b. 12 June 1910, Belzoni, Mississippi, USA, d. 23 Dec 1976, Fresno, California, USA. A guitarist, although apparently not recorded therefore, and an exuberant vocalist, Gilmore documented for Contemporary in 1952 with Ike Turner on piano and Wayne Scott Jnr. on acoustic guitar; Scott was an early on victim of …

There’s hardly any sound within the blues as conveniently digestible, accessible, immediately recognizable, so when an easy task to play and sing because the music of Jimmy Reed. His best-known music — “Baby, WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE Me to accomplish,” “Shiny Lights, Big Town,” “Honest I REALLY DO,” “You don’t …

Given birth to in 1925 in Polan in Well worth Region, GA, folk-blues guitarist Jimmy Lee Williams lived his very existence in the region, working like a farmer developing soybeans, peanuts, and watermelons. He discovered to try out acoustic guitar in 1941, and was quickly spending his weekends playing for …

Husband-and-wife duo the Good-looking Family have already been tagged both alt-country and traditionalist, but truthfully their frequently dark music is based on a distinctive space somewhere among, blending the noises of traditional nation and bluegrass (and, specifically, murder ballads) right into a more modern landscape. Vocalist and composer Brett Sparks …

Inheriting the slop jar mantle tossed down by label honchos Billy Miller and Miriam Linna, proceeding in the now defunct A-Bones, the Church Tips play a make of rock and roll & move that’s prolonged on slop and generally brief in subtlety and flavor. Offering saxman Lars Espensen (the present …

The 4 Freshmen were among the top vocal sets of the 1950s, and formed the bridge between ’40s ensembles just like the Mel-Tones and harmony-based rock and roll & roll rings like the Seaside Boys in addition to groupings like Spanky & Our Gang as well as the Manhattan Transfer. …

b. 5 July 1953, Selma, Alabama, USA. Elevated in north Mississippi’s hill nation, as a kid Dark brown absorbed the area’s wealthy musical heritage. Mainly self-taught on acoustic guitar, his guitar-playing neighbour, the under-recorded bluesman Joe Callicott, offered him encouragement and training. In the beginning of the 70s, Dark brown, …

What Bola Sete are Portuguese for the seventh ball within the billiard game, that is the only dark one. He got his nickname after getting the only dark man in a little group. From an early on age group, he was habitual in the Bohemian circles of Praça Tiradentes, Rio, …

Pianist, composer, and bandleader Keith Jarrett is among the most prolific, innovative, and iconoclastic music artists to emerge from the past due 20th hundred years. Like a pianist (though that’s in no way the only device he takes on), he actually changed the discussion in jazz by presenting an entirely …

Bheki Mseleku fused components of traditional African township music, American bebop, and his own devout, far-reaching spirituality to emerge because the top South African jazz pianist of his era. Delivered Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku in Durban, South Africa on March 3, 1955, he was the kid of the music instructor. Still, …