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Blues Unlimited #170 - Motor City Blues Masters of the 1940s & '50s (Hour 2)

by Sleepy Boy Hawkins

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Although not as well known as other locales famous for their blues — such as New Orleans, Chicago, or Memphis — the Motor City had plenty of talented songwriters and blues musicians. It's just that, for the most part, the record labels that operated out of Detroit were either local labels that had little or no distribution, and/or quite often lacked proper 'hi-fi' recording equipment. In spite of these odds, however, some of Detroit's greatest blues musicians did manage to find their way into a recording studio — some of which were no more than a tape recorder and a mic or two in the back room behind someone's storefront — to make some of the finest down home blues of the postwar era. Rare, classic and legendary performances from John Lee Hooker, L.C. Green, Baby Boy Warren, Eddie Burns, Walter Mitchell, Robert Henry, Eddie Kirkland, Detroit Count, and many more.

Pictured: One of Detroit's finest, Baby Boy Warren. Image by Bill Greensmith.

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Hour 2
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released April 22, 2016

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Blues Unlimited is a weekly show that has been called the "best blues radio show in the United States," and has an established and loyal audience of listeners from around the globe. Hosted by "Sleepy Boy Hawkins" (the alter-ego of scholar, author, fanatic, and historian Steve Franz), each installment is a self-contained evergreen show, delving into a different genre, topic, or aspect of the blues. ... more

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