Wednesday, March 3, 2010
February How Blue Are We? by Monica Yasher
Welcome to another edition of How Blue Are We? February is a short month. But, we haven't been short on ideas to write about! The team is already planning some outings for the year to offer you the best coverage in the blues world. We are always interested what our readers have to say. So, American Blues News now has a Facebook presence, please feel free to drop us a line anytime and let us know what you want to read! We'll do our best to give you the best in Blues News!
Let's take a look at some of the things we talked about for February.
I know that it's winter but those blues festivals are just around the corner. One of our newest writers, Jim Stick, who hails from Colorado, is offering the upcoming events for Colorado during the year 2010. Take a read on Jim's first offering, Colorado Blues Festivals which is our featured photo of the month, Telluride.
The biggest news for February was the announcement for the 2010 Blues Foundation Hall of Fame awardees. This event will be covered in May with the Blues Music Awards. Go take a read and see what great artists and contributions will be inducted into the blues hall of fame. For those of you that are my friends on Facebook, I also gently reminded you to cast your vote for the Music Award Nominees. Your vote Counts! Be sure to read us in May to see if your vote helped bring a winner to the podium!
I love our picture scrapbooks! This month we covered many artists in a pictorial view courtesy of Nelson and Gatorman. A picture tells a thousand words, so take a few minutes and see what the photos have to say. The artists and events we covered were: Johnny Winter, James Cotton, Lucky Peterson, John Mayall, Al Kooper,
Blues pictures from Chicagoland,
and....
Tommy Castro
There were, once again, a few tributes to our blues artist. Maureen, another new writer for us, offered a tribute to Warren King. Warren was a Pittsburgh icon and had ties in the Florida community as a session guitar player. Warren has his place in music history, having played in the Silencers where the band's video for the medley "Peter Gunn/Remote Control/Illegal" aired on MTV the day the network debuted in 1981. RIP Mr. Warren King.
Other legends of the blues that have passed on were: Wilroy Sanders, and Dale Hawkins.
Our guest columnist, Bob Corritore, kept us up to date with some of the latest news. Thank you so much, Mr. Corritore.
I don't have to tell you that interviews are my favorite thing to do. By doing these interviews this month, I have been humbled. I watched Leon Russell on the Grammy's this year.
I know I should be beyond these things, but there on Mr. Russell's page is MY name to let you know to take a read about the Interview with Chris Simmons. Chris is Leon's lead guitarist. I thought it was so cool that I was a name on a page of someone that performed at the Grammy's. Humbled, I am.
In the spirit of the olympics held in Canada, I shared interviews with a few of our Canadian Blues Artists. The first being electric blues with Shawn Kellerman. The second being an acoustic blues artist by the name of Harry Manx. Please look for another Canadian artist next week, Ms. Sue Foley!
Abby our resident Texan shared her discussion with Mark May. Please take a read on the Texas scene.
Other interviews covered were: Stacy Brooks and Ana Popovich.
After watching the Grammy's, Gator offered an opinion of some of the blues awards handed out on A Living History Got Shafted.
As you all know, Clapton is on tour. J. Blake offered his take on the blues rocker show in NYC with, Beck & Clapton Rock NYC.
Other reviews that we shared were: Jimmy Warren and The New Soul Cowboys.
What's life without a little fun? I guess Jason Ricci has quite a sense of humor. Catch the writing and video on Jason's latest escapade! I don't know. Did he have you fooled?
And our resident musician shared his times at the zebra ranch. I have to swing back around and ask what it was like to see a black panther in the wild? I would love to see one of those! What an experience. Go read what Nighthawk had to say about his recording sessions with his writing of Reba Russell Band records at Zebra Ranch and More from the Zebra Ranch.
I hope you have enjoyed our coverage of February. In March look for the Sue Foley interview and we will touch base with some more acoustic blues artists such as Ernie Hawkins, who studied with the Rev. Gary Davis and the international blues artist, Eric Bibb.
Until next month, have a great life!
Monica
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Meantooth Grin CD Review - by J. Blake
Released on KAM Records in 2009, MTG’s first officially released album is overflowing with hard-rockin’ blues raunch. Frontman Tom Jordan’s vocals and guitar-wizardry may be reminiscent of artists like Warren Haynes and George Thorogood, but his beefy slide-work and borderline metal tone push the blues into heavier territory than most bluesmen would dare to venture.
