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Lurrie Bell was created on Dec 13, 1958, in Chicago. His popular dad, harpist Carey Bell, experienced him training on guitar like a wee lad. By 1977, he was documenting with his father and playing behind a number of established celebrities, tabbed by many observers at that time like a …

Created in Dallas in 1949, this singer/songwriter/drummer was raised hearing Dallas radio (with large doses of Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles, and Bobby Blue Bland on rock and roll & roll channels) and locals the Nightcaps, among the country’s 1st white electric blues rings. In senior high school he became a …

b. Douglas Adam Schlecht, 21 August 1953, Turlock, California, USA. Inspired to take a pastime in music by his cathedral organist mother, Adam soon started teaching himself to try out saxophone, eventually selecting the baritone relation although he also has tenor saxophone and bass clarinet. After he and his family …

Duke Robillard is among the founding people of Roomful of Blues, in addition to among the guitarists who have replaced Jimmie Vaughan within the Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1990. Between that point, Robillard pursued a single career that discovered him exploring even more musically adventurous place than either Roomful of Blues …

Making use of their fusion of blues, rock and roll & move, and R&B, the Fabulous Thunderbirds helped popularize roadhouse Texas blues using a mass audience within the ’80s and, along the way, they helped kick-start a blues revival through the mid-’80s. Throughout their heyday in the first ’80s, these …

The San Diego-based blues band the Deacons targets the collaboration of vocalist/harmonica player Kenny Schoppmeyer and guitarist Michael Halls. Their debut recording, Straight Up, premiered in 1999.