Δευτέρα 25 Δεκεμβρίου 2017
Anthony Gomes - Up 2 Zero
Anthony Gomes (born May 14, 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian blues and blues rock guitarist and singer. He was born to a Portuguese father and a French-Canadian mother. After his 1998 debut album release Blues in Technicolor, he began touring the United States and Canada and he has since recorded eight more albums.
Gomes resides in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, playing a fusion of blues with rock and soul, and with the Anthony Gomes Band has toured North America and Europe.
Marcia Ball - The Party's Still Going On
Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949, Orange, Texas) is an American blues singer and pianist raised in Vinton, Louisiana.She was described in USA Today as "a sensation, saucy singer and superb pianist... where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet."
Ball was born into a musical family. Her grandmother and aunt both played piano music of their time and Ball started piano lessons when she started school, and showed an early interest in New Orleans style piano playing, as exemplified by Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, and James Booker. She has named Irma Thomas, the New Orleans vocalist, as her chief vocal inspiration. Ball studied English at Louisiana State University in the 1960s while playing in a band called Gum.In 1970, at age 21, she started a progressive country band called Freda and the Firedogs in Austin, Texas, and began her solo career in 1974.In May 2015, Ball won the 'Pinetop Perkins Piano Player' award at the Blues Music Awards ceremony.
Τρίτη 28 Νοεμβρίου 2017
Sonny Boy Williamson - She's Crazy
John Lee Curtis "Sonny Boy" Williamson (March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. He is often regarded as the pioneer of the blues harp as a solo instrument. He played on hundreds of recordings by many pre–World War II blues artists. Under his own name, he was one of the most recorded blues musicians of the 1930s and 1940s.
Williamson's harmonica style was a great influence on postwar performers. Later in his career he was a mentor to many up-and-coming blues musicians who moved to Chicago, including Muddy Waters. In an attempt to capitalize on Williamson's fame, Aleck "Rice" Miller began recording and performing as Sonny Boy Williamson in the early 1940s, and later, to distinguish the two, John Lee Williamson came to be known as Sonny Boy Williamson I or "the original Sonny Boy".
Williamson was born in Madison County, Tennessee, near Jackson, in 1914.
Τετάρτη 15 Νοεμβρίου 2017
Travis Haddix - Problem With That
Blues guitarist Travis Haddix was born on November 26, 1938 and began playing the piano at the age of seven in his home town of Walnut, Mississippi, located thirty miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. Haddix has quietly become one of the most lauded electric bluesmen of our modern era. Without the push of a major label he has nevertheless built up a loyal following the hard way- with terrific music and live shows.
Lonnie Mack with Stevie Ray Vaughan - Hound Dog Man
Lonnie McIntosh (July 18, 1941 – April 21, 2016), known by his stage name Lonnie Mack, was an American rock, blues and country singer-guitarist. He was active from the mid-1950s into the early 2000s. Mack combined fast-picking country technique with soulful, bluesy feeling and form to produce an overall sound that was "savagely wild [yet] perfectly controlled". Mack's early solos prefigured the guitar-heavy blues-rock and Southern rock sub-genres and are said to have inspired and guided several generations of rock guitar superstars.Mack also recorded with the Doors, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ronnie Hawkins, Albert Collins, Roy Buchanan, Dobie Gray, and the sons of blues legend Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup. Mack and Vaughan had first met in 1979, when Mack, acting on a tip from Vaughan's older brother, Jimmie Vaughan, went to hear him play at a local bar.
Κυριακή 29 Οκτωβρίου 2017
Jimmie Vaughan - Tilt A Whirl
Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan (born March 20, 1951, Dallas County, Texas, United States) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer based in Austin, Texas. He is the older brother of the late Texas blues guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan.Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan was born on March 20, 1951 in Dallas County, Texas.
