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Sweet Home – April 2020 • Blues Rona Playlist

Sweet Home – April 2020 • Blues Rona Playlist

| April 5, 2020

A Blues Rona Playlist These are challenging times as the Covid-19 pandemic has touched all corners of the globe, all countries, and all societies. The quarantine forces us inside to piece together new routines around an uncertain situation. Music has always been a refuge in fearful circumstances, and blues literally evolved from pain, so there’s […]

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Remembering Aretha Franklin 1942-2018

Remembering Aretha Franklin 1942-2018

| August 18, 2018 | 0 Comments

Aretha Franklin, who passed away on August 16th of pancreatic cancer at age 76, embodied her title of “Queen of Soul” in a wholly spectacular way but that name didn’t fully capture all that she was. Aretha wasn’t just a gifted singer, and she wasn’t just a master of soul singing. She sang every American […]

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Sweet Home: Ronnie Baker Brooks

Sweet Home: Ronnie Baker Brooks

| January 13, 2017 | 0 Comments

Don’t call it a comeback. Although it’s been an entire decade since Ronnie Baker Brooks has released an album, his presence in the blues industry during that time  has been ubiquitous. “I produced Eddy Clearwater’s album, West Side Strut, I did a compilation with Johnny Castro, I co-produced my dad’s last album and I’ve been […]

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Sweet Home: January 2016 – Eddy Clearwater

Sweet Home: January 2016 – Eddy Clearwater

| January 1, 2016 | 0 Comments

Still The Chief…

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Sweet Home: June 2014

Sweet Home: June 2014

| June 4, 2014 | 0 Comments

Sweet Carolina

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Stage Buzz: Mushroomhead

Stage Buzz: Mushroomhead

| May 19, 2014 | 0 Comments

Cleveland’s masked men are back with a new album and original vocalst Jmann…

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Sweet Home: February 2014

Sweet Home: February 2014

| February 3, 2014

Billy Branch, Son Of The Blues

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Sweet Home: January 2014

Sweet Home: January 2014

| January 1, 2014 | 0 Comments

Mourning the loss of Eric “Guitar” Davis

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December 2013: Sweet Home

December 2013: Sweet Home

| December 3, 2013 | 1 Comment

The Blues Trail

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Sweet Home: November 2013

Sweet Home: November 2013

| November 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

Barely 21, with a baby face and an earnest demeanor, Jacob transforms on stage into Brother Jacob, an old school blues belter

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Sweet Home: October 2013

Sweet Home: October 2013

| October 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

Pullman Car Blues

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Sweet Home: September 2013

Sweet Home: September 2013

| September 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

Sons of the blues…

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Sweet Home: August 2013

Sweet Home: August 2013

| July 31, 2013 | 1 Comment

Healing the heartland

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Sweet Home: July 2013

Sweet Home: July 2013

| July 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

Toronzo Cannon: Bus driver by day, bluesman by night

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Sweet Home: June 2013

Sweet Home: June 2013

| June 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

Chicago Blues Fest and the migration celebration

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