By: Staff
Guitarist/singer/composer, Corey Harris , calls the blues “the foundation of all contemporary music.”
“Funk music, rock and roll, jazz, hip-hop – all of that didn’t generate by itself,” says Harris, the recipient of the 2007 MacArthur Genius Grant who has committed much of his career to exploring the connections between gospel, early jazz, reggae and West African music.
Harris is just one of a team of premier blues artists who appear on True Blues, a 13-song live CD set for release May 28, 2013, on Telarc.
Recorded at various venues throughout the United States including Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, True Blues explores the genre and follows its rich history from the Mississippi Delta of the early 1900s to the present day.
The album includes stellar performances by Harris, Taj Mahal, Shemekia Copeland, Guy Davis, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Phil Wiggins.
A companion DVD, produced by Harris and Daniel Patinkin, will be released worldwide in summer 2013. Look for True Blues tour dates this summer
