Tag Archives: Regional Blues

For a lot of his existence, John Jackson played for nation house celebrations in Virginia, or about the home for his personal amusement. Then within the ’60s he experienced the folk revival, getting the Washington, D.C. area’s best-loved blues designer. Undoubtedly among the finest of traditional Piedmont guitarists, Jackson exemplified …

United kingdom acoustic bluesman Mr. David Viner was uncovered with the Von Bondies when he done their U.K. tour using the Kills. Originally employed to market the Von Bondies’ products, Viner started playing his tracks for the group people, who were therefore impressed that that they had him play starting …

Regardless of the prominent existence of celebrated blues artist Howlin’ Wolf in her family tree, singer Zora Young was raised singing not really blues, but gospel. Even though the Mississippi indigenous shook off her origins at age seven to relocate with her family members to Chicago, she went to the …

b. 14 Feb 1908, Judsonia, White colored Region, Arkansas, USA, d. 2 March 2001, Arkansas, USA. Among country music’s biggest harmonica players but additionally a talented guitarist. His mom, Cora, trained him to try out the harmonica as a kid and in 1926, he produced his radio debut for the …

Though he was certainly with the capacity of brilliantly fronting a band, remarkably versatile guitarist/harpist Louis Myers will forever be recognized first of all like a top-drawer sideman and founding person in the Aces — the band that backed harmonica wizard Little Walter on his immortal early Checker waxings. Together …

Having forged a distinctive Louisiana/Chicago blues synthesis unlike anyone else’s around the competitive Windy City scene, charismatic guitarist Lonnie Brooks lengthy reigned among the town’s best bluesmen. A masterful showman, the good-natured Brooks placed on a display add up to his recordings (and that is saying a whole lot, considering …

The mentor of Delta slide virtuoso Robert Nighthawk, Houston Stackhouse by no means achieved exactly the same commercial or artistic success as his famed pupil, and remained small known beyond his indigenous Mississippi. Given birth to in the tiny city of Wesson on Sept 28, 1910, he was a devotee …

Lil Johnson used a very important factor that always markets in music, everytime: sex. She ultimately toned straight down her lyrics relatively, since record firm censorship was starting to plague her in addition to shifting public flavor. Nonetheless, she documented a number of sides between your past due ’20s, when …

Alligator Information, Chicago’s leading modern blues label, may do not have been launched in any way otherwise for the crashing, slashing glide electric guitar antics of Hound Pet dog Taylor. Bruce Iglauer, after that a worker of Delmark Information, couldn’t convince his employer, Bob Koester, of Taylor’s potential, therefore Iglauer …

This Chicago blues artist was a traveling force within the rhythm sections that recorded on lots of the finest sides cut within the ’70s, like the intense Grasp of Contemporary Blues album by Johnny Shines around the Testament label. Although an excellent guitarist in his personal right, Jackson mainly recorded …