For the football player of the same name see Corey Harris . Corey Harris (born February 21 1969, Denver, Colorado) is a Bates College educated blues and reggae musician.Currently residing in Charlottesville, Virginia, Harris is constantly on tour and is proud to carry the tradition of classic African-influenced blues music into the 21st century. Harris was featured on the acclaimed 2003 PBS television mini-series The Blues in an episode directed by Martin Scorsese. Harris also works as a part-time music teacher at the Field School of Charlottesville. He has hosted a weekly radio show, "Blues and the Abstract Root", on WTJU radio in Charlottesville. He helped Billy Bragg and Wilco to write the music for "Hoodoo Voodoo" on Mermaid Avenue, an album consisting entirely of songs for which the lyrics were written by the late Woody Guthrie. He also appeared as a musician on the album and its sequel, Mermaid Avenue Vol. I

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