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The founder of Alligator Information, among the largest & most successful independent labels of the present day era, producer Bruce Iglauer was among the generating forces behind the contemporary blues revival. Blessed in Cincinnati in 1947, he became enthusiastic about the blues through the middle-’60s after getting a live show …

b. 25 January 1934, Twist, Arkansas, USA, d. 24 Oct 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA. ‘Small’ Mack Simmons was among the stalwarts from the Chicago golf club scene; he trained himself harmonica as a young child and in the first 50s occasionally caused bluesmen around the St. Louis, Missouri, golf club …

Considering the timeframe he spent steadily moving from gig to gig, Johnny “Clyde” Copeland’s rise to prominence in the blues world in the first ’90s wasn’t everything surprising. A agreement using the PolyGram/Verve label place his ’90s recordings in to the hands of a large number of blues enthusiasts all …

Once dismissed simply by purists being a Chuck Berry imitator (and a precise one in that), tall, trim, and lanky Chicago southpaw Eddy Clearwater is currently named a prime progenitor of Western world Side-style blues electric guitar. That’s not to state he won’t spice up a gig with just a …

Blues guitarist Albert Castiglia was created in NY on August 12, 1969. Five years later on his parents relocated to Miami, where Castiglia started learning acoustic guitar. By age 12, he started playing regional gigs and do so regularly throughout senior high school. Pursuing conclusion of his university education, Castiglia …

The sly, insinuating vocals and chunky piano design of Willie Mabon won the guts of several an R&B fan through the early ’50s. His salty Chess waxings “I HAVE NO IDEA,” “I’m Mad,” and “Poison Ivy” set up the pianist as an authentic Chicago blues power, but he faded as …

Clarence and Curtis Butler are two longtime beacons around the Detroit-area blues picture, along with two recently recorded albums for the London-based JSP Information, they could finally commence to garner a wider following beyond Detroit. The brothers’ albums for JSP consist of Pursue Your Dreams (1996) rather than Gonna BE …

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 …

Despite saving somewhat sparingly since debuting like a innovator in 1959 about Elko Records using the storming rocker “Hi there My Darling,” Louisiana-born guitarist Phillip Walker enjoys a sterling status as a modern blues guitarist with a unique sound honed across the Gulf Coastline through the ’50s. A teenaged Walker …

Having forged a distinctive Louisiana/Chicago blues synthesis unlike anyone else’s around the competitive Windy City scene, charismatic guitarist Lonnie Brooks lengthy reigned among the town’s best bluesmen. A masterful showman, the good-natured Brooks placed on a display add up to his recordings (and that is saying a whole lot, considering …