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The Blues Center is a educational content brand founded in order to produce original music history exhibits for interactive and museum applications.

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The Blues Center produces exclusive multimedia music experiences including the Blues Center Interview Series at bluescenters.com

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Funky bassist, Runnin' Pardner and Meterman George Porter, Jr. holds forth on bass, blues, country and how the Meters got their moniker. The early days as Art Neville and the Boys came to an abrupt ending with a game of chance, or perhaps it was all the design of Rock Hall of Fame writer-producer Allen Toussaint. Catch some funky live licks with Mike Lemmler on keyboards and stickman Terrence Houston caught live. They hold down a Monday night residency at the Maple Leaf. Subscribe to the BCI series and 'give $2 for the blues' for our upcoming documentary on bluescenter.org

George Porter, Jr. - Blues Center Interview #17

Funky bassist, Runnin' Pardner and Meterman George Porter, Jr. holds forth on bass, blues, country and how The Meters got their moniker. The early days as Ar...

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The Blues Center

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1966 was the year the guitar hero was born. It was the year that Eric Clapton, aged 21, recorded the landmark Beano Album with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and then walked away to form Cream; the year that Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, both aged 22, ended up smashing guitars and bashing through sonic barriers together in The Yardbirds; the year that marked the arrival of 19-year-old wunderkind Peter Green and a game-changing 24-year-old named Jimi Hendrix. It was, in short, the year when a new generation of guitar giants transformed the American deep blues songbook into a new strand of rock music.

1966 - The Year That Built Rock: The Brit Blues boom

Before 1966, the blues was tired, worn out and unsexy. But then four British six-string geniuses helped birth blues rock – and the modern guitar hero too.

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Kingfish coverage in WaPo. The 20 year-old is becoming an icon... "He took an interest in blues around 5, after his dad showed him a Muddy Waters documentary. By 11, he was in a music program at Clarksdale’s Delta Blues Museum and could play guitar, drums and bass. As a teenager, Ingram uploaded covers to YouTube, which led to a role in Netflix and Marvel’s “Luke Cage.” In May, he released his debut album, “Kingfish,” on which he trades solos with living blues legend Buddy Guy.

A music prodigy finds his calling: singing the blues

Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram is trying to preserve the genre that’s defined his life.

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The Blues Center

3 weeks 3 days ago

Rip it Up - Billy Vera’s bio of Specialty Records which recorded hits in New Orleans with Little Richard, Lloyd Price and Larry Williams. Catch Billy in BCI #7 at bluescenter.com . . . @billyvera #randb #littlerichard #beatles #guitarslim #slowdown #tuttifrutti

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Led Zeppelin II was released 50 years ago today. The blues-rock masterpiece featured an acoustic/electric cover of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Bring It On Home” while “Lemon Song” mashed up Howlin’ Wolf, Robert Johnson and Albert King material.

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Andy T with Alabama Mike & Anson Funderburg unfiltered. . . #kingbiscuit #arkansas #blues #redshirt #delta #ansonfunderburgh #alabamamike #mississippidelta #nofilter

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