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National Poetry Day 2015 – Blues Medicine – Hylda Sims

October 8, 2015June 30, 2017 Archie Diatonic, Music Uploads

Hylda was one of the Skiffle/Blues pioneers in London in the 1950s. She was part of the City Ramblers and is still playing this style of music in clubs in 2015. This poem or free song, Blues Medicine, is Hylda’s homage to the Blues. It is about the need for some blues medicine which can come […]

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Cyril Davies – from Trad Jazz to the Rolling Stones

August 17, 2015June 30, 2017 Archie Diatonic, Music Uploads

The story of Cyril Davies, the first British blues harmonica player. From Traditional Jazz to Country Blues and Jug Bands in the 1950s. The meetings with blues greats like Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Muddy Waters. Amplification and the Explosion of Blues Incorporated into the Ealing Club and The Marquee in 1962. A year […]

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