Tag Archives: Regional Blues

No, he hardly ever hung out using the Rat Pack over the martini-stained Vegas remove, and it’s extremely doubtful that he honors demands for “The Chocolate Guy.” This Small Sammy Davis is really a experienced harp blower using a discography dating back again to 1952 and an excellent ’90s debut …

Some people called Chicago harpist Little Willie Anderson “Little Walter Jr.,” therefore faithfully do Anderson’s style stick to that of the renowned harp wizard. But Anderson had been quite acquainted with the rudiments from the harmonica before he ever strike the Windy Town, having noticed Sonny Guy Williamson, Robert Nighthawk, …

Not to end up being confused along with his past due older sibling Big Smokey, Albert “Small Smokey” Smothers started to transcend his journeyman position in 1993 having a superlative Dick Shurman-produced recording for the Dutch Dark Magic label, Bossman: The Chicago Blues of Small Smokey Smothers. The arranged gladly …

Memphis-based left-handed guitarist Small Jimmy King was probably one of the most thrilling blues players to emerge within the scene within the ’90s. Ruler was born Dec 4, 1968, as Manuel Gales but renamed himself for his two preferred acoustic guitar heroes, Jimi Hendrix and Albert Ruler. He got began …

Precious little is well known about the life span of Perry Dixon at night two tracks, “Back again to Georgia” and “Be Mean to YOUR CHILD,” that he documented for Columbia Records in December 6, 1929, in Dallas, TX. Also that certainty is certainly blurred a little because the two …

Guitarist Elliott Clear is most known for experimental outings which are characteristic from the past due-20th hundred years “downtown” NY picture, but he in addition has expressed a deep like for the blues. However, Hoosegow — which features Clear on guitars and Queen Esther on vocals — will shock a …

b. 20 November 1920, Waverly, Virginia, USA, d. 12 Apr 1979, Waverly, Virginia, USA. Although Charity’s acoustic guitar playing and performing display many and assorted influences, he seems to have spent the majority of his existence in the city where he was created. His compositions, such as for example all …

Slide electric guitar blues with an Elmore Adam flavor played with an eight-string desk (non-pedal) steel electric guitar was the trademarked sound of Houston blues legend Hop Wilson. Totally a local sensation, Wilson documented fitfully and hated touring. Though he also performed great down-home blues on typical guitar and was …

Small Joe Blue, given birth to Joseph Valery, Jr., was a comparatively late starter like a blues designer. Created in Mississippi in 1934, his musical sensibilities had been heavily affected by the task of Louis Jordan, Joe Liggins, and B.B. Ruler, which he experienced from his teenagers into his 20s. …

Although his name isn’t identified by most rock fans, Dick Taylor was a significant figure in 1960s British rock as lead guitarist and frequent songwriter for the Very Things, and it has deep ties to the overall birth of the British blues-rock scene. A teenage friend of Mick Jagger, he …