b. Provine Hatch Jnr., 25 Oct 1921, Sledge, Mississippi, USA, d. 14 January 2003, Un Dorado Springs, Missouri. While some ten years over the age of Small Walter, Hatch was among the many harmonica players to become tagged ‘Small Walter Jnr’. The seventh of nine sons who all performed harmonica, …

Louise Johnson traveled with Charley Patton, Kid Home, and Willie Dark brown in the Mississippi Delta to Grafton, WI, to take part in a famed nation blues recording program for Paramount Information held on, may 28, 1930. On that time, Johnson trim her just known monitors, four bits of barrelhouse …

For a feeling from the blues at its most tangible, one must search no further than singer/guitarist Percy Strother, who triumphed over incredible tragedy to generate music of real pain and sorrow. Delivered July 23, 1946 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, he was still a kid when his dad passed away violently; …

Scrapper Blackwell was most widely known for his use pianist Leroy Carr through the early and mid-’30s, but he also recorded many single edges between 1928 and 1935. A unique stylist whose function was nearer to jazz than blues, Blackwell was a fantastic player with a method constructed around single-note …

Cited like a perfect early impact by rockabilly pioneer Charlie Feathers, Mississippi Delta bluesman Junior Kimbrough’s modal, hypnotic blues vision continued to be a regional sensation for some of his job. He finally transcended the confines of his area in the first ’90s, when he made an appearance within the …

Blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Sterling Magee and harmonica participant Adam Gussow possess paid their dues. They started their profession on the road — over the part of Seventh Avenue and 125th Road, to be specific — and in just a matter of weeks these were sketching crowds, people pausing …

Christopher Watkins, a twenty-something rocker from your SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay region, is turning a complete new era of teenage and twenty-something option rock fans to the eternal hipness from the blues. Watkins, who uses the stage name Preacher Boy, is usually supported on his golf club shows round …

b. c.1972, Laurel, Mississippi, USA. Lovett?s teenage mom was struggling to look after her so when an infant she was set up for adoption. With her brand-new family members she sang in cathedral and attracted a lot local interest that at age eight she documented ‘Me And Jesus’ and ‘One …

b. 17 November 1911, Gumwood, Arkansas, USA, d. 17 January 1985, Sikeston, Missouri, USA. De Berry was a dynamic if peripheral person in the Memphis blues community from its heyday through the 20s before early 50s. He was raised in Arkansas and Mississippi before shifting to Memphis to reside along …

b. 21 Apr 1941, Robards, Kentucky, USA. When he was eight yrs . old, Owen noticed Hank Williams sing and from that point he became totally fascinated with the star and his music. After completing his education, he proved helpful variously being a journalist so when a golf trainer until …