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“Reinvention” could just like easily have already been Johnny “Acoustic guitar” Watson’s middle name. The multi-talented performer parlayed his spectacular acoustic guitar skills right into a vaunted status among the most popular blues axemen over the Western world Coast through the 1950s. But that excellent trait wasn’t having to pay …

Guitarist Freddie Ruler rode to popularity in the first ’60s having a spate of catchy instrumentals which became quick bandstand fodder for fellow bluesmen and white colored rock and roll bands alike. Having a even more down-home (thumb and finger picks) method of the B.B. Ruler single-string design of playing, …

Created in Dallas in 1949, this singer/songwriter/drummer was raised hearing Dallas radio (with large doses of Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles, and Bobby Blue Bland on rock and roll & roll channels) and locals the Nightcaps, among the country’s 1st white electric blues rings. In senior high school he became a …

Though not just one of the greatest known of the present day Tx blues guitarists, Clarence Green is looked upon by his peers among the best. Green (never to end up being baffled with the past due Clarence “Chocolate” Green, a Tx blues pianist) do session work with Duke Records …

Anything you do, don’t make reference to multi-instrumentalist Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown like a bluesman, although his imprimatur for the development of Texas blues is enormous. You’re prone to obtain him riled. In the event that you must pigeonhole the tale, just contact him an eclectic Tx musical professional whose passions …

Making use of their fusion of blues, rock and roll & move, and R&B, the Fabulous Thunderbirds helped popularize roadhouse Texas blues using a mass audience within the ’80s and, along the way, they helped kick-start a blues revival through the mid-’80s. Throughout their heyday in the first ’80s, these …

Houston was homebase to an extraordinary cadre of red-hot blues guitarists through the 1950s. Joe Hughes had not been as well referred to as his peers Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland, but he was a good electric bluesman using a formidable discography. Another of his Houston neighbours, Johnny “Electric guitar” …

Austin-based guitarist, songwriter, and singer Chris Duarte offers often been weighed against the past due Stevie Ray Vaughan. It’s heady stuff for the musician, who performs a rhythmic design of Tx blues-rock that’s at times similar to Vaughan’s sound, with other times similar to Johnny Winter. The simple truth is, …

Another Tx axeman from your old college, Smokin’ Joe Kubek had been taking part in his smokin’ guitar within the Lone Celebrity Condition chitlin circuit at age 14, helping such musicians mainly because Freddie Ruler. He soon created his own music group and started playing several pubs across Dallas. Within …

Guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist Andrew “Jr. Boy” Jones started working skillfully at age group 16 with Freddie King’s support music group, the Thunderbirds. He got his initial electric guitar from his uncle, jazz musician Adolphus Sneed. Jones cites an eclectic selection of affects: Freddie Ruler, Cornell Dupree, and Larry Carlton. …