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The Blasters - Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985)

Primary Artist
The Blasters
Album Title
Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985)
Release Date
March 5, 2002 
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Review by Mark Deming
"We got the Louisiana boogie and the Delta blues/We got country swing and rockabilly, too/We got jazz, country western, and Chicago blues/It's the greatest music that you ever knew." Dave Alvin was writing about "American Music" in his song of the same name when he penned those lines, but while he would never be quite so arrogant as to say so himself, he could have been talking about his band, the Blasters, who used the song as the title track of their first album. While often lumped in with the L.A. Read More