Tag Archives: Regional Blues

Precious little is well known about the life span of blues vocalist Luella Miller. She actually is largely appreciated for having collaborated with guitarist and violinist Lonnie Johnson. Some state she was created in Tx, others believe she emerged up in St. Louis or thereabouts. Uncovered by way of a …

A notable impact on famous brands Sunnyland Thin and Otis Spann, pianist Small Sibling Montgomery’s lengthy profession spanned both earliest many years of blues background and the electrified Chicago picture from the 1950s. By age group 11, Montgomery got abadndoned attending college to rather play in Louisiana juke bones. He …

Though small known beyond the Houston blues circuit where he made his real estate for many decades, vocalist/guitarist Lester Williams was an area phenomenon through the early ’50s whose success also resulted in an appearance at Carnegie Hall. Blessed in Groveton, Tx on June 24, 1920, he was raised infatuated …

Pioneering R&B guitarist Saunders Ruler had his initial strike in 1942 with “S.K. Blues.” Ruler was a preacher’s kid who sang gospel in his father’s cathedral in Oakland. He discovered piano, banjo and ukulele. In 1938 he started playing electric guitar and finished up singing using the Southern Tranquility Four …

Whenever a musician is defined by biographers simply because “obnoxious and abusive sometimes,” it normally makes the average person involved seem even more fascinating, particularly if the individual was armed with a ukulele. Such may be the case using the Uke Child, ultimately best-known by his actual name, Charlie Burse. …

b. 1 November 1917, Looxahoma, Mississippi, USA, d. 1 Feb 1990, Olive Branch, Mississippi, USA. Like his sometime partner, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Woods had not been uncovered until he was in his fifties and it had been through McDowell that he previously his first opportunity to record, although that they …

Even though mandolin isn’t a musical instrument commonly connected with Chicago blues, it’s been utilized by Chicago-based string bands or on Chicago-made recordings by artists such as for example Carl Martin, Charles and Joe McCoy, and Yank Rachell. Nevertheless, the only musician to utilize it successfully within the afterwards electric …

Johnny Fuller was a Western world Coastline bluesman who left out a spate of 1950s recordings that jumped all sorts of genre fences with seemingly zero track of his Mississippi given birth to root base. He was similarly aware of low down blues, gospel, R&B, and rock and roll & …

Although he was certainly inexorably influenced with the pioneering guitar conception of T-Bone Walker (what axe-handler wasn’t through the immediate postwar era?), Pee Wee Crayton brought more than enough daring technology to his playing in order to avoid getting labeled as only T-Bone imitator. Crayton’s documented output for Contemporary, Imperial, …

Among the initial important feminine bandleaders in jazz, Lovie Austin has a right to be far better known. After learning music in university, she toured over the vaudeville circuit, settling in Chicago in 1923. During 1924-1926, she documented often with her Blues Serenaders, an organization that at several times acquired …