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80-year-old blues guitarist and singer-songwriter wins Australia's top music prize – beating Nick Cave and Amyl and the Sniffers
80-year-old Walmatjarri elder and blues musician Kankawa Nagarra has just won Australia's most prestigious music award – the $50,000 Australian Music Prize (AMP) – for her debut album ...
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Bobby Rush coming to Mayo Civic Center on Aug. 19
Three-time Grammy Award-winning blues legend Bobby Rush and five-time Grammy nominated singer/songwriter/guitarist Kenny ...
Duke Robillard on working with Bob Dylan, forming Roomful of Blues — and forging his own path
Born Michael John Robillard in Woonsocket in 1948, he founded Roomful Of Blues with pianist Al Copley in Westerly in 1967. (Dylan was also apparently a fan of that band.) The Rhode Island-based band ...
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Mali's Songhoy Blues Incorporates Texas Sound Into Traditional West African Music
Songhoy Blues, an African desert blues group with Touré at the helm, was eventually formed. The group gained fame after a run of shows in Bamako, Mali. Around that time the group met Paul Chandler, a ...