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Category Archives: – Artists
– Eddie ‘Son’ House
Een van de monumenten van de oorspronkelijke blues is ongetwijfeld Eddie ‘Son’ House. Een naam die wellicht enkel bij de blues aficionado’s een belletje doet rinkelen. In de muziekgeschiedenis kan zijn invloed echter moeilijk worden overschat. Hij was één van de grote vernieuwers van de blues. Zijn muziek is intens emotioneel en doorleefd, ondanks (of […]
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– Blues in Space
Blues was not only present on Broadway; Blues is also found in space. The song is : “Dark was the night; cold was the ground”. It is an instrumental song, moaned by Blind Willie Johnson. It was warped into space in 1977 on the Voyager Golden Record which contains 27 media samples to represent the […]
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– Street sweeper in spite of Rolling Stones
On two occasions he was the opening act, in his home town Memphis and for an audience of more than 50.000 fans, for the Rolling Stones, and yet he remained a street sweeper until he retired. Moreover, one of the streets he swept was the cultural Mecca of blues where artists came to be inspired […]
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