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Vocalist and head from the namesake Johnny Utmost Band, Johnny Utmost is a longtime veteran and well-respected name in the Ontario blues picture. Utmost and bandmates Ted Leonard on electric guitar, Martin Alex Aucoin on piano, Duncan McBain on drums, and Bruce Longman on bass produced a name for themselves …

Guitarist, vocalist, and vocalist/songwriter Roxanne Potvin offers made a name for herself inside a blues-loving nation, Canada, however the finest is however to result from this up-and-coming songstress, that has made many cross-country trips with two additional guitar-slinging ladies, Sue Foley and Deborah Coleman. The three later on recorded an …

Being a bandmember, saxophonist Small Willie Jackson frequently played golf swing jazz, but over the edges he issued under his own name, he played the LA jazz/leap blues cross types that was thus vital that you the delivery of R&B in the later ’40s. The blind Jackson used pianist Joe …

As an associate of Koerner, Ray And Glover, with ‘Spider’ John Koerner and Tony Glover, Dave ‘Snaker’ Ray (b. 17 August 1943, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, d. 28 November 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is at the vanguard from the folk revival from the 60s. An achieved 6- and 12-string guitarist, …

If for nothing at all else, the name of Willie Cobbs will usually band immortal for the prominence of his structure “YOU DO NOT Love Me personally,” included in everyone from Junior Wells towards the Allman Brothers. But Cobbs’ personal discography is definitely dotted with additional triumphs, including a 1994 …

Perhaps one of the most influential of the first Delta blues guitarists, Willie Dark brown was arguably the quintessential accompanist of his period, most notably support legends including Charley Patton and Boy House. Delivered August 6, 1900 in Clarksdale, MS, Dark brown was an impacting singer and a fantastic guitarist, …

Celebrated among the main architects from the classic Chicago blues sound, bassist Dave Myers was created Oct 30, 1926, in Byhalia, MS. He and guitarist sibling Louis discovered the blues from Lonnie Johnson, who resided in the family’s cellar. By his teenagers, Myers was a staple at regional rent house …

He was 1 poor dude, strutting over the stage just like a harp-toting gangster, mesmerizing the masses along with his tough-guy antics and rib-sticking Chicago blues assault. Amazingly, Junior Wells held at precisely this type of point for over 40 years; he was a dynamic performer from your dawn from …

Willie Bryant was significant to music twice in his profession, as the first choice of the talented big music group during 1935-38 so that as a favorite MC and disk jockey in the 1950’s. He was raised in Chicago and attempted unsuccessfully to understand the trumpet. Bryant started his profession …

Terry Timmons was one particular vocalists from the past due ’40s and early 1950s whose function, like this of her music function model, Dinah Washington, helped bridge the distance between big-band-style blues as well as the leaner R&B noises that followed. She was created in Charleston, WV, in 1927, however …