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This four-disc box set is a veritable treasure chest of early prewar blues with a cut-off point somewhere in the early 50s. The first disc features seminal tracks from the dawn of the music by Bessie Smith ("Weeping Willow Blues"), Blind Blake ("West...

The Rolling Stones were working with a new producer, Jimmy Miller, at Olympic Studios in London today in 1968, working on the single that would take them back to their roots and away from their two-album experiment (Between the Buttons and Their Satanic...

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The Roots on New Years’ Eve notwithstanding, I’ve been derelict about posting on live entertainment I’ve seen this year, like Louis CK in Baltimore, The Motherf**ker with the Hat at Studio Theater, The Last Five Years in Shirlington...

The national weather today: Freak “S” shaped storm unleashes biblical rain in Pensacola, Mobile: http://t.co/LGBo9FWydN pic.twitter.com/u2GJowmOrV — Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) April 30, 2014 Botched execution: "A controversial...