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Although he only lately recorded his first nationally distributed full-length album, Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter Finis Tasby is simply no spring chicken breast in the blues world. Tasby continues to be performing in the LA area for a long time, and for a long time before that in Dallas. …

A veteran guitarist who fused the blues with gospel, R&B, and nation customs, Elvin Bishop was created in Glendale, California, on Oct 21, 1942. He was raised on a plantation in Iowa without electricity or operating water, and finally relocated to Oklahoma along with his family members when he was …

Chicago bluesman Eddie Burks was created Sept 17, 1931, on the plantation outdoors Greenwood, MS — the 14th and youngest child of sharecroppers, his childhood was marked by tragedy, especially his brother’s lynching as a result of the Ku Klux Klan. Burks uncovered the music of Robert Johnson and Sonny …

His Japan fans reverently dubbed Fenton Robinson “the mellow blues genius” due to his ultra-smooth vocals and jazz-inflected guitar function. But under the apparent subtlety resides a spark of continuous regeneration — Robinson tirelessly strives to invent something new and essential whenever he’s near a bandstand. The soft-spoken Mississippi indigenous …

Detroit boasted a captivating blues scene through the postwar period, headed by John Lee Hooker and prominently featuring Eddie Uses up, who hit the Electric motor Town in 1948 and musically flourished there. While still in Mississippi, Uses up found his early blues schooling in the 78s of Sonny Boy …

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 …

Louisiana bluesman Coco Robicheaux is no stranger towards the blues, either musically or elsewhere. He’s been playing the blues the majority of his existence, fronting his personal music group when he was 13 years of age, playing Bourbon Road just 2 yrs later on, and inking an archive deal around …

Dutch is a blues vocalist from Nova Scotia.

Wayne Yancy Jones, aka Tail Dragger, was created in Altheimer, AR, in 1940. He was raised by his grandparents and was affected as a kid by the electrical Chicago blues of Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and specifically Chester Burnett, the Howlin’ Wolf. Jones was a Howlin’ Wolf devotee, because …

Too Slim & the Taildraggers certainly are a strike about several continents, but in the home in the Washington condition town of Spokane, they’re similar to the Rodney Dangerfield of blues rings. Regardless of the band’s launch greater than half-a-dozen CDs and several national and worldwide trips, many residents, when …