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All Music Guide
You can spend all night here, kids. Impressive site with blues artists'
discographies and bios.
Anything Blue Will Do
Bios on country blues artists including Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb, and Movers
and Shakers such as Freddie King, Hubert Sumlin and Elmore James; SRV tribute; music
equipment; musicians only section; much more.
Austin City Links
Links to Austin blues performers' pages, including Marcia Ball, Chris Duarte Group,
Guy Forsyth, Jimmie Vaughan.
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Bean's Music Page Links to sax and harp
sites, and discerning blues sites.
Beale
Street Take a walking tour of the historic
Memphis Street where W.C. Handy wrote his first blues song in 1909.
Beef Stew's Blues Playground A top blues
site out of Hartford, CT.
Best Blues Home of the Blues Experience
radio show, this site has got to be one of the coolest lookin' blues site on the
web. Site features other cool things, including RealAudio webcasts and a brain
stompin' blues quiz guaranteed to send you scrambling for your liner notes.
The Blues From Charleston, South Carolina, blues.net offers links to
the local scene, and other tasty links worldwide.
Blues
Art The art of John Carroll Doyle, which
has got to be the blues decor to die for, is featured in the Blues Chicago
Gallery.
Blues in Britain
Site devoted to British blues artists, featuring gigs, downloadable music, images,
recordings and musicians' resources.
BluesBLITZ Downloads, Taj Mahal's
Interactive Workshop, interviews, coverage of the W.C. Handy Awards. Slick.
The Blues Directory The
mother of all blues links directory, with more than 2,200 links and 110 categories.
Blues Express These folks are working
toward an internationally syndicated blues television show. Visit their site,
they've got a great start.
The Blue Flame Cafe An interactive encyclopedia of blues artists and legends that
includes bios, photos and a bibliographies. One of the best blues surfs on the Net.
Is this great site gone? Haven't been able to find it on the web.
The Blues Foundation Founder of the W.C.
Handy Award.
The BluesHarp Page Devoted to the
history and lore of the blues harmonica, the site also offers three blues harp lessons so
you can "learn to play the blues harp like an old dead dude and amaze your
friends."
The Blue Highway An award-winning site that winds past the plantation houses
of the Mississippi Delta to the tenements and south side clubs of postwar Chicago.
Arguably the most distinctive, and respected, blues site on the Net.
Blues Legends
Photographs by Jeff Dunas A nice
place to visit. Dunas' incredible photos of blues legends and contemporary artists
have been published as "State of the Blues," a major book by Aperture, New York.
Blues Lyrics On Line
Obscurities abound. Find out why Bessie Smith asked the sweet judge man to send her
to the eletric chair.
Blues Metropole
Interesting site design, photo gallery introduced by a winking Sonny Boy Williamson, and
extensive links
BluesNet Established in 1993,
BluesNet is the longest-running blues site on the Net.
Blues Online Great
blues information source with artists listed by region.
Blues On Stage
Ambitious, ever growing and award-winning blues guide to blues in the Twin Cities,
and around the world.
Blues Paradise Links to sites
of classic blues artists, including Sonny Boy Williams I and II, Little Walter, Howlin'
Wolf, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
Blue Power Hour An audio based site
originating from Los Angeles and Nashville, Blue Power, courtesy of John Rhys and staff,
has been playing the blues on the Net for over four years. Also featured are written
interviews with players.
The Blues Ring The one, the only, the official Blues Ring.
Bluestime Site features the
original photography of Jeff Morrow and Steve Morrow, who have taken photos of just about
every blues artist to hit the Midwest in 20 years.
Blues To Dos: Front Cover
Comprehensive blues e-zine featuring articles on blues greats past and present.
BluesWEB The BluesWEB index is
used by major search engines, with good reason. If you are looking for blues links,
you can find them at BluesWEB.
Boogie Woogie
MP3 and midi files of boogie woogie run by Tim Wheals, a Cambridge, England piano player,
plus opportunity to buy boogie woogie sheet music. Get ready to boogie woogie in midi
format when you surf in.
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Chicago Blues Archives Archives
of blues books and recordings from the Chicago Blues Festival compiled by Chicago Public
Library employees. Opportunity to download a Honey Boy Edwards file in .wav format.
Crossroads
at The Music Vine Slick site with all things blues, links, bulletin
boards, chat. Even includes a music authoring area.
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The Delta Blues
Museum Over 1000 visitors a week
visit the museum, located deep in the delta in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
The Dutchman's Web Stop Blues Jam Directory
Harmonica pages, games, prizes and a bathroom wall.
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FolkLib Index Complete
listing of links for acoustic blues musicians.
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GreatTexas.com
To
be, or not to be, a Texan? Find out here.
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Harry's Blues Lyrics Online
Just about the best blues public service around. Over 1,500 searchable, printable
blues lyrics backed up with almost 900 audio files. Some blues history and links to
shareware to accent your website and computer are thrown in for good measure. You're the
man, Harry.
House of Blues Better dump your cache first, kids.
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"It's a Girl Thang!" Blues
vocalist Lea Gilmore's tribute to women of the blues.
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Jim's Blues School Three theory-free online lessons to play blues guitar.
Junior's Juke
Joint Read Junior's firsthand
accounts of growing up in the Mississippi Delta, learn the difference between a juke joint
and a honky tonk, and discover superb links to other Louisiana sites. A wonderful site.
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King Biscuit Time Home of the famous Helena, Arkansas radio program and the
prestigious King Biscuit Blues Festival.
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Memphis Blues Commercial site offering
online ordering of CDs and hundreds of books on the blues.
The
Music Vine: Crossroads Slick site with all things blues, links,
bulletin boards, chat. Even includes a music authoring area.
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The New Music-Blues Review Review/discussion
site for fans' experiences at blues events and performances.
Nuthin' but the
Blues Fan site dedicated to artists including Luther Allison, Muddy,
Stevie Ray and the Wolf, with photos and bios.
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100 Mississippi Delta Blues Haiku Comparison
between Japanese Haiku and Mississippi Delta blues songs, with examples.
The Online Guitar College:
Blues Guitar Free online beginner and intermediate guitar
instruction, compliments of guitarnoise.com.
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Pelle
Lindberg's Blues Home Information on the webmaster's band and other
Scandinavian blues artists.
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Rick Riordan's Home Page
Native San Antonian Riordan is the author of two Tres Navarre mysteries:
"Big Red Tequila" and "The Widower's Two-Step." Tres Navarre,
the title character, must be a great guy. He has a blues-loving cat named Robert Johnson with discerning
tastes -- he swears by Sonny Boy Lee's Blues Clubs page.
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San Antonio Musician's Directory
Got a band in search of gigs? Want to sell an instrument? Looking for a
vocalist? Post a message on the free bulletin boards, separated into surf-friendly
categories.
Smakdab in the Blues
Comprehensive links to blues clubs, labels, blues fests and artists.
Smithsonian Online - Folkways Recordings
Browse for the blues.
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Texas Blues Music
Excellent site for Lone Star State blues info links. Site also includes a list of the 50
best Texas blues clubs, equipment maintenance tips, That Texas Sound commentary and more.
That Blues Music Page
Established in 1994, Fred's site at fred.net has been honored as a Magellan
Four-Star site.
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Urban-Blues A collection of
guitar licks, bass lines and drum loops in a variety of styles.
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Yazoo Blues Mail Order Online
A candy store of bluesphernalia for bluesophiles, including R. Crumb's (Hey, Grandpa!
Remember Mr. Natural?), gallery of bluesmakers.
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