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Saturday Nov 21, 2009
Hello all – Steve Hunter here, I’m the BestDamnBlues.com guy. The other day I got an email from Joshua Slamp, that is what appears just below. You need to check this out…it is EXCELLENT!
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Dear Steve,
My name is Joshua Slamp; I am a Portland, Oregon Blue guitarist. I’ve recently put out a CD that I think you might find to your liking.
I’ve visited your site “BestDamnBlues.com” and think you will appreciate my latest CD, “Slide Into Christmas”; a collection of holiday classics adapted entirely on acoustic slide guitar, think a “Robert Johnson Christmas”.
I thought it would be fun to put a new spin on songs we all hold dear to our hearts with a Delta Blues twist.
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Friday Feb 20, 2009
Wow! Talk about a blast from the past. Here is what is apparently the 1st recorded blues song ever. Pretty cool, but you might want to turn your speakers down — this recording is VERY scratchy. Click on the tile of the post below to discover “The Laughing Man”
Elie El Khoury » The Very First Blues Song – Let’s thank Mr. George W. Johnson for recording the 1st blues song ever. It was recorded in 1896! “The Laughing Song”. Well, you can imagine the recording quality by that time, it was quite noisy… Here it is: The Laughing Song …
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Tuesday Aug 26, 2008
Desert Blues, a music project with Habib Koité, Afel Bocoum and the Tuareg-Women-Ensemble Tartit from Timbuktu. All this musicians are poets and play the traditional instruments like Tinde, Tehardant, Balafon, Imzad — but also electric guitars.
Roy Brown, educational coordinator Washington Blues Society, reports from their booth at the 2008 Port Townsend Country Blues Festival performance Saturday evening August 2.
I could continue the list with Fred McDowell, Mississippi John Hurt, and many blind street singers and preachers like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, etc. Musicians certainly appreciate them as you can see by all the songs modern musicians cover by Robert Johnson, Ledbelly, and we could go on all night? Why all this disrespect for the true geniuses of American Music? Perhaps what John Lee sang is prophetic: “Serves you right to suffer serves you right to be alone.”
Music expands, people learn about new artists, they buy what they hear on the radio. Is this a bad thing? Some people think so, but it’s part of music, it continues to grow. Soon this whole fad of rap and pop will fade out and a new genre will emerge and people will begin to like that new genre and then people(like your self) will ask “Why don’t more people appreciate rap anymore?” What I’m trying to get at is, a genre will never stay popular forever. People will always find something new. On a completely different note, you should check out fairly unknown blues guitarist by the name of Roy Buchanan, he is simply amazing and I think you will appreciate him.
UPC: 710347111726 1. She Takes More Than She Gives – (with John Mayall) 2. Workin’ Overtime – (with Jeff Healey) 3. Firehouse Mama – (with Eric Sardinas) 4. Who’s Listenin’ In – (with CocoMontoya) 5. Slap Happy – (with Junior Watson) 6. Wrapped Around Your Finger – (with Guitar Shorty) 7. Busy Man, A – (with James Harman) 8. Highway Song – (with John Mayall) 9. When Will It Ever Change – (with Bernard Allison) 10. Can’t Help Falling Apart – (with Finis Tasby) 11. After Hours – (with Deacon Jones) 12. Clouds On The Horizon – (with Joe Bonamassa) 13. Full Circle – (with Larry Keene)
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Desert Blues, a music project with Habib Koité, Afel Bocoum and the Tuareg-Women-Ensemble Tartit from Timbuktu. All this musicians are poets and play the traditional instruments like Tinde, Tehardant, Balafon, Imzad — but also electric guitars.
Roy Brown, educational coordinator Washington Blues Society, reports from their booth at the 2008 Port Townsend Country Blues Festival performance Saturday evening August 2.
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