About this site...

This website is made and managed by Satoru Ohta, a Japanese blues purist. I feel very sorry for those who reached this page, because the contents of the site are written in Japanese.

The outline of the site is as follows.

Boogie woogie and barrelhouse piano blues

• Important standard tunes of boogie woogie and barrelhouse piano blues.
• Biographies of less known piano bluesmen and blueswomen.
• CD list of piano blues.
• Records (78rpms and vinyls) from my poor collection.

African-American music recorded before the blues

• Reviews of African-American music tunes, which were recorded before 1920 and available on CDs.
• List and comments on reissue CDs containing the recordings before 1920.

Modern blues produced and arranged by Miles Grayson

• The man (I need know about him more!) and his arts.
• Records produced by Miles Grayson.

Books on the blues music

• Short reviews and recommendations.

If you wish to know more in detail about the above items, please feel free to send e-mail to me. I will respond as soon as possible.

Thank you very much for visiting the "Back Door to the Blues."

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Satoru Ohta