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Guido van Rijn teaches English at
Kennemer Lyceum
in Overveen, The Netherlands.
A freelance writer and blues historian, he has published articles in Block, Blues Unlimited, Blues & Rhythm, Juke Blues and Living Blues His Ph.D. dissertation from Leiden University was revised as the award-winning Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR (1997). A sequel entitled The Truman and Eisenhower Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs, 1945-1960 was published in 2004. Kennedy’s Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK was published in August 2007. President Johnson's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on LBJ, Martin Luther King, Robert Kenndy and Vietnam 1963-1968 was published in 2009. The Nixon and Ford Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on Vietnam, Watergate, Civil Rights and Inflation 1969-1976 was published in 2011. Guido van Rijn
has also produced
twenty-three LPs and CDs for his own
Agram label and, in 1970, co-founded
the Netherlands Blues and Boogie Organization which culminated in the
annual Utrecht
Blues Estafette |