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.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Leave my girl alone

Johnny Winter - Master Mechanic

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.