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Created and bred in Florida, JJ Gray takes on music that mixes natural rural blues with hard, swampy Southern rock and roll, generating an audio which has a loose, organic feel even though maintaining a potent advantage, and his music pull deep on his traditions in addition to his clear-eyed …

His velvet-smooth vocal delivery towards the in contrast, Junior Parker was something from the fertile postwar Memphis blues circuit whose wonderfully understated harp design was personally mentored by non-e apart from regional icon Sonny Guy Williamson. Herman Parker, Jr. just traveled in the very best blues circles from the outset. …

Maurice John Vaughn’s 1984 debut place, Generic Blues Record, came packaged in an ordinary white coat, its name unceremoniously stamped on its front side like a bundle of no-brand grain on the grocer’s shelf. It appeared as if the cleverest of promotion ploys, however in reality, it had been a …

The dark visions from the The’s Matt Johnson stirred the imaginations of such diverse artists as Nine Inch Nails, MUCH BETTER THAN Ezra, and Sinead O’Connor. Johnson was created in London, Britain, on August 15, 1961. Johnson acquired his first music group Roadstar when he was just 11 yrs . …

Maurice Dollison, Jr. provides enjoyed success in a number of guises. As blues guitarist Money McCall, he documented such middle-60s R&B strikes as “IF YOU AWAKEN” and toured within Dick Clark’s Caravan of Superstars. A program guitarist for Minnie Ripperton, Natalie Cole, Etta Adam, Willie Dixon, the Temptations, the Drifters, …

Though that they had all of the trappings of the Southern-fried blues band, Little Feat were hardly conventional. Led by songwriter/guitarist Lowell George, Small Feat had been a wildly eclectic music group, combining strains of blues, R&B, nation, and rock and roll & move. The bandmembers had been exceptionally gifted …

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was probably the most outrageous performer extant during rock’s dawn. Susceptible to emerging from coffins on-stage, a flaming skull called Henry his continuous friend, Screamin’ Jay was an insanely theatrical shape long before it had been even remotely suitable. Hawkins’ life tale is nearly as bizarre as …

Like Syd Barrett, a typical point of research, Roky Erickson rose to cult-hero position just as much for his music for his tragic personal existence; in light of his famous rounds with madness and mythic substance abuse, the impact exerted by his garage-bred psychedelia was frequently lost within the shuffle. …

Small Axe was the alias of Miss McDonald, a blues performer whose set of credits also included focus on a few of rap music’s most influential information. Given birth to Bernard Alexander in Dayton, OH, in 1949, McDonald discovered blues acoustic guitar from his dad, and by age ten had …

Christopher Watkins, a twenty-something rocker from your SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay region, is turning a complete new era of teenage and twenty-something option rock fans to the eternal hipness from the blues. Watkins, who uses the stage name Preacher Boy, is usually supported on his golf club shows round …