Δευτέρα 16 Οκτωβρίου 2017
Gary Moore - Too Tired
Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician, most widely recognised as a singer, songwriter, and virtuoso rock and blues guitarist.In a career dating back to the 1960s, Moore played with musicians including Phil Lynott and Brian Downey during his teenage years, leading him to memberships of the Irish bands Skid Row and Thin Lizzy, and British band Colosseum II. Moore shared the stage with such blues and rock musicians as B.B. King, Albert King, John Mayall, Jack Bruce, Albert Collins, George Harrison, and Greg Lake, as well as having a successful solo career.Moore grew up on Castleview Road opposite Stormont Parliament Buildings, off the Upper Newtownards Road in east Belfast.
The Rolling Stones - You Gotta Move
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first stable line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Mick Jagger (lead vocals), Keith Richards (guitar, backing vocals), Bill Wyman (bass), Charlie Watts (drums), and Ian Stewart (piano).The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004.
Πέμπτη 12 Οκτωβρίου 2017
Πέμπτη 5 Οκτωβρίου 2017
Susan Tedeschi - Rock Me Right
Susan Tedeschi (born November 9, 1970) is an American singer and guitarist. A multiple Grammy Award nominee, she is a member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band (originally known as "Soul Stew Revival"), which is a conglomeration of her band, her husband Derek Trucks's the Derek Trucks Band, and other musicians.
Tedeschi served as a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.
Susan Tedeschi was born on November 9, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Τρίτη 3 Οκτωβρίου 2017
Πέμπτη 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017
Earl King - Handy Wrap
Earl Silas Johnson IV (February 7, 1934 – April 17, 2003), known as Earl King, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music. A composer of blues standards such as "Come On" (covered by Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan) and "Big Chief" (recorded by Professor Longhair), he was an important figure in New Orleans R&B.King was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Ruthie Foster - Truth.wmv
Ruthie Cecelia Foster (born February 10, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter of blues and folk music. She mixes a wide palette of American song forms, from gospel and blues to jazz, folk and soul. She has often been compared to Bonnie Raitt and Aretha Franklin.Foster is from Gause, Texas and comes from a family of gospel singers.
Τετάρτη 27 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand the Weather
In January 1984, Double Trouble began recording their second studio album, Couldn't Stand the Weather, at the Power Station, with John Hammond as executive producer and engineer Richard Mullen.Couldn't Stand the Weather was released on May 15, 1984, and two weeks later it had rapidly outpaced the sales of Texas Flood. It peaked at number 31 and spent 38 weeks on the charts. The album includes Vaughan's cover of Jimi Hendrix's song, "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", which provoked inevitable comparisons to Hendrix.
Charlie Musselwhite - Mean Old Frisco
Charles Douglas "Charlie" Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, or bands such as Canned Heat.Musselwhite was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
Κυριακή 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017
Magic Sam - I Wanna Boogie
Samuel Gene Maghett (February 14, 1937 – December 1, 1969), known as Magic Sam, was an American Chicago blues musician. He was born in Grenada County, Mississippi, and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter. He was known for his distinctive tremolo guitar playing.His guitar style, vocals, and songwriting have inspired and influenced many blues musicians. In the film The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues dedicates the band's performance of "Sweet Home Chicago" to the "late, great Magic Sam".His career was cut short when he suddenly died of a heart attack in December 1969. He was 32 years old.
James Cotton - With The Quickness
James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time and with his own band. He played drums early in his career but is famous for his harmonica playing.Cotton began his professional career playing the blues harp in Howlin' Wolf's band in the early 1950s.[3] He made his first recordings in Memphis for Sun Records, under the direction of Sam Phillips. In 1955, he was recruited by Muddy Waters to come to Chicago and join his band. Cotton became Waters's bandleader and stayed with the group until 1965. In 1965 he formed the Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet, with Otis Spann on piano, to record between gigs with the Muddy Waters band.Cotton was born in Tunica, Mississippi.
Πέμπτη 21 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017
A.C. Reed - I Can't Go On This Way
Aaron Corthen, better known as A.C. Reed (May 9, 1926 – February 24, 2004) was an American blues saxophonist, closely associated with the Chicago blues scene from the 1940s into the 2000s.Reed was born in Wardell, Missouri, and grew up in southern Illinois. He took his stage name from his friend Jimmy Reed.He became a member of Buddy Guy's band in 1967, playing with him on his tour of Africa in 1969 and, with Junior Wells, opening for the Rolling Stones in 1970. He remained with Guy until 1977. He then played with Son Seals and Albert Collins in the late 1970s and 1980s.He began recording solo material for Alligator Records in the 1980s.His 1987 album, I'm in the Wrong Business, includes cameo appearances by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Bonnie Raitt.Reed toured extensively in the 1980s and 1990s with his band, the Spark Plugs, playing small venues throughout the United States. He and the Sparkplugs performed in Chicago before he died of cancer in 2004.
