Tag Archives: Regional Blues

There isn’t a lot of tangible information to mention approximately pianist Billy “Red” Like, who signed to record for fledgling producer Sam Phillips in 1951. Phillips transferred off an early on Love functionality, “Juiced,” to Chess as the most recent work by Jackie Brenston (after that red-hot due to “Rocket …

Guitarist Jimmy Rogers was the last living link with the groundbreaking initial Chicago music group of Muddy Waters (informally dubbed “the Headhunters” because of their penchant of dropping by various other music artists’ gigs and “reducing their minds” with an excellent on-stage functionality). Rather than basking in world-wide veneration, he …

In the ’70s, harmonica guy Billy Branch was among the young upstarts assisting to keep carefully the Chicago blues sound alive; in the 21st hundred years, he’s matured into among the Windy City’s many venerable blues abilities, so that as a musician and educator, Branch provides spread the term about …

Bob Tench (also frequently credited while Bobby Tench) is a talented journeyman vocalist and guitarist who also spent some time working with a number of the biggest and best-respected titles in British rock and roll during a profession which has spanned 6 decades. Blessed on Sept 21, 1944, Tench got …

The denizens of Detroit’s postwar blues scene hardly ever really received their credited (aside from John Lee Hooker, obviously). Robert “Baby Boy” Warren put together a sterling discography from 1949 to 1954 for a number of Motor City companies without ever managing to transcend his regional position along Hastings Road. …

Among the pre-eminent Chicago harpists from the pre-war period, Costs “Jazz” Gillum was created Sept 11, 1904 in Indianola, Mississippi. He found the harmonica at age six, and five years afterwards ran abroad to live with family members in close by Charleston. After spending his formative years playing road corners …

Mostly of the remnants from the homegrown Memphis blues picture since it is virtual cessation by the end from the 1950s, the Fieldstones made some tough and ready electric powered blues with spirit and rock affects from your mid-1970s through the first 1990s. Their audio was seen as a a …

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton only notched a single national strike in her life time, nonetheless it was a genuine monster. “Hound Pup” kept down the very best slot machine on Billboard’s R&B graphs for seven lengthy weeks in 1953. Alas, Elvis Presley’s rocking 1956 cover was a great deal …

b. 2 August 1917, Gonzales, Tx, USA. Like a great many other aspects of culture today, the blues features personalities well-known for becoming popular. Big Walter Cost is one. Elevated from age three by his uncle, C.W. Hull, and aunt, he relocated with these to San Antonio in 1928. Throughout …

Never achieving the same glistening degree of popularity that fellow NY sax blasters Sam “THE PERSON” Taylor and Ruler Curtis enjoyed, Big John Greer however blew strong and sang very long on a good group of waxings for RCA Victor and its own Groove subsidiary from 1949 to 1955. Greer …