Folklorists like to romanticize blues music as being a pure expression of culture, but recorded blues music was carefully marketed to its intended audience from its very beginning. As early as the...
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Marjorie OwensWhat does that person who isn’t so jolly listen to get through the season? In the spirit of The Pogues’ “A Fairytail in New York” — one of the greatest of sad holiday songs — here is a little holiday wallowing mix.