I am often amazed at what I perceive as shared sensibilities among blues, jazz and world music. They are usually focused on improvization that utilizes variants of the blues scale or similar scales found in various ethnic genres. And when lyrics are present, they are usually more often based on real life experience, rather than [...]
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After blues guitarist Dixie Mabanta shared an early Allman Brothers video featuring Derek Trucks on Facebook, fellow Filipino guitarist Joric “Delta Slim” Maglanque responded: “Seems the Qawwali/Indian and jazz influence had started to seep in.” Here’s the video in question: I recalled from decades ago long discussions about the influence of Ravi Shankar on US [...]
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Blues music pops up everywhere around the world. The annual Himalayan Blues Festival was first staged in 2007, organized by the very young Samik Kharel. In this interview, Samik gives us all the details about the festival and how it is organized.
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