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zzyn | Larwin Music Video has been active in recording intimate concerts for many years

For decades, Bert and Truus Salomons have been visiting small-scale concerts with folk music, blues and Americana (Country). Bert made video recordings of these performances, edited and posted them on YouTube. The videos provide a good impression of the intimacy in which the events take place. There are many international artists to admire. A look …

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zzyz | Great 78 Project – 78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings

In this column: The Great 78 project, 78 rpm records, Vocalion Records, Henry Thomas - Bull Doze Blues, Canned Heat - Going up the country, Tommy Johnson, Canned Heat Blues, Sterno The Great 78 Project! Listen to this collection of 78rpm records, cylinder recordings, and other recordings from the early 20th century. These recordings were …

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zzzc | Animals (3)

In this column: Symbolic meaning of animals in blues lyrics, fattening frogs for snakes, monkey, dog, cat, kingsnake, catfish, Sonny Boy Williamson, Virginia Liston, Bumble Bee Slim, Tampa red, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Ry Cooder, Robert Petway, PART3 Fattening frogs for snake, Sonny Boy Williamson"It took me a long time, to find out …

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zzzd | Animals (2)

In this column: Symbolic meaning of animals in blues lyrics, pullet, cockerel, chicken, rooster, Little Red Rooster, Bessie Tucker, Louis Jordan, T-Model Ford, Mississippi John Hurt, Sam Cooke and Billy Preston, PART2 In Bessie Tucker's Katy Blues you read the following stanza:"Well, I ain't no pullet, I'm a real young hen;If you come by here …

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zzze | Animals (1)

In this column: Symbolic meaning of animals in blues lyrics, pig in a sack, cow and milk, bee's, low down dog, salty dog, Salty Dog Blues, Salty Dog (Bluegrass), Roosevelt Sykes, Sara Martin, Ida Cox, Memphis Minnie, Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, Mississippi John Hurt, T-Bone Walker, Denver Pyle and Andy Griffith, PART1 The images …

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zzzf | Trains (2)

In this column: Colorado Central, Narrow Gauge Railways, The Chief, Santa Fe's Fleet Of Famous Trains, Freight Train Blues, Yellow Dog Blues, Yazoo Delta Railroad, Smokestack Lightning, Trixie Smith, Louis Armstrong, W.C.Handy, Howling Wolf, Nat King Cole In the episode about C.C.Rider you can read that C.C. the acronym could be for Colorado Central. The …

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zzzg | Trains (1)

In this column: The Katy, The Santa Fe, The Dummy, The Chief, The Midland, The T.P, Mystery Train, Mean Old Train, Midnight Special, The Box Car, Bessie Tucker, Leadbelly, Harry Belafonte and Bob Dylon, LeRoy Carr, Kelly Pace, Johnny Cash, Junior Parker, Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black More background information on trains, on …

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