Κυριακή 17 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017
Phil Guy & Lurrie Bell - What Have I Done
Phil Guy (April 28, 1940 – August 20, 2008) was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of Buddy Guy.Guy was born in Lettsworth, Louisiana. He played with the harmonica player Raful Neal for ten years in the Baton Rouge area. He then relocated to Chicago in 1969, where he joined his brother's band, at the time when his brother was becoming known as an innovator in blues guitar. The brothers collaborated extensively with Junior Wells in the 1970s.Guy died of prostate cancer on August 20, 2008, in Chicago Heights, Illinois, just a few months after diagnosis of the disease.
Κυριακή 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017
Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin' Daddys - Stop Look & Listen
Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin' Daddys from the album-
'When The Money's All Gone'
www.shirleyjackson.ca
Joe Louis Walker - Too Drunk To Drive Drunk
Joe Louis Walker, also known as JLW (born December 25, 1949) is an American musician, best known as an electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. His knowledge of blues history is revealed by his use of older material and playing styles.He was born Louis Joseph Walker Jr. in San Francisco, United States.
Johnny Winter - Mojo Boogie
John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014), known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Best known for his high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. After his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003.
Johnny Winter was born in Beaumont, Texas, on February 23, 1944.
Δευτέρα 28 Αυγούστου 2017
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Cold Shot
Vaughan's music took root in blues, rock, and jazz. He was influenced by the work of artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert Collins, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, Guitar Slim, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters. According to nightclub owner Clifford Antone, who opened Antone's in 1975, Vaughan jammed with Albert King at Antone's in July 1977 and almost "scared him to death", saying that "it was the best I've ever saw Albert or the best I ever saw Stevie".He was also influenced by jazz guitarists like Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, and George Benson. While Albert King had a substantial influence on Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix was Vaughan's greatest inspiration. Vaughan declared: "I love Hendrix for so many reasons. He was so much more than just a blues guitarist–he played damn well any kind of guitar he wanted. In fact I'm not sure if he even played the guitar–he played music."
Vaughan owed his guitar technique in large part to Lonnie Mack. Vaughan said, "I got a lot of my fast stuff from Lonnie" and observed in live performance that Mack was "ahead of his time". In 1987, Vaughan listed Mack first among the guitarists he listened to, both as a youngster and as an adult. Mack recalled his first meeting with Vaughan in 1978: "We was in Texas looking for pickers, and we went out to see the Thunderbirds. Jimmie was saying, 'Man, you gotta hear my little brother. He plays all your [songs].' He was playing a little place called the Rome Inn, and we went over there and checked him out. As it would be, when I walked in the door, he was playing 'Wham!' And I said, 'Dadgum.' He was playing it right. I'd been playing it wrong for a long time and needed to go back and listen to my original record. That was in '78, I believe." Vaughan owed part of his enduring style—especially his use of tremolo picking and vibrato—to Mack. He acknowledged that Mack taught him to "play guitar from the heart". Vaughan's relationship with another Texas blues legend, Johnny Winter, was a little more complex. Although they met several times, and often played sessions with the same musicians or even performed the same material, as in the case of Boot Hill, Vaughan always refrained from acknowledging Winter in any form. In his biography, "Raisin' Cain", Winter says that he was unnerved after reading Vaughan stating in an interview that he never met or knew Johnny Winter. "We even played together over at Tommy Shannon's house one time." Vaughan settled the issue in 1988 on the occasion of a Blues Festival in Europe where both he and Winter were on the bill, explaining that he has been misquoted and that "Every musician in Texas knows Johnny and has learned something from him". Asked to compare their playing styles in an interview in 2010, Winter admitted that "mine's a little bit rawer, I think."
