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Green Room Blues GREEN ROOM BLUES

CD - $10
s/h - $3.00 ($5.00 outside USA)

Released in January 1999, Green Room Blues features 15 all-original tracks by talented Blues musicians from Central PA, Eastern PA, and Northern Maryland. Recorded entirely at the Green Room, this album features never-before-released tracks which were recorded specifically for this compilation, and includes "Let Me Show You How It's Done", featuring Karl Williams with The Canal Street Jazz Band.

    In their attempt to make a loose, general "History of the Blues" Bob Welsh and Dale Wise have documented the recent history of this region's hardest working blues bands. The artists on this album have dedicated a large part of their lives pursuing a form of music that, though not native to this geographical region, has permeated almost all forms of popular music in this century. And since the blues has never really been a "popular" form, it speaks to the most basic, sincere emotions of humankind: joy, sadness, sex, and the triumph over bad times.
    -- Gerry Coleman,
    from his foreword to Green Room Blues

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