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Category Archives: Joe Evans and Arthur McCain
– Two poor boys : black or white?
For the regular visitors of my blog, it is no news that I consider the blues more or less as an artificial term that has been invented (or at least served well) for marketing reasons. Don’t let me be misunderstood: I adore this type of music that is traditionally labelled as the ‘blues’, but I […]
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