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We hear about the blues and desert blues and rhythm & blues, but Greek blues? Not so much. But it's a very real thing. Technically called rebetika, it's a style of music that originated in the Greek underworld at the turn of the last century. String-driven, with themes that center on heartbreak, death, jail, love, drugs and exile, it does sound, topically anyway, a lot like the blues. Except in Greek. Pasatempo, a Seattle-based rebetika band, brings the soulful, lively music, played with traditional instruments (think bouzouki, baglama, accordion and acoustic bass), as well as other Balkan folk styles, to town on Thursday for a foot-stomping good time.
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