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		<title>Etta James Dies at 73; Voice Behind ‘At Last’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She called Johnny Otis her guru - he died the day before.]]></description>
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		<title>Boogie-Woogie pianist Omar Shariff shot dead at 73</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born Dave Alexander, he was known as the Boogie-Woogie man of Marshall, Texas.]]></description>
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		<title>Working Christmas Blues 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[w/Del McCoury, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Bobby Charles, Tom Waits, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Marty Robbins, and more.]]></description>
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		<title>Howlin&#8217; Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin dead at 80</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sumlin played the guitar parts on Smokestack Lightning, Spoonful, and Ain’t Superstitious.]]></description>
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		<title>Homegas guitarist Peter Narváez dead of lung cancer at 71</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This incredible finger-picking blues musician and folklorist made St. John's, Newfoundland his home for nearly 40 years.]]></description>
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		<title>Texas bluesman Bramhall dies at 62</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stevie Ray Vaughan collaborator helped write some of the most recognizable blues songs of the 1980s.]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Brunning, original bass player with Fleetwood Mac, dead at 68</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brunning played alongside Peter Green in the original 1967 band line-up, prior to John McVie joining the band.]]></description>
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		<title>Harmonica player George &#8220;Mojo&#8221; Buford dead at 81</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filling in for James Cotton starting in the 1950s, Buford played with Waters off and on for nearly 30 years.]]></description>
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		<title>Country Music From The 1930s</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 580 of the Back to the Sugar Camp radio show on CIUT 89.5 FM, University of Toronto.]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Eyes of Willie Smith have closed for the last time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smith sang and played harmonica, but is best known for playing drums with Muddy Waters.]]></description>
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		<title>Delta blues legend David &#8220;Honeyboy&#8221; Edwards dead at 96</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is believed to have been the oldest surviving member of the first generation of Delta blues singers.]]></description>
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		<title>Triumph: Fantasy Serenade / Suitcase Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian hard-rock legends sneak in a little jazzed up blues on their 1979 LP, "Just A Game".]]></description>
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		<title>Pinetop Perkins, Delta Boogie-Woogie Master, Dies at 97</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/5314</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the last of the original Delta bluesman, Perkins was most noted as a member of Muddy Waters band of the 1970s.]]></description>
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		<title>Thiny Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore dead at 58</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/5618</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He performed on stage with a range of major artists and released 20 studio albums.]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Moore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A barrelhouse pianist and improvisational folk blues poet whose themes were sometimes comic, sometimes grim, and mostly very personal.]]></description>
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		<title>Multiple Sclerosis Smudges Out The Mascara Snake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart [15 January 1941 – 17 December 2010], has died of MS-related complications.]]></description>
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		<title>Maria Muldaur and her Garden of Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This "Good Time Music For Hard Times" was released on Stony Plain Records on 6 October 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>The Best of John Hammond [1970]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Vanguard double-LP ofr 22 classic electric and acoustic blues tracks released in 1970.]]></description>
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		<title>Who says you need to buy a guitar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fourth Annual Mac Arnold Cornbread &#038; Collard Greens Blues Festival.]]></description>
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		<title>The Allman Brothers Band Live at Ludlow Garage 1970</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restored from over 3700 feet of magnetic tape, this classic from the Cincinnati psych-club is sure to please.]]></description>
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