Guitarist Luther Dickinson says he formed the band to play hill country blues.
Most of the time I was trying to play like Chuck Berry or Jimmy Reed, electric stuff, then I sort of worked backward into country blues.
The early part of the afternoon is all about emerging bands from the city with a welcome return for Liverpudlian psychers The Wicked Whispers, Wirral band The Red Suns and recent signing to Geffen Records, the country blues influenced Delta Maid.
The result is a mix of garage, country, blues, rockabilly and more, with a California surf guitar twist.
The music they make has an underlying warmth that comes from the origins of bluegrass, country, blues and African-American gospel.
The festival has 12 venues featuring country, blues, and bluegrass performers.
It sounds as if Ms. Krall and producer T-Bone Burnett journeyed back to the beginning of time and landed at that Big Bang moment when all the American idioms jazz, country, blues, Tin Pan Alley and Broadway were being invented simultaneously, and not completely independent of one another.
Even within the confines of musically narrow genres, Cooder allows himself room to stretch, manipulating the song structures of 1930s American music: minstrel folk, country ballads, blues and even the lounge jazz of Chet Baker.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's new album, Howl, unveils a new blues, country and gospel-inspired sound.
Watson, who jumped onto the music scene in the early 1960s, is considered influential among folk musicians for his brand of bluegrass, blues, country and gospel music.
"Doc was a legendary performer who blended his traditional Appalachian musical roots with bluegrass, country, gospel and blues to create a unique style and an expansive repertoire, " his management company, Folklore Productions, said.
Mr. COLEMAN: Well, I happen to be (unintelligible) and it has all kinds of qualities I deal with human emotion like hillbilly music, blues, country and western, classical, oh, I grew up in all those kinds of environments.
Like America's own downhearted Delta blues or country ballads, Siminica's woeful tales of lost love are best sipped in doses the size of "La Salul Cel Negru" it's the best way to savor the sadness without drowning in tears.
He didn't invent rock 'n' roll, but he helped, mingling in his music black rhythm- -and-blues, white country, gospel, everything.
From blues joints and country kitchens to rowdy roadhouses and lakeside lodges, Anderson shares the recipes for the meals he's enjoyed in his travels on the backroads of America.
The craggy Charles Bronson vaqueros, Hispanic cowboys with their fancy rodeo shirts and Stetsons, and the Tejano bands playing the mix-and-match sound of chilli: shades of country and western, mariachi, blues - even a dash of Bavaria with the accordions.
The West country side were totally outplayed as the Blues ran in seven tries at Twickenham.
That network boasts a database of about 75, 000 songs, including some tracks from better-known artists like blues rocker Tom Waits and country star Merle Haggard.
The 40 or so clubs and bars there echo with blues, jazz, punk, country and techno.
Sales of "Wang Dang Doodle" would reach a million, and Taylor hit the road to blues and jazz festivals around the country and abroad.
The flatpicking turned heads, but the tune that followed it might be a fingerstyle blues, a Travis-flavored country bounce or a parlor song from the Carter repertoire.
Ever since she began her career as an acoustic singer-songwriter in the early '80s, Patty Griffin has specialized in sweet, smart ballads with shades of blues, pop, folk and country.
"You can draw a triangle from Nashville to Memphis to Muscle Shoals, and while Nashville is the country center, Memphis is generally known as the blues center, " Lair says.
You know, I grew up in North Carolina, mostly, and there was a lot of gospel music, there was country music and there was a good deal of blues and I sort of got into music at the time of folk music, which, you know, sort of people refer to as the Great Folk Scare of the early '60s.
How can one possibly claim to love rock 'n' roll, rap, country, without knowing and loving their mother, the blues?
Beyond the touristy town of Punta Cana in the southeast, the country becomes a vast natural landscape of vibrant greens and blues, unmarred by large-scale tourism or commercial hotels.
He's collaborated with several artists, from the blues fusion band Widespread Panic to alt-country group Lambchop to most recently Guy Picciotto, of the band Fugazi.
He went through changes that ranged from imitating Nat Cole and Charles Brown to finding his own voice in jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, country, pop and soul.
Always a musician's musician due to his aptitude for blending his sound a mixture of Tex Mex, blues, surf-rock, jazz and country Cooder appears comfortable in any project he attempts.
The two dug into Charlie Poole's old recordings as well as Kinney Rorrer's biography, Rambling Blues to celebrate the life and times of the country-music pioneer, who died in 1931.
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