Rasta Blues

The great Corey Harris plays “Honeysuckle” his own version of Blind Blake’s “Early Morning Blues.”

Corey Harris was born and raised near Denver, Colorado. He graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine with a Bachelors Degree in 1991, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2007. Harris received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for language studies in Cameroon in his early twenties, before taking a teaching post in Napoleonville, Louisiana under the Teach For America program. He has lived and traveled widely in West Africa, an influence that has permeated much of his work, and additionally has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Canada, West Africa, Japan and Australia. Corey is known for his solo acoustic work as well as his electric band, formerly known as the “5 x 5.” His current band is known as the “Rasta Blues Experience.”

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