By James on May 23, 2007 in Jazz, The Blues | 11 Comments
I have a fairly large library of music and I have it all converted to MP3 format so when I listen to music I set my player to shuffle. Well today Ray Charles song Hit The Road Jack come up in the queue. I just have to say that Ray Charles is awesome so I [...]
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By James on May 22, 2007 in The Blues | 0 Comments
I have been highlighting a few of the artist that I like on here and thought that maybe some people might like to learn a little more about the blues. In comes Alan Lomax and his project for the Library of Congress and Fisk University in 1941 and 1942 where he tours the delta and [...]
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By James on May 19, 2007 in The Blues | 2 Comments
What a great voice and awesome muscisian she was. It is a shame that she was taken so soon. I have most of her recordings and I listen to them often but I like to find stuff on youtube and see what kind of live stuff I can find. I am really going to hate [...]
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By James on May 3, 2007 in The Blues | 6 Comments
I have been YouTubing today and found some great stuff. I got to see some great Clapton and Cream stuff as well as this little B.B. King piece with Tracy Chapman doing The thrill is gone;
The sound quality is ok and I enjoyed it. B.B. is an icon of the blues and even though he [...]
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