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Traditionally, the Blues, as a music genre, gets immediately identified with United States, the homeland, since more than a hundred years, of a style that has heavily influenced the roots of many other genres, Rock'N'Roll included.
Although the birthplace of Blues has never been in discussion, many more world countries have embraced, through the decades, the spirit and the philosophy of Blues, often with outstanding results.
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From time to time, our website receives records to review that emanate a feel-good feeling about them, a feeling that transcends one's passion for a specific genre, because it encircles completely the definition of Music, intended in its most complete sense of the word.
The album in question is called, rather aptly, It’s All About Love, released from the Canadian collective Wild Blue Herons, a project led by musical partners-in-crime, as they are in life, Bill Sample and Darlene Cooper.
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Longevity and consistency are words that are gradually disappearing, within the music business, even with some of the biggest names in contemporary music, who often sacrifice the quality of their material to the demands of record labels and fans, compromising, in this way, their own artistry and the quality of their material.
Fortunately for us music lovers, though, there are still artists out there like the American Avant-Garde Rock band They Might Be Giants that are not yet prepared to throw in the towel and surrender to commercialism, not even after 40 years in the business and having released, a few weeks ago, their 24th studio album, called The World Is To Dig.
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A live concert should always be a celebration in many ways. A celebration for the crowd, who pays good money to go and see a live performance and a celebration for an artist or for a collective themselves, not intended as a self-celebration of their success but instead, a celebration of joy and love for music at 360 degrees spent together with their devoted fans.
The latter is exactly the kind of philosophy that such a charismatic collective like London based four-piece The Cinelli Brothers possesses and apply to their legendary live performances each night.
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It happens more and more frequently, within the music industry, that many bands that have not recorded a studio album for a while tend to buy their time by releasing a live record in the interim, in the aim to keep the fans still interested in said band.
Very often, though, because of a disinterest in investing money and time curing the level of the overall quality of the finished live product, those bands end up sadly delivering a very lacklustre record, risking, as a consequence, also to lose some of their fans along the way.
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The guitar is a marvellous instrument. No matter whether an artist is playing either an acoustic guitar or an electric one, if said artist is gifted enough, then the guitar will be able to transport the imagination of the listener to any place in the world that may look unreachable to us, thanks to the inner power of that guitar playing.
Somebody that knows very well how to create the aforementioned sensations through his remarkable talent, as a guitar player, is the Italian Virtuoso Matteo Mancuso, an artist whose career, especially in the last three years, has reached already some impressive peaks of appreciations from media, fans and fellow artists too.
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One of the most challenging aspects for a Blues or Blues/Rock artist, in our website's opinion, it is to keep on being true to oneself, year after year and album after album, by not necessarily having to repeat themselves, in order to be successful but instead, progressing in their musical journeys without sounding repetitive and one-dimensional.
Perhaps there might not be a recipe or a specific path to be followed, when it comes to maintain one's musical integrity and, in that respect, instinctive certainly plays a vital role, for an artist.