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom [HQ]
Among his many awards, Hooker was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980,[23] the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2016. Two of his songs, "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom", were included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".
"Boogie Chillen" was also included in the Recording Industry Association of America's list of the "Songs of the Century". He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
John Lee Hooker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Τρίτη 22 Αυγούστου 2017
Tinsley Ellis - The Other Side
The Other Side · Tinsley Ellis
Speak No Evil
℗ 2009 Alligator Records & Artist Management, Inc.
Released on: 2009-10-06
Producer: Tinsley Ellis
Composer: Ellis, T.
Lyricist: Ellis, T.
Wayne Baker Brooks - Changeling
Wayne Baker Brooks (born April 30, 1970, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues and blues-rock guitarist and singer.The son of the Chicago blues musician Lonnie Brooks, he joined his father's band playing guitar in the band in 1990. In 1997, he formed the Wayne Baker Brooks Band.
Son Seals - Cotton Pickin' Blues
Frank "Son" Seals (August 13, 1942 – December 20, 2004) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.Seals was born in Osceola, Arkansas, where his father, Jim "Son" Seals, owned a small juke joint. He began performing professionally by the age of 13, first as a drummer with Robert Nighthawk and later as a guitarist. In 1971, Seals moved to Chicago. His career took off after he was discovered by Bruce Iglauer of Alligator Records at the Flamingo Club on Chicago's South Side.Seals died in 2004, at the age of 62.
Michael Katon - Barbeque On My Boogie
Michael Katon is an American blues-rock guitarist and vocalist. He grew up in Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA, in a musical family where he was early inspired to take up the guitar.His album Rip It Hard continued in the traditional blues-boogie vein, and while, like many blues men, major commercial success evades Katon, he remains a respected guitarist in the field.He released a live album in 1997.
Valerie Potter of Metal Hammer said " Michael Katon plays some of the loudest, toughest, meanest rock & blues on the planet!".Living Blues also said of Katon: "Katon is a virtuoso guitar player with his roots in the right place...[his] sound is a blazing blend of electric blues and roadhouse boogie".
In June 2014, he was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Katon lives in Hell, Michigan.
Δευτέρα 31 Ιουλίου 2017
Michael Burks - Hit The Ground Running
Michael Burks (July 30, 1957 – May 6, 2012) was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his tracks, "Everybody's Got Their Hand Out", "I Smell Smoke" and "Hard Come, Easy Go", and variously worked with Johnnie Taylor, O. V. Wright, and Marquise Knox. He was the son of the bassist, Frederick Burks.
Burks was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, and had a musical heritage. His father played the bass guitar, and performed with Sonny Boy Williamson II, whilst his grandfather had played in a delta blues style.
Melvin Taylor - Chill Out - The Healer
Melvin Taylor (born March 13, 1959, Jackson, Mississippi) is an American electric blues guitarist, based in Chicago.During the 1980s he joined Pinetop Perkins and the Legendary Blues Band in a year-long European tour. He has returned to Europe several times with his own group, which has opened for B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Santana.
Album: Rendezvous With The Blues, A Tribute To John Lee Hooker.
Lucky Peterson - Every Second A Fool Is Born
Lucky Peterson (born Judge Kenneth Peterson, December 13, 1964, Buffalo, New York) is an American musician who plays contemporary blues, fusing soul, R&B, gospel and rock and roll. He plays guitar and keyboards.Peterson's father, bluesman James Peterson, owned a nightclub in Buffalo called The Governor's Inn. The club was a regular stop for fellow bluesmen such as Willie Dixon.
Lance Lopez - El Paso Sugar
EL PASO SUGAR from HIGHER GROUND
Lance Lopez - GUITARS/VOX/BASS GUITAR/DRUMS
Recorded at Bass Propulsion Laboratories/Soundcrafter Studio Dallas,Texas November 2006
Engineered by Don Moore Produced By Lance Lopez
Δευτέρα 24 Ιουλίου 2017
Jimmy Dawkins - Me, My Gitar and the Blues
James Henry "Jimmy" Dawkins (October 24, 1936 – April 10, 2013) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He is generally considered to have been a practitioner of the "West Side sound" of Chicago blues.Dawkins was born in Tchula, Mississippi.
