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Willie Dixon’s existence and function was virtually an embodiment from the progress from the blues, from an accidental creation from the descendants of freed slaves to an established and vital component of America’s music traditions. That Dixon was among the initial professional blues songwriters to advantage in a significant, material …

The sly, insinuating vocals and chunky piano design of Willie Mabon won the guts of several an R&B fan through the early ’50s. His salty Chess waxings “I HAVE NO IDEA,” “I’m Mad,” and “Poison Ivy” set up the pianist as an authentic Chicago blues power, but he faded as …

The exploits from the bluesmen named Arthur who share the nickname “Big Boy” would lead someone to think that “big trouble” is exactly what it’s about. The better-known Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup spent a lot of his lifestyle battling to obtain royalties for just one of his music that Elvis …

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 …

The Legendary Blues Music group includes Calvin Jones (b.1926, Greenwood, Mississippi; bass, violin); Willie Smith (b.1935, Helena, Arkansas; drum); numerous others on vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, and piano. Once the Muddy Waters music group quit the expert en masse in 1980, a lot of the sidemen trapped together and created …

Few postwar blues standards have maintained the universal selling point of Eddie Boyd’s “Five Lengthy Years.” Cut in 1951, Boyd’s masterpiece provides attracted faithful addresses by B.B. Ruler, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Pal Guy, and way too many various other bluesmen to recount right here. But Boyd’s discography is normally …

Cripple Clarence Lofton is one particular colorful titles that adorned many an recording assortment of early boogie-woogie piano 78s in the first times of the ’60s folk-blues revival. An early on practitioner of the proper execution, together with his fellow contemporaries Cow Cow Davenport, Meade “Lux” Lewis, Pine Best Smith, …

Keyboardist/vocalist Costs Heid was created August 11, 1948, in Pittsburgh, PA. An all natural and virtuosic musician who was simply inspired to try out jazz and blues by hearing the air, he played both in piano and body organ organizations. His brother may be the well-respected drummer and maker George …

The thundering 88s of Big Maceo Merriweather helped pave just how for the fantastic Chicago blues pianists from the 1950s — men like Johnny Jones, Otis Spann, and Henry Gray. Regrettably, Merriweather wouldn’t become around to take pleasure from their improvements — he passed away a couple of years after …