Tag Archives: Piano Blues

Thomas “Jaybird” Jones was a Mississippi barrelhouse piano participant who accompanied singer Keghouse (probably Gordon Keghouse) on 10 sides recorded for Vocalion and OKeh in Memphis, TN, in 1928. He was documented in the springtime of 1941 and once again on July 26, 1942, by folklorist Alan Lomax in Clarksdale, …

In early stages in the influx of performers named Eddie Miller came a pianist included on traditional blues documented between 1929 and 1934, his name from the music scenes in both Chicago and St. Louis. This key pad artist has and sings in a method that may acceptably be referred …

An excellent early Chicago blues pianist, the little-known Myrtle Jenkins, occasionally billed mainly because Miss Myrtle Jenkins, was the featured piano participant on many of Bumble Bee Slim’s recordings for the Bluebird, Vocalion, and Decca imprints, and she played piano aswell (and sometimes sang) with Priscilla Stewart, Mary Mack, the …

Dink Johnson was nothing at all if not versatile, as you can judge from your three devices that he played. Johnson began employed in New Orleans like a pianist in Storyville. He traveled to LA where he was a drummer for Expenses Johnson’s Creole Music group in 1913. Johnson freelanced, …

Leothus Lee Green, also called Pork Chops, was an early on contemporary of Small Sibling Montgomery and a mentor to Roosevelt Sykes. Blessed in Mississippi around 1900, Green proved helpful as a clothing presser in Vicksburg while perfecting his piano technique. Shortly Leothus was vacationing through the entire Lower Mississippi …

It really is hard to determine precisely how short the profession of vocalist George “Fathead” Thomas was, since his day of birth by no means appears to have been established. non-etheless, he was eliminated by the finish of 1930, victim of a bad car crash in New Haven. He left …

Although among the first pianists to record in the recently energized postwar electrical blues style, this artist apparently didn’t follow the fantastic harmonica participant and bandleader Sonny Boy Williamson II to Chicago, as well as the prolific recording activity that was waiting there. He shows up only on the early …

Only 1 song was ever issued below Judson Brown’s name, a solo piano and vocal version of “YOU DO NOT Know My Mind Blues,” recorded for Brunswick Records on, may 13, 1930, in Chicago. Dark brown was recognized to do a large amount of program function, though, and his solid …

Blues followers on Chicago’s North Part couldn’t avoid pianist Bob Riedy through the 1970s. Tirelessly gigging along with his personal band and reserving various clubs at exactly the same time, Riedy helped pioneer the area’s now-thriving blues circuit. Ironically, he’s not really around to take pleasure from it — he …

b. Adam Wheeler, 14 Sept 1933, Montevallo, Alabama, USA. By time a cab drivers, in the evenings Adam Wheeler transforms himself into Chicago boogie-woogie star, Piano C. Crimson. His initial yearnings to be engaged in music had been motivated by his mom, who sang religious songs throughout the house. He …