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Unlike your stereotypical blues man, Texas-born Tony Russell Brown, called Charles, was highly educated. He graduated from college with a degree in Chemistry. Taught science and worked as an electrician and an engineer. A scientist through and through—he was also a classically trained pianist…

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Yes, friends, an album that actually inspires highway running again! ‘Ride or Die’ is an album that listeners will find themselves playing over and over.

This new, highly collectible edition will be a limited run of 1000.

“It’s got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas.”

So legitimate, you can almost smell the barbecue and hear the bug zappers.

In the 1950s a young singer named Mathis James Reed failed his audition for Chess Records. He was a popular musician around Chicago, but his simple playing and straightforward songs didn’t wow the execs. Chess Records would go on to regret that they didn’t sign Jimmy Reed…

“Going out, living, and writing about what you know, that’s where songs come from.”

The artists are from varied races and backgrounds, having one thing in common: Soul.

For those who claim to be blues devotees, ‘I’m Gonna Tell You Somethin’ That I Know’ is a “gotta have” for their collection.