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The president from the Arhoolie Records label, folklorist and producer Chris Strachwitz, was being among the most prominent and influential champions of global roots music; primarily focusing mainly on American customs like the blues, Cajun, Tejano, zydeco, nation, and jazz, he afterwards branched away to explore music from across the …

Like Leadbelly and Mississippi John Harm, the designation as strictly a blues singer dwarfs the music breadth of Mance Lipscomb. Delivered on Apr 9, 1895 in Navasota, TX, Lipscomb was a sharecropper/tenant farmer all his lifestyle who didn’t record until 1960, “songster” matches what Lipscomb do best. A very pleased, …

One-man rings weren’t too common around the postwar blues picture. Joe Hill Louis and Dr. Ross one thinks of as greats who plied their trade simply by their lonesome — therefore do Juke Boy Bonner, a Texan whose skill never really gained him much in the form of tangible incentive. …

Christopher Watkins, a twenty-something rocker from your SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay region, is turning a complete new era of teenage and twenty-something option rock fans to the eternal hipness from the blues. Watkins, who uses the stage name Preacher Boy, is usually supported on his golf club shows round …

Ed Bell’s Paramount record of his own “Mamlish Blues” may be the sort of performance which has the energy to suspend the listener within the eternal present instant. Its simple, repeated, ascending, and descending level evokes a marvelous sensibility that’s echoed around the flipside, “The Hambone Blues,” as well as …

A rip-roaring, Delta blues-inflected singer, guitarist, and songwriter, Jake La Botz was reportedly conceived while his parents were hearing an album by Tx bluesman Mance Lipscomb. Shifting to Chicago as a little child along with his dad, a truck drivers, union organizer, and journalist, La Botz uncovered classic blues and …

Willie Samuel McTell was among the blues’ greatest guitarists, and in addition among the finest singers ever to operate in blues. A significant figure with an area pursuing in Atlanta in the 1920s onward, he documented dozens of edges through the entire ’30s under a variety of brands — all …

Among the initial & most influential Delta bluesmen to record, Omit James was the best-known proponent of the so-called Bentonia school of blues players, a genre stress invested with just as much fanciful scholarly “study” as any. Coupling an oddball electric guitar tuning established against eerie, falsetto vocals, Adam’ early …