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Charley Patton
Posted by Adrian McKee on Saturday, 4 June 2016Charley Patton - Spoonful Blues
A song about cocaine
It has been suggested by some kind sirs in the comments that maybe Charley was head of some clandestine tea drinking coven. There are some that say Shakespeare never wrote those plays but they were written by Elizabeth 1 while she was waiting for some blind beggar to be beheaded for stealing an apple from her orchard.
Cheick Hamala Diabate
Posted by Adrian McKee on Saturday, 4 June 2016Cheick Hamala Diabate is a musician from Mali, West Africa who has been nominated for a Grammy award. Using Adelphi, Marylandas his home he travels all over the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, the United States Senate, and the Smithsonian Institution. Cheick Hamala was born into a griot family in Kita, Mali. From a young age he learned to play the ngoni, a stringed instrument related to the American banjo. In addition, Cheick has learned the history of Mali passed down for over 800 years. Cheick has performed internationally.
Otis Taylor
Posted by Adrian McKee on Tuesday, 15 December 2015Tony Thomas
Posted by Adrian McKee on Tuesday, 15 December 2015The Reunion Band
Posted by Adrian McKee on Tuesday, 15 December 2015Richie Brown
Posted by Adrian McKee on Tuesday, 15 December 2015Charley Pride
Posted by Adrian McKee on Tuesday, 15 December 2015Brent Williams
Posted by Adrian McKee on Saturday, 5 December 2015Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony
Posted by Adrian McKee on Sunday, 25 October 2015Atlanta street singer Peg Leg Howell wasn't really much of a guitarist, but his songs, many of which were made up of fragments of street vendor calls and other pre-blues material, have a sort of greasy and rough-hewed grace to them, and when combined with Eddie Anthony's careening fiddle runs, achieved a distinct sound (part string band, part hokum jug band) all too rare in early blues. His "Skin Game Blues" is a poignant and perfectly nuanced classic in the genre, while "Coal Man Blues" is an early statement and indictment of class distinction in the American South.