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One take a look at blues multi-instrumentalist David Raitt’s last name will instantly indicate his pedigree: sibling of bottleneck slide guitar legend Bonnie Raitt, kid of Broadway actor John Raitt. Raitt performed in a number of regional bands while developing up in Burbank, and afterwards followed his sister to NY, …

Los Angeles local Candye Kane sings a sassy and showbiz-savvy mixture of blues and spirit that takes zero prisoners of any persuasion. Kane is a lot of factors in her lifestyle, from a mom and serious pupil to a pinup female and celebrity (both on-stage and in risqué films), and …

A treasured acting professional and blues musician, Jim Byrnes began his like with performing and music when he was still a little child. In university he found performing jobs easily before draft sent him to battle rather than to Hollywood. Byrnes held his dreams, and himself, alive, and came back …

The original 2-steps and blues-inspired rhythms of zydeco are transformed in to the contemporary dance-inspiring music of Roy “Chubby” Carrier and his group, the Bayou Swamp Music group. AS THE Chicago Tribune described Carrier as “among the finer regular bearers from the traditional zydeco audio among the brand new era …

According to all or any the press and buzz and hoopla for a while through the 1990s, Tommy Castro was pegged because the following big star from the blues. Long a popular among Bay Region music enthusiasts, Castro — in the area of two recording releases — got his music …

As a respected voice in the music picture in Austin, TX, guitarist Monte Montgomery slowly gained country wide identification for his amazing dexterity, liquid harmonics, percussive dynamics, and melodic sensibility. Montgomery gained his 4th consecutive name as greatest acoustic guitarist on the 2001 Austin Music Honours on the SXSW Celebration. …

Delivered in 1976 in Idaho, John Németh was raised in Boise, where his initial contact with music was performing within the Catholic Cathedral. He branched out following that, though, and was playing in regional bands as an adolescent. He was 17 whenever a friend, Tom Moore, subjected him towards the …

A hard-driving D.C.-centered bar band with solid Chicago blues roots. Shaped in 1972 by harpist and vocalist Tag Wenner and guitarist Jimmy Thackery, the music group earned a status as a good outfit through greater than a 10 years of touring and documenting tasks with John Hammond and previous people …

Blessed in Milwaukee in 1957, blues guitarist Michael Burks started learning his device young — inspired by his music family (his dad played bass and frequently performed alongside harmonica star Sonny Guy Williamson II, even though his grandfather was a Delta-style bluesman from Camden, Arkansas). By age five, he was …

After fighting childhood abuse along with a crippling stutter, country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist Doug Macleod found his true voice when he found a guitar and begun to sing. He was created in NY on Apr 21, 1946, but shifted to Raleigh, NEW YORK along with his parents soon …