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In 1958, folklorist Frederic Ramsey, Jr. documented someone called Cat-Iron in Buckner’s Alley in Natchez, Mississippi. Ramsey whote an in depth poetic explanation of his finding of Cat-Iron for The Sunday Review which, alas, provided no background around the designer. A biographic cipher, Cat-Iron’s single testament is usually “Cat-Iron Sings …

With regards to blues, Chicago’s strictly a electric guitar and harmonica town. Saxophonists who earn a living leading a blues music group in the Windy Town are scarce as hen’s tooth. But Eddie Shaw did precisely that since his longtime employer, Howlin’ Wolf, passed away in 1976. The powerfully built …

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 …

Isaiah “Doc” Ross was a throwback to a bygone period; a genuine one-man music group, he performed harmonica, classical guitar, bass drum, and hi-hat concurrently, making a mighty racquet harking back again to the itinerant country-blues players wandering the Delta area during the previously many years of the 20th hundred …

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 …

A superstar DJ, sought-after manufacturer, taste-making label owner, and wizard behind Main Lazer, Diplo (aka Diplodocus, Wes Diplo, and Wes Gully) launched his profession over the fringes of dance music. Along with his mash-up mixtapes, he discovered and made a appear where his musical preferences — ’80s pop, electronica, Dirty …

Gene Simmons (not the person in hard rockers Kiss) had lots 11 strike in 1964 using the novelty “Haunted Home,” but his center was actually in the high and rootsy rock and roll, soul, and nation customs of his house foundation of Memphis. Created in Tupelo, MS, Simmons relocated to …

Vocalist Lee “Shot” Williams sang a method of Southern soul-blues commensurate with the custom of vocalists like Bobby “Blue” Bland, Johnnie Taylor, and Albert Ruler. He got the nickname “Shot” from his mom at a age, due to his fondness for putting on suits and dressing being a “big shot.” …