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83How To Write A Blues Song
This hub should inspire you to write a blues song. Writing a blues song is a magical experience. Blues songs are fun to write and give you an opportunity for expressing feelings without worring too much about having things perfect.
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80Infamous Fifteen: Rock Stars Dead at 27
Below is a list of rock stars who died infamously at the age of 27. The list includes blues artists such as Robert Johnson, as well as performers of rhythm and blues, since rock ‘n' roll grew from...
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75Robert Johnson: the Legend, the Devil, the Crossroads, and 27
Story of the bluesman, the Devil, and the deal at the crossroads, as retold in Stephen Davis's Hammer of the Gods. In the delta of the Mississippi River, where Robert Johnson was born, they said that if...
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64Elmore James now that's the blues
You've got to admire a guy whose desire to play the blues was as great as Elmore James'. He was a self-taught blues guitarist, who, at the age of 12 YO, created a one string instrument (called a “diddley...
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51South blues
Well this music as i know has roots very early in the slavery centuries 400 yrs ago,This kind of music became from the soul pain of the black people came to the new world to work hard for the masters.Thats...
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71The 27 Club: An American Mythology
Why is the age of 27 so fraught with musical tragedy? Are these all coincidences? Are there forces unseen at work in the universe around certain people? Why does this even matter, what is it's relevence, this cult of the 27 Club?
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70Trickster for beginners
I have to write about Trickster as Loki and others have been knocking on my mind's door for a while leaving me little choice. Trickster is a label for a group of beings sharing certain attributes. In a...
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40RIP Robert Lockwood Jr Bluesman Goes Home
Robert Lockwood Jr., the Mississippi Delta bluesman who was taught by Robert Johnson and became a mentor to generations of blues musicians, died on /Tuesday in Cleveland, where he lived. He was 91. Mr....
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50Early Blues Guitar
Blues is a style of music that emerged in the African-American communities of the United States. It features both vocal and instrumental forms and developed from various types of other traditional music such as spirituals, field hollers and work songs.
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65Movies You Should See
You may not have heard of some of these movies (or films) but the are very worthwhile and I've even given some of them as gifts. These are in no particular order - they'll are great. Ghost Dog - The Way of...
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