Purists may cringe at the hard rock grooves of tracks like “Tommy Gun” and “Necessary Evil”, but luckily BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD has a little something for every blues fan. Tracks like “Homeless and Homesick” and “Insomnia” find the trio exploring a more traditional blues landscape, while songs like “Killing Time” and “Telephone Blues” sound more like high voltage interpretations of Elmore James and Howlin’ Wolf.
Drummer Brian Miller and bassist Seth Heffner lay down a solid foundation for Jordan’s fuzz-soaked guitar heroics and Cole Holliday’s contributions on harmonica should not go unnoted. Holliday achieves a thick and meaty tone that most harp players would sell their souls for and his ability to work in tandem with Jordan’s ferocious slide-work, without getting in the way, is commendable.
Meantooth Grin’s debut is not exactly a picture of perfection; its flaws lying more in the strength of the songwriting, but BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD is a strong first showing for the Midwest blues-rockers. Their attempts to push the genre to its rock limits are exciting; making their next release one to look forward to. If Meantooth Grin is the future of the ‘Power Blues Trio’, then the tradition is in good hands.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Ressurecting the Home of Memphis Slim by Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms
(Memphis, Tennessee) Last night I met with President Darren J. Fallas and Vice President John Gemmill of the Memphis Blues Society, and Heidi Knockenheur and Donna Donald to discuss some items of interest and we chanced to talk about a project that will be near and dear to many of our readers' hearts. Across the street, directly east of the Memphis Stax Museum is the former residence of that great bluesman, Peter Chatman, popularly known as Memphis Slim. Slim's house has become dilapidated and needs restoring in a big way (photo above by Darren J. Fallas). The nice folks at Memphis Heritage and some other interested parties including the Memphis Music Foundation and the folks at Soulsville, USA are all interested in making an attempt to restore his home.
Memphis Slim was one of the early boogie woogie players back when that piano craze first started in USA in the 1930's.
Memphis Slim took his name from Memphis, where he was born and raised. Memphis Slim got his start playing the blues at the Midway Café, at 357 Beale Street (southeast corner of Fourth and Beale Street's) in Memphis in 1931. After his early career in Memphis, where he emulated barrelhouse piano players like Roosevelt Sykes and Speckled Red, he moved to Chicago, Illinois and recorded for Okeh Records (as Peter Chatman & His Washboard Band) in 1940. The same year he also recorded for Bluebird Records as Memphis Slim. He played piano as Big Bill Broonzy's partner until 1944. Broonzy, also a sophisticated performer, urged him to develop his own
After World War II Slim joined Hy-Tone Records, cutting eight tracks that were later picked up by King. Lee Egalnick's Miracle label recorded the pianist in 1947; backed by his jumping band, the House Rockers (its members usually included saxophonists Alex Atkins and Ernest Cotton), Slim recorded his classic "Lend Me Your Love" and "Rockin' the House." The next year brought the landmark "Nobody Loves Me" (better known via subsequent covers by Lowell Fulson, Joe Williams, and B.B. King as "Everyday I Have the Blues") and the heartbroken "Messin' Around (With the Blues)."
The pianist kept on label-hopping, moving from Miracle to Peacock to Premium (where he recorded the first version of the down-tempo blues "Mother Earth") to Chess to Mercury before staying put at Chicago's United Records from 1952 to 1954. This was a particularly fertile period for the pianist; he recruited his first permanent guitarist, Matt Murphy, who performed "The Come Back," "Sassy Mae," and "Memphis Slim U.S.A." He also worked with bassman Willie Dixon.
I got to play with Matt Murphy one night at the Black Diamond on Beale and he was not only a great entertainer but also a wonderful kind man who loves the music and all of us who are trying to keep it alive. He invited me to join him as piano player on his show at the King Biscuit festival in Helena that year and I have always regretted that I could not make it.
In all, he recorded more than 20 albums under his own name, and appeared on many more recordings as a sideman.
Slim left the United States for good in 1962. Slim lived in France most of his days and conditions there were much better for him than in the South during the days of segregation. Before Memphis Slim passed away, my friend Don McMinn brought him back to Memphis to play some gigs and I got a chance to meet him at a gig they were playing on Washington Street in Memphis back in the 1980's.
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Slim was playing with Don's band, then called the Memphis Blues Review, and they were comprised of several of the old members of the Amazing Rhythm Aces including Jeff "Stick" Davis on bass and my buddy, Billy Earheart on keyboards. Billy went on later to play on the road with Hank Williams, Jr. and many other famous musicians.
