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Bayou Lightning
by Lonnie Brooks
Bayou Lightning, Lonnie Brooks’s Alligator debut, is arguably his best effort, and even more likely ...
Wound Up Tight
by Lonnie Brooks
Forget the tired old debate about whether or not Johnny Winter is a bluesman or a rocker, because it...
Get Way Back - A Tribute to Percy Mayfield
by Amos Garrett
Amos Garrett waited a long time to make this homage to one of America’s greatest blues singer-songwr...
Discover Blues
Blues Basics
This one’s for all you folks who are starting to explore the blues. The idea is to show the considerable diversity in a truly great genre of music that's too often dismissed with a curt, “It all sounds the same.” Here are twelve gems in twelve different blues genres, and the truth is, there’s plenty more categories than that — like big-band blues or swamp blues, for example — so this doesn’t even cover all the bases, but it's a start. If you already know the difference between B.B., Albert and Freddie Kin...
Spotlight on Blues
New Blues Rising: The Black Keys
The Black Keys are easily the freshest thing to happen to blues in this millennium, but you can't really call them a blues band. But then, neither can you call the duo — drummer Patrick Carney and guitarist/vocalist David Auerbach — a rock band. Or even a blues-rock band in the conventional sense of the term. Their music is garage rock that knows that blues is at the very heart of rock, and it is blues that cannot help but get caught up in the power, energy and flash of rock. (In this sense, the band they...
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Top Blues Tracks
| Listen | Track Name | Length | Download |
|---|
| 1. | |
Scratch My Back
|
4:20 |  |
| 2. | |
Hello Josephine
|
4:48 | |
| 3. | |
Slow Drag
|
6:33 | |
| 4. | |
Diddy Wah Diddy
|
4:36 | |
| 5. | |
Further On Down The Road
|
4:47 | |
| 6. | |
Strong Man Holler
|
5:49 | |
| 7. | |
TV Mama
|
3:43 | |
| 8. | |
Zanzibar
|
5:52 | |
| 9. | |
Never Let You Go
|
4:43 | |
| 10. | |
Dust Me Down
|
3:28 | |
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