The Blues
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The Southland Music has enjoyed a good relationship with Stefan Lawson and Coastal Noise since the beginning of 2015. We have traveled and seen lots of great music together and, hopefully this is only the beginning. Lawson is a musician, photographer, blogger and host of the highly successful podcast “Coastal Noise”. A wide range of topics are discussed at Coastal Noise – politics, social issues, movies, travel, history and yes,…
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For most of my life when thinking of the town of Bogalusa, LA, I knew it for a few things: Home of an Uncle Palmer, the birthplace of one of my best friends, and that the famous “Studio in the Country” was nearby. Those things, and the fact that Bogalusa has a long history associated with the lumber industry, were what I thought of when I heard this Southern town…
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For some time, a name keeps popping up on the blues music scene. An artist with roots deep into gospel and soul, Castro Coleman aka Cat Cole, is gaining notoriety as Mr. Sipp – “The Mississippi Blues Child”. The concert poster for Mr. Sipp’s Ocean Springs performance at “The Mary C” Recently, The Southland Music Line and several close friends were given the honor and opportunity to see why Mr.…
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Some music is meant to be performed at places like the famous “Birdie’s Roadhouse” just 10 miles north of Bogalusa, Louisiana on Hwy 21 and a few minutes from the famed “Studio in the Country”. On the evening of Sat. Aug. 2nd, 2014 it did seem, for a little while, just as Rambling Steve Gardner called it: “the center of the known musical universe!” The Southland Music Line’s constant search…
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Albert King, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sam Chatmon, Memphis Minnie, Charley Patton, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Reverend “Blind” Gary Davis, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Ma Rainey, Elmore James, Sister Rosetta Tharp, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Sam ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins, Dave “Honeyboy” Edwards, Eddie “Son” House, Lead Belly, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, Chester Arthur Burnett, Willie Dixon, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bukka White, Howlin’ Wolf, Little…
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