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Podcast: Pantheon - Podcasts for Music Lovers
Episode: Blues-A-Thon
Description: Blues music means different things to different people. The popular image is of a guitarist playing 12-bar blues of the 1-4-5 variety singing
about his or her troubled life. This doesn't take into consideration
songs of lust, politics, travel or any subject really that doesn't
involve the traditional 12 bar form. The songs can be downcast, yes,
but also happy and celebratory. They can have the guitar as the focus
instrument, but also the harp (not the type that the Marx brothers
employed....but I'd be happy to be proven wrong), the piano,
horns....they can be simple, complex...