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John Long is a national treasure. In a world where everyone adopts a gimmick, an angle, a pose in order to get over, John Long is a living anachronism. He is a 100% pure, dyed-in-the-wool, no-BS bluesman for life. He was born, raised and bred on the blues. It's not a 'career choice' for Long, not just a type of music he plays, or something he happened to be influenced by at some point. he's not a blues player, he's a Bluesman, with a capital B. Long has the uncanny ability to create and perform original material that sounds as if it came from a long-lost cache of vintage recordings by one of the classic bluesmen - it's music completely unique and new, while at the same time hauntingly familiar. Long's songs contain all the darkness and light, the humor and the pathos, and the fully realized musicality of the very best blues from the heyday of the genre. It's a heyday that's long gone, but in Long's hands - in his world - it's no gimmick, no pale imitation. This is the music that John Long has lived his whole life to create.