Tag Archives: Country Blues

Although Bukka White’s full genuine name was Booker T. Washington Light, it really is as Booker T. Washington that a few of his documenting credits show up, with significantly less majesty compared to the typical Washington monument regardless of the grandeur of the nation blues artist’s shows. Occurring for instance …

An obscure Delta blues player from Mississippi, Willie “Poor Son” Lofton falls loosely in to the Charley Patton/Tommy Johnson blues camp. His tone of voice was eerily just like Johnson’s, and his most stunning music was a edition of Johnson’s “Big Street Blues,” known as “Dark Street Blues,” which presented …

John Long’s uncanny capability to appear to be a prewar country blues participant — even while he plays first blues items he wrote himself or along with his older brother Claude Long — makes his music sound both just like a facsimile from the 1920s and early-’30s blues 78s he …

There is certainly some mystery concerning who Bob Robinson in fact was. His name shows up connected to some edges issued with a loose band of Chicago music artists beneath the monikers the Hokum Kids as well as the Down House Kids (based on what label) in the first to …

Bluegrass and nation blues picker George Thomas — based out of Powhaten, VA — offers supported Mitch Harrell seeing that both an instrumentalist and saving engineer. Thomas released a single Compact disc in 2000; certainly grateful for the knowledge, he entitled your time and effort I’m Thankful. This artist’s musical …

George Williams was created in Houston ‘circular about 1899, and his vaudeville sparring partner, Bessie Dark brown, was also given birth to in Tx, roughly 4 years previous. In 1918 they started working collectively as Williams & Dark brown around the touring entertainment circuit overseen from the Theatre Owners and …

Neo-blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist (he also takes on Dobro and tenor banjo) C.W. Stoneking (Chris to his good friends) was created in 1974 in Katherine, Australia, to American parents who split soon after he was created. Spending the majority of his period with his dad, who trained in the …

Alabama local Wiley Barner (he was also called Willie Barnes) was created Apr 28, 1900 (some resources list the delivery season as 1899). He documented two tracks (“My Gal Goodies Me Mean” and “If you need a Good Girl – Obtain One Longer and High”) in Birmingham, AL, on August …

Like T-Model Ford, Seasick Steve (aka Steve Wold) began saving his personal music much later on in existence than other music artists. A storytelling vocalist reviving traditional nation blues, Wold spent his child years in California, but remaining house at 14. Like a hobo, he journeyed for quite some time, …

Mississippian Otto Virgil (his last name actually has been Virgial) documented two one 78s in Chicago for Bluebird Records in Halloween in 1925, “LITTTLE LADY in Rome” b/w “Poor Idea Blues” and “Got the Blues On the subject of Rome” b/w “Seven Year Itch.” Those four edges, which feature fairly …