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Guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Pete Mayes was raised within the Houston blues golf club picture, exactly the same picture that spawned the delivery of Don Robey’s Duke/Peacock label aswell noted bluesmen want Lightnin’ Hopkins, Johnny “Clyde” Copeland, and Clarence “Gatemouth” Dark brown. Mayes grew up in the tiny town of …

Slide electric guitar blues with an Elmore Adam flavor played with an eight-string desk (non-pedal) steel electric guitar was the trademarked sound of Houston blues legend Hop Wilson. Totally a local sensation, Wilson documented fitfully and hated touring. Though he also performed great down-home blues on typical guitar and was …

Though small known beyond the Houston blues circuit where he made his real estate for many decades, vocalist/guitarist Lester Williams was an area phenomenon through the early ’50s whose success also resulted in an appearance at Carnegie Hall. Blessed in Groveton, Tx on June 24, 1920, he was raised infatuated …

Although he was certainly inexorably influenced with the pioneering guitar conception of T-Bone Walker (what axe-handler wasn’t through the immediate postwar era?), Pee Wee Crayton brought more than enough daring technology to his playing in order to avoid getting labeled as only T-Bone imitator. Crayton’s documented output for Contemporary, Imperial, …

“Reinvention” could just like easily have already been Johnny “Acoustic guitar” Watson’s middle name. The multi-talented performer parlayed his spectacular acoustic guitar skills right into a vaunted status among the most popular blues axemen over the Western world Coast through the 1950s. But that excellent trait wasn’t having to pay …

Two 78s in the first ’50s along with a 1989 rediscovery record don’t soon add up to a lot of a recorded legacy. But Zuzu Bollin’s contribution towards the Tx blues legacy must not be overlooked — his T-Bone Walker-influenced sound typified postwar Lone Superstar blues guitar. Blessed A.D. Bollin, …

Fort Worth-based guitarist, singer and songwriter U.P. Wilson takes on a startlingly refreshing design of deep Southern soul-blues that’s gospel inflected and rural, however urban. His extremely rhythmic acoustic guitar playing is definitely showcased on three albums for JSP Information, and it would appear that after years to be referred …

Although she doesn’t tour nearly just as much as she most likely could, Austin-based vocalist Lou Ann Barton is among the finest purveyors of uncooked, unadulterated roadhouse blues from the feminine gender that you will ever hear. Like Delbert McClinton, she can belt out a lyric in order that she …

Doyle Bramhall II was created in Austin, Tx on Dec 24, 1968, and his father, Doyle Bramhall, Sr., performed drums with several bands, including Tx Surprise, which he co-led with Jimmie Vaughan. Taking on your guitar, Doyle II implemented his father in to the globe of the blues, touring with …

A number of the atomic energy that Small Richard emitted nightly through the mid-’50s will need to have spilled onto Grady Gaines. Because the hardy tenor sax blaster with Richard’s street music group, the Upsetters, Gaines basically blew the reed from his horn along with his galvanic solos. He wails …