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Born April 13, 1946 in Forest City, Arkansas, Al Green began singing in his family’s gospel group. His distinctive vocal talent and extraordinar | |
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A Reverse Chronology of Selected Significant Dates & Events"Bird could be the only performer who's lit up both Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo with a com | |
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It's 12:52 in the morning and I'm at a hotel in Springfield, Ohio.My new record is called When The Devil's Loose. To me it sounds like a radio washed a | |
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Asie Payton died of a heart attack on May 19, 1997, in Holly Ridge, Mississippi. It occurred in the early afternoon, while he was driving a tractor in | |
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**Beaten Awake** \ˈbÄ“-tÉ™n\ \É™-ˈwÄk\ _n_ **1**. are now and have always been about the music of Kent, OH: making records and going | |
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Gold And Guns On 51 is the debut release from the two sonic implosion technicians that comprise New Orleans' Blackfire Revelation: guitarist/singer J.R | |
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When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born."It' | |
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Cedell Davis was born Ellis Davis on June 9, 1927, in Helena, then a booming river town on the Arkansas bank of the Mississippi. He grew up there and i | |
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Just ten or twelve years ago, you could go into a town of 800 and find at least three old guys who could play some guitar. Now it's hard to find anyone | |
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Chooglin’. It’s a verb, baby—as in, to choogle. Just check your Creedence American Dictionary, it’s right there: “to | |
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Band bio for Colour Revolt which I don’t know how to write, and God knows I’m trying. Starting with the obvious: there’s a lot of | |
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It turned out the group sounded less like country than early garage punk: this was not their intention. Destroy All Human Life represents the closest t | |
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Ready for more Rock-a-billy/Blues-a-billy/Post Punk-a-billy B*ll Shit?Yeah, me neither.Good thing this 7" is none of that.I'm very proud of these recor | |
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Dave Thompson's first album is an astonishing blues debut. The album includes eleven songs, all originals, none stylistically indebted to any obvious i | |
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Louisiana’s own dark star and Orpheus of the underground, Dax Riggs – the fool in your tarot deck – trippin’ over his own t | |
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As a child growing up in Evansville, Indiana, Dax Riggs looked forward to the weekends. His parents were divorced, and Dax lived with his mother, a Jeh | |
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Big Legal Mess is proud to announce that they've secured the rights to release the entire Designer Records back catalog. Designer Records Presents Toge | |
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Shawn Foree, better known as Digital Leather, grew up on a Baha'i hippie commune in southern Arizona. As soon as he could, he left and started college | |
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Although always as loud as god, it was easy to convince yourself the music of Dinosuar Jr was far more passive than aggressive. This myth exploded in a | |
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Guy Blakeslee a.k.a. Entrance, is a singer/guitarist who has spent the past few years journeying and performing across America and abroad, playing on h | |
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Eleanor was constantly ridiculed in the crudest and least interesting manner by her brother Matthew. He, for his part, had to suffer such things as her | |
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One of the most talented musicians of his time, Fred McDowell performed to large crowds all over the United States and Europe for several decades. He a | |
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Furry Lewis began getting the recognition he deserved towards the end of his life. He opened for the Rolling Stones and even played on the Tonight Show | |
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The music on each of these compact discs and 7" records represents the best of the hundreds of hours of field recordings George Mitchell undertook over | |
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Audio Eagle, a new label imprint from Patrick Carney of the Black Keys, is proud to announce Bloodsongs.Known for their live shows, Gil Mantera's Party | |
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Well if someone's gonna do a straight-up rock n' roll blues album it might as well be rock guru Paul Westerberg, or in this case, his alter-ego Grandpa | |
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What is there to say about a small boy who heard the radio announcer introduce a song by Hank Williams and assumed that he was playing all the instrume | |
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Combining elements of both rock and folk music, along with disturbingly personal sentiments, dark humor, and a voice able to channel both the falsetto | |