The club they were playing, which is no longer extant, was an old nightclub called the El Morocco, which in it's last days was used for square dancing and was available for rent for larger events as it would hold quite a large crowd and had a big dance floor. This night the place was packed and everybody there was excited to see the return of Memphis Slim. Slim put on a tremendous show and played one of my favorite classic blues, "Everyday I have the Blues," which he wrote. Here's a link to a video of him playing this song he called his bread winner:
As a young blues player and a big fan of Memphis Slim, I was thrilled when Don and Billy introduced me to this kind old gentleman and sat me down right next to him at their table during a break in the show. Slim was drinking Grand Marnier and I remember noticing how extremely long his fingers were when I shook his hand. He was very friendly and an extremely amusing and entertaining person on and off the stage. That night I asked him if it would be alright with him if I played his song during my little shows and he was delighted that I had asked and assured me that he would be very pleased to be remembered by his fellow musicians in his home town. He was a truly elegant gentleman and meeting him was a great moment in my life.
I also got to hear Memphis Slim play with Don McMinn at our old outdoor music festival the Schlitz Festival, on Main Street back in the 80's. It was another incredibly entertaining show with lots of great solos from both Don and Slim and a highly appreciative crowd cheering them on in the Memphis afternoon sun.
Memphis Slim died on February 24, 1988, of renal failure in Paris, France, at the age of 72. He is buried at Galilee Memorial Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee.
Memphis Slim's final resting place, Galilee Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee
In 1989, he was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
After some inquiries today by my friend, Brad Webb of I-55 Productions, we learned a bit more about the house resurrection project. Brad is my old bandmate who played with me in the band with Blind Mississippi Morris and with whom I have recorded a bunch of songs over the years. He is a fine guitarist and a very kindhearted, dedicated and soulful human being. We got this reply back from Dean Deyo, President of the Memphis Music Foundation:Brad, there is a group that has started to do some work there but it is moving slowly.
I know a team from Memphis Heritage and the U of M spent a whole weekend at this house a few months ago and tried to clean it out and shore it up – there have been several architects and planners involved looking at it.
They have plans for it but it is depending on the economy and so probably still in the future…. Deanie Parker is the Director of Soulsville and is aware of the project – it is called Memphis Music Magnet – and I am working on it as well – we would appreciate any assistance
Dean A. Deyo
Thanks to the American Blues News, I will keep you all posted on our progress and also pass along how we can all offer donations and assistance to this project. Within just a few blocks of the STAX museum there are the homes of probably 15 or 20 famous musicians including Isaac Hayes, Johnny Ace Alexander and Aretha Franklin, just to name a few.From the Memphis Commercial Appeal archives:
Memphis Slim came from his home in Paris to play in Mississippi for the first time in 40 years in 1986. He performed at the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival at Freedom Village, near Greenville, on September 20, 1986. "The average blues singer has been taught to be ashamed of the blues. It was America's original art and it came from black people. So naturally they wanted to make us ashamed of it - and they did a good job of brainwashing. Now, it's almost too late," the 70-year-old bluesman said during an interview in his Southwind Motor Coach as he waited to go on. "I don't know what the young people are going to do. But if we don't get a new generation to do something about it, I don't know what's going to happen. They're calling blues everything but blues. They're calling it soul and rock-and-roll, but it's still the damn blues. I wish I knew if the young people are going to take it over, but I don't."
