ROOTS N BLUES

John Lee Hooker by Norman Seef

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Sunday Jazz—Markus Hartel

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Street musicians in Maynardville, Tennessee, photographed by Ben Shahn in 1935

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Vassar Clements • Vassar Clements (1928–2005) was a Grammy Award- winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions.

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