Tag Archives: Country Blues

Expertly blending lively congregational singing with highly effective preaching, the Reverend F.W. McGee was being among the most well-known nation gospel performers from the pre-Depression period. Created Ford Washington McGee in Winchester, Tennessee on Oct 5, 1890, he grew up mainly in Hillsboro, Tx; married at age 20, within a …

Chicago bluesman Blind Arvella Grey was created Walter Dixon in Somerville, TX, about January 28, 1906. A world-class raconteur, he vividly embellished the facts of his existence and never informed a particular tale the same manner twice, meaning the precise situation of his formative years are difficult to record with …

Corb Lund is a Canadian roots-country vocalist/songwriter whose third recording, Five Dollar Expenses (2002), established him like a favourite among critics. Ahead of his mainstream discovery, he was an associate from the Smalls, a punk rock-band from Edmonton that by no means attained commercial achievement but was a local favorite …

Jim O’Neal may be the creator of Living Blues: A Journal from the African-American Blues Custom.

The legendary saxophonist Jim Horn was created and raised in sunshine filled LA, CA. He started executing before crowds at his very own junior senior high school dances. While still in his teenagers and in college, he began to obtain gigs at regional nightclubs, sitting along with whatever music group …

Jimmie Tarlton is most beneficial known for his relationship with Tom Darby, which lasted in the late ’20s before mid-’30s. Both were never specifically fond of one another, however, and even though they both noticed some activity in the ’60s within the folk-blues revival, and Tarlton surely got to make …

A FRESH Orleans songster who lived in the city’s roughest section and made up songs about many of its most notorious murders, Richard Rabbit Dark brown was created in 1880, probably in rural Louisiana. It isn’t known when he resulted in in New Orleans, but after arriving he migrated towards …

Guitarist and vocalist Jesse Wadley recorded five monitors (“Alabama Jail Blues,” “St. Adam Infirmary,” and three will take of “GET IT DONE in Weldon Back yards”) for John Lomax at Bellwood Jail in Atlanta, GA, on Dec 11, 1934. Of particular curiosity is Wadley’s customized blues music, “Alabama Jail Blues,” …

Bessie Jackson was a pseudonym of Lucille Bogan, a vintage female blues musician in the ’20s and ’30s. Her outspoken lyrics cope with sexuality in a fashion that manages to improve eyebrows also within a genre that’s about as awful as documented music ever got before the introduction of artists …

If the blues includes a truly mythic body, one whose tale hangs within the music just how a Charlie Parker does over jazz or a Hank Williams does over country, it’s Robert Johnson, certainly one of the most celebrated body in the annals from the blues. Obviously, his tale is …