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Posts tagged: Blues
#116 - At Last! (Etta James)
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="1961"][/caption] After a one month hiatus from posting on this blog, I am happy (oh so happy) to return to this project with Etta James as the first album to listen to. At Last! is Jamesetta Hawkins', aka Etta James', debut solo studio...
#122 - Pearl (Janis Joplin)
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Janis Joplin's album art for 'Pearl' (released January 11, 1971)"][/caption] Janis Joplin's posthumous album, entitled 'Pearl' was actually not completed because of her unexpected death, which is supposedly from heroin overdose when she was only 27 years old. In fact one...
#141 - Live At The Regal (B.B. King)
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'Live At The Regal' is widely considered to be one of the best blues recordings of all-time, and you can understand why when you listen to B.B. King's live performance at the Regal Theatre in Chicago. It was recorded on November 21, 1964 and released in 1965. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Album Art"]
Barton Hollow (The Civil Wars)
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If you haven't heard any of the music from this hauntingly-beautiful duo, then you need to drive yourself to HMV, or click yourself onto the iTunes music store and check them out. The Civil Wars have only been known by that name for a year and a half. In fact, as I just read on their website, Joy Williams...