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Rough Guide To Railroad BluesIn the early days of recorded blues, references to trains are frequent, reflecting the performers affinity with the railroad as a way of roaming around the South a method of travel favoured by just about every itinerant musician. One of the most timeless, as well as poignant, examples is Midnight Special, most famously recorded by Leadbelly in 1934. Running past Sugar Land Prison, where Leadbelly had served time, the light of the Midnight Special

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and Ooroo sees him team up with other wonderful female voices from the African continent including the Grammy Award winning singer from the Ivory Coast Dobet Gnahoré on the wonderful ‘Danser’

yet highly inventive - allow the sounds of Java to transport you to the Indonesian archipelago and beyond

Feel the fado running deep on this compilation

fingered on suspicion they have goblins under their beds

Edward Clayborn and Blind Willie Harris

John Lee Hooker

Mention Brazilian jazz to most music fans and the inevitable bossa nova images flood into view: the beach

a previous collaborator with a roll call of rock gods (Bob Dylan

He collaborated closely with some brilliant lyricists

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Gates was largely responsible for the rise in popularity of recorded sermons with the success of the featured ‘Death's Black Train Is Coming’

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