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Northeast Pa.

Large Catalog of Blues CD's by Category or Artist
Big List of Hot Jazz CD's
Classic Rock CD Catalog
Classical Music Catalog
New Age and World Music Catalogs
Blues and Jazz Reading Room
Recommended Reading - Over 600 Books 
About The Sixties and Counterculture

Blues Sites

A blues band in Philly playing in the Paul Butterfield, Charley Musselwhite, hard-edged , rhythmic tradition.. striving individually, and collectively to let the 
love vibe and true human experience shine through their music.  Quartet featuring harmonica, guitar, bass, and drums. Playing tradtional  blues with an edge - incorporating vocal  harmonies. Performing in the tri-county area of Philadelphia.

Neat Blues Links From All Over The Globe

78 Quarterly
A.D.G. Productions blues books
Beasley Books rare blues books
Blue Rhythm in German
Blue Suede News
Blues & Rhythm: The Gospel Truth
Blues & Soulmusic
Blues Access American blues mag
Blues Bytes a monthly online blues mag
Blues News in German and English
The Blues News
Blues/Soul Scene
Blues To-Do's
Chuck Cowdery 
DaCapo Press
Dirty Linen
FolkRoots
Goldmine Magazine
Jefferson
Joslin's Jazz Journal
Living Blues
Mando-Zine
OffBeat Magazine
Past Times
Pollstar
Rootin' Around
Solo Blues
Vintage Jazz & Blues Mart
Zyde.com 

Blues Performers
some you might not have heard about

Bad Influence
Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan
Johnnie Bassett
Bayou Soul Kings
Chuck Berry
Scrapper Blackwell
The Blues Fools
Brave Combo
Texas Johnny Brown
Keith B. Brown
The Bruce Brothers Band
B.S.M.F
Jim Byrnes
Gus Cannon
Natia Carl
Leroy Carr
Cheap Suit Serenaders
Willie Cobbs
Ry Cooder
Johnny Copeland Memorial Page
Tommy Cougar
Cousin Joe
Lamont Cranston Blues Band
Robert Cray
Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis Homepage
Dr. Cookie and Louisiana Dan
Dr. John
dr valter & the lawbreakers Hungary
Keith Doder and the Blue City Band
The Dynatonesul band
Monte Easter
Jethro Easyfields
Rev. Charlie F. Edmonds - The Preaching Bluesman
Archie Edwards
PW Fenton & The Second Word
The Fieldstones
Garry & the Moodswingers
Guitar Crusher
Guitar Mac Fan Club
Rich Harper Blues Band
The Hoax
Homesick Mac
Archie Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
Long John Hunter
International Blues Band
Fruteland Jackson
Elmore James
The Larry Johnson Blues Pages
B.B. King: King of the Blues
B.B. King
Dan Klarskov
KnockOut Greg & Blue Weather
Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly)
Sonny Boy Lee
Little Bob & The Lollipops Soul"
Little Whitt & Big Bo
Bobby Mack
Bobby Manriquez
Manzanares Delta
Michael Messer
Mighty Sam McLain
Big Clara McDaniel
Mississippi Heat
Kenny Neal
The Neville Brothers
North Mississippi Allstars
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
James Peterson
Kelly Joe Phelps
Brian's Eugene Powell Site
Henry Qualls
Yank Rachell
Yank Rachell
Paul Rishell
Fenton Robinson
Mem Shannon
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
 Bennie Smith
Chris Smither
Big Walter Smith
Big Bad Smitty
STRICTLY BLUES live broadcast
Taj Mahal
Gary Rex Tanner 
Flash Terry
Elmer Lee Thomas
Irma Thomas
The Treniers
The Walter Trout Band
Ike Turner
T-Bone Walker (1910-1975)
Bukka White
Tam White
Wild Bill
Sonnyboy Williamson
Chick Willis
Kipori Woods
Carl Wyatt & The Rhythm Kings

