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HIGH-HEELED BLUES FROM A MULE KICKIN' MAMA
Review of High Heeled Blues - Rory Block by nfp2

Advantages: May be the best contemporary white female blues singer and acoustic guitarist you'll ever hear.
Disadvantages: None

...(A New Yorker myself, in high school at the time, I only went there once, but the day I popped in Al Kooper , the musical genius behind the first and only worthwhile -- pre-David Clayton Thomas -- incarnation of “Blood, Sweat and Tears” was in the store. I just stood there and gaped before buying a belt and leaving.) For all I know, Rory was in the room as well at the time, helping her Dad run the place.) Just being in the sandal shop was an apprenticeship ...
...go. The album High Heeled Blues was released in 1981 on Rounder Records as an LP and re-released in 1989 as a CD (Rounder CD # 3061). I was turned on to her by Bob Carlin, the folk and roots music producer/host at the National Public Radio station in Philadelphia where I was news director, producer and anchor from the late 70s to early 80s. Unlike the more sophisticated later recordings, this one has an air of breezy innocence about it, as befits ... Read review

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13.06.2003
Happy days
Review of Happy Hour - Ted Hawkins by brownp1

Advantages: beutiful music
Disadvantages: none

Ted Hawkins busked on Venice Beech Florida, and attracted large crowds there before being bought to the attention of the UK audience by the globetrotting Andy Kershaw. The music itself is very simple, with in most cases simple accoustic guitar and Ted's voice as the only instruments, occaisionally joined by his wife on vocals and a couple of frindes on drums and