From the Kermit Ruffins album, Swing This!
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The devil's song is a slow blues, a heavy shuffle fueled by an eternal fire. Often we forget that the blues represents the feeling of being human, the tension and restlessness of a constant state of limbo, rather than to abide to some heavenly form. The moans, groans, and woes of this life and death are what we try to emulate when we sing the blues.
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From the album, Dumaine Street Blues
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A master of the tailgate style, Freddie Lonzo plays the trombone where most others do not, within the pockets of inhalations, the hiccups in between beats, while sliding around the harmonic boundaries as if to wrangle the wandering herd of musical voices.
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