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THE ENGLISH COMEDIAN WHO SPARKED THE BLUES

THE ENGLISH COMEDIAN WHO SPARKED THE BLUES

by Paul Merry | Jun 28, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Charles Matthews BLUESMUSE25 If you’ve read my earlier blogs, you’ll know it was a German who wrote the first African-American-inspired song after hearing slave music in Virginia in 1795; and his English wife who first performed said song in Boston in 1799. Some 20...
Dumb Ways to Die: a short commercial break from blues

Dumb Ways to Die: a short commercial break from blues

by Paul Merry | Jun 27, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Watch Dumb Ways To Die on the link below:   Here’s a link to an interesting jingle aimed at saving young lives. Alternatively, it could be viewed as a waste of dosh by an organization with more money then sense. Whatever it is, it’s just another example of...

It’s the first boogie woogie hit but is it rock & roll?

by Paul Merry | Jun 25, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

 BLUESMUSE24 In 1928, the former Ma Rainey and Butterbeans and Susie accompanist, Clarence ‘Pinetop’ Smith, recorded his renowned boogie piano track, Pinetop’s ‘Boogie Woogie’. A 24-year old Alabama comedian and piano player, Pinetop enjoyed one of the first-ever...
The most unexpectedly brilliant blues guitarist I ever saw

The most unexpectedly brilliant blues guitarist I ever saw

by Paul Merry | Jun 24, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

How I remember the Stones UPDATED SEPTEMBER 12 2016 I’ve been around the block so often, it only cost me 7/6 (about 37p or 50c) to watch the original Rolling Stones play in the local cinema. I say watch because, except for Little Red Rooster, (it was 1964, I was but a...
HOW BLUES EVOLVED Volume One is now available

HOW BLUES EVOLVED Volume One is now available

by Paul Merry | Jun 22, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Sorry to impose a plug for my new book on you here, folks, but it’s finally available on the Amazon links below and I can’t contain my excitement. Getting all those old blues photographs and illustrations, many of them quite rare, into Kindle format, has...
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