| Billie Holiday - The blues are brewing | Rosa Eskenazi - | Ray Charles - What'd I say | Bessie Smith - St. Louis blues |
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| Billie Holiday - my favourite singer of all time. I chose this clip over others such as Fine and mellow for it captures her in her prime. Louis' presence caps it off. |
Rosa Eskenazi, the greatest rembetika singer. A good web site to her life is here. |
A rare clip from a British movie, Ballad in blue. | 1929. The only known footage of the Queen of the Blues. |
| Funkadelic - Cosmic slop | Gregory Isaacs - Night nurse | The Staple Singers - Sit down servant | John Lee Hooker - Boom boom |
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| Solid gold funk. | The cool ruler's classic. | Live in London, 1964. Classic! | |
| Leonard Cohen - The stranger song | Son House - Death letter blues | Skip James - Crow Jane | James Brown - Papa's got a brand new bag |
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| 1967. Love the intro. | 1967 | 1967 |
"A human package of dynamite". Excellent dancing by the super star. |
| Cat Power - Cross bones style | Patsy Cline - I've loved and lost again | Grandmaster Flash - The message | Oum Kalsoum - |
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| 1967, age 24. | |||
| The Seeds - Pushin' too hard | Iggy Pop - I'm bored | Five Blind Boys of Alabama - Too close |
Archie Roach & Sarah Storer -
From little things big things grow |
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| Classic. Garage. Rock. | Performed live on Australia's "Countdown", here is Iggy in all of his magnificence. The school girls in the audience are plain scared by this performance, though the camera loves him with a great pan from toe to top. | A spellbinding performance. | |
| Robert Pete Williams - 1970 | Skip James - Hard time killing floor blues. 1967 | Jimmy Reed - Bog boss man. 1968 | Thomas Mapfumo - Moya wangu |
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| Rare footage. | Rare footage. | Very rare footage. | Wonderful live clip recorded in Zimbabwe. |
| Doura Barry - Les filles de mon pays | Xray Spex - Identity | ||
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| Classic Guinean Fulbe music | The first 45 rpm single I bought. | ||