Koko Taylor - I' m a Woman
Born Cora Anna Walton on a farm near Memphis, Tennessee, she was the daughter of a sharecropper.She was spotted by Willie Dixon in 1962, and this led to more opportunities for performing and her first recording contract, in 1965, with Checker Records, a label owned by Chess Records, for which she recorded "Wang Dang Doodle", a song written by Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf five years earlier. Taylor influenced Bonnie Raitt, Shemekia Copeland, Janis Joplin, Shannon Curfman, Susan Tedeschi, and other singers.
Grady Champion - Thank You for Giving Me the Blues
Grady Champion (born October 10, 1969) is an American electric blues harmonicist, singer, guitarist and songwriter. He has released eight albums to date. His influences include Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Koko Taylor.Champion was born in Canton, Mississippi, United States, the youngest of 28 children.
Πέμπτη 20 Ιουλίου 2017
Chris Bell & 100% Blues - Cold Hearted Woman
This Band is one of few that can capture the true essence of the
old style blues from Chicago. Chris and his band, 100% Blues, have played all over the U.S. &
have been able to please all ages, as well as all blues lovers! Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Massachusetts, Chris credits both his parents for introducing him to blues, jazz, rhythm & blues and gospel music.
Jimmy D. Lane - It's Time
Jimmy D. Lane (born July 4, 1965, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American electric blues guitarist.Lane was born to the Chess blues musician Jimmy Rogers and his wife Dorothy. In his childhood, he got to know many older bluesmen who worked with his father, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Mabon, Little Walter and Albert King.He has worked with Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Jim Keltner, Keith Richards, B.B. King, Van Morrison, Jonny Lang, Gary Moore, Double Trouble, Taj Mahal, Stephen Stills, Jeff Healey, Lowell Fulson, and Snooky Pryor, Kim Wilson, Pinetop Perkins, Johnnie Johnson, Kim Wilson, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, David ‘HoneyBoy’ Edwards, Little Hatch, Willie Kent, Henry Gray, Lazy Lester and Eomot RaSun. He has also worked with Sam Lay, Hubert Sumlin, Carey Bell, Dave Myers and his father, Jimmy Rogers.
Johnnie Bassett - My Old Flame
Johnnie Alexander Bassett (October 9, 1935 – August 4, 2012) was a Detroit-based American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Working for decades primarily as a session musician, by the 1990s Bassett had his own backing band. He released seven albums in his lifetime. He cited Billy Butler, Tiny Grimes, Albert King, B.B. King and especially T-Bone Walker as major influences.
Born in Marianna, Florida.
Κυριακή 16 Ιουλίου 2017
The Jompson Brothers - On The Run
The Jompson Brothers are an American rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2007.The band is composed of Chris Stapleton (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Greg McKee (lead guitar), Bard McNamee (drums), and J.T. Cure (bass).The Jompson Brothers independently released their self-titled debut album in November 2010.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Slow ride
Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst; June 12, 1977) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial success both as a blues artist and a young musician.Shepherd was born in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Δευτέρα 10 Ιουλίου 2017
Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A Comin'
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15.The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.
Κυριακή 9 Ιουλίου 2017
Smokehouse - Hoodoo You
Smokehouse reworks the deep, swampy groove of New Orleans and Delta blues, adding the electric energy of Chicago blues.
Thompson is a raw, greasy harmonica player, evoking the classic licks of Little Walter. He's not as good a singer -- his range is quite limited -- but he is a forceful and emotional vocalist and he's one hell of a songwriter.
Σάββατο 1 Ιουλίου 2017
Etta James - I Sing The Blues
Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel. Starting her career in 1954, she gained fame with hits such as "The Wallflower", "At Last", "Tell Mama", "Something's Got a Hold on Me", and "I'd Rather Go Blind".
James's powerful, earthy voice bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll. She won six Grammy Awards and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame in both 1999 and 2008. Rolling Stone magazine ranked James number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and number 62 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists.
Hawkins was born on January 25, 1938, in Los Angeles, California.
