Tag Archives: Regional Blues

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 …

A blues harmonica get good at who produced his name in Chicago within the ’50s, Dusty Dark brown was created on March 11, 1929 in Tralake, Mississippi. He started playing the harmonica when he was 13 yrs . old and we were young within a rural community. In 1946, Dark …

Earl Gaines is some sort of hard-luck case like a saving designer. His biggest strike, by far, was “It’s Like Baby (24 hours per day).” But that record wasn’t acknowledged to him, since it was the task of Louis Brooks & His Hi-Toppers, the group with which he was performing …

Although some could be tempted to call multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer Jack Bruce a rock and roll & move musician, blues and jazz were what this innovative musician actually loved. Because of this, those two styles had been at the bottom of most from the documented output from a profession …