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Every respectable Blues fan on the planet has come across, sooner or later, to the talent of one of the greatest Blues Queens of the last 50-plus years, the American singer and songwriter Koko Taylor.
Taylor's start in music wasn't one of the easiest, with losing her mother at a very young age and having to work her way up in life through hard graft, like by looking after children of families working in the same grasshoppers farm, where Koko was also living in, back then.
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Crossover, for the future of music, its continuity through time and development through experimentation, has become a vital concept and a key word to ensure that music is going to progress and move forward, for centuries to come.
But forward thinking and progression attitude, in music, also need using lessons from the past, by safeguarding musical guidelines created through the decades that have provided the learning platforms for millions of artists that have used them as the backbone to build their careers and by recording albums and music in general that would, hopefully, will stay in people's minds for the eternity.
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The importance of keeping history alive, in this modern society, is becoming increasingly important, especially in view of the fact that a generous chunk of people all over the world seem to be easily over distracted by media, fake news and anything else that requires more than 10 minutes attention span, forgetting what really matters for our present, past and future.
In this respect, we all are very fortunate that some of us have lived life in a different time of the world, in what some of us may call "bygone era", where human values like "respect" and "preservation" were applied not only to defend the safeguard of the planet, but also the identity, traditions and history of each country.
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When our website stumbled upon an album called At Pizza Express - Live In London, back in 2024, by the young American Jazz singer and songwriter Anaïs Reno, we were all amazed, at Bluebird Reviews, by the class, talent and elegance of the then 20-years-old N.Y. based artist.
A rising star that strongly impressed everyone since the beginning of her career, when Reno, in 2021, delivered a stunning studio album called Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno Sings Ellington & Strayhorn, this highly talented Jazz singer showed already on a very early stage of her artistic life the love and respect that Reno has for the giants of the genre, might they be singers, songwriters or composers.
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If there is anybody in the history of the last half a century of Dub music constantly at the forefront of the roots, tradition and evolution of the genre, especially in the United Kingdom, that person is Jah Wobble.
Born John Joseph Wardle, the British Bass player and Dub Maestro has been (and still is, to these days), since the late 70's, a font of continue inspiration for fellow colleagues and young musicians, thanks to his unique vision and application of the genre into some of the most seminal records of the last five decades of music, while working with the elite of the music establishment.
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Even in the times we are living in, where music perhaps is not perceived any longer as an inspiring and a unifying factor for people all over the world like he might have been for the last half a century, there is still the space for miracles, where someone that was effectively homeless, up until to few years ago, it's now tranformed his life, being on the verge to become a global music star.
The story of D'Kieran Harrell, better known as D.K. Harrell, one of the biggest rising stars of Blues and Soul, is quite a singular one, one of those where dreams can still become reality, if you believe hard enough in yourself.
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Bluebird Reviews thinks that it would be fair to say that there are not many doubts that, in every chart citing the 10 best Rock, Blues/Rock and Hard-Rock guitarists in the world of the last half a century, the name of the late great Northern-Irish Guitar Maestro Gary Moore would be appearing every time.
An artist that has performed a very wide range of music throughout his career, going from Hard-Rock, Blues/Rock, Metal and even Jazz, Moore has been and still is to these days one of the major inspirations for young (and well famous fellow artists too) musicians willing to learn the craft of such a legendary and inspiring music talents that left us too soon, sadly, when Moore was only 58.
