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Warm Wipe Stomp
Does Anyone else think that “Add New” is a strange way to phrase the create new post feature in WordPress 2.7? It took me awhile to figure it what it was referring to, but maybe I’m not into the swing...
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She’s Got Jordan River In Her Hips
With the new WordPress 2.7 is it not possible to use the new Links feature if your blog isn’t “widget” enabled? I guess it is time for an update for the 2.7 world, but it seems weird that Links doesn’t...
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You May Cock Your Pistol In My Face/But You Ain’t Done Nothing To Me
There is a great new blog from France called “Old Weird America” that uses The Anthology as a jumping off point for different variations on the songs presented there. About mid-way down the front page...
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Laffing Rag
We are alive. Still listening to blues. I’m pretty bad at self-promotion, among other things as readers of this oft lapsed blog might have noticed. I wrote a piece for a book called Hang The DJ about...
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Treated Me So Unkind, I Swear I Lost My Mind
These are my favorite types of murder ballads – ones that start of as a typical blues sing, in this case “You Hear Me Knocking” or a “Lost My Woman” style of blues song, but around the halfway mark it...
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She’s A Hard Boiled Rose
A lot of really wonderful pre-war discs came out towards the end of the 2009 and I missed them all. Of course I get emails promoting pretty much everything BUT pre-war music so I’m playing catch up...
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You Have A Hatchet Under Your Pillow
I kinda like Twitter. Follow Me. I’ve also added some social media links to my posts to bug all your friends with. I’ve posted about Lonnie Johnson a bunch on this blog, he’s easily one of my favorite...
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Married Man Blues 2 & 3
I finally got around to picking up the 2010 Blues Images calender. Like last year they still insist that the images and music are all from the 1920s, which isn’t the case. This year’s disc is a better...
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Even To Atlanta, GA
Had a couple of comments via web/email about the wonderful Irene Scruggs – so here are a couple more tracks. Irene Scruggs only recorded a small batch of songs – 12 or so under her own name, another...
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Hell’s Highway
Two tracks today from Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats. Burse isn’t known outside of his work with the Memphis Jug Band as a guitar player and sometimes spoon player. Document’s new release of...
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