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Blues Routes: Heroes and Tricksters: Blues and Jazz Work Songs and Street Music

Various Artists
Blues Routes: Heroes and Tricksters: Blues and Jazz Work Songs and Street Music Blues Routes is a resonant almanac of blues styles and blues-related music and musicians including: Memphis barrelhouse and Harlem parlor piano players; blues guitarists from the Delta and Piedmont, San Francisco and Chicago; Kansas City and New Orleans jazz masters; hambone call-and-response and Mardi Gras Indian chants; Texas jump blues and Louisiana Creole zydeco; minstrel and jazz banjomen; street go-go bucket-drummers and railroad track-lining gandy dancers. In this fin de siècle collection, the diversity of American blues and blues-influenced styles and the unity of their African ancestral heartbeats can be heard in great performances recorded live at the influential Folk Masters concert and radio series.

AWARDS
2000 Crossroads Music Awards Gold Star for Blues Music

Track Listing

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John Henry Mealing and the Gandy Dancers
03:57
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102
John Cephas and Phil Wiggins
05:15
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103
Warner Williams
02:40
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104
Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson and Willie "Pinetop" Perkins
03:38
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105
Erbie Bowser, T.D. Bell, and the Blues Specialists
04:10
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106
Robert Jr. Lockwood
04:13
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107
Etta Baker
03:43
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108
Abner Jay
02:33
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109
Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders
04:15
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110
Claude Williams
04:33
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111
Sammy Price
02:51
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112
Booker T. Laury
03:05
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113
The White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians
05:09
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114
Rapper Dee, C.J. (Carl Jones) and Five Gallons of Fun
04:40
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115
Georgia Sea Island Singers
02:24
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116
Boozoo Chavis and the Magic Sounds
02:56
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117
Joe Louis Walker and the Boss Talkers
08:43