Κυριακή 25 Ιουνίου 2017
Τετάρτη 21 Ιουνίου 2017
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton
Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist.
Hopkins was born in Centerville, Texas, and as a child was immersed in the sounds of the blues.
John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' King Snake (Live)
John Lee Hooker (c. August 22, 1912 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples" (1956), "Boom Boom" (1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966). Several of his later albums, including The Healer (1989), Mr. Lucky (1991), Chill Out (1995), and Don't Look Back (1997).Hooker's date of birth is a subject of debate.It is believed that he was born in Tutwiler, Mississippi, in Tallahatchie County, although some sources say his birthplace was near Clarksdale, in Coahoma County.
Κυριακή 18 Ιουνίου 2017
Chuck Berry - The Blues
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958).
Born into a middle-class African-American family in St. Louis, Missouri.
Τρίτη 13 Ιουνίου 2017
Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 -- January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. He was born in West Point, Mississippi in an area now known as White Station.
With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits." A number of songs written or popularized by Burnett—such as "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Back Door Man", "Killing Floor" and "Spoonful"—have become blues and blues rock standards.
Πέμπτη 8 Ιουνίου 2017
Buddy Guy - Five Long Years
George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is an exponent of Chicago blues and has influenced eminent guitarists including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, John Mayer and Stevie Ray Vaughan. In the 1960s, Guy played with Muddy Waters as a house guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with the harmonica player Junior Wells.
Τετάρτη 7 Ιουνίου 2017
Sonny Boy Williamson II - The Sky Is Crying
Sonny Boy Williamson II (harmonica, vocal)
Matt Murphy (acoustic guitar)
"The Sky Is Crying"
from "Portrait In Blues Vol.4"
Storyville 671 158 / SLP 158
recorded Copenhagen, Nov 1963
Note: this is Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck "Rice" Miller) who died in 1965
The Original Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee Curtis Williamson) died in 1948
Τρίτη 6 Ιουνίου 2017
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Elmore James (January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader.[1] He was known as "King of the Slide Guitar" and was noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice.James was born Elmore Brooks in Richland, Holmes County, Mississippi.
Δευτέρα 5 Ιουνίου 2017
Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign
Albert King (April 25, 1923 -- December 21, 1992) was an American blues guitarist and singer.
In 1966 he signed with the Stax record label. Produced by Al Jackson, Jr., King with Booker T. & the MGs recorded dozens of influential sides, such as "Crosscut Saw" and "As The Years Go Passing By", and in 1967 Stax released the album, Born Under a Bad Sign. The title track of that album (written by Booker T. Jones and William Bell) became King's best known song and has been covered by many artists (from Cream to Homer Simpson).
King was a left-handed "upside-down/backwards" guitarist. He was left-handed, but usually played right-handed guitars flipped over upside-down so the low E string was on the bottom. In later years he played a custom-made guitar that was basically left-handed, but had the strings reversed (as he was used to playing). He also used very unorthodox tunings (i.e., tuning as low as C to allow him to make sweeping string bends). Some believe that he was using open E minor tuning (C-B-E-G-B-E) or open F tuning (C-F-C-F-A-D). A "less is more" type blues player, he was known for his expressive "bending" of notes, a technique characteristic of blues guitarists.
Σάββατο 3 Ιουνίου 2017
Mighty Sam McClain - Don't Worry About Me
From Mighty Sam McClain's album "Keep On Movin'"
recorded at Bearsville Studio, Woodstock, NY, on August 22 & 24, 1994, featuring Mighty Sam McClain:vcl, Bruce Katz:keys, Dave Limina:keys, Kevin Barry:gtr, Paul Bryani:bs, Zac Casher:dms, The Mighty Horns: Walter Platt:trumpet and horn arrangements, Joe Casano:tp, Ole Mathisen:ten.sax, Scott Shetler:tb/bar.sax.
Τρίτη 30 Μαΐου 2017
Δευτέρα 29 Μαΐου 2017
Κυριακή 28 Μαΐου 2017
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating the local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson.
