Tag Archives: Pre-War Blues

Theodore Roosevelt Darby, better referred to as Teddy Darby and sometimes referred to as “Blind Darby,” and in addition referred to as Blind Squire Turner, was created in Kentucky but raised in Indiana then in St. Louis, Missouri. His mom taught him your guitar like a boy, nonetheless it was …

Big Expenses Broonzy called John Estes’ design of singing “crying” the blues due to its overt psychological quality. In fact, his vocal design harks back again to his tenure like a work-gang innovator to get a railroad maintenance team, where his vocal improvisations and enthusiastic, cutting voice arranged the speed …

Aaron and Marion Sparks made a small amount of records through the years 1932-1935 and deserve wider acknowledgement for having introduced “61 Highway Blues,” usually connected with Mississippi Fred McDowell, and “EACH DAY I’VE the Blues,” a staple from the genre credited to Memphis Slim and forever associated with Count …

An Artie Shaw-influenced swing-era clarinetist, Winter season formed his 1st orchestra and produced his first information in 1930s Berlin. He documented for the German-based Tempo label during Globe Battle II with such performers as Willi Berking and Meg Tevelian. Following the battle he relocated to Vienna and became an Austrian …

Although Bukka White’s full genuine name was Booker T. Washington Light, it really is as Booker T. Washington that a few of his documenting credits show up, with significantly less majesty compared to the typical Washington monument regardless of the grandeur of the nation blues artist’s shows. Occurring for instance …

It is unidentified who the people of Blind Percy & His Blind Music group were, and actually one can issue whether any or most of them were even blind. A specialist on this issue of blues performers using the prefix of “Blind” before their name was blues and folk performer …

There is certainly some mystery concerning who Bob Robinson in fact was. His name shows up connected to some edges issued with a loose band of Chicago music artists beneath the monikers the Hokum Kids as well as the Down House Kids (based on what label) in the first to …

A reasonably anonymous band of uptown hokum singers and players from Chicago’s Depression-era blues picture, the Chicago Dark Swans may or might not have included blues icon Big Costs Broonzy, who may or might not have created the group’s two risqué 1937 sides, “Don’t Tear My Clothing” and “You Drink …