Search For Robert Johnson Part 5 (of 5)
The Search for Robert Johnson is a 1991 UK television documentary film about the legendary Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, hosted by John Hammond, and produced and directed by Chris Hunt. In it, Hammond travels through the American Deep South to pursue topics...
Busy Being Blue – Paula Harris and the Eddie Neon Blues Band
Paula recently won the Golden Gate Blues Society's International Blues Challenge Competition This won her the privilege of representing the Bay Area in the International Finals in Memphis in February. There she came in Third in the world in the band category. This is...
Devil Come Knockin’ – Rosco Levee
Rosco Levee is a singer songwriter and guitarist from Kent, who has been playing the guitar for the last 23 years...and he’s only 28 now! Music and writing songs is in his blood; every day he composes a new song, a set of lyrics or a new melody to work with.Spurred on...
Wouldnt Mind Dying – Blind Mamie Forehand
Having made only a handful of recordings in the company of her presumed husband A.C. Forehand, the ’20s performer Blind Mamie Forehand joins a class of recording artists whose uniqueness is not in name only. While it many not have been that common for women to sing...
Lookin’ For A Home – Olive Brown
If the blues seems to be the only musical genre named after a color, the performer named Olive Brown represents a small part of the music's unique color wheel. Brown changed her name from Olive Jefferson and apparently not for matrimonial reasons, so an assumption can...
New Release – Joel DaSilva & The Midnight Howl – Self titled – Review
I'm listening to the new self titled release by Joel DaSilva and the Midnight Howl and it's great! It opens with Let's Not Fight, a Texas style blues, with so real down home Texas style guitar playing. Hangin'On, gets a little more rock in the step but still strongly...
NEA Funds Music Maker’s Chapel Hill Series
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - Music Maker is proud to announce a spring music series at Southern Village in Chapel Hill, N.C., that will be offered free to the public. The Roots and Leaves Series will feature traditional music on four Fridays in June from 6-8pm. Each...
Excellent Concert Footage – Bob Margolin
Bob Margolin, (born May 9, 1949, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States)and featured here with Mike Sponza, is an American electric blues guitarist. His nickname is "Steady Rollin'".Bob Margolin was born and raised in Brookline. He started playing guitar in 1964, and...
Search For Robert Johnson Part 4 (of 5)
The Search for Robert Johnson is a 1991 UK television documentary film about the legendary Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, hosted by John Hammond, and produced and directed by Chris Hunt. In it, Hammond travels through the American Deep South to pursue topics...
Hoochie Coochie Man – The Graham Bond Organization
The Graham Bond Organization (Graham Bond - Ginger Baker - Jack Bruce - Dick Heckstall-Smith) at The 1965 National Jazz and Blues Festival held at the Richmond Athletic Grounds, Richmond, Surrey, UK on August 7th, 1965 Graham John Clifton Bond (28 October 1937 – 8 May...