Down and Out Blues STRUT125LP Around the same time –

Around the same time – in 1947 or 1949 – Blakey led a big band called “Seventeen Messengers”

these two primordial rappers work through new funk samples

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” The resultant album represented the first fully formed document of Astatke’s trademark Ethio jazz sound

melodic beauty that prove most evocative (as on Sworn) or the duo’s ability to bottle joyful energy (Told)

Down and Out Blues STRUT125LP Around the same time –Sonny Boy Williamson (Alex Miller 1912 1965) was one of the most inspiring harmonica players in blues history. Though he took his name from another well known harmonica player, no one really sounded like him. Williamson developed his own signature harmonica style, always showing a metronome like timing and an endlessly inventive technique. This release consists of Sonny Boy's complete debut LP, Down And Out Blues, originally released in 1959 on the