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A longtime cohort of pianist/maker Sonny Thompson, singer Lula Reed recorded steadily for Cincinnati-based Ruler Records through the mid-’50s after debuting on polish in 1951 to sing Thompson’s original edition from the moving ballad “I’ll Drown in my own Tears” (a 1956 smash for Ray Charles as “Drown in my …

A family group affair, the Lee Young boys were among the leading lighting within the ‘Sacred Metal’ genre of gospel music. ‘Sacred Metal’ was a method of music that got root base in blues and gospel but was stylized with the launch of metal guitars within the 1930s by Willie …

Regardless of the prominent existence of celebrated blues artist Howlin’ Wolf in her family tree, singer Zora Young was raised singing not really blues, but gospel. Even though the Mississippi indigenous shook off her origins at age seven to relocate with her family members to Chicago, she went to the …

Using a naturally expressive voice which has drawn comparisons to greats like Aretha Franklin and Ella Fitzgerald, Texas-based singer and songwriter Ruthie Foster includes a wide palette of American song forms — gospel and blues to jazz, folk, and soul — and her live performances are powerfully transfiguring. Foster was …

Elder Curry was a performing preacher and an underrated guitarist whose fervent, righteous sermons/music featured staccato electric guitar lines, the entire tilt barrelhouse piano of Elder Beck, as well as the stomping foot, clapped hands, and raised voices of his whole congregation, which produce his records appear to be a …

Queen Esther began creating a name for herself in senior high school, 1st as you of only 30 juniors asked to wait the Governor’s Honors System in the condition of Georgia in theater, then as you of 25 elderly people asked to wait The National Basis for the Arts’ Arts …

Having produced only a small number of recordings together with her presumed hubby A.C. Forehand, the ’20s performer Blind Mamie Forehand joins a course of documenting performers whose uniqueness isn’t in name just. Although it many not need been that common for girls to sing the blues skillfully within the …

Seminal gospel-blues artist Blind Willie Johnson is undoubtedly one of the biggest bottleneck slide guitarists. The Tx street-corner evangelist is recognized as very much for the his effective and fervent gruff tone of voice as he’s for his capability like a guitarist. He frequently sang inside a tough, bass tone …

Steve Ripley relocated along with his family members from his birthplace of Boise, Idaho to some plantation close to Pawnee, Oklahoma. Originally focusing on the plantation in addition to around city, Ripley transformed his focus on music in his free time. After executing his initial gig at Glencoe SENIOR HIGH …

Together with Willie Mae Ford Smith, Sister Rosetta Tharpe is broadly acclaimed among the best Sanctified gospel singers of her era; a flamboyant performer whose music frequently flirted using the blues and golf swing, she was also probably one of the most questionable skills of her day time, surprising purists …