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kostas dousas - kostas dousas: greek blues in america, vol. 2 - death is not the end - tapes

Genre: World - Misc

1. Manolakis O Hasiklis (Manolakis The Hashish Addict)
2. I Vasilissa (The Queen)
3. To Moro (My Baby)
4. I Tsakpina (The Frisky Girl)
5. To Kalogeraki (The Little Monk)
6. Mis Ellas (Miss Greece)
7. Efmorfi Attaleia (Beautiful Antalya
8. I Trata (The Trawler)
9. Ergatis Timmimenos (Honoured Worker)
10. O Paraponiaris (The Grumbler)

Death Is Not The End present a two-part collection centred on two emigrant Greek artists recorded in New York during the 1920s and 1930s.

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'Greek Blues in America' explores the recordings of George Katsaros and Kostas Dousas, who mainly recorded solo, accompanying themselves on guitar in a unique finger-picking style. This, along with the sub-cultural subject matter of the rebetiko, reflects somewhat of a cross-continental echo of the American blues - captured in the USA following a wave of immigration from Greece and Asia Minor, just as the new demand for regional and ethnographic music in the recording industry was beginning.