Tag Archives: B.B. King

Chris Cain’s sharp lead guitar and gravelly vocals have brought him country wide recognition. Affected by B. B. and Albert Ruler in addition to numerous jazz players, Cain offers prepared up a jumping audio within the Bay Region circuit. A indigenous of San Jose, CA, Cain started playing California blues …

Very little is well known for many concerning this group — which might already have been two groups, or perhaps two incarnations of the same group. What’s certain is a Baton Rouge-spawned clothing called Cool Grits had many brushes with greatness across a brief history around three (or simply four) …

Veteran guitarist, singer, and songwriter Costs Perry was perhaps one of the most inventive storytellers in the present day blues idiom, yet sadly, he passed on from a coronary attack in the summertime of 2007. He was 50. He burst upon the nationwide blues touring circuit within the mid-’90s using …

Bobby Bland earned his long lasting blues superstar position the hard method: with out a acoustic guitar, harmonica, or any kind of additional instrument to fall back again upon. All Bland experienced to provide was his wonderful voice, a greatly powerful device in his early heyday, injected with charisma and …

Ike Turner is obviously one of the most dehumanized statistics in rock background. Talk about his name as well as the initial association that involves most anyone’s brain is “abusive hubby,” not really “spirit superstar” or “rock and roll & move pioneer.” Based on tale, Turner was a tyrannical ogre …

Among the great rock and roll companies of his period, Bill Szymczyk initial became thinking about sound creation when he caused sonar within the Navy. After departing the Navy, the manufacturer drifted to NY where he had taken employment at Dick Charles Documenting, the company that handled all of the …

Slashing blues, infectious R&B, formulaic rock and roll & move, moving gospel — keyboardist Billy “A CHILD” Emerson played those interrelated designs throughout a lengthy profession that started in Florida and later on transported him as much as Memphis and Chicago. Emerson got already discovered his method around a piano …

Dallas-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter Bob Kirkpatrick may possibly not be children name, but he’s been quietly building an audience going back 30 years in clubs around Tx, Mississippi and Louisiana. Although he hadn’t documented in 23 years ahead of 1996’s HEADING BACK to Tx, Kirkpatrick is definitely a regional …

As a kid, Big Joe (b. Joseph Maher, c.1964, Washington, DC, USA) heard R&B and blues from his dad’s record collection. Within the middle-80s, he started playing drums while still participating in college and was shortly active in regional R&B bands like the Uptown Tempo Kings. On the next couple …

Universally hailed because the king from the blues, the legendary B.B. Ruler was certainly the single most significant electric guitarist from the last half of the 20th hundred years. His bent records and staccato selecting style affected legions of modern bluesmen, while his gritty and self-confident voice — with the …