Tag Archives: Pre-War Blues

Next to there is nothing known about Chicago blues singer and pianist Nolan Welsh apart from what could be deduced from the data of a small number of recordings which keep his exclusive personal imprint. He certainly has a right to be appreciated as greater than a footnote to the …

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 …

After touring the vaudeville circuit for four years, Lena Wilson began documenting in 1922. For another 2 yrs and in 1930, Wilson documented with famous brands Perry Bradford’s Jazz Phools, Conaway’s Rag Pickers, Johnny Dunn’s Jazz Hounds, Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra, as well as the Nubian Five. She also documented as …

People who want to explore blues information made through the initial half from the 20th hundred years are usually seeing that captivated with the colorful holders utilized by certain players because they are with the music itself. Types of innovative nicknaming consist of Peetie Wheatstraw, Small Hat Jones, Daddy Stovepipe, …

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 …

An extraordinary musician (he could play five-string banjo and jug simultaneously), Gus Cannon bridged the difference between early blues as well as the minstrel and folk designs that preceded it. His music group from the ’20s and ’30s, Cannon’s Jug Stompers, represents the apogee from the jug music group style. …

Charlie McCoy (b. May 26 1909) and his your government Joe McCoy (b. May 11 1905) had been blessed four years aside in Jackson, MS and passed away within a couple of months of each various other in Chicago in 1950. Both men documented separately and jointly within a amazingly …

The given name of Daddy Stovepipe was Johnny Watson; among additional aliases he worked well under during his extended life had been “Jimmy Watson” as well as the “Rev. Alfred Pitts.” Given birth to in Mobile phone, Alabama in 1867, Daddy Stovepipe may have already been the earliest-born blues performer …

A primitive but frequently effective cornet soloist, Thomas Morris (the uncle of pianist Marlowe Morris) produced a number of records through the 1923-27 period although his design was considered quite dated following the rise of Louis Armstrong. Morris was located in New York right from the start from the 1920s. …

Bessie Jackson was a pseudonym of Lucille Bogan, a vintage female blues musician in the ’20s and ’30s. Her outspoken lyrics cope with sexuality in a fashion that manages to improve eyebrows also within a genre that’s about as awful as documented music ever got before the introduction of artists …