Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

Blues Compilation, Vol. 1

Match Box Blues

Black Snake Moan

Female Blues Singers

Why Don´t You Do Right?

Twice Removed from Yesterday

I Can't Wait Much Longer

Ultimate Blues Collection

Black Betty

Karaoke Hits 1965, Vol. 5

Nowhere to Run (Originally Performed By Martha Reeves & The Vandellas) [Full Vocal Version]

From Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - out May 10th on Smithsonian Folkways

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Few music festivals are as rich, profound, and joyous as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, now entering its 50th year. With 50 tracks recorded live, Jazz Fest captures the festival’s ecstatic spontaneity, which defines the essence and vitality of American popular music. Ever since its inception a half century ago, Jazz Fest has exuberantly expressed the unique confluence in New Orleans of Native American, African, Caribbean, European, Hispanic, and Asian communities. With essays and annotations by Keith Spera, Karen Celestan, Robert Cataliotti, Jeff Place, Rachel Lyons, and Jon Pareles, plus photos spanning the festival’s history, this box set delivers the sights and sounds of being at Jazz Fest for those who have not yet been there, and rekindles memories for the hundreds of thousands who return to New Orleans year after year. 5 discs, over 300 minutes of music, 136-page book.

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Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can

R.L. Boyce has been a musician since his days as a child growing up in Como, Mississippi, home to the great Hill Country bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell. He started out as a drummer, playing for the Rising Star Fife and Drum band with blues legend Otha Turner, all the while waiting to come out in front to sing and play guitar. His songs are often delivered in an improvisational fashion, with references to his collaborators, his environs and whatever else happens to be on his mind at that particular moment.
 
Hill Country music is loose and free, so much so that it puts both the performer and the listener in a warm, almost meditative state while still groovy enough to demand a good ass shake. Through improvisation, it is designed to heighten your consciousness. You don’t play this sort of music so much as you submit to it. 
 
Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi All-stars says, “RL Boyce is a first-hand protégé of Fred McDowell, Ranie Burnette and, RL Burnside but with an added rhythmic edge he honed from his time playing drums with Jesse Mae Hemphill. RL's endless boogie keeps the She Wolf style alive.”
 
To properly capture the sound of RL and his friends, you set up the mics, get the hell out of the way and let the hypnotic boogie take over.

They say the greatest players are so tight they are loose. This is that.

R.L. Boyce "Jumper On The Line" (R.L. Burnside Cover)

Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969

Death Letter Blues - Son House

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