Category: Blues

Today in 1930, one of the greatest, no the greatest harmonica player was born, Little Walter. Little Walter influenced all the great harp players that came after him, just like Hendrix! He was also the first musician to amplify the harmonica! From Wikipedia: Little Walter, born Marion Walter Jacobs (May…

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So born on this day in 1935 was a very influential blues musician Mr. Otis Rush. Rush is a native of Philadelphia… Mississippi that is! Wikipedia has this to say about Rush… … His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound and long bent notes. With similar qualities to…

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Today I traveled over the Burlington-Bristol Bridge and out Street Road to the Costco in Warminster,Pa. The reason I traveled all that way today was to see about getting new hearing aids! Why go to Costco? – well their cost for hearing aids is one-half price of their competitors! I…

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So the soundtrack for the trip back from the New Gretna exist of the Garden State Parkway was the new album Shake It from the Wisconsin based blues group Johnny & the Mo-Tones. The other day in the first listen I thought what great jump blues, songs that really get you moving!…

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So this morning I recapped my musical week and listed some of the bands that may be listened to in the coming week. So why don’t I tell you about some of the blues albums that have debuted on this week’s Roots Music Report  that I look forward to listening…

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