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Getting Started in Blues
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Going Back Home
by Phillip Walker
Phillip Walker, who may be the most undervalued bluesman in the country, came up in the oft-overlook...
Burnin'
by John Lee Hooker
When John Lee Hooker made the transition from regional indies to the larger independent label Vee-Ja...
Bayou Lightning
by Lonnie Brooks
Bayou Lightning, Lonnie Brooks’s Alligator debut, is arguably his best effort, and even more likely ...
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
A User's Guide to John Lee Hooker
For the first couple decades of his career, John Lee Hooker was perhaps the most heavily recorded bluesman ever. With a sound and style so personal that his catalog is virtually a one-man blues subgenre, Hooker is always instantly recognizable — even though early on, he frequently worked for several labels at once, under his own name and as Birmingham Sam, Delta John, Johnny Lee, Johnny Williams, Texas Slim and Little Pork Chops. Many of his best records have been compiled and/or reissued several times on seve...
Top Blues Tracks
| Listen | Track Name | Length | Download |
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| 1. | |
Just Couldn't Tie Me Down
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2:57 | |
| 2. | |
Girl Is On My Mind
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3:28 | |
| 3. | |
10 A.M. Automatic
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2:59 | |
| 4. | |
When The Lights Go Out
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3:23 | |
| 5. | |
Act Nice And Gentle
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2:41 | |
| 6. | |
The Desperate Man
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3:54 | |
| 7. | |
Grown So Ugly
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2:27 | |
| 8. | |
Stack Shot Billy
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3:21 | |
| 9. | |
All Hands Against His Own
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3:16 | |
| 10. | |
Aeroplane Blues
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2:50 |



















