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      • My Good Gal's Gone Blues - Leon Redbone
        10/31/08


        Leon Redbone (August 26, 1949[2]) is a singer and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century music, including jazz and blues standards and Tin Pan Alley classics.

        Recognized for his trademark Panama hat, dark sunglasses, and bow tie, Redbone first appeared

      • Goodnight Irene
        10/30/08

        Goodnight, Irene

        "Goodnight, Irene" or "Irene, Goodnight," is a 20th century American folk standard. The lyrics tell how the singer lost his love through "rambling and gambling". He contemplates suicide in the famous line "Sometimes I take a great

      • Leadbelly (1888-1949) - born Huddie Ledbetter
        10/28/08
        American blues singer, "King of The Twelve-String Guitar," who twice sang himself out of jails. Ledbetter helped to inspire the folk and blues revivals of the Fifties and Sixties and he was one of the first traditional folk musicians to perform for a city audience. Ledbetter's perseve

      • Huddie Ledbetter
        10/28/08

        The train from Houston to San Antonio, approximating the route of Alternate 90, would arrive in Sugar Land at midnight, it's light shining brightly. Prisoners imagined it was their passage to freedom.

        Huddie Ledbetter usually escaped from the cellblocks he found himself confine

      • The midnight special
        10/27/08
        The Midnight Special

        The Midnight Special was the name of a passenger train formerly operated by the Chicago and Alton Railroad and its successor, the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The train ran on an overnight schedule, and in later years carried the last regularly scheduled Pullman sl

      • The Midnight Special / Odetta
        10/27/08

        Odetta (born December 31, 1930) is an African-American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement." Her musical repertoire consists largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An i

      • Led Zeppelin: The Songs Remain the Same
        10/22/08


        A great look at the greats

      • Robert Johnson-Traveling Riverside Blues
        10/22/08


        Robert Johnson lyrics
        Traveling Riverside Blues blues lyrics

        If your man get personal, want you to have your fun
        If your man get personal, want you to have your fun
        Just come on back to Friars Point, mama, and barrelhouse all night long

        I got womens i

      • Led Zeppelin - Travelling Riverside Blues
        10/22/08


        "Travelling Riverside Blues" is a blues song written and recorded in Dallas, Texas by legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. Johnson's June 20, 1937 recording has a typical 12 bar blues structure, played on a single guitar tuned to open G, with a slide. It was first released o

      • Jimi Hendrix beeing entertained by Buddy Guy
        10/22/08


        Jimi Hendrix watching Buddy Guy play the Generation Club

      • Hubert Sumlin, Life Lessons and Guitar Lessons
        10/22/08
        Hubert Sumlin (born November 16, 1931) is a blues guitar player known as both a solo artist and central element in Howlin' Wolf's backup band. Listed in Rolling Stone's The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Sumlin continues to tour and play blues guitar. He is cited as a major infl

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