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Tampa Red Videos

Red Bull Highlights

Red Bull Highlights

Underage Festival

NME Video: Cage The Elephant & Blood Red Shoes Session

NME Video: Cage The Elephant & Blood Red Shoes Session

NME Video: Cage The Elephant & Blood Red Shoes Session

Red Light Company  'Be The One' - Video Exclusive

Red Light Company 'Be The One' - Video Exclusive

Watch Red Light Company take on The Ting Tings' single 'Be The One' live from the studio.

Theoretical Girl 'Red Mist - New Video

Theoretical Girl 'Red Mist - New Video

The London-based songstress presents he impressive new promo for 'Red Mist'.

Shockwaves NME Awards 2009 - MGMT

Shockwaves NME Awards 2009 - MGMT

We catch MGMT on the red carpet at the Shockwaves NME Awards 2009.

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Tampa Red - You Missed A Good Man

Tampa Red - You Missed A Good Man (03:32)

Tampa Red - You Missed A Good Man

Tampa Red - It Hurts Me Too

Tampa Red - It Hurts Me Too (02:29)

First recorded version (1940) of this much covered song which recycles the melody of Sitting on Top of the World. Check out the fantastic Elmore James version. Red was one of the first wave of southern bluesmen to...

Denver Blues - Tampa Red

Denver Blues - Tampa Red (03:02)

This is one of the greatest country blues instrumentals of all-time! I'm still working on a couple parts of this, but this is what I've got so far. It's played in Open D Tuing. I believe Tampa Red is tuned up a couple...

Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - You Can't Get That Stuff No More

Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - You Can't Get That Stuff No More (03:15)

Tampa Red, vocal and guitar. Thomas A. Dorsey (Georgia Tom), piano. Recorded: Thursday, February 4, 1932, New York City. gandalfsgallery.blogspot.com

Tampa Red - Don't You Lie To Me

Tampa Red - Don't You Lie To Me (02:56)

Recorded May 10th 1940. Here you'll find electric guitar, piano, blues singing and kazoo. Sounds great for a record that's been broken and glued back together!

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Tampa Red Biography

Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 - March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an influential American musician.

Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who had a unique single-string bottleneck style. His songwriting and his silky, polished slide technique influenced other leading Chicago blues guitarists, such as Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk, as well as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mose Allison and many others. In a career spanning over 30 years he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum records.

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Tampa Red's Best Songs

  • 1. You Can't Get That Stuff No More
  • 2. It Hurts Me Too
  • 3. Denver Blues
  • 4. Anna Lou Blues
  • 5. Don't You Lie to Me
  • 6. Boogie Woogie Dance
  • 7. Travel On
  • 8. Worried Devil Blues
  • 9. When the One You Love Is Gone
  • 10. It's Tight Like That
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