"When rock 'n' roll first happened it was a threat to the mainstream. When Chuck Berry happened it was a threats white America. When the bad brains happened it was a threat to rock 'n' roll."
Popa Chubby: The Beast from the East
His career has always been about moving forward and carving a place for himself in the imposing terrain of…
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"Music was the best ambassador of equality out there and probably still is, if you want it to be, that is..."
Nicholas Tremulis: Windy City Poet
Nicholas Tremulis born in 1960 to a jazz piano-playing father and a blues-singing mother, Tremulis grew up in the city's Greektown and in suburban Northbrook. The household was full of music and…
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"The Beats really had the blues…and bopped to the beat of modern jazz. They also connected to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly and Sonny & Brownie."
Bob Angell: Supernal US Classical Music
Fresh album by Bob Angell, but a main-stay in the East Coast blues scene for many years. As Angell’s longtime mentor, the fabled Hubert Sumlin said,…
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"Blues is not only music, it's a feeling. Some people assume they don't like the Blues, but then they'll be at a gig and come up and say "I never thought I liked the Blues, but damn I love the Blues and what I'm hearing tonight." Blues may not be as popular as it once was, but I don't think it's dying, either."
Sean Chambers:
Welcome To…
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“Music is and always will the universal language and if people take the time to listen and to truly hear, there will greater understand and compassion for the differences between us. Peace.”
Myles Goodwyn: A Friend Of The Blues
Singer, guitarist, writer, producer and leader of the band April Wine, Myles Goodwyn’s passion and drive shaped and…
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"Blues is real, that’s why it’s always with us. One wish? I wish that they never ever use drum machines on blues records like they are doing on Southen Soul records now."
Twist Turner: The Blues Creator
During the course of his 54-year musical career songwriter, producer and drummer Twist Turner has worked with over 40 Grammy Award…
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"We all walking the path paved by our glorious predecessors, and yes… we all have to cherish their contribution with the utmost respect and reverence… But I’d rather look ahead and think about the future…"
A.G. Weinberger: Bluesylvania Tales
Attila Weinberger, popularly known as A.G., is absolutely peerless in his mastery of the American blues, a…
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"The whole reason blues music exists is because of its social cultural implication. Slavery. Music of dysphoria that has been changed and adapted in America for over a hundred years and gave birth to the Ragtime, Jazz, Gospel Blues Boogie-woogie, Rock'n Roll, and now Rap. The platform for social change now is Rap."
Billy Hector: Funky Rockin’ Blues…
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"The music is so elemental (blues and blues based rock ‘n’ roll) that no matter how far popular music gets away from the roots, a guy or girl with a guitar playing and singing, the desire for that fundamental connection will never die."
Scott Rosenbaum: Long Live The…
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"Blues has always been here. It’s in our genes as humans. The beat. The power of the human voice."
Jason Vivone: E.T.C. Blues Philosophy
Jason Vivone and the Billy Bats won the title "king of the roots" in a competition sponsored by the…
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"The blues teaches you about life, and how to tell a story. Blues songs are really short tales that are passed on from storyteller to storyteller."
Tino Gross: Howlin' Funky Pleasant
Martin (Tino) Gross…
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"If music is a universal language then blues music can speak volumes about compassion."
Eddy Gartry: Blues State of Albion…
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"I miss sound 100% natural with which the masters of the blues became great."
Daniel Raffo: Fair Winds Of Blues
Daniel Raffo was born in the neighborhood of Floresta, Buenos Aires,…
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"I miss the way musicians used to listen to each other when they played. My fear is that the music is being overwhelmed by technology."
David Vest: Boogie-Woogie Lift Roll…
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"The Blues teaches us that everybody is somebody. The blues is the soundtrack of reality. Whatever you have lived through has been talked about in a blues song."
Pat Moss: The Score Music Of Lifes…
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"It’s almost like an affliction, but a GOOD affliction, because the Blues is about life, and having your eyes and your ears open, and that poor thing that’s in between them..."
Tad Walters: North Carolina…
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"Music lets us say things that are sometimes hard to express in words alone. The blues has really allowed me to dig deep and express not only my own feelings, but also feelings that are universal."
Kirsten Thien: I'll Sing The Blues For You…
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"It all started in Africa. The sound worked it's way across various oceans and land masses and on into history. The time line is specific and it is also direct and linear."
Darin Bennett: A Poetic Journey in Music…
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"Rock and Blues music is a tradition that keeps evolving into different things, so I think that it stays relevant."
Conrad Oberg: Peace & Rock n' Roll
Conrad Oberg was born in the Summer…
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"Blues has made me to be a better person, discover hidden feelings and develop some good qualities I have never thought I had."
Roser Infiesta Valls, Mrs. Zúmel: Señora del Blues
Roser…
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