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The Heartless Bastards' story starts in Dayton, Ohio, where Wennerstrom found the name on a multiple choice video trivia game at a bar.As a songwriting | |
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New York, NY: On their third full-length record, Midnight Soul Serenade, American rock’n’roll revolutionaries Heavy Trash (Jon Spencer an | |
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Houseguest sounds like the rock band playing for the youngsters in the back room at the tennis club while their parents are having a key party in the l | |
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J.W. Warren was born in 1921 in Enterprise, AL. In a family of eleven children, he was the only one to take up music, starting at the age of fifteen or | |
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Depending on whom you ask, Jack "Oblivian" Yarber is either a rock legend or an absolute unknown. This dichotomy is well-understood by Memphis musician | |
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Originally released in 1971 by Ahura Mazda Records. Recorded at Maringouin, LA during the week of Christmas, 1970.Something of a blues supergroup, the | |
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Declarations of Independents – Chris MorrisFlag Waving: Ask Jim Mize why he started writing songs, and he’ll confess, with a booming barr | |
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Callicott, 67, lives with his wife and sister in Nesbit, his birthplace. He learned to play guitar when he was 15. "I'd stand around and look, you know | |
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John Paul Keith grew up outside of Knoxville, the son of a truck driver. He learned to sing in church and he learned to play guitar when he was ten and | |
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If you're lucky, you live in a town with four or five people that actually care about the quality of their work. Johnny Farmer is one of these. Johnny | |
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David "Junior" Kimbrough, quite possibly the most important blues guitarist of the second half of the 20th century, redefined blues. Junior's approach | |
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After 3 long years Kenny's much awaited genuine Fat Possum debut Stingray will be released on Feb 11th. Although R.L. Burnside is fond of calling Kenny | |
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Adrian Sherwood¦s history as a record producer puts him in a league of one, miles above his closest competitor. In 1979, Adrian co-founded the On-U | |
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Little Freddie's real name is Fread E. Martin and he was born in McComb, Mississippi, July 19, 1940 down the road from Bo Diddley's place. His father, | |
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If your idea of classic modern pop music hasn't been jaded by the obscurity-obsessed tendencies of material pursuits, then it's always a nice feeling t | |
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In the opening scene of Mack Allen Smith’s 1993 novel Honky Tonk Addict 54-year old rockabilly veteran Mike Sanders wakes up in Room 136 of Clar | |
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Nathaniel Mayer was born and raised in what was once the thriving industrial mecca, Detroit, Michigan. When he was growing up in the fifties the Motor | |
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Of course, when faced with hearing a new band the first thing that generally draws one's attention is the cover art. Cover art really has nothing to do | |
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n; before that, like many of his Delta neighbors, he worked on a farm. And throughout his adult life, Paul Jones has been a bluesman, known and admired | |
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The Red Onions knew they were onto something when singer Paul Gonzalez hurled himself into the drum kit at their first practice. Like a lot of great pu | |
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Robert Belfour was born in a small plank house several miles South of Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1940. It was one of several shacks on the Hurdle fa | |
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Robert Cage was born in New Orleans on April 4th 1937. A year later, his family moved to Natchez and from there to Woodville, Mississippi, a small wood | |
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"(Robert Pete Williams is the) definition of the country bluesman - a poet of his own experience, his language and idiom coming from the hard country b | |
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On October 1, 1994 Scott Dunbar died. We have done our best to present this record as it was originally released on Ahura Mazda in 1972. Here are the a | |
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What You See!"Inna perfect world THIS is what the Blues Explosion shoulda evolved into...well, sorta. The Super Chicken's got the "blues," like, a notc | |
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T-Model's credentials are impeccable; if anything he's over qualified. He was born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forrest, a small community in Scott Count | |
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Feeling heartsick from love's tumult, sweating bullets in the middle of the night, drinking lightning from a corn liquor bottle, sitting in a room whos | |
