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Paul Moore's Musical Medicine Show, released earlier this spring in Israel, brings together both well-arranged standards and additions to the jugband/washboard band genre, performed by Moore and backup players identified as the Washboard Wizards Novelty Orchestra.

Discovery String Band Most Perfect	Various Martin Scorsese Presents the
Cathy Barton and Dave Para, along with Paul and Win Grace and Bob Dyer have joined folk forces to form the Discovery String Band. more	Under the guiding hand of acclaimed director Martin Scorsese, The Blues is an eye-opening and long over due seven DVD project. more
Enemy lines: Richard Cook on half	Various: the Unbroken Circle
At 50 years old, the New Musical Express is the great survivor of the music press. Its birthday issue trumpets half a century of "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll", but there was no rock, no drugs and very little sex in the paper's infancy. more	This 15-song collection is one of the most loving tribute albums I've ever heard, largely due to the participation of members of the extended Carter family. more

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Uptown boys

New York's failure to produce a band of any real significance during the 1990s is one of that decade's musical anomalies.

Rock and read

There is no business like show business, as writers prove each time they stand in public and read extracts from their books.

Queer as folk

There are some films that divide the world into the righteous and--if you will--the wrongteous.

Been and gone

After seeing Martin Scorsese's grand seven-film series The Blues, you feel as if you've attended a symposium on an all but vanished music.

What Blur did next

What happened to Cool Britannia? Britpop[TM], which was the start of it all, was a reaction to the Americanisation of British culture.

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Video Guitar Lessons Have Their Advantages - It might seem a little odd to take lessons from a filmed person online or on a VHS tape or DVD, but the truth is this type of learning works very well for a lot of students.

The Doors Biography And Top Songs - The Doors were an American band and were formed in Venice Beach in 1965 and consisted of Jim Morrison (Vocals), Robby Krieger (Guitarist), Ray Manzarek (Keyboards) and John Densmore (Drums).

building a guitar the machine heads - Ever wondered why some guitars never stay in tune or sound flat? Terry Buddell built a weissenborn slide guitar recently and here in part three of 'Building a guitar' Terry shares some of his tips and hints.

Hammer Ons Pull Offs and Tapping in Lead Guitar - Some of the greatest guitar compositions have made it to the hall of fame thanks to their lead guitarists.

Listened To Books Recently - Digital AudioBooks are setting a new trend in today's time starved world, where people just don't have the luxury of time to sit and read a book.

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