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Guitarist, vocalist, and harmonica ace Robin Rogers’ existence was filled with hard knocks and sad converts, plus a couple of delightful coincidences, and she earned the proper to sing the blues the difficult, old-fashioned method, but sadly, she lived for just a short while after gaining her widest identification as …

From the three blues guitarists answering towards the name of Luther Johnson, this West Side-styled veteran is just about the best known. Increasing the general dilemma encircling the triumvirate, like Luther “Snake Youngster” Johnson, Luther “Electric guitar Junior” Johnson spent an extended stint in the top-seeded music group of Muddy …

The longtime drummer using the Muddy Waters Music group, bluesman Willie “Big Eye” Smith was created in Helena, AK, on January 19, 1936; elevated by his sharecropper grandparents, mainly because a kid his neighbours included famous brands Robert Nighthawk and Pinetop Perkins. At 17 he journeyed to Chicago to go …

With each new album, guitarist, singer, and songwriter “Steady Rollin'” Bob Margolin is constantly on the increase the boundaries of contemporary blues. Margolin, a sideman for Muddy Waters from 1973 to 1980, was created on, may 9, 1949, and elevated in Brookline, MA, became enamored using the recordings of Chuck …

Another ex-Muddy Waters worker, Jerry Portnoy’s biting, flailing harmonica design rivals any within modern blues circles for fluency, range, or psychological range. His vocals work enough, particularly when punctuated by his harp accompaniment and solos. Portnoy started his professional musical profession within Muddy Waters’ support band in the first ’70s. …

Drums, percussionist. Versatile drummer and percussionist who utilizes selection of tempo instruments, noises and gadgets. He has documented steadily because the middle-’80s, but on little independent brands HMC, Mbia and Guide.

Chicago blues singer/harpist Small Arthur Duncan was created in Indianola, MS in 1934 and elevated on a single Woodburn Plantation as B.B. Ruler. He relocated towards the Windy City’s Western Side through the 1950s, frequently playing together with acoustic guitar great Earl Hooker; regardless of the exclusive harmonica sound made …

Pianist David Maxwell is a area of the Boston blues picture like a sideman because the past due 1960s, but offers only within the ’90s begun leading his own music group and saving under his own name. Maxwell required a few of his early stylistic cues from famous brands Spann, …