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DVD-Easy Steps to Acoustic Blues Guitar #1- Starting From Scratch

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starring: Happy Traum
directed by: Happy Traum

Release Date May 01, 2005
This is a great instructional DVD for the beginner who alreay knows a few chords and would like to venture into the world of blues. Happy provides thorough instruction and is very patinet and encouraging. This is one of the better guitar lesson DVDs that i have bought and I am just staring DVD # 2.

CD-Charts Position 112
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The Legend of Blind Joe Death

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by: John Fahey

Release Date September 03, 1996
Its snowing hard outside and I have the stereo on,not too loud.As I try to decide how to write this review,turning it over and over in my head I get visions of times gone past when you had to prove how good you were a song at a time,one person at a time.One man,one guitar.....John Fahey posesses a guitar playing style influenced by many but written,arranged and performed like no other person on this planet.
Covering recording sessions from Joe Bussards basement studio in 59 thru to 63-64 and 67 in Berkley,this disc is what that vision from the past and one extraordinary guitarist capable of lyrical songs with no words and sounds new to all but some can achieve - the sound called American Primitive.
On the 78`s of yesterday were all ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 113
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Double V

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by: Otis Taylor

Release Date April 27, 2004
The Otis Taylor sound on the surface is simple. A repetitive groove and lyrics creating an almost a trance like vibe. The emotions they convey are an entirely different matter. His music is somewhat fleshed out this time with daughter Cassie adding a nice touch on vocals and bass. Songs like 'Mama's Selling Heroin'and 'Sounds of Attica are typical slices of 'REAL LIFE. Another sterling work of passion and soul. Taylor's impressive array of recordings continues.

CD-Charts Position 114
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One-Dime Blues

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by: Etta Baker

Release Date February 14, 1992
One-Dime Blues, Etta Baker, Rounder Records, 1991

Recently I mentioned in reviewing Elizabeth Cotton's Freight Train album from Folkways that there was something appealing about these North Carolina style guitar pickers. It is different from the Delta pick, for sure. They pick cleanly, simply but with verve. The Delta is a little more heavy-handed reflecting, I think, the woes of picking that cotton all week. Damn, I would be guitar picking like Keith Richards under those conditions. Ms. Baker shows her stuff here on this almost exclusively instrumental album from Rounder Records. The one vocal that she does do here -Broken-Hearted Blues- makes me wish that she had done more vocals but the guitar can carry her through on this album- no ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 115
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Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer

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by: Corb Lund

Release Date September 19, 2006
A "Dirty Linen" magazine review of this CD prompted me to order this disc. What a blast of fun! Lund's sound firmly roots in barband country. However, his music has such energy, wit and humor, that it stands a cut above. The title track spits out lyrics like a bazooka on fire, "Spring in my step like a white-tailed deer; Hitch in my hip like an old sheep dog; puff up my chest like a big bull frog." It's totally addictive. "The Truck Got Stuck" talk-sings charmingly with Tammy Rogers' fiddle burning the strings, "Richie, he now fears the worst, stood up his ex-wife; She called him a jerk." "Always Keep an Edge on Your Knife" radiates sunshine. The tempo finally slows on "The Rodeo's Over" with Lund's lonesome homespun vocals sounding like a newfound ... Read More:

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Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton

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by: Charley Patton

Release Date October 23, 2001
WOW!!! 5***** The best of the BEST...Cannot say enough about this..but u cannot go wrong in this purchase!!! WOW!!!

CD-Charts Position 117
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Lead Me On

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by: Kelly Joe Phelps

Release Date July 29, 1994
This is a classic album that no fan of Kelly Joe Phelps should miss collecting. It is becoming rare and difficult to find. Kelly at his very best.

CD-Charts Position 118
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Big Wide Grin

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by: Keb' Mo'

Release Date June 05, 2001
Like many of the negative reviewers here, I, too, was surprised at this CD. I was expecting the same folksy blues as his other albums.

But this CD is wonderful in its own way. This is happy family music, which goes back to the roots of folk music. It's stuff with a strong values, a good message, that's easy to sing along (whether with children, or maybe you just need a smile).

I had to post this review in defense of this CD. No, it's not my favorite Keb Mo. But when I need a smile, I pop in this CD. This is not impressive music from a technical/artistic perspective - his wife and kids sing (and even his grandmother, I think). But this is such a gem - it's charming in its own way.

Sure, I wish I'd known in advance what to expect ... Read More:

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Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute

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by: Various Artists

Release Date September 25, 2001
In a review of a Hank Williams anthology in this space I noted that I have been listening to a local weekend folk, rock and contemporary music interview show here in Boston for years. The format of the show is to interview, in depth, contemporary well know singers, songwriters and musicians as well as young unknowns looking to make their mark. One of the questions always asked of each interviewee is about formative influences on their musical development. Although I do not believe that I have ever heard what I would consider a country singer interviewed on the show the name Hank Williams has come up many more times than any other from young and old interviewee alike. Here some of those well-known musicians pay tribute to his influence by covering his songs for a 50th Anniversary ... Read More:

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Doin' the Funky Thing

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by: Walter "Wolfman" Washington

Release Date June 10, 2008
First let me say I'm a HUGE fan of Wolfman & The Roadmasters and thrilled that they have been able to release yet another album. Out Of The Dark is still my favorite Wolfman album but this new release is definately moving up the list. If you like good, funky, R&B/blues/jazz/soul you will enjoy this album. Buy a bunch of copies and give them to your friends and let's hope that we can keep this great band out on the road and bringing this great music to our towns. Keep up the good work Wolfman... Hopefully we'll see you in East Tennessee soon!