Πέμπτη 25 Μαΐου 2017
Robert Johnson - Crossroad
delta blues music
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Johnson's shadowy and poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise to much legend. One Faustian myth says that he sold his soul to the devil at a local crossroads of Mississippi highways to achieve success.
Τρίτη 23 Μαΐου 2017
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog and Down Home Shakedown
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record Leiber and Stoller's "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies.
Unique Blues in two parts of a live show in 1965: In the first part Big Mama Thornton sings the Hound Dog and
In the 2nd part, Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, Big Walter Horton, and Dr Ross play the Down Home Shakedown harmonica.
Δευτέρα 22 Μαΐου 2017
Tinsley Ellis - Cut You Loose
Tinsley Ellis (born June 4, 1957) is an American blues and rock musician, who grew up in southern Florida.
His love for electric blues grew by listening to British Invasion bands such as the Yardbirds, the Animals, Cream, and the Rolling Stones. Inspired by a live appearance by B.B. King, he was determined to become a blues guitarist. In 1975, he played with the Haygood Band while attending Emory near Atlanta. Two years later, already an accomplished musician, he returned to Atlanta and joined his first professional blues band, the Alley Cats, a group that included Preston Hubbard of the Fabulous Thunderbirds.
John Mayall & Gary Moore - If I don't get home
John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over fifty years. In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band which has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and blues rock musicians. They include Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Hughie Flint, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Johnny Almond, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington.
Κυριακή 21 Μαΐου 2017
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Whiskey Legs
The Tedeschi Trucks Band is an American blues rock group based in Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 2010, the band is led by married couple Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi. Their debut album, Revelator (2011), won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Blues Album.
Παρασκευή 19 Μαΐου 2017
Albert Collins - Cold, Cold Feeling
Albert Gene Drewery, known as Albert Collins and the Ice Man (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993), was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. He was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and a capo. His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to the title "The Master of the Telecaster"
Πέμπτη 18 Μαΐου 2017
Warren Haynes - Before The Bullets Fly
Warren Haynes (born April 6, 1960) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Haynes is best known for his work as longtime guitarist with The Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov't Mule. Early in his career he was a guitarist for David Allan Coe and The Dickey Betts Band.
Τετάρτη 17 Μαΐου 2017
Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011) was a Northern Irish blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.
During his teenage years in the 1960's, Moore played in the line up of a number of local Belfast based bands, before a move to Dublin, Ireland, after being asked to join the Irish band Skid Row, whose soon to depart lead singer, was one Phil Lynott. Later on, Moore could be seen playing in the likes of Thin Lizzy and British band Colosseum II, as well as having his own, highly successful solo career split between the genres of heavy metal and blues. Moore shared the stage with such blues and rock musicians as B.B. King, Albert King, John Mayall, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Albert Collins, George Harrison, and Greg Lake.
Τρίτη 16 Μαΐου 2017
Albert King - I'll Play the Blues for You
Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known professionally as Albert King, was an American blues guitarist and singer whose playing influenced many other blues guitarists. One of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with B.B. King and Freddie King), he is perhaps best known for the 1967 single "Born Under a Bad Sign".
He was born on a cotton plantation in Indianola, Mississippi.
Δευτέρα 15 Μαΐου 2017
Canned Heat - On The Road Again
Canned Heat is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its interpretations of blues material and for its efforts to promote interest in this type of music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat". After appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals at the end of the 1960s, the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Bob Hite (vocals), Alan Wilson (guitar, harmonica and vocals), Henry Vestine and later Harvey Mandel (lead guitar), Larry Taylor (bass), and Adolfo de la Parra (drums).
Παρασκευή 12 Μαΐου 2017
Jonny Lang - Lie To Me
Jonny Lang (born Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr.; January 29, 1981) is an American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist. He has five albums that charted on the top 50 of the Billboard 200 chart and has won a Grammy Award for Turn Around.
Jonny Lang is of Norwegian descent and was born in Fargo, North Dakota.
Πέμπτη 11 Μαΐου 2017
Howlin' Wolf - Back Door Man
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi. With a booming voice and looming physical presence, he is one of the best-known Chicago blues artists.
Τρίτη 9 Μαΐου 2017
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