Daily Archives: March 23, 2024

Alligator Records: Crucial Blues Chicago, Crucial Slide Guitar Blues, Crucial Harmonica Blues, Crucial Guitar Blues, Crucial Texas Blues

Posted on March 23, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“One of three simultaneously released, budget-priced Alligator blues compilations (the other two are Crucial Guitar Blues and Crucial Harmonica Blues), Crucial Chicago Blues is a 12-track anthology of the Chicago-based label’s hometown artists. Harp players such as Carey Bell, James … Continue reading →

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The Theatre of Images: The Early Years

Posted on March 23, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“byrdwoMAN” at Robert Wilson’s Loft in 1968. “‘The Theatre of Images’—a term coined in the early 1970s by Michel Guy, director of the Avignon Festival in France, and popularized by Bonnie Marranca in Performing Arts Journal—was, along with performance art, … Continue reading →

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