Blues
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Passionate endings, fond farewells, sad separations or stimulating solitude, name songs that capture or reflect on a moment when two or more people are parted, says Peter Kimpton
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The godfather of British blues reflects on a career that has seen him give breaks to Eric Clapton and Peter Green, go fusion, and stay on the road past 80, writes Ed Vulliamy
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Ralph Brown: Paid in Full to Rapper’s Delight, Beck to Holger Czukay, RR’s magicman recreates his own list from last week’s topic thread
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Rob Graham announces on Facebook that his bandmate in the Sheffield blues-rock duo has killed himself
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Heard it somewhere before? It’s time to name songs that lift the specific sounds or ideas of others into a new time or context, says Peter Kimpton
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Robert DeLong gets the dancefloor grinding, Karl S Williams plays the Gold Coast blues and Jessica Mauboy is our new pop princess
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Cerys Matthews, Dr Crotchety Cerys Matthews: music to prove to your parents’ generation that it’s not all awful these days
Has music really gone downhill, or is it just that older generations will never get new ones? Our musical agony aunt Dr Crotchety prescribes some modern tunes that may go down as future classics -
The folk singer’s St James Infirmary revives the spirit of 1950s Greenwich Village on Stephen Moss’s trip to New York, despite the investment bankers and tourists
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It’s hard to inject much new life into such well-worn songs, but Washington storms through a set of blues standards, writes Dave Simpson
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Composer and bassist who found early success with Cream and went on to perform as a soloist and with many other artists
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Ed Vulliamy, who was born on the street where Jimi Hendrix died, reports on the rock legend’s time in the capital in the 60s – the focus of a new biopic – and talks to some of those who knew him well
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Here are five performances tracing the late Jack Bruce’s journey from 19-year-old upright bass player to part of rock’s first supergroup
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The singer, bassist and songwriter of the original supergroup had suffered liver disease
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After 89-year-old blues legend falls ill during Chicago show, dates including own venue in New York are cancelled
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The singer-songwriter talks to Kathryn Bromwich about Cloud Atlas, medieval Japanese literature, Fifa 15 and the magic of Malibu
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The 24-year-old is an old soul influenced by the sparseness and unfiltered melancholy of the Delta blues, writes Caroline Sullivan
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Spanning songs from South Africa to the US, RR maestro marconius judges and sums up a wise playlist from last week’s topic thread
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Original bass player with Jethro Tull who helped to shape the band's unique sound, mixing blues, rock and folk
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The former Zeppelin singer unveils the clip for the first single from his acclaimed new album
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Mvula's gripping performance in an intimate setting brought to mind the intensity of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan, writes Ian Gittins
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The surf-psych trio's raw riffs and debut album are buzzing, but Brighton pub acoustics spell doom for the live audience, writes Caroline Sullivan
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Other lives: Blues singer and teacher who played with Jive Alive, a popular act throughout Berkshire
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Matthews returns after a three-year break with some elegant, quietly soulful vocal work to promote new album, writes Robin Denselow
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Benjamin Booker, who is on tour with Jack White, delivers appealing punk blues, writes Kitty Empire
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The New Orleans-based guitarist and singer pulls hard on the heartstrings with a fiery debut, writes Tshepo Mokoena
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A brief gem, gleaming guitar and American sounds from Australians in Brooklyn and a Brit who turned down the Stones
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Have a listen to the punky blues of Benjamin Booker’s debut album and let us know your thoughts!
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Texas guitar hero works on tracks with the EDM star, which should be released in the near future
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Wearing sunglasses at night is cool, neo-Nazis are rubbish, soul music is brilliant … I learnt some of life’s most important lessons from the loyal and taciturn Elwood Blues in one of the greatest comedies of the 80s, writes James Walsh
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New influences from African desert music to Delta blues provide forward momentum in the genre, topped by the majestic storytelling of Sturgill Simpson
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Ed Vulliamy remembers Johnny Winter, the guitarist who proved that white men could play the blues
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The movie star's air of unhurried detachment translates into his delta blues-playing persona to surprisingly powerful effect, says Graeme Virtue
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The playlist The playlist – Middle Eastern and north African: Yasmine Hamdan, Of Golden Visions, Imed Alibi and more
Tunisian fusion, soulful Tuareg blues-rock, South African house via Morocco … for the latest in our playlist series, John Doran tours the most exciting music from the Middle East
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Star blues and rock guitarist who produced award-winning albums for Muddy Waters
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The legendary musician who collaborated with Hendrix and Muddy Waters has died in Zurich
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