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Bo Diddley’s ‘Before You Accuse Me’ influential as the master

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Jazz24 Staff in Blues Time Machine, Jazz

Written by John Kessler Bo Diddley may not have had the commercial success of some other performers, but his contributions to American musical culture are huge. Besides his trademark “Bo Diddley beat,” he had a brash sense of style, dressing in outlandish outfits, playing custom-made square guitars and generally having a lot of fun on […]

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‘Another Man Done Gone’ – a powerful tale of woe on a chain gang

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Jazz24 Staff in Blues Time Machine, Jazz

Written by John Kessler Repression of African Americans didn’t stop at the end of the Civil War, and prisons and chain gangs were full of black people arrested for minor violations. This song, “Another Man Done Gone”, tells of the death of a man on one of those chain gangs. Folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Vera […]

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‘Somebody’s got to go’ – the path from from blues to rap

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Jazz24 Staff in Blues Time Machine, Jazz

  Written by John Kessler Lonnie Johnson was one of the first American guitar masters, with a style that bridged jazz and blues, as well as country styles. Though often labeled as a “blues” player, he was versatile and accomplished enough to be a guest artist with Louis Armstong’s Hot Five in 1927, and with […]

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‘Back Door Man’ – good blues is rarely about behaving yourself

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Jazz24 Staff in Blues Time Machine, Jazz

Written by John Kessler Willie Dixon didn’t make his career writing songs about people who behaved themselves, and “Back Door Man” is no exception — it’s about a guy who cheats and then brags about it. Songs like this were well suited to the larger-than-life Howlin’ Wolf, who was already a well-established, middle-aged bluesman when […]

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