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Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones Checkerboard Lounge by Jonny Meister

January 11, 2013
Muddy and Mick 1981 at The Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago

The release late in 2012 of the DVD “Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones Checkerboard Lounge 1981” once again brings to my mind the strange relationship between blues and rock ‘n’ roll. The great Muddy Waters is in his last […]

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Third Man Records announces reissue series featuring Charley Patton and The Mississippi Sheiks

January 10, 2013
Third Man Records announces reissue series featuring Charley Patton and The Mississippi Sheiks

Jack White’s Third Man Records has announce the release of the first three records in its Document Records reissue series. The releases include volume one of the completed recorded works by Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell and The Mississippi Sheiks. […]

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Blues Beyond The Blues by Tom Moon: A video companion (part one)

January 9, 2013
Blues Beyond The Blues by Tom Moon: A video companion (part one)

For Tom Moon’s essay on the Blues Beyond The Blues (read it here we put together a Spotify playlist that you can listen to here. Below, watch part one of the video companion to the essay by Moon.

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Listen to a Spotify companion playlist for Tom Moon’s “Blues Beyond The Blues” essay

December 20, 2012
Listen to a Spotify companion playlist for Tom Moon’s “Blues Beyond The Blues” essay

Music critic, writer and NPR commentator Tom Moon has written an essay about the influence of blues music on various of genres called Blues Beyond The Blues that you can read here. Below, listen to a Spotify playlist with songs […]

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Blues Beyond The Blues: An Essay by Tom Moon

December 16, 2012
Blues Beyond The Blues: An Essay by Tom Moon

Listen to a companion Spotify playlist to the article below here. The blues is a long echo, rattling across decades and vast distances. Returning like a ricochet to tell each generation a slightly different story about what it means to […]

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We Juke Up In Here nominated for Blues Music Award by Jonny Meister

December 13, 2012
Red's Lounge in scene from We Juke Up In Here

The film “We Juke Up in Here: Mississippi’s Juke Joint Culture At The Crossroads” has been nominated for a Blues Music Award (BMA) in the category of Blues DVD. This film, which looks at rhe current state of juke joints […]

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Watch: Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes in concert at World Cafe Live

December 10, 2012
Watch: More videos from the Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes Mississippi Blues Project concert at World Cafe Live

Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and Terry “Harmonica” Bean performed in a Mississippi Blues Project concert at World Cafe Live on October 22nd, 2012. You can listen to the concert here. Below, watch a few more videos from the concert. Listen to […]

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Meet Jackson Mississippi’s Jarekus Singleton by Jonny Meister

December 9, 2012
Jarekus Singleton CD Heartfelt

Jarekus Singleton is a young bluesman from Jackson MS. He’s certainly a hometown favorite, but his name is starting to be known in other places. His influences are not strictly “Mississippi” artists, but he is an invigorating influence to the […]

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The Mississippi Blues Marathon Rolls On by Jonny Meister

December 8, 2012
Mississippi Blues Marathon

The Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) has picked the Mississippi Blues Marathon as the Southern Region Championship Marathon for 2013. This follows a competitive bidding process, and the blues guys won this year. So, if you’re looking to run […]

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Watch Jimmy “Duck” Holmes perform “Hard Time Killing Floor” in concert from World Cafe Live

December 5, 2012
Watch Jimmy “Duck” Holmes” perform “Hard Time Killing Floor” in concert from World Cafe Live

Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and Terry “Harmonica” Bean performed in a Mississippi Blues Project concert at World Cafe Live on October 22nd, 2012. You can listen to the concert here. Below, watch Jimmy Duck perform “Hard Time Killing Floor” from the […]

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Download a Christmas classic, “Merry Christmas, Baby,” from Terry “Harmonica” Bean

December 5, 2012
Photo by Lou Bopp

One of the Mississippi Blues Project’s featured artists, Terry “Harmonica” Bean has offered a free download of his cover of the Christmas classic, “Merry Christmas, Baby” that you can download for free from Broke And Hungry Records.

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Watch: A visit to Red’s Lounge in Clarksdale, Mississippi featuring Red Paden and Robert “Bilbo” Walker

November 30, 2012
Red Paden, owner of Red's Lounge - photo by Lou Bopp

World Cafe Travel Adventures went to Memphis and Clarksdale, Mississippi in October. While in Clarksdale, as part of WXPN’s Mississippi Blues Project, we visited Red’s Lounge, a legendary juke joint featured in the documentary, We Juke Up In Here!. In […]

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