Κυριακή 21 Ιουλίου 2019
Σάββατο 20 Ιουλίου 2019
Τρίτη 16 Ιουλίου 2019
Carolyn Wonderland - What Good Can Drinkin' Do
Carolyn Wonderland (born November 9, 1972) is an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. She is married to comedian and writer A. Whitney Brown.Carolyn Wonderland was born Carolyn Bradford in 1972 in Houston, Texas, United States. Wonderland dropped out of Houston's Langham Creek High School to pursue her music ambitions.In 1999, Wonderland moved to Austin, Texas; in 2001, she lost her apartment lease after her landlord became ill, and decided to live out of her van since she was spending more than 300 days a year on the road performing.
Wonderland's instrumental abilities include guitar, slide guitar, mandolin, trumpet, and piano. Although primarily a blues artist, Wonderland likes to incorporate elements of country, swing, zydeco, surf, gospel, soul, and cumbia into her musical mix. She usually performs with Cole El-Saleh on keyboards and Kevin Lance on drums. Wonderland has been involved in a number of recordings, including several that were self-produced on independent labels. She was the lead singer fronting the band Imperial Monkeys. Wonderland released Bloodless Revolution in 2008, and is the primary singer on the Jerry Lightfoot's Band of Wonder Texistentialism CD with Lightfoot and Vince Welnick (Grateful Dead, Tubes).
Πέμπτη 11 Ιουλίου 2019
Gary Clark Jr. - Don't Owe You A Thing
Gary Lee Clark Jr.(born February 15, 1984) is an American musician from Austin, Texas. He is best known for his fusion of blues, rock and soul music with elements of hip hop. In 2011 Clark signed with Warner Bros Records and released The Bright Lights EP. It was followed by the albums Blak and Blu (2012) and The Story of Sonny Boy Slim (2015). Throughout his career Clark has been a prolific live performer, which has been documented in two releases; Gary Clark Jr. Live (2014) and Gary Clark Jr Live/North America (2017). He has shared the stage with Eric Clapton, B.B. King and the Rolling Stones. His new album This Land was released on February 22, 2019, a week before its initial release date. In 2014, Clark was awarded a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B performance for the song "Please Come Home", while the year before he had been nominated for "Ain't Messin Round".
Τετάρτη 10 Ιουλίου 2019
Andrea Marr - Watch Me Work It
The Andrea Marr band has been around since 1999, delivering sassy, soulful, original blues. In 2005 and 2012 Andrea and her band won the coveted MBAS Blues Performer of the Year competition and represented Australia in Memphis Tennessee in the International Blues Challenge. Her other awards include Female Blues Artist of the Year (Vic/Tas) in 2002 and Female Vocalist of the Year (Newcastle Blues Awards, 2007). Andrea was the only non-American to be included had a song on a 2007 US compilation CD ‘National Women in Blues’.
Bugs Henderson - Heartbreak Gumbo
Buddy Henderson (October 20, 1943 – March 8, 2012), better known as "Bugs" Henderson, was a blues guitarist who was popular in Europe and from the 1970s was based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, where he was known as a local blues guitar legend. He was born in Palm Springs, California, and spent his early life in Tyler, Texas, where he formed a band called the Sensores at age 16, and later joined Mouse and the Traps. In Dallas-Fort Worth during the early 1970s, he was lead guitarist for the blues/rock band Nitzinger before forming the Shuffle Kings and later a band that was eponymously named.
Henderson played with blues musicians such as B. B. King, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters and Stevie Ray Vaughan, also with rhythm and blues saxophonist Don Wise and the rock guitarist Ted Nugent.He died just four days after a benefit concert in his name.The performers at the 11-hour “Benefit Bugs” event included Ray Wylie Hubbard, Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King, and Mouse and the Traps, the band from early in his career with the hit songs, “A Public Execution” and “Maid of Sugar – Maid of Spice” that featured his guitar solos.
Henderson died from complications of liver cancer, aged 68, in March 2012.
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