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Madeleine Peyroux – review

5078 days ago

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonSomething curious happened around 15 minutes into this gig, the only UK performance by New York pop-jazz vocalist Madeleine Peyroux to promote her new album, Standing on the Rooftop. A couple sitting a few rows from the front got u... more info

The Waifs – Temptation

5098 days ago

Twangville — How does one go about acquiring an old soul? Do you go down to the crossroads and make a Faustian bargain ala Robert Johnson? Maybe reincarnation is the answer and you just have live a lot of lives. Regardless of how they did it, collectively T... more info

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Cassandra Wilson rediscovers the blues with Blue Light Til Dawn

5103 days ago

Guardian Music — 2 November 1993: Number 46 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of Jazz musicWhen Cassandra Wilson signed to Blue Note in 1993 she had been struggling to find a suitable vehicle for her gorgeous contralto. In an attempt to ignore the cre... more info

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Robert Johnson sells his souls to the devil

5104 days ago

Guardian Music — Sometime in the mid-1930s: Number 5 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk musicThe Faustian tale of the troubled man making a pact with the devil is a recurring motif in Christian mythology. It often seeped into music �... more info

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In rotation: Amede Ardoin's “Mama I’ll Be Long Gone: 'The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934'

5125 days ago

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — A series in Sunday Calendar about what Times writers & contributors are listening to right now... The parallels between Cajun Creole accordionist, singer and songwriter Amede Ardoin and blues legend Robert Johnson are many: Both were celebrated as tr... more info

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Celebrating Robert Johnson and Bob Dylan -- the music, not the myths

5137 days ago

Mercury News, California — With the 100th anniversary of bluesman Johnson's birth celebrated May 8, and folk-rock singer/songwriter Dylan's 70th birthday coming May 24, it's time to take a fresh look at the outsized accomplishments of both. more info

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EMA DEBUT ALBUM 'PAST LIFE MARTYRED SAINTS'

5141 days ago

Altsounds — Having introduced herself as a solo artist with the epically rocking seven minute single 'Grey Ship' backed with a slowly rambunctious and flailing sixteen minute cover of the Robert Johnson blues staple, 'Kind Heart', *EMA *invites you deeper int... more info

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Robert Johnson: fans mark the centenary of the great bluesman's birth

5143 days ago

Guardian Music — Robert Johnson was the most influential blues player of all time. Now the last of his musical collaborators will play for his devotees in a centennial celebrationDavid "Honeyboy" Edwards's voice all but creaks as he talks, but even at 95 the closest ... more info

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