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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Call off the search - our Louis Jordan mix marks the vital link between R&B and rock 'n' roll that would pave the way for practically all of the music we know and love. Every major artist of the '50s s …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Those who know Journey only as a mighty hit-single machine have an incomplete picture of the group's talents. Their early years emphasized jazz-tinged improvisation; later albums buried more personal m …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Journey never dreamed small. From the start, the San Francisco group had a grand vision of its potential. First, they experimented with a challenging jazz-rock synthesis. Then, with the addition of sin …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
John Lee Hooker was a serious bluesman. Yet almost despite his rumbling vocals, crackling guitar, and brooding one-chord boogies and stomps, The Hook managed to become the most popular deep-blues perfo …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Whether embroidering a traditional folk tune or jamming their way to a far-off star on the back of an epic original, the Dead were endlessly inventive. In the end, they left behind a cryptful of sonic …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
The story of the Grateful Dead is remarkable for countless reasons, and not the least of them was that the band - despite various brushes with tragedy - refused to let their counter-culture dream fade, …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Etta James' 1961 Chess debut, At Last!, marked the beginning of a 15-year relationship that would spawn more than two dozen hits. The title track was a dreamy cover of a Mack Gordon/Harry Warren …
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Genres & History
4/27/2010
Great though they were, the American superstars of blues aren't the only ones who contributed monumental recordings to the music's history. Explore further and you'll encounter more mind-blowing tracks …
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Genres & History
4/27/2010
The blues - a shortened version of the phrase "the blue devils," meaning everything from low spirits to the DTs - is what you feel when you're low and, transformed into music, it's what gets you back u …
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