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“Best piece of documentation on my band done by an author or journalist. Thank you Paul Merry.” Nick J Townsend, WEAK13. BLUESMUSE33 First there was blues, but only after: · Ethiopian delineating in the 1820s and 30s · Minstrelsy from the 1840s to 1900s · The abominably-named coon songs of the 1880s and 1890s ·…
“Since reading the blog, I have been amazed at the amount of plagiarism that went on from old black blues music.” PrivatePerson3, UK “Love your blog on RnR Trail Blazers.” Noah Seidenberg @noahzark58, 20 August 2013, Chicago, USA. Expand Treat yourself to these ten pre-rock & roll songs linked below. Rock & Roll, as a…
BLUESMUSE31 UPDATED MARCH 4, 2023. While many blues historians write of the 1890s as the decade blues began, in my book ‘America’s Gift’ and e-Book ‘How Blues Evolved’ (Vol 1), I put a case for the 1890s being simply the second blues watershed before the birth of modern blues. The first blues watershed, I concluded, was in America in the…
