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Mighty Mo Rodgers (actual name Maurice Rodgers) was created in Indiana where his father possessed a club that presented blues performers. When Rodgers wasn’t learning traditional piano he was looking into the blues performers that performed there. We were young, Rodgers was deeply suffering from the mid-’60s spirit music from …

There was a period during the later ’70s and early ’80s when Mighty Joe Young was among the leading blues guitarists in Chicago’s budding North side blues circuit. The Louisiana indigenous got his begin not within the Windy Town, however in Milwaukee, where he grew up. He gained a popularity …

Drummer Odie Payne was created in Chicago on August 27, 1926. Fascinated with music as a kid, Payne paid attention to everything he could easily get his practical — traditional, pop, musicals, big music group. Even while a teen he’d sneak into night clubs to view and pay attention to …

Accurately dubbed “the Queen of Chicago blues” (and occasionally simply the blues generally), Koko Taylor helped keep carefully the tradition of big-voiced, brassy female blues belters alive, recasting the spirits of early legends like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Big Mama Thornton, and Memphis Minnie for the present day age. Taylor’s …

Vocalist, songwriter, and virtuoso blues harpist Rick Estrin was created in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California in 1949, and also as a young man he frequented the rough Market Street region, falling beneath the spell of music by Ray Charles, Jimmy Reed, Nina Simone, Champ Jack Dupree, among others, so …

Next time somebody voices the goofball opinion that blues is just too big depressing to embrace, sit ’em straight down and expose ’em to some heady dose of Roosevelt Sykes. If he doesn’t transformation their minds, nothing at all will. There is nothing at all downbeat concerning this roly-poly, effervescent …

b. John Mayon Walker, 27 June 1927, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA, d. 27 November 1999, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Of partially Native American share, Walker learned to try out several tools in his teenagers but was known mainly like a pianist. He started touring with blues rings from 1947, playing piano and …

Regardless of the prominent existence of celebrated blues artist Howlin’ Wolf in her family tree, singer Zora Young was raised singing not really blues, but gospel. Even though the Mississippi indigenous shook off her origins at age seven to relocate with her family members to Chicago, she went to the …

Like a charter person in the Headhunters, the brash team that also included Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers (thus named for their penchant for getting into nightclubs featuring other music artists and blowing them from the stage making use of their first-class musicianship), “Baby Face” Leroy Foster was readily available …

Leonard “Baby Doo” Caston might do not have become quite family members name in latter-day blues that his associate Willie Dixon did, but he did play a significant role within the rise from the blues from the Mississippi Delta and into mainstream music. He was created in Sumrall, MS, in …