Tag Archives: Regional Blues

If highly distorted guitar used a huge amount of aggression and barely suppressed violence is your notion of great blues, after that Pat Hare’s your man. Created using the improbable name of Auburn Hare (one particular biographical oddities that actually probably the most fanciful blues historian couldn’t constitute inside a …

Dubbed “the tiny gal using the big tone of voice” by legendary disc jockey Alan Freed, Faye Adams was among the pioneers of R&B, sketching on the expressive power of gospel music to make a group of deeply shifting and poignant reports that pointed just how for the emergence of …

b. 20 July 1924, Biscoe, Arkansas, USA, d. 15 June 1999, Gary, Indiana, USA. Mostly of the female musicians energetic on the post-war Chicago blues picture, Brim made an appearance with her spouse John Brim’s group, the Gary Kings. At her 1st recording program in 1950, she performed harmonica and …

Like a number of nation blues performers, Frank Edwards cannot be thought to possess consistent gigging and saving possibilities during his nearly 80 years within the music business. His documenting career started in the first ’40s around the Okeh label, producing a few sides that non-etheless appear to have had …

Anthony Topham, better known professionally as Best Topham (or Anthony “Best” Topham), had the nice fortune to be always a founding person in the Yardbirds, perhaps one of the most respected rock and roll acts to emerge from mid-’60s England. He previously the bad lot of money, however, to have …

Even though atmospheric juke joint blues of Frank Frost continued to be steeped in unadulterated Delta funk throughout his career, his ongoing musical journey took him well outside his Mississippi home base. He shifted to St. Louis in 1951, learning how exactly to blow harp 1st from Small Willie Foster …

Area of the early-’70s Uk hard rock and roll scene, Spooky Teeth grew from the bluesy VIPs and prog rock and roll group Artwork and contains vocalist Mike Harrison, keyboardist/vocalist Gary Wright, guitarist Luther Grosvenor, bassist Greg Ridley, and drummer Mike Kellie. The group constructed a pursuing through countless gigs …

Furry Lewis was the only real blues singer from the 1920s to accomplish major media interest within the ’60s and ’70s. Probably one of the most documented Memphis-based guitarists from the past due ’20s, Lewis’ following popularity 40 years later on was based mainly on the effectiveness of those early …

Tallahassee Tight was the blues name for Louis Washington, who use his delivery name when he was performing gospel, and utilize the blues name when he was performing the blues, a practice not unusual for southern dark musicians within the 1930s. His delivery date is unidentified, and it’s been assumed …

b. 27 Sept 1928, Montgomery, Alabama, USA, d. 12 Feb 1995, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Like Small Sonny Willis, youthful George received his 1st harmonica like a Xmas present when he was six, alongside an apple and an orange. Although he noticed John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson’s information, he was mainly …