Dockery Farms
“If you had to pick one single spot as the birthplace of the blues, you might say it all started right here. Son House played here, Willie Brown played here, […]
Author Archives: Christopher Ryan
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 […]
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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