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Two Conaway brothers plinked and plunked on various string instruments in the first times of jazz. There is Sterling Conaway, among the associates of Duke Ellington’s initial combo, produced when this jazz large was just 18. And there is Lincoln Conaway, most widely known for burning traditional blues goddess Bessie …

Bluesman Joe Calicott was created and lived his very existence in the tiny city of Nesbit, Mississippi, and is among the most underrecorded legends from the Mississippi delta single acoustic blues custom. He first found your guitar at age 15 and, in 1929, 1st made an appearance on 78s as …

This drummer has performed and recorded using the group Plunky as well as the Oneness of Juju. About “oneness” or keeping track of Coles, as they say, he shouldn’t be mixed up using the swing drummer called Ronnie Cole.

Numerous exotic nicknames to select from over the jazz scene, nothing at all seems as cozy as “Snags,” particularly when it really is apparently inspired by grotesque teeth. The storyplot of Clifford “Snags” Jones, besides providing that colorful details to munch on, is virtually that of a journeyman drummer, faithfully …

Chris Bouchillon single-handedly created the speaking blues form when he recorded “Speaking Blues” for Columbia Information in Atlanta in 1926 (the actual 78 wasn’t released until 1927), even though couple of recall his name today, the blues version he started continues to be utilized to great impact by myriad performers …

Lil’ Boy Jackson was a stylistic throwback as soon as he first resulted in during the instant postwar era. Created Melvin Jackson, he was a Tx nation bluesman of the best purchase whose rustic strategy appealed wholeheartedly towards the early-’50s blues market. His dad liked blues, while his mom played …

Vocals. West Coastline vocalist who do a tribute record to Dinah Washington in past due ’60s, was supported by Wynton Kelly trio.

Half Way House formed in 1986 in LA, the merchandise of four teens attempting to play within a blues-rock music group. Vocalist Jennifer Barry, guitarist Dean Zuckerman, bassist Eddie Fagin and drummer Kevin Costigan performed around the region for nearly six years before launching an eight-song EP independently label, Half …

Seldom recorded vocalist whose output was mainly confined for some past due-’50s sessions about Dawn. Among these continues to be reissued on New Sound.

Booba Barnes & His Playboys rocked the hardest of all juke-joint combos in the Mississippi Delta through the ’80s, and following the release of his debut album (The Heartbroken Guy, 1990), “Booba” took his act and his band north to Chicago, following trail of his idols Howlin’ Wolf and Small …