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Loving those blues podcasts

January 12, 2009 – 8:34 pm

I got hooked on the blues back in the late sixties when I discovered my white heroes (eg Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Johhny Winter) had some very cool black heroes (e.g. Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker). In fact, I think John Lee Hooker (pictured right) might just be the coolest guy ever. One [...]

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The tail is extended choice but not endless

December 23, 2008 – 9:18 pm

The ‘long tail’ theory sounds great, it sounds revolutionary, but like so many Internet dreams it seems to be failing to materialise:
a study of digital music sales has posed the first big challenge to this “long tail” theory: more than 10 million of the 13 million tracks available on the internet failed to find a [...]

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How to fix the music industry (video)

November 24, 2008 – 5:49 pm

Corny, but stick with it; it’s interesting

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Debunking the long tail for music (video)

November 20, 2008 – 10:21 am
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Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash

November 13, 2008 – 7:32 pm

Wow, is this ever great to find and listen to after a long day. Armstrong’s efforts at yodeling are priceless!

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Studs Terkel dies, 96

November 1, 2008 – 5:18 pm

I am a very big fan of Studs Terkel I devoured many of his books when I was young. Not only was he a fantastic oral historian with a real empathy with everyday Americans and a tremendous ability to bring them alive on paper but Terkel was also a great expert on the blues of [...]

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“Everybody’s working for the man” by Kevin Welch (video)

November 1, 2008 – 5:50 am

Popular Americana musician, Kevin Welch, wrote this song a couple of years ago about Bush’s economic policies and his administration’s preference for big business. After performing the song in this clip he says ’support independent anything’, which is not a bad message.

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