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Paul Merry Blues and Rock.
Paul Merry Blues and Rock.
Unveiling the mystery of blues and rock history.
  • Alexis Korner: the Godfather of British Blues

    Alexis Korner: the Godfather of British Blues

    ByPaul Merry July 24, 2013

    UPDATED 27 July 2017. “Great piece on Alexis Korner. I personally didn’t know he was born in France. You learn something every day!” Paul Corry @thebluesfreak, London, England. 5 February 2014. BLUESMUSE 30 As a young lad, probably too young to drink, if the truth be known, I used to luxuriate in the bath listening to the chocolate-brown tones of Alexis…

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  • King Bolden and the earliest known African-American guitarists

    King Bolden and the earliest known African-American guitarists

    ByPaul Merry July 20, 2013August 28, 2023

    UPDATED September 7, 2021. BLUESMUSE29. Until the 1890s, when mail order catalogues made them more affordable and improved roads and rail links made musical instruments more accessible, guitars were mainly a preserve of the American middle classes. Most were much smaller than the guitars we know today, probably because they were mostly played by women. Perhaps that’s why they…

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  • Is this where blues really started?

    Is this where blues really started?

    ByPaul Merry July 15, 2013August 18, 2022

    BLUESMUSE28.  How many blues lovers have wondered how this intriguing music of ours first gained its unique sound? As much as I tried, I could never see how the nuances of blues related to the frenetic music of old tribal Africa, no matter how many documentaries and music histories told me it did. About ten years ago,…

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  • The earliest known bluesman ever?

    The earliest known bluesman ever?

    ByPaul Merry July 12, 2013

    Updated 3 April 2017. BluesMuse27 Long ago, when I played rugby, there was an old guy we nicknamed Daddy Stovepipe. Daddy was a human dynamo, still turning out for the seconds or thirds every week and tackling, ferociously, anything that moved in shorts. Daddy did this well into his late 50s before arthritis cut short his career and confined…

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  • HOW BLUES EVOLVED Volume Two: now available.

    HOW BLUES EVOLVED Volume Two: now available.

    ByPaul Merry July 5, 2013

    MORE PICS THAN YOU CAN POKE A STICK AT Hot on the heels of HOW BLUES EVOLVED Volume One comes HOW BLUES EVOLVED Volume Two, finished in bordello red so you can distinguish between the two. Like Vol 1, packed with photographs. Packed with photographs, just like Volume One, HOW BLUES EVOLVED Volume Two takes…

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