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When they described regularly amazing guitarist Snooks Eaglin being a human jukebox in his New Orleans hometown, they weren’t dissing him at all. The blind Eaglin was a favorite shape in the Crescent Town, not merely for his gritty, Ray Charles-inspired vocal delivery and wholly imaginative method of the guitar, …

Found out in the Louisiana Condition Penitentiary, Robert Pete Williams became among the great blues discoveries through the folk increase of the first ’60s. His disregard for standard patterns, tunings, and constructions held him from a wider target audience, but his music continues to be among the great, extreme treats …