Tag Archives: Lead Belly

Although closely from the unique music from the Georgia Ocean Islands, singer Bessie Jones had not been actually given birth to on the hawaiian islands, but in a little mainland Georgia town. As a woman she transferred to the hawaiian islands and became an intrinsic area of the ethnic existence …

Unlike blues artists like Big Expenses or Memphis Minnie who documented extensively over 3 or 4 decades, Blind Guy Fuller documented his significant body of work over a brief, six-year span. Even so, he was perhaps one of the most documented performers of his period and the most well-known and …

The Almanac Performers lasted for hardly a year in support of left out three dozen songs, and their work was at least as controversial since it was popular. However they had been among the 1st folk music groupings arranged for politics reasons to record, and their lineup — Pete Seeger, …

Fronted with the tall, low fat harp-blowin’ Missourian vocalist Daddy Prolonged Legs — from whom the group derives its name — this raw and energetic outfit’s lo-fi appear is certainly positively dripping using the blues. Completing the trio with Murat Aktürk (electric guitar/vocals) and Josh Designs (drums/percussion), Daddy Longer Legs …

Reclaiming the simplicity and purity of tone of voice and classical guitar for the 21st century, Les Shelleys are singer/songwriter Tom Brosseau and singer/songwriter Angela Correa. Brosseau pursued an identical musical route in his single career, launching albums of extra folk for the United kingdom label FatCat, while Correa also …

Australian singer/songwriter Steve Smyth blends a number of influences into his earthy, soulful sound, through the barroom grit of Tom Waits towards the wistful melancholia of Jeff Buckley. The boy of two ministers, Smyth was raised traveling the united states and was continuously encircled by music. He got to your …

Lemma initial became recognized to a wider market in 2000 when he provided the soundtrack for Josef Fares’ film Jalla Jalla. The strike single “EASILY Used to Like You,” sounded bewilderingly old-fashioned, Southern spirit with just a little dosage Jimmy Cliff. When the one was performed on the air, people …