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.
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