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Blues Collection Featured Artist:

Adrienne Braswell

The Blues has always been a self-referential, tongue-in-cheek enterprise. Blues musicians of old didn't consider themselves as embarking on some vitally-important musical exploration. They knew what they were doing, who they were-club musicians, session guitar players, artists-for-sale. They knew all this and within those self-inflicted confines they created something beautiful. The beauty of The Blues was that simplicity and that slightly self mocking melodrama, and is today a pure artform that retains its original confines along with the tongue-in-cheek attitude that monitors them. In short, if a blues musician takes himself too seriously, then he ceases to truly be a blues musician.

Adrienne Braswell's take on the blues, from her eclectic 2004 release Blue Door, showcases that understanding of blues music. "Scrawny Little White Girl" is irreverent, well-produced, and evocative of a certain flippant attitude toward herself and her music, a trait that seems long lost in modern music. It's no wonder that Adrienne won the New Mexico Music Industry Award for Best Blues song in 2004 for "Scrawny Little White Girl," and no wonder that her anything-but-scrawny blues stylings found their way onto our compilation.

• Find out more at adriennebraswell.com

• Listen to a sample of the track Scrawny Little White Girl

Revolution is sending the sounds of undiscovered artists echoing across the music landscape.
This is about the freedom to create and be heard - to expose people to music they don't even know they want to hear - to give them the chance to discover. By working with independently owned businesses, visual artists, musicians and KTAO 101.9FM, the worlds most powerful solar radio station, we are able to present original songs released by independent musicians the way they wanted, not how some big record company thinks they should sound. "The Revolution Collection - Blues" is the second in a series from Revolution.

Listen to samples from the Track Listing

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Track Listing:
Click track for mp3 sample and artist info:
 
1. Eric McFadden - Devil Moon
2. The Rue Barbs - To Good To Let It Go
3. Sara K. - Turned My Upside Down
4. Alex Maryol - Take These Blues Away
5. John Carey - They Call Me The Doctor
6. The Hoodoos - Crazy Little Dancin' Queen
7. Adrienne Braswell - Scrawny Little White Girl
8. The O-Tones - Sad But True
9. Jason Daniello - Work Out West
10. Leap of Freight - Thinkin' Blues
11. Wildsang - Well Without Water
12. Cullen Winter - The Usual

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