Tag Archives: Regional Blues

Frankie “Fifty percent Pint” Jaxon was an eccentric vocalist along with a mysterious shape who disappeared following the mid-’40s. Known as “Fifty percent Pint” because of becoming 5’2″, Jaxon (who was simply an orphan) was raised in Kansas Town. At 15 he started singing in range shows with night clubs. …

Blues vocalist Esther Bigeou was raised in another of New Orleans’ most music households (she was a cousin of drummer Paul Barbarin), but were left with a method more vaudevillian than blues or jazz oriented. In 1923, she documented with Rickett’s Superstars, Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra and Clarence Williams. After …

Period has been kind to Charley Jordan’s music. He previously some moderate achievement in his very own right being a documenting musician during his very own time, within the 1930s, but he’s most likely better known among informal blues listeners from the 21st hundred years than he was beyond St. …

Joseph Melvin Shamwell’s songwriting profession is documented by a lot more than 110 game titles logged with Broadcast Music Incorporated. His profession started in his birthplace, Washington, D.C., in 1967 at Waxie Maxie’s Record Shop where he befriended Eddie Floyd. He relocated to Memphis and collaborated with Floyd on many …

Created in Dallas in 1949, this singer/songwriter/drummer was raised hearing Dallas radio (with large doses of Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles, and Bobby Blue Bland on rock and roll & roll channels) and locals the Nightcaps, among the country’s 1st white electric blues rings. In senior high school he became a …

Few postwar blues standards have maintained the universal selling point of Eddie Boyd’s “Five Lengthy Years.” Cut in 1951, Boyd’s masterpiece provides attracted faithful addresses by B.B. Ruler, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Pal Guy, and way too many various other bluesmen to recount right here. But Boyd’s discography is normally …

A tremendous nation blues musician who was simply singing vividly and using flair well following the genre’s heyday, Franklin “Frank” Hovington started on ukulele and banjo as a kid. He teamed with Willliam Walker in the past due ’30s as well as the ’40s playing at home celebrations and dances …

Vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Carl Weathersby is really a soul-blues crooner within the common Chicago tradition. Most widely known for his use Billy Branch & Sons from the Blues, Weathersby’s initial record, 1996’s Don’t Place Your Blues on Me, was hailed as legitimate, state-of-the-art Chicago blues for the ’90s. Weathersby …

b. Edward Riley Boyd, 25 November 1914, Stovall, Mississippi, USA, d. 13 July 1994, Helsinki, Finland. Boyd was a half-brother of Memphis Slim along with a cousin of Muddy Waters. He spent his early years on Stovall’s Plantation but went away following a dispute with an overseer. Self-taught on acoustic …

From all accounts, George Butler was indeed a “wild child.” But he discovered time taken between the fresh shenanigans that motivated his mother to bestow his descriptive nickname to understand some harp essentials at age group 12. He was gigging skillfully being a bandleader with the past due ’50s, but …