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Despite saving somewhat sparingly since debuting like a innovator in 1959 about Elko Records using the storming rocker “Hi there My Darling,” Louisiana-born guitarist Phillip Walker enjoys a sterling status as a modern blues guitarist with a unique sound honed across the Gulf Coastline through the ’50s. A teenaged Walker …

Guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Pete Mayes was raised within the Houston blues golf club picture, exactly the same picture that spawned the delivery of Don Robey’s Duke/Peacock label aswell noted bluesmen want Lightnin’ Hopkins, Johnny “Clyde” Copeland, and Clarence “Gatemouth” Dark brown. Mayes grew up in the tiny town of …

Although he was certainly inexorably influenced with the pioneering guitar conception of T-Bone Walker (what axe-handler wasn’t through the immediate postwar era?), Pee Wee Crayton brought more than enough daring technology to his playing in order to avoid getting labeled as only T-Bone imitator. Crayton’s documented output for Contemporary, Imperial, …

He didn’t record very much in any way — a marvelous 1963 record for Almanac, reissued on Chris Strachwitz’s Arhoolie label, remains to be his primary recorded legacy — but barrelhouse pianist Robert Shaw helped greatly to determine a unique regional design of pounding the 88s around Houston, Fort Value, …

Two 78s in the first ’50s along with a 1989 rediscovery record don’t soon add up to a lot of a recorded legacy. But Zuzu Bollin’s contribution towards the Tx blues legacy must not be overlooked — his T-Bone Walker-influenced sound typified postwar Lone Superstar blues guitar. Blessed A.D. Bollin, …

Followers of Piedmont blues while performed by famous brands the late John Jackson and John “Bowling Green” Cephas should your guitar and vocal stylings of John Dee Holeman, that has several recordings which are easily available. Holeman continues to be located in Durham, NEW YORK since 1954. Over time, tobacco …

Guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter W.C. Clark was among Austin’s first blues music artists, and he’s regarded the godfather of this city’s blues picture. Wesley Curley Clark was created and elevated in Austin and was raised encircled by music, since his dad was a guitarist and his mom and grandmother sang …

b. c. 1948, Ulster State, NY, USA. Raised within a rural section of New York condition, Platania examined piano at an area school before taking on the guitar, partly prompted with the selling point of Elvis Presley’s information and specifically the playing thereon of Scotty Moore. He was inspired by …

Guitarist Freddie Ruler rode to popularity in the first ’60s having a spate of catchy instrumentals which became quick bandstand fodder for fellow bluesmen and white colored rock and roll bands alike. Having a even more down-home (thumb and finger picks) method of the B.B. Ruler single-string design of playing, …

Sibling blues guitarists Jimmie Vaughan (delivered in 1951) and Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990) had been born and elevated in Dallas, TX. Each started playing electric guitar during years as a child, Stevie Ray motivated to consider up the device by his old sibling. Jimmie Vaughan performed in various groupings in …