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100 Years of R.L. Burnside: The Sound, Legacy, and Staying Power of Hill Country Blues

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By Scott Barretta
| thelocalvoice.net
Illustration by Megan Wolfe. Today if you ask blues fans to list their top artists, it’s likely that R.L. Burnside, whose centennial birthday will be this November, will be frequently mentioned.
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Book explores the African Americans who made Elvis ‘the King’

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By Scott Barretta
| Mississippi Today Verified
The notion that Elvis derived much of his musical, performative and sartorial style from African Americans is hardly new, and neither are the debates about whether this involved inspiration, borrowing or appropriation. Issued on the 90th anniversary of Elvis’s birth on Jan.
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Bob Dylan and the Creative Leap That Transformed Modern Music

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By Ted Olson, Ron Eyerman, Scott Barretta, Martie Grenon
| JSTOR Daily Verified
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, focuses on Dylan’s early 1960s transition from idiosyncratic singer of folk songs to internationally renowned singer-songwriter. As a music historian, I’ve always respected one decision of Dylan’s in particular—one that kicked off the young artist’s most turbulent and significant period of creative activity.
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