Blues vocalist Mary Johnson was created Mary Williams in Mississippi’s Yazoo Town in 1905. A decade later, she transferred with her mom to St. Louis, where she ultimately worked with lots of the area’s performers. She was wedded to bluesman Lonnie Johnson from 1925 to 1932. She also documented with …

Individuals and culture of the present day South serve as the inspiration for the songs of Nashville-based singer/songwriter Kate Campbell. The girl of the Baptist preacher, Campbell uses her tracks to chronicle the societal adjustments below the Mason-Dixon Range. Created in New Orleans, where her dad was going to seminary …

Younger brother of bluesman Eddie Uses up, singer/guitarist Jimmy Uses up followed in the family tradition, learning to be a staple of Chicago’s West Aspect club circuit after an extended absence in the spotlight. Born Feb 27, 1943 in Dublin, Mississippi, he trim a small number of singles early in …

Unlike a lot of his Chicago blues contemporaries, Jimmie Lee Robinson wasn’t a Mississippi Delta emigre. The guitarist was created and raised correct in the Windy Town — not definately not Maxwell Road, the fabled open-air marketplace for the near Western world side where in fact the blues veritably teemed …

A FRESH Orleans songster who lived in the city’s roughest section and made up songs about many of its most notorious murders, Richard Rabbit Dark brown was created in 1880, probably in rural Louisiana. It isn’t known when he resulted in in New Orleans, but after arriving he migrated towards …

b. Wayne Riddle, 3 Sept 1918, Dyersburg, Tennessee, USA, d. 10 Dec 1982, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Riddle was raised in Memphis so that as a guy learned to try out the harmonica that his grandfather provided him for his 4th birthday. He afterwards also performed piano, piano accordion, electric guitar …

b. Jackson, Mississippi, USA. UK-based soul-dance vocalist, and cousin of Carleen Anderson, whose popularity primarily revolved around her function for the Shamen (“Ebeneezer Goode”) and Spirit Family Feeling (“I Don’t EVEN UNDERSTAND EASILY Should Contact You Baby”), having remaining her media program and session performing duties in LA for London …

Probably one of the most popular nation comedians ever, Jerry Clower’s down-home, folksy southern laughter might do not have turn into a mainstream trend, but it’s led to a lengthy profession and a massive catalog of recordings. A nation boy given birth to in the rural Mississippi city of Liberty …

Like pianist Henry Grey, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Small Freddie Ruler enjoys something of the revered senior position in his hometown of New Orleans. He’s revered because there aren’t that lots of musicians his age group performing as much and with such gusto and vigor as he shows. Right now …

In a line of business where in fact the term “genius” is passed out freely, Van Dyke Parks may be the real article. Being a program musician, composer, arranger, lyricist, and vocalist, he’s contributed considerably to several years’ value of inimitable masterpieces acknowledged to various other performers, aswell as generating …