Probably most widely known for playing in back of the Blues Brothers (and appearing prominently within their 1980 hit movie), Matt “Guitar” Murphy deserves enshrinement within the blues-guitar hall of fame anyhow. His jazz-tinged, stunningly advanced riffing behind Memphis Slim raised the towering pianist’s 1950s result for United and Vee-Jay …

Perhaps simply no act epitomized soul music because the secularization of gospel a lot more than Sam & Dave. The initial pairing of Sam Moore and Dave Prater fulfilled in Florida in 1961, plus they documented unsuccessfully for quite some time before being authorized to Atlantic Information in 1965. Atlantic …

Combined with the Germs’ Darby Crash, Fear’s Lee Ving was unquestionably one of the most confrontational front men to emerge from the western coast punk scene from the later ’70s. But while Crash got in his audience’s encounter by mutilating himself and other styles of outlandish behavior, Ving achieved exactly …

Led by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Donnie “Mr. Downchild” Walsh, the Downchild Blues Band may be the leading blues music group in Canada. Their saxophone-driven leap blues provided a significant motivation for Dan Aykroyd as well as the past due John Belushi’s Blues Brothers, who included Walsh’s music, “Everything I WANT (Nearly)” and …

Because the bassist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Donald “Duck” Dunn became, like Adam Jamerson at Motown, the person who supplied a groove for a whole era to dance to. In Dunn’s case it had been the renowned Memphis record label Stax/Volt, where he laid down basslines for spirit …

The Deceased Boys were among the first punk bands to escalate the amount of violence, nihilism, and pure ugliness of punk rock and roll to extreme new levels. Although regarded as section of New York’s middle-’70s CBGB’s picture, most of its bandmembers originally hailed from Cleveland, OH. The group’s origins …

A well-respected veteran from the American blues picture, Curtis Salgado continues to be rocking audiences along with his full-force vocals and effective harmonica work because the past due 1960s, and it has performed with a number of the biggest & most enduring acts within the genre. Salgado was created on …

In the annals of well-known music, there are always a relative couple of performers who’ve redefined this content from the music at critical factors ever sold — people whose music still left the surroundings, and definition of well-known music, altered completely. The Kingston Trio had been one particular group, changing …

Bill Murray, main character and versatile comedian, includes a long set of strikes and high-grossing comedies to his name, which jointly have got placed him 82nd for the U.K.’s Best 100 Set of Movie Stars ever. Classic humor feature movies in the first ’80s, like Stripes, Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Ghostbusters, …

Whether celebrated being a sincere tribute or derided being a tongue-in-cheek put-on, the Blues Brothers — Joliet Jake and his silent sibling Elwood — was being among the most well-known sets of the later ’70s; what began like a skit within the strike NBC tv sketch humor series Saturday Night …