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Whether singing a cappella or with reduced accompaniment, Frankie Armstrong uses her powerful soprano vocals to breathe new lease of life into centuries-old United kingdom balladry. Most widely known on her behalf rendition of Peggy Seeger’s feminist anthem, “I’m Gonna End up being an Engineer,” Armstrong continues to be an …

Once dismissed simply by purists being a Chuck Berry imitator (and a precise one in that), tall, trim, and lanky Chicago southpaw Eddy Clearwater is currently named a prime progenitor of Western world Side-style blues electric guitar. That’s not to state he won’t spice up a gig with just a …

Louisiana bluesman Coco Robicheaux is no stranger towards the blues, either musically or elsewhere. He’s been playing the blues the majority of his existence, fronting his personal music group when he was 13 years of age, playing Bourbon Road just 2 yrs later on, and inking an archive deal around …

Guitarist Bennie Smith is a staple in the wonderful world of St. Louis blues for 50 years. Furthermore to his personal Shook Up recording from Fedora, the indigenous son from the musical town can be noticed on Mean Disposition from Big Poor Smitty, “Shook Up Over You” from Jimmy “Spirit” …

Few blues tracks have stood the test of Dad Period as enduringly as “Goin’ Straight down Gradual.” Its composer, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, endured rather impressively himself — he documented through the early ’30s and was still at it a lot more than three years later. If not really for …

Dutch is a blues vocalist from Nova Scotia.

Among a half-dozen necessary drummers through the Chicago picture, Clifton Adam was closely from the mighty electric guitar slinger Bo Diddley for 16 years. This areas Adam front and middle on the creation of 1 of the very most essential beats in rock and roll music, referred to as the …

Wayne Yancy Jones, aka Tail Dragger, was created in Altheimer, AR, in 1940. He was raised by his grandparents and was affected as a kid by the electrical Chicago blues of Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and specifically Chester Burnett, the Howlin’ Wolf. Jones was a Howlin’ Wolf devotee, because …

Too Slim & the Taildraggers certainly are a strike about several continents, but in the home in the Washington condition town of Spokane, they’re similar to the Rodney Dangerfield of blues rings. Regardless of the band’s launch greater than half-a-dozen CDs and several national and worldwide trips, many residents, when …

Probably one of the most prominent numbers in past due 20th hundred years blues, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal played a massive part in revitalizing and preserving traditional acoustic blues. Not really content to remain within that world, Mahal quickly broadened his approach, going for a musicologist’s fascination with a variety of …