Hill country blues

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Catfish Keith

“What Captured Me Early on Was the One-Guitar-as-Orchestra Kind of Approach”: Catfish Keith Has Copious Licks in His Bag of Tricks

By Jimmy Leslie published

From slide to fingerstyle, Catfish Keith’s modern technical virtuosity makes old-time country blues simmer with new flavors

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Buddy Guy performs on the American Folk Blues Festival tour in London, October 1965

“He Said, ‘I Just Canceled a Gig, ’Cause I Wanted to See You’”: Buddy Guy Talks Befriending Jimi Hendrix

By Gary Graff published

How the blues icon met Jimi (and was invited to kick Leonard Chess’s butt!)

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Junior Kimbrough performs at Junior’s Place, a.k.a. Junior’s Juke Joint, in Chulahoma, Mississippi, in 1999

The Evolution of Hill Country Blues

By Jim Beaugez published

From Mississippi Fred McDowell to Cedric Burnside, here’s how a new generation is taking the juke joint sound forward

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Jessie Mae Hemphill, 2003

“Girl, How Crazy You Was and How Dangerous It Was”: Blues Icon Jessie Mae Hemphill Looks Back on Her Remarkable Life in Music

By Sue Foley published

The one-woman band shares some hard-won wisdom.

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