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What began as Gaz and Danny taking a little time out from their Supergrass commitments for a studio lark has now resulted in a modern day psychedelic p | |
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Animal Party 7" available now featuring Animal Party b/w God of Raisins and a 15-page coloring book | |
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From the north valleys of the Queen City (Cincinnati) comes Thee Shams. Together since '99, the family Sham has uniquely captured the edgy rawness of e | |
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Townes Van Zandt’s “Rex’s Blues†is a difficult song to write for a friend. “If it rained an ocean I’d drink it | |
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Turbo Fruits, led by Jonas Stein (formerly of Be Your Own Pet) is agroup of three rambunctious dudes. Jonas, Matt and Dave all live inTennessee and can | |
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In the life of Nathan Williams, the year of 2009 will go down as both a highlight reel and a total shit show. Meteorically, feverishly and somewhat imp | |
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For the last few years, local trio We Are Wolves have been tearing up the stage with their electrifying guitar/drum/analog synth attack. With herky-jer | |
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Willem Maker's debut disc, Stars Fell On, will be reissued September 2nd on Big Legal Mess Records (Fat Possum). Recorded and mixed entirely at Maker' | |
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At a recent Jaguar Love show, according to their guitarist, Cody Votolato, two fans were less than impressed with their originality. "I heard this dude | |
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In the late 90s, 15-year-old Jay Lindsey, living right outside Memphis,played all of the instruments on a demo tape by his newly-mintedperforming monik | |
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For more than a decade, Judah Bauer has polished the work of hisprimary band, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, with a considerablygifted guitar prowess | |
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<p>Both Elmo Williams and Hezekiah Early are from Natchez, Mississippi. Hezekiah, formerly of Hezekiah and the House Rockers, is still the only m | |
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As the keyboard player for the tremendously popular band WidespreadPanic, Jojo Hermann may call Atlanta, Georgia home, but it's inMississippi - where h | |
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Bentonia, MS: home to the legendary Skip James, famous for his falsettovocals and his mastery of a rare blues guitar style that has becomeknown as the | |
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R.L. Burnside was born in Layfayette County, near Oxford, Mississippiin 1926. As a young man R.L. moved North into the neighboring MarshallCounty and b | |
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Adam Green is a famous American celebrity from New York City. At thebeginning of his career he moved to Germany to seek political asylumfrom the persec | |
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The Pitch / Gusman Story Waymon "Gusman" Jones loved gospel music. Especially, he loved the rich stirring sounds of th | |
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Band of Horses - "Infinite Arms" in stores May 18, 2010 | |
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For those not au fait with wrestling vernacular, the Swanton Bomb is a manoeuvre, popularised by the three-time world champion Jeff Hardy, that in | |
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Two years ago today Tero "Camu Tao" Smith died after a grueling battle with cancer. He was a friend, a son, a brother, a groom to be and la | |
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When Blaze, who was still Depty Dawg to us, sang at our dining table back in ’76 and ’78, he would be of a temper that was still juicy an | |
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YUCK! Eeew, I was like, "that is soo gross". Anybutt. I was like whatever. Butt then I saw the tour and it made me feel kinda tingly. It's | |
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The Slider is the deï¬nitive soundtrack to Bolanmania that swept mostcorners of the globe during 1972. It was boom-time for manufacturers oflipstic | |
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Two on a big oceanPatrick Riley and Alaina Moore met while studying philosophy in college. The two agreed that upon graduating they would sell their co | |
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Tyler Ramsey’s sophomore album A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea was re-released today, January 4th, 2011, via Brown Records/Fat Possum | |
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Though born in Memphis, Tennessee, Reverend John Wilkins is a child of the North Mississippi Hill Country. His mother was born in Holly Springs and his | |
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“…what separates The Felices’ mud-stomping folk from that of their peers is their no-winking honesty – the sense that these s | |
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Dready Manning was a wild man. He drank whisky, he sold whisky, he stayed out all night playing blues in bars and clubs, he drove fast automobiles, he | |
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