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By Keefer “The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.”—Lou Reed. While the guitar was instrumental to Lou Reed’s life in music, his eclectic taste in the art of songwriting has always stretched beyond that one singular instrument. “Rock and roll is so great, people should start dying for it,” the Velvet Underground founder once said. “You don’t understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream…The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it,” he added, in what is the clearest r...

Alabama Slim – The Parlor (Cornelius Chapel): “The story of a bluesman getting discovered late in life is one that has repeated itself a handful of times over the last few decades. There is a sadness to this story in the fact that talented musicians can toil away most of their life without having their music ever heard and appreciated by anyone outside of their immediate community. But there is also a triumph, a redemption of sorts that comes from this music finally reaching grateful listeners around the world. While visiting bluesman Little Freddie King in New Orleans, Music Maker Reli...

12:26 pm UTC Feb. 17, 2021 Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once worked by day; by the triumphs and struggles in li...

Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 8:54 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021 Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once wo...

2. The Who - 1921 4. Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) (RIP Leslie West) 5. The Tony Rice Unit - Gold Rush (RIP Tony Rice) 6. The Guess Who - No Time (HB Burton Cummings) 7. Big Brother & The Holding Company - Down On Me (Live) 8. Odetta - Down On Me (HB) 9.. Paul Westerberg - Knockin’ On Mine (HB) 10. Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion (HB Tom Hamilton) 11. Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band - Big Time Operator (HB Andy Summers) 12. Donna Summer - I Feel Love (7” version) (HB) 13. Blondie - Heart of Glass 14. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! 15. Anthrax - Got The Time (HB Scott Ian)