of the music from the Civil Rights Movement from the mid-‘50s to the early 1970s.Gospel…
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The Yardbirds released their first hit record, “For Your Love,” 50 years ago. It was 1965, the year British rock invaded American pop music culture. The…
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Here are our picks for the best blues albums of the year.Jarekus Singleton: Refuse To LoseAn impressive national debut from a young Mississippi guitarist…
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Charley Patton’s music set the template for all the Delta blues players who would come after him. Take a listen to “High Water Everywhere,” which Patton…
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Today we’re going to talk about a genre of blues that’s so rare it barely has a name. And if you look up that name in Wikipedia, nothing comes up. We’re talking about “trance blues.”
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For many of us, Jimmy Cliff’s 1973 song “The Harder They Come” was the first reggae piece we’d heard.Reggae grew out of two earlier styles of Jamaican…
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Take a listen to “Sex Machine” from 1970 by the architect of Funk, James Brown.Brown is the focus of our discussion as we follow this music from its roots…
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You probably know “Birdland” by the group Weather Report well enough to sing along with the melody.What you may not know is the melody is being played on…
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Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker’s song “Ko-Ko” is perhaps one of the most important American recordings of all time. It’s widely considered to be the…
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The song “Juke” by Little Walter Jacobs might not sound revolutionary to modern ears, but when it first came out in 1951, nobody had ever had heard…