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A treasured acting professional and blues musician, Jim Byrnes began his like with performing and music when he was still a little child. In university he found performing jobs easily before draft sent him to battle rather than to Hollywood. Byrnes held his dreams, and himself, alive, and came back …

The heir apparent to Chicago’s legacy of amplified blues harmonica, William Clarke was the first original new tone of voice on his instrument to arrive in quite a while; he became a feeling in blues circles through the later ’80s and early ’90s, ended brief by an untimely loss of …

Austria-based acoustic and electrical folk musician and bluesman brings a freshness of appreciation towards the American blues idiom, be it classic blues through the ’20s and ’30s or even more modern metropolitan blues from Chicago through the ’50s and ’60s. Theessink’s discography greater than 20 albums — all released in …

As a respected voice in the music picture in Austin, TX, guitarist Monte Montgomery slowly gained country wide identification for his amazing dexterity, liquid harmonics, percussive dynamics, and melodic sensibility. Montgomery gained his 4th consecutive name as greatest acoustic guitarist on the 2001 Austin Music Honours on the SXSW Celebration. …

Vocalist, songwriter, and virtuoso blues harpist Rick Estrin was created in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California in 1949, and also as a young man he frequented the rough Market Street region, falling beneath the spell of music by Ray Charles, Jimmy Reed, Nina Simone, Champ Jack Dupree, among others, so …

A California-based blues bandleader, harmonica participant, and singer, Fishing rod Piazza’s stratospheric harmonica wailings owe much debts to both Small Walter and George “Harmonica” Smith. Piazza started his professional profession as an associate from the Dirty Blues Music group in the middle-’60s. The Dirty Blues Music group documented two albums …

Some people called Chicago harpist Little Willie Anderson “Little Walter Jr.,” therefore faithfully do Anderson’s style stick to that of the renowned harp wizard. But Anderson had been quite acquainted with the rudiments from the harmonica before he ever strike the Windy Town, having noticed Sonny Guy Williamson, Robert Nighthawk, …

Among the hardest-working barroom blues rings within the Western Coast, Small Charlie & the Nightcats began within the mid-’70s, began saving around ten years later, and kept on heading strong. Both constants on the Nightcats’ lengthy history had been co-founders Small Charlie Baty (acoustic guitar) and Rick Estrin (harmonica, business …

After fighting childhood abuse along with a crippling stutter, country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist Doug Macleod found his true voice when he found a guitar and begun to sing. He was created in NY on Apr 21, 1946, but shifted to Raleigh, NEW YORK along with his parents soon …

He’s been area of the Chicago circuit for four years, but Golden “Big” Wheeler waited until 1993 release a his debut record on Delmark. As befits this kind of veteran, Wheeler’s durable harmonica style is really a throwback towards the 1950s and his idol, Small Walter. Wheeler was initially changed …