Louisiana Red obituary

Adventurous blues singer and guitarist who travelled all over Europe picking up local music and blending it with his ownThe blues singer and guitarist Louisiana Red, who has died aged 79, began his career as an eerily accurate copyist of other artists but grew into a musician of inimitable originality. In a profession well stocked with the footloose and itinerant, he stood out as the most adventurous of blues travellers, taking his music to almost every country in Europe and many beyond, playing...

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