Episode 108: “I Wanna Be Your Man” by the Rolling Stones
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How Chris Barber Shaped the Blues Scene
Chris Barber brought Big Bill Vroonsie over from the US to perform and record with him. He was not as much of a purist as someone like his former collaborator Ken Collier, who believed that jazz had become corrupted in 1922 by people like Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson. If you watch the Beatles anthology, for example, in the sections where they talk about the music they were listening to as teenagers, Vroonsies is the only blues musician specifically named because of Chris Barber.
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