This is a video of one of the greatest BLUES bands of all time. Give it a listen:
Discography
Year | Title | Label |
---|---|---|
1959 | Memphis Slim and the Real Boogie-Woogie | Folkways Records |
1960 | Memphis Slim and the Honky-Tonk Sound | Folkways Records |
1960 | Travelling with the Blues | Storyville |
1960 | Blue This Evening | Black Lion |
1960 | Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon - Vol 1 | Folkways Records |
1960 | Songs of Memphis Slim and "Wee Willie" Dixon | Folkways Records |
1961 | Tribute To Big Bill Broonzy | Candid |
1961 | Steady Rollin' Blues: The Blues Of Memphis Slim | OBC |
1961 | Memphis Slim U.S.A. | Candid |
1961 | Broken Soul Blues | Beat Goes On |
1961 | Alone With My Friends | Battle |
1961 | Chicago Blues: Boogie Woogie and Blues Played and Sung By Memphis Slim | Folkways Records |
1961 | Blues by Jazz Gillum Singing and Playing His Harmonica: With Arbee Stidham and Memphis Slim | Folkways Records |
1961 | No Strain | Bluesville |
1962 | Sonny Boy Williamson & Memphis Slim: In Paris | GNP Crescendo |
1962 | Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon - Vol 2 | Folkways Records |
1962 | Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon at the Village Gate with Pete Seeger | Folkways Records |
1963 | All Kinds of Blues | Bluesville |
1963 | Jazz In Paris: Aux Trois Mailletz | Polygram |
1964 | Clap Your Hands | Maison De Blues |
1967 | Bluesingly Yours | Maison De Blues |
1968 | Lord Have Mercy On Me | Maison De Blues |
1969 | The Bluesman | Maison De Blues |
1969 | Mother Earth | One Way Records |
1970 | The Blue Memphis Suite | Maison De Blues |
1970 | Messin' Around with the Blues: The Very Best Of | King |
1971 | Boogie Woogie | Maison De Blues |
1971 | Born With The Blues | Fuel 2000 |
1971 | Blue Memphis | Wounded Bird |
1972 | South Side Reunion: Memphis Slim & Buddy Guy | Sunny Side |
1973 | Legacy of the Blues, Vol 7: Memphis Slim | Gnp Crescendo |
1973 | Memphis Slim | Storyville |
1973 | Soul Blues | Acrobat Records |
1973 | Raining the Blues | Fantasy |
1973 | Memphis Slim - Favorite Blues Singers | Folkways Records |
1973 | Very Much Alive and in Montreux | Universal International |
1975 | Going Back To Tennessee | Maison De Blues |
1981 | Rockin' the Blues | Charly |
1981 | Memphis Heat: Canned Heat & Memphis Slim | Sunny Side |
1981 | I'll Just Keep On Singin' the Blues | SLG, LLC |
1990 | Steppin' Out: Live at Ronnie Scotts | Castle Music UK |
1990 | Together Again One More Time/Still Not Ready For Eddie | Texas Music Group |
1990 | Parisian Blues | Polygram |
1990 | The Real Folk Blues | Mca |
1992 | Blues Masters Vol 9: Memphis Slim | |
1993 | London Sessions 1960 | Sequel Records UK |
1994 | The Blues Collection Vol 13: Beer Drinkin' Woman | ADD |
1994 | Lonesome | Legacy International |
1994 | Live at the Hot Club | BMG International |
1995 | Boogie After Midnight | Chicago Music Co. |
1996 | The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1: 1940-1941 (Peter Chatman As Memphis Slim) | EPM Musique |
1996 | Come Back & Other Classics | Masters Intercontinental |
1996 | The Bluebird Recordings, 1940-1941 | RCA |
1997 | Dialogue in Boogie: Memphis Slim & Philippe Lejeune | Happy Bird |
1998 | Lonely Nights | Catfish |
1998 | Very Best of Memphis Slim: The Blues Is Everywhere | Collectables |
1999 | Life Is Like That | Charly UK |
2000 | The Folkways Years, 1959-1973 | Smithsonian Folkways |
2000 | Blues At Midnight | Catfish |
2000 | Memphis Slim at the Gate of the Horn | Vee-Jay |
2001 | The Complete Recordings, Vol. 2: 1946-1948 | EPM Musique |
2001 | Essential Masters | Cleopatra |
2001 | Blue and Lonesome | Arpeggio Blues |
2001 | Ambassador of the Blues | Indigo UK |
2002 | The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3: 1948-1950 | EPM Musique |
2002 | I Am The Blues | Prestige Elite |
2002 | Kansas City | Classic World |
2002 | Boogie For My Friends | Black & Blue France |
2002 | The Come Back | Delmark |
2002 | Blues Legends: Memphis Slim | Lead |
2003 | Three Women Blues | |
2003 | The Complete Recordings, Vol 4: 1951-1952 | EPM Musique |
2004 | Worried Life Blues | |
2004 | Grinder Man Blues | Snapper UK |
2004 | The Best of Memphis Slim | Liquid 8 |
2005 | Boogie For 2 Pianos Vol 1: Memphis Slim & Jean-Paul Amouroux | |
2005 | Paris Mississippi Blues | Sunny Side |
2005 | Double-Barreled Boogie: Memphis Slim & Roosvelt Sykes | Sunny Side |
2006 | Forty Years of More | Passport Audio |
2006 | Memphis Suite | Sunny Side |
2006 | Rockin' This House: Chicago Blues Piano 1946-1953 (CDs A&B) | JSP Records |
2006 | The Sonet Blues Story | Verve Records |
