Tangueray – “MAX PIC AX” ( Larry Gwaltney ), with Johnny Johnson and Tommy Bankhead
Tommy Bankhead (October 24, 1931 – December 16, 2000) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer, who backed musicians such as Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Elmore James (his cousin), Joe Willie Wilkins, Robert Nighthawk, and Joe Hill Louis. Born in Lake...
BLIND PIG RECORDS ANNOUNCES LITTLE WALTER TRIBUTE RECORDING
"Little Walter Jacobs was one of the best singers of the blues and a blues harp player par excellence" - Keith Richards "Little Walter was a very, very powerful influence on me" - Eric Clapton Blind Pig Records has announced a live recording date for a special tribute...
My Key Jumped Back In My Hand – Ted Taylor
Austin Taylor, better known as Ted Taylor (February 16, 1934 – October 2, 1987) was an American soul musician. Born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States, Taylor sang with The Cadets/The Jacks in the 1950s. He sang lead vocals on The Cadets' "Do You Wanna Dance (Hey...
GOING DOWN THAT ROAD FEELING BAD – PRESTON FULP
Preston Fulp, born in 1915, was a sawmill worker, a tobacco sharecropper, moonshiner, and blues and old-time guitarist. He made his recordings at the age of 78 and died a few months later in October 1993. Preston weaves stories of his life through both secular and...
She Left Me Crying – Esquerita
Esquerita was the stage name of singer, songwriter and pianist Eskew Reeder Jr, originally known as Steven Quincy Reeder Jr. and also known as S.Q. Reeder and SQ Jr. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, he was born on November 20, 1935, and died in Harlem, New York...
Terraplane Blues – Colin Linden
Colin Linden (born 16 April 1960) is a Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with a wide variety of artists including Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, T-Bone Burnett, Colin James, Leon Redbone, Rita Chiarelli, Chris Thomas King and The...
Little Red Rooster – Swamp Train
Swamp Train’s voyage started in the spring of 2010 when Blaze teamed up with Nikworks and Rattlebrained to form a cigar box guitar / washboard blues band. Thus, they played a couple of gigs as a trio before Cut Finger climbed aboard a few month later during a lake...
Dirty Dozen Boogie – Speckled Red
Speckled Red (October 23, 1892 - January 2, 1973)[ was born Rufus Perryman in Monroe, Louisiana. He was an American blues and boogie-woogie piano player and singer, most noted for his recordings of "The Dirty Dozens", with exchanges of insults and vulgar remarks that...
My Baby’s Gone – Finney-Mo
Leslie Finney II, was born in New Orleans on October 29, 1929. Finney relocated to Dallas where he was a well known singer and comedian on the Dallas & Fort Worth club scene in the 1950's & 60's. Finney recorded several singles for small local labels such as Duchess,...
Little School Girl – L.C. Green
b. 23 October 1921, Minter City, Mississippi, USA, d. 24 August 1985, Pontiac, Michigan, USA. Vocally and for his repertoire, L.C. Greene, whose records were issued without the final ‘e’ to his name, was indebted to John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson. His amplified...