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OLD BLUES, NEW TRICKS

blues boom, the genre began to lose traction as rock, metal, punk, rap and hip-hop took turns in music’s mainstream. Stevie Ray Vaughan became the blues’ first great hope in many years when he arrived on the scene in 1983. Slowly, the genre came to life

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