Hank Williams
Hank Williams’ songs were cries from the darkness; made to be heard while running through the lonely night, racing with the moon… The lyrics dealt not with true love and […]
Author Archives: Christopher Ryan
Charley Patton
“He’s basically the great-grandfather of all American and western music that has lasted the test of time. There’s a lot of music that this country has put out but the […]
The Singing Brakeman
“Times change and don’t change. The nature of humanity has stayed the same. Jimmie is at the heart of it all with a seriousness and a humor that is befuddling….His […]
Where Sound Walks Tomorrow
It’s no secret by now that today’s rock cats are still doing steroid-laden blues-guitar riffs spawned from the Mississippi Delta, but what might still be tucked away, what people don’t […]
It’s What We Don’t Hear
“If the blues seems to have run its course as a 12-bar form, the blues spirit surely has not… that element so uniquely central not just to the blues, but […]
Scorsese Presents: The Blues
I’ll never forget the first time I heard Lead Belly singing See See Rider. I was entranced… All of a sudden, in an instant, I could hear where it had […]
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