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Muireann Bradley’s debut album, I Kept These Blues
Song of the Day: Not a new song, but a lovely remastered and recently re-released version of the classic Rev. Gary Davis song performed with beautiful finger-picking precision and wonderful vocal charm by the teenage folk, blues and roots Irish singer-songwriter from Ballybofey in County Donegal, from last year’s debut album, I Kept These Old Blues, out on Tompkins Square, and now Decca
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Reverend Gary Davis (1896-1972)
Song of the Day: Moving from Blind Willie Johnson and his bottleneck guitar style, the finger-picking pioneer from Laurens, South Carolina who does a classic and clever talking version of this traditional number
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singing and guitar-playing superstar, in action at Chorlton station in 1964
Song of the Day: After the great Mahalia Jackson, another superstar who could not only sing, but whose guitar playing was a major influence on Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley, and therefore everybody since them
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