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Easily the main harmonica player from the prewar era, John Lee Williamson nearly single-handedly made the humble mouth organ a worthy lead instrument for blues bands — at the forefront for the amazing innovations of Small Walter and a platoon of others to check out. If not really for his …

b. 25 January 1934, Twist, Arkansas, USA, d. 24 Oct 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA. ‘Small’ Mack Simmons was among the stalwarts from the Chicago golf club scene; he trained himself harmonica as a young child and in the first 50s occasionally caused bluesmen around the St. Louis, Missouri, golf club …

Who’s the ruler of most post-war blues harpists, Chicago department or elsewhere? Why, the virtuosic Small Walter, with out a solitary question. The fiery harmonica wizard had taken the humble mouth area organ in amazing amplified directions which were unimaginable ahead of his ascendancy. His daring instrumental enhancements were so …

Considering the timeframe he spent steadily moving from gig to gig, Johnny “Clyde” Copeland’s rise to prominence in the blues world in the first ’90s wasn’t everything surprising. A agreement using the PolyGram/Verve label place his ’90s recordings in to the hands of a large number of blues enthusiasts all …

A solid storyteller and good guitarist, John Henry Barbee discovered music playing in a variety of homes throughout Henning, Tennessee being a youth. He proved helpful for a short while with John Lee Williamson (Sonny Boy Williamson I) in 1934, after that began using Sunnyland Slender. They made performances over …

There is a lone dark and white publicity photo of G.L. Crockett that appears like many an R&B performer picture from your middle-1960s; a sleepy-eyed countenance wedded from what is apparently a smirk, hands on chin, a gleaming match and an immaculate pompadour “conk work” hairdo to total the picture. …

Only lately has Snooky Pryor finally begun to get whole credit for the mammoth function he played in shaping the amplified Chicago blues harp sound through the postwar era. He’s lengthy stated he was the very first harpist to perform his sound by way of a open public address system …

Exhibiting truly amazing longevity which was commensurate along with his powerful, imposing physical build, Sunnyland Slim’s status like a beloved Chicago piano patriarch endured lengthy after the majority of his peers experienced perished. For a lot more than 50 years, the towering Slim experienced rumbled the ivories round the Windy …

Until 1992, Lester Davenport’s main promises to blues popularity were the 1955 Bo Diddley Chess program he played harp on (it produced “Very Thing” and “TAKE IT to Jerome”) and an extended, much more latest stint keeping down the harmonica slot machine using the multi-generational Gary, IN, music group, the …

No, he hardly ever hung out using the Rat Pack over the martini-stained Vegas remove, and it’s extremely doubtful that he honors demands for “The Chocolate Guy.” This Small Sammy Davis is really a experienced harp blower using a discography dating back again to 1952 and an excellent ’90s debut …