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Possibly the surname “Bland” isn’t the supreme someone to have if one’s life is likely to be picked at simply by music critics. non-etheless, there’s a feeling of justice for the reason that name getting directed at a banjoist and guitarist through the ’20s jazz period, just like there is …

The Mound Town Blowers were an unlikely success. Originally made up of Crimson McKenzie on comb and cells paper (which sounded just like a kazoo), Dick Slevin on a genuine kazoo, and Jack port Bland on banjo, the initial band’s initial documenting in 1924 (“Arkansas Blues” and “Blue Blues”) became …