VMP Magazine
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The Unbelievable True Story Of The 21-Year-Old White Guitar Player Who “Re-Taught Son House To Play Like Son House”
This month, we're presenting a VMP-only Coke bottle clear vinyl edition of Son House's Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions, (buy it here) remastered from original master tapes. In researching the album--and Son House--we found an unbelievable tale of blues enthusiasts trying to find old blues artists, defunct record labels not realizing how influential someone would be when they recorded them, a 21-year-old guitarist, and a second coming of a career the artist never could have seen coming.
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An Abbreviated Personal History, As Told in Relation to Huey Lewis & the News
In my ninth grade “Intro to Computers” class, I sat next to a somewhat strange but nonetheless cordial red-headed kid with a crew cut named Joe...
