Tag Archives: Regional Blues

Only lately has Snooky Pryor finally begun to get whole credit for the mammoth function he played in shaping the amplified Chicago blues harp sound through the postwar era. He’s lengthy stated he was the very first harpist to perform his sound by way of a open public address system …

b. Andrew Hogg, 27 January 1914, Westconnie, Tx, USA, d. 1 Might 1960, McKinney, Tx. USA. Delivered in north-east Tx, Smokey originated from a clan that included blues performers Lightnin’ Hopkins and John Hogg. He discovered to play your guitar and piano early in lifestyle under the instructions of his …

When Los Angeles-based guitarist Smokey Wilson actually got seriously interested in environment a full-fledged career being a bluesman in movement, it didn’t take him longer to astound the aficionados with an incendiary 1993 set for Bullseye Blues, Smoke n’ Fire, that conjured up echoes from the Mississippi Delta of his …

Smokey Hogg was a rural bluesman navigating a postwar period infatuated by R&B, but he got along quite nicely non-etheless, scoring a set of main R&B strikes in 1948 and 1950 and reducing a dense catalog for the slew of brands (including Exclusive, Contemporary, Bullet, Macy’s, Imperial, Mercury, Recorded in …

Paul Butterfield and Elvin Bishop weren’t the only real white dudes who formed a blues music group in Chicago in the first ’60s. Corky Siegel and Jim Schwall created the Siegel-Schwall Music group in the middle-’60s in Chicago and worked well like a duo playing blues night clubs like Pepper’s …

Blessed in Mansfield, LA in 1923, vocalist and harmonica blower Sidney Maiden produced his mark over the blues using the common “Eclipse of sunlight.” Within the ’40s, Maiden transferred to California where he first fulfilled guitarist K.C. Douglas. They bonded instantly given that they both acquired a purist attitude towards …

The daughter from the renowned B.B. Ruler, vocalist Shirley Ruler continued the family custom to become preferred among Chicago’s North Aspect blues membership denizens. Born Sept 26, 1949 in Western world Memphis, Arkansas, she pursued a profession as an spectacular dancer before embracing the blues in 1991; a season afterwards …

Perhaps one of the most important rings from England’s R&B picture through the early ’60s, the Pets were second and then the Rolling Rocks in impact among R&B-based rings within the initial wave from the Uk Invasion. The Pets had their roots within a Newcastle-based group known as the Kansas …

As tenor saxophone participant and co-lead vocalist of swamp pop music group, Cookie AS WELL AS THE Cupcakes, Shelton Dunaway played an important role in the first advancement of Louisiana-style Tempo and Blues. Dunaway’s vocals helped to lift the band’s solitary, “Mathilda”, towards the Billboard best fifty in 1959. He …

Guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, pianist and harp participant Paul Oscher offers paid his dues, and some. Those people who have been pursuing blues for a long period will keep in mind Oscher from your past due 1960s because the white child who performed harmonica within the Muddy Waters Music group. Blues …