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Jack White was a teenager in blue-collar Detroit when he purchased U2's heavy left turn of a seventh album, Achtung Baby. "I listened to that a lot in my headphones," he says
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The House star released his first blues album Let Them Talk in 2011, and has followed his debut up with a second record called Didn''t It Rain.
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Blues
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Last week's Crossroads Guitar Festival featured blistering sets from road veterans like B.B. King, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy, but some of the biggest cheers of the festival went to a kid who is still in middle school …
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Drummer Brian Moen and Justin Vernon -- the angelic voice behind Bon Iver – go way back: along with guitarist Phil Cook, Moen and Vernon formed the blues-rock trio Shouting Matches in Wisconsin on one June night …
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JamBand, Blues
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Beginning May 24th, Urban is exploring new but related territory, again traveling by train to multiple locations and including other through social media but this time focusing his trip on a search for "everyday …
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Rock, Blues
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Chicago bluesman Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins, known for his stellar guitar playing and mellow singing voice, has died. He was 76.
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Blues
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Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of "Old Time Rock and Roll" and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68.
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Soul, Blues
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For his new album, Nomad, Nigerien guitarist Bombino found a producer an ocean away: Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. Together, the pair recorded raw, dialed-up jams rooted in the electric-blues tradition of Bombino …
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Electro, Blues
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Joe Walsh isn't planning to let another two decades pass between solo albums, as he did before 2012's well-received "Analog Man." In fact, the Eagles member has already started work on his new project.
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Blues
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G. Love discovered the blues at his local record store – and to pay things forward, the singer-songwriter has linked up with his friend Jack Johnson to record a special 10-inch vinyl called Blood Shot and Blue for …
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Blues
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Filmmaker Les Blank, whose documentaries about blues and jazz musicians and music of the South were widely acclaimed, died April 7 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 77; the cause of death was bladder cancer.
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Movies, Jazz, Blues
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Producer Brian Grazer (8 Mile, Apollo 13, American Gangster) has secured the rights to James Brown's music for a movie he's been trying to make for more than a decade. Mick Jagger is co-producing. "I like to …
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