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“I knew Butch for a long time, and he was a friend of mine. It’s heartbreakingly sad man. He was the most dedicated musician I’ve ever seen. As far as the music, he wouldn’t compromise anything.”

Both Tom Morello, and Nathaniel Rateliff appear on album track “Big Boys,” which Douglas Brinkley calls, “a guitar player’s national anthem” in his notes.

Winning his first W. C. Handy Award (Blues Music Award) in 1981, Magic Slim & The Teardrops won “Best Blues Band of the Year,” no fewer than six times, garnering over 40 nominations in the first three decades of the awards’ existence.

“Sib’s high energy drumming on the early Boston albums and tours leaves a legacy that will be remembered by millions.”

“The song isn’t a response to any one thing. It’s just words I’ve had to live from time to time in my life. Words a lot of my neighbors are living right now. A lot of Americans are suffering.”

Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. and Authentic Hendrix, LLC (“the Hendrix Companies”), the companies founded by the Estate of Jimi Hendrix and Al Hendrix, the rock legend’s father and sole heir…

“I made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political — I don’t want that, never did.”

Available March 24th, Classic Piedmont Blues offers an illuminating overview of the Piedmont style.

Master harmonica player James Cotton has died of pneumonia at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas; he was 81 years old.

During the show, four large portraits of blues legends hand-painted by Willie Hightower, an inmate at MCI, were given to WDIF-LP for the purpose of auctioning to raise money for the station and its charitable causes.