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Little Red Anderson was dealt a fascinating hand in existence, nonetheless it took him quite a while to understand how better to play it. Given birth to Alvin Anderson on July 13, 1954, in Spartanburg, SC, the child of blues story Pinkney “Red” Anderson and Mary Geneva Flynn Bryant, Small …

Chicago bluesman Blind Arvella Grey was created Walter Dixon in Somerville, TX, about January 28, 1906. A world-class raconteur, he vividly embellished the facts of his existence and never informed a particular tale the same manner twice, meaning the precise situation of his formative years are difficult to record with …

A FRESH Orleans songster who lived in the city’s roughest section and made up songs about many of its most notorious murders, Richard Rabbit Dark brown was created in 1880, probably in rural Louisiana. It isn’t known when he resulted in in New Orleans, but after arriving he migrated towards …

Folksinger and professional Josh Light Jr. happily upheld the musical custom started by his dad, the renowned bluesman and cultural activist Josh Light. Delivered November 30, 1940 in NEW YORK, he produced his executing debut at age four, showing up alongside his father at ny nightclub Cafe Culture; for near …

To numerous blues enthusiasts, Josh White was a folk revival artist. It’s accurate that the next half of his music profession found him located in NY playing towards the coffeehouse and cabaret established and getting together with Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, and fellow transplanted blues performers Sonny Terry & Brownie …

A violinist, mandolinist, and guitarist in the dark string band design who made several recordings in the ’20s and ’30s, Howard Armstrong aka Louie Bluie was rescued from your obscurity of professional record selections when he was the main topic of the Louie Bluie film documentary in the ’80s, made …

Very little is well known on the subject of pianist Porter Grainger even though he appeared about many records in the 1920’s, mainly backing blues and vaudeville singers. Not really regarded as that great a pianist, Grainger’s main popularity during his life time was like a composer for musical displays. …

Tx songster Henry Thomas remains to be a member of family stranger who made some very nice recordings, then returned to obscurity. Proof suggests he was an itinerant road musician, a musical hobo who rode the rails across Tx and possibly towards the World’s Fairs in St. Louis and Chicago …

Little is well known approximately blues songster Hambone Willie Newbern; only half-dozen edges comprise the amount of his documented legacy, but among those six may be the first-ever rendition from the immortal Delta basic “Move and Tumble Blues.” Apparently delivered in 1899, he initial began to create a name for …

Like Leadbelly and Mississippi John Harm, the designation as strictly a blues singer dwarfs the music breadth of Mance Lipscomb. Delivered on Apr 9, 1895 in Navasota, TX, Lipscomb was a sharecropper/tenant farmer all his lifestyle who didn’t record until 1960, “songster” matches what Lipscomb do best. A very pleased, …