Category Archives: – Blues history

– Rock Island Line : from Kelly Pace to Leadbelly, Chris Barber, Donnie Lonegan and the British Blues

It is amazing how one can trace history of recent pop and blues to its origins through some songs, which to most of us now are unknown but played a major role in present popular music. Rock Island Line is without any doubt such a song. It was ‘discovered’ by the famous American folklore recorders […]

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– Blues on Broadway

It is hard to bring into line with the romantic, cliché-type image we have today of the blues, but blues has been on Broadway, even from its very official start. It is perhaps even more difficult to imagine, but the first one to publish the word ‘blues’ in a song title was a white man; […]

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