Dooley | February 21, 2009
It’s not surprising that the movie Cadillac RecordsW wasn’t a huge box office hit, but I personally thought it was a fantastic movie. Today’s movie crowds are far more accustomed to fast paced, action packed, special effects loaded fare than this movie offers up. I’ve read just about every book ever written on blues history [...]
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Dooley | February 6, 2009
It’s amazing really when you look at the journey that blues music has taken throughout its history. Pure blues music is an art form that has either directly spawned or had a major influence on much of what is popular music today. From its humble beginnings in the Mississippi delta region of the 1920′s through [...]
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