2006 | An Introduction to Memphis Slim | Fuel 2000 |
2007 | The Ultimate Jazz Archive 14 1940-41 (1 Of 4) | Carinco AG |
2007 | Sings the Blues | Wnts |
2007 | Chicago Blues Masters Vol 1: Muddy Waters And Memphis Slim | Capitol |
2007 | Cold Blooded Woman | Collectables Records |
2008 | Greatest Moments | Stardust |
2008 | Four Walls | Jukebox Entertainment |
2008 | Born To Boogie | Unlimited Media |
2008 | Legend of the Blues | Wounded Bird Records |
2009 | Fip Fil and Fim | 101 Distribution |
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Johnny Winter by Nelson Onofre
What's up Blues fans! As of today I believe Spring is just about 3 weeks away. Baseball is not far behind, my N.Y. Yankees will go out to defend their title and go for their 28th world championship! This week I am submitting photos of Johnny Winter from his Jan. 18, 2010 show at the BB King Blues Club in New York. This was my second time seeing Johnny. I saw him back in the 70's sometime at Madison Square Garden. Unfortunately like most shows I saw back then I don't remember much about it.
Johnny's band at BB's consisted of Vito Liuzzi on drums, Paul Nelson on guitar and Scott Spray on bass. As expected the band was in fine form and while I enjoyed Johnny's playing I'll use a baseball phrase and say that Johnny has lost a little off his fastball. A couple of guys I had talked with felt the same way but you know what, it's still Johnny Winter. If he happens to come to a venue near you go check out this Texas blues-rocker and give a listen to his latest Grammy nominated disc entitled "I'm A Bluesman"
I am also posting some photos of another blues-rocker, Jon Paris. Jon opened the show for Johnny Winter and has actually toured with Johnny. Jon is a veteran of the New York Blues scene and can be seen every Monday night at Lucille's Grill, for free! Lucille's Grill is right next to the main room at the BB King Blues Club and you can always hear some good bands playing there. Even my last band played there about 9 years ago. Stop by!
Until the next go-round, keep supporting the Blues. As you can see these cats are working hard to lay it down for you.
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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Johnny Winter's band
BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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BB King Blues Club, NY, Jan. 2010
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Warren King, the Wolf Moon and the Unbearable Silence that Follows...
Friday, February 26, 2010
2010 Blues Foundation Hall of Fame Inductees by Monica Yasher
The Blues Foundation announced the 2010 Hall of Fame Inductees. Since 1980, the Blues Foundation has honored past and present individuals in the following categories: Performers, Non-Performers, Classics of Blues Literature, Classics of Blues Recordings (Songs), Classics of Blues Recordings (Albums). The people honored are individuals that have impacted the blues genre.
These honors are presented in a private special awards dinner in Memphis, on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010, at the Memphis Marriott Downtown in Memphis, Tennessee,the night before the Blues Music Awards. The inductees are determined by a private panel that discusses who should be nominated and awarded and is chaired by Jim O'Neal, founding editor of Living Blues.
The inductees selected for the year 2010 are:
Lonnie Brooks who hails from Louisiana and is based in Chicago.
Charlie Musselwhite, blues singer and harpist.
Bonnie Raitt, singer, songwriter, guitarist and social activist.
W.C. Handy, "The Father of the Blues".
Gus Cannon and Cannon's Jug Stompers who are jug band pioneers.
Amos Milburn, who penned, "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer,"
Peter Buralnick an American roots music writer.
Sonny Payne who is the host of the King Biscuit Time program on KFFA radio in Helena, Arkansas.
Sam Charters' who did groundbreaking research on the blues in the 1950s and '60s that resulted in several books including this year's Classics of Blues Literature inductee - The Bluesmen.
Works of individual art that are inducted are:
"All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" by Otis Rush
"Fever" by Little Willie John
"Key to the Highway" by Big Bill Broonzy
"Match Box Blues" by Blind Lemon Jefferson
"Spoonful" by Howlin' Wolf.
Album Works are also being honored:
Strong Persuader by Robert Cray,
Hung Down Head by Lowell Fulson
I Hear Some Blues Downstairs by Fenton Robinson.
Congratulations to all of the 2010 Blues Hall Of Fame inductees!
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