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Interviews
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Will Bernard - Guitarist/Bandleader 
Bay Area Jazz Guitarist shows off some hip influences
and hot licks in this clip recorded in late 1998. Will has played
with a wide variety of Bay Area acts including T.J.
Kirk, Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra and Peter Apfelbaum's
Hieroglyphics Ensemble. Will's musical pedigree began early as
a student in Berkeley High School's Jazz Department. He later
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The Specialty Story with Billy Vera Interview
This attractive 4 cd box set holds almost 6 hours of
stompin', joyous, exuberant rhythm & blues. Specialty exemplifies the
post World War II independent labels which sprang up to record the hot
new musical styles emanating from America's inner cities. Specialty's
owner Art Rupe-- like the founders of Chess, Atlantic, Sun, Imperial,
and other indies -- was a small-time white entrepreneur with a love
for black music, an advent ... [MORE]
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Doc Watson - Flatpicking Guitar Legend
Arthel "Doc" Watson's
Vanguard album in 1964, and the live festival,
concert, and coffeehouse performances which immediately preceded and
followed it, marked a quiet but real revolution in the folk music field.
They showcased the most exciting traditional folk performer to emerge in a
generation -- a fully mature artist who at once embodied the roots and
traditions of the old-time country music, and also stepped beyond them with
his own brilliant innovations and polished per ... [MORE]
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Clive Chin - 70's Reggae Producer
Legendary 70's Reggae Producer on the glory days
of Randy's Studio 17 in Kingston, Jamaica. His production credits
include Bob Marley and The Wailers, Peter Tosh, Dennis Brown,
Augustus Pablo while working the boards with Lee "Scratch"
Perry and Errol Thompson. Chin discusses the Far East Sound of
'Java' and the spontaneous sessions which produced Forward the
Bass.
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