Carmen Rodgers is among countless performers who emerged through the 2000s and deserved to become known by a lot more than serious, deep-digging R&B listeners. Blessed in Mississippi, elevated in Tx, and located in Georgia (particularly Atlanta), Rodgers added a mellow but stimulating showcase, “Ain’t VIRTUALLY NO TIME,” to Hidden …

A Chicago-based vocalist whose music was steeped in Southern gospel and deep spirit, Otis Clay never really had a significant pop hit, but he was a periodic visitor towards the R&B graphs and an long lasting presence in the world of blues and vintage spirit, while also savoring a long …

The Chicago blues scene boasted its couple of Smothers Brothers, but there is nothing particularly amusing about their tough make of blues music. The old of both by ten years, Otis “Big Smokey” Smothers was initially to reach in the Windy Town from Mississippi in the middle-’40s. Howlin’ Wolf loved …

Marisa Anderson is a classical guitarist, composer, article writer, and sociable activist. Her musical personal is usually melding American traditional musics from blues, gospel, nation, folk, jazz, and circus music to minimalism, digital music, drone, 20th hundred years traditional, and improvisation. Originally from North California, Anderson’s first musical memories consist …

Vocalist/bassist Michael Henderson offers enjoyed successful professions as a new player and performer. He shifted from Yazoo Town, Mississippi to Detroit in the first ’60s, and was a program player. Like a 13-year-old, Henderson performed bass with the great Four, Detroit Emeralds, Billy Preston, and additional Motown works in 1964 …

b. 13 March 1959, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. At 3 years older Taylor moved along with his family members to Chicago, and started playing acoustic guitar around age six, influenced by an uncle who performed blues. He was affected by a number of guitarists, including B.B. Ruler, Albert Ruler, Jimi Hendrix, …

A protégé of John Lee Hooker, Maxwell Road Jimmy Davis was a Chicago blues organization throughout the second option half from the 20th hundred years. Given birth to Charles W. Thompson on March 2, 1925 in Tippo, MS, he discovered to play acoustic guitar from Hooker while still an adolescent, …

Mississippi-based singer/songwriter Neilson Hubbard got his begin in a Galaxie 500 cover band, but what’s interesting is usually that had not been until his second single album (following a youthful stint fronting the mid-period Feelies-like artsy college rockers This Living Hand, the group that cover band had transmuted into) that …

Chicago bluesman Blind Arvella Grey was created Walter Dixon in Somerville, TX, about January 28, 1906. A world-class raconteur, he vividly embellished the facts of his existence and never informed a particular tale the same manner twice, meaning the precise situation of his formative years are difficult to record with …

Blessed circa 1920 close to Como, MS, Napoleon Strickland was referred to as the “fife-blowingest man in the condition of Mississippi.” He was well-known in the Southern for playing harmonica, electric guitar, and diddley-bow, some sort of poor man’s electric guitar that had only 1 string and was found in …