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Weepin' Willie Robinson 1926 - 2007
The both triumphant and turbulent blues life of Boston singer Weepin' Willie Robinson ended tragically Sunday, December 30 after a cigarette Robinson had been smoking in bed caused a fire that engulfed him in flames. Robinson was 81.
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Time Travel
Imagine record shopping with the use of a time machine. Just think what it’d be like to walk into a record warehouse that had been frozen in time – where there were tens of thousands of LPs, all pressed before 1982 and almost all sealed. What wouldn’t you give to go back and buy all those albums you were foolish to pass on when you originally had the chance,
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins and Chris Layton Visit Acoustic Sounds
Between them all, they've literally sold tens of millions of records. But even musicians the status of Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins and Chris Layton were completely floored when they saw the world's largest selection of audiophile recordings. They freaked out even further when we sat them down for a listening session in the Acoustic Sounds showroom.
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We have built it. Will you come?
We can tell you what we’d do – or rather what we did. As part of the move to our new 18,000-square-feet Audiophile Fort Knox, we decided to create two state-of-the-art Acoustic Sounds showrooms – a place where we can both demo audio equipment and recordings for customers, and evaluate them for ourselves. No expense was spared in the construction of these rooms or in the selection of gear that would outfit them.
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A Music Lover's Dream Weekend
Unlike any festival you've ever attended, the Blues Masters shows are held in a nearly 100-year-old church-turned-recording studio with intimacy, ambiance and acoustics second to none.
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