4/27/2010
Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins is a true legend of Texan country-blues whose long career (from the '20s to the '80s) looks doubly incredible because he spent much of it broke, as a street performer, and also …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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4/27/2010
Although the Pixies were never as influential in the States as they were in Britain and Europe, their triumphant 2004 reunion proved an important coming-of-age for their Gen X fan base, who fervently b …
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4/27/2010
Enigmatic frontman Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV (a.k.a. Black Francis, a.k.a. Frank Black) provided the surrealist, left-field sensibility that gave the Pixies its dark, puckish charm. Whether …
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