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Given birth to Robert Lee McCollum on November 30, 1909 in Helena, Arkansas, the person who later on became referred to as Robert Nighthawk was a busking musician in early stages, journeying through Mississippi and settling for a while in Memphis, Tennessee, where he used several local music artists and …

Sam Place was created March 20, 1935, in Birmingham, Alabama, and began his profession like a drummer in Cleveland in 1954, dealing with the Moon Puppy Combo. In 1957 he became a member of the initial Thunderbirds and remained with that group until 1959, when he remaining for Chicago to …

Quiet and intensely unassuming from the bandstand, Hubert Sumlin played a method of electric guitar incendiary enough to stand high next to the immortal Howlin’ Wolf. The Wolf was Sumlin’s imposing coach for a lot more than 2 decades, and it demonstrated a mutually helpful romantic relationship; Sumlin’s twisting, darting, …

His birth day might have been in question (he claimed he was created as soon as 1905), however the slashing slip guitar abilities of Homesick Wayne Williamson were never involved. A lot of his most gratifying recordings positioned him in single configurations, where his timing eccentricities didn’t disrupt the proceedings …

Who’s the ruler of most post-war blues harpists, Chicago department or elsewhere? Why, the virtuosic Small Walter, with out a solitary question. The fiery harmonica wizard had taken the humble mouth area organ in amazing amplified directions which were unimaginable ahead of his ascendancy. His daring instrumental enhancements were so …

The confusing plethora of artists working beneath the name of Luther (nickname here) Johnson can keep even people that have a decent understanding of blues in a significant state of confusion. However in this biographical entrance, we concern ourselves with the life span and situations of Luther “Georgia Guy/Snake Guy” …

With regards to blues, Chicago’s strictly a electric guitar and harmonica town. Saxophonists who earn a living leading a blues music group in the Windy Town are scarce as hen’s tooth. But Eddie Shaw did precisely that since his longtime employer, Howlin’ Wolf, passed away in 1976. The powerfully built …

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 …

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 …

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 …