All kinds of Blues Places 
on the Web

Smokestack Lightnin' radio
WWOZ  Excellent!
Welcome To The Blues
Blues On Stage  site
Kevin Belford historian
Inn On The Blues 
Blues Express
Blues ExperienceReal Audio webcast
12 Bar Muse
Blues4Kids
Sausman's Beautiful Blues
Improvising Blues Piano by Tim Richards
Remy's Blues Page
Brad "Allen" Engler
The Blues Power Hour Real Audio based
Bluesboy's Roadhouse
Electric Blues
Secret Museum Of Mankind
Citizen Kafka
Stichting Rhythm and Blues Breda
Blues at the Bow southern Alberta, Canada
Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox
Bad Dog Blues Rochester, NY radio show w/
Cryin' the Blues
Bahoomba Music Blues Web Page
Gary's Blues Page
Boston Blues Page
Junior's Juke Joint
Manny's Car Wash-NYC's Home of the Blues
Slippery Noodle Inn Tobacco Road Blues & Grill
Buddy Guy's Legends
Memphis Guide's History of the Blues
Delta Blues Haiku
Tobacco Road Blues
Rhapsody Films
Sonny Terry Discography Project
Glenn Adams, Delta Kitchen
Red Hot Jazz Archive with Real Audio...nice!
Rum Boogie Café
Joel's Blues Page
The Blues Bus Depot
Hovel of Blues
Blues Paradise
Blind Willie's Blues
Norton Records
Briefcase Blues
Blues Underground
Nervous Rex
D.C.R.
Hysteresis Mindlock Blues Page
Brothers N Blues
RAW BLUES
Jazz and Blues Line
The Blues
BlueS LetterS Homepage 
Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition  
SuP DoG computer house of Blues
Virtual Blues
Gitarzan's Blues Station Central
John Henry's Piano Blues & Boogie MIDI Files
Jai's Blues Page
Blues Bytes CD reviews
Hal Brolund's Original Folk and Blues Home Page
Smitty Ray Barlow blues radio show
Original Music world music galore
Mudcat Cafe
Blues Diva Music Productions
Maximum Blues Real Audio radio show
Blues And Soul Primer
That Blues Music Page
Music Boulevard on-line music sales
Bebop Boogies and Blues Homepage
Recipe for a Healthy, Heapin' Portion of The Blues
The Movers... Blues That Moves
Retro
Roots & Rhythm mail order blues CD specialists
Music by Email
Whoopie Audio & Video Directory
Saturday Night Blues
Jazzneta slew of good jazz links
Southern Folklife Collection Homepage
Jet City Blues Review
RHYTHM, ROCK AND DOO WOP
The Louie Report
Benelux Blues SceneBelgian blues
Juke Joint Blues
  NY CD Blues
Blueshawk
Blind Melon
Blue Cat Blues
Scottyboy's Blues au Go Go
Bluesland
Jazz, Blues, and Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Women of the Blues
Highway 49Aussie blues
TLO Blues Page
ROOTS WORLDe-mag
Jazz On Linecheck their Blues Room!
BluesWEBGary Joneson, prop.
The Blue Flame Cafe
Tom Morgan's Jazz & Blues
Metaverseblues audios
Blues-L Shopping Center
T-Bone's Blues Pagerecommended!
Ziggy's Blues Interviews
The Music AXIS Page
House of Blues
Juke Joint Saturday Night
Delta Snake Blues News
HVRecords & Ragtime
Internet Blues Radio ShowJim Witteveen, DJ
Blues from The BoneReal Audio site
UNESCO Congress: Rhythmic Music Education
The Blues ChannelMae Kramer, proprietress
The Blues Playground
Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox
Megatunes
Muddy Waters Jukebox
Muddy Waters Postcards
Beef Stew's Connecticut Area Blues Over at the Blues Playground.
The Blues Audience  monthly newsletter out of New England.
The Blues Bus Concert Calendar For eastern Conn., R.I., western Mass.
Blues Night Semi-monthly blues shows in Paulsboro, New Jersey.
Boston Blues: An Insider's Guide A series of articles by Art Simas.
Central New York Blues Blues artist and club info for central New York State.
Choose Your Blues Extensive blues listings in and around New England.
Dutchman's National Blues Jam Directory Blues jam listings for the 50 states.
The National Blues Pages Listing open blues jams throughout the United States!
The New England Blues Calendar From The Blues Channel in Boston, Mass.
The New Jersey Blues Page Bands, clubs, festivals, radio, more in New Jersey.
The New York City Area Blues Calendar
Tri-State Blues  New York, New Jersey, Connecticut
 

Born in Dallas, Texas in 1954, Vaughan would follow in the steps of his big brother Jimmie Vaughan to find his dreams fulfilled through music. During his teenage years, Stevie started seriously playing around with his brother's guitar and picked up his vocal charisma from Doyle Bramhall, who played in the Texas band the Chessmen with Jimmie.

In the early '70s Stevie Ray joined Jimmie, Doyle, Lu Ann Barton and other Dallas/Fort Worth musicians who descended on Austin in what became known as the Austin migration. After years of honing in on his style through various Austin bands, Vaughan formed Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble with drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon. The trio released their debut CD Texas Flood on Epic Records in 1983. The offering proved that the Blues was alive in well in Rock and Roll, a bridging that had not been conquered so perfectly since acts like The Paul Butterfield Band and Jimi Hendrix did so in the late 1960's. As Stevie Ray Vaughan's music career was soaring with Couldn't Stand the Weather and Soul to Soul, he was plagued by drug and alcohol dependency.

After a 1987 tour, Vaughan checked himself into rehab and emerged a more focused artist with the successful In Step CD to prove it. Released in 1989, the recording peaked on the charts at number 33, reached gold status in six months and garnered Vaughan a GRAMMY® Award. Stevie Ray was at the beginning of a brave new world, mastering his craft as a vocalist and guitar player. On August 26,1990 after a gig in East Troy, Wisconsin with special guests Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton and Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash.

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