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“Music Makin’ Mama” Ann Rabson played a significant role in assisting to regenerate acoustic blues in the post-Stevie Ray Vaughan era, both being a single artist and with Saffire — the Uppity Blues Females, the group she co-founded in 1988. Although she’s most widely known being a boogie-woogie pianist, Rabson …

A piano-pounding institution within the Southern Louisiana swamp blues picture during the past due ’50s and early ’60s, Katie Webster later on grabbed a long-deserved talk about of national reputation with some well-received Alligator albums. Poor Kathryn Thorne got to cope with deeply spiritual parents who do everything within their …

One-man rings weren’t too common around the postwar blues picture. Joe Hill Louis and Dr. Ross one thinks of as greats who plied their trade simply by their lonesome — therefore do Juke Boy Bonner, a Texan whose skill never really gained him much in the form of tangible incentive. …

Along with his 1985 novelty smash “My Toot Toot,” Rockin’ Sidney scored zydeco’s first true international hit. Created Sidney Semien on Apr 9, 1938 in Lebeau, Louisiana, he started playing harmonica and acoustic guitar professionally during his teenagers, and produced his 1st R&B-styled recordings within the Popularity and Jin imprints …