Buddy Guy Tour Schedule
Date City Venue Country 04/11/12 Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton Place Canada Time: 9:05pm. 04/13/12 Toronto, Ontario Massey Hall Canada Time: 9:00pm. 04/14/12 Montreal, Quebec Metropolis Canada Time: 8:00pm. 04/16/12 Johnsbury, VT Fuller Hall United States Time: 7:00pm....
Rev. Gary Davis, Bozo Padunavac and American Primitivism – An Exclusive Interview with Peter Lang
I caught up the other day with legendary American Primitive guitar player Peter Lang. American Primitivism, also known as American Primitive Guitar, is the music genre started by John Fahey in the late 1950s. Fahey composed and recorded avant-garde/neo-classical...
Piney Brown Blues – Jimmy “T-99” Nelson and Sean Carney Band
Jimmy "T99" Nelson (April 7, 1919 – July 29, 2007) was an American jump blues and rhythm and blues shouter and songwriter. With a recording career that spanned over 50 years, Jimmy "T99" Nelson became a distinguished elder statesman of American music. His best known...
Fine and Mellow – Billy Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly...
North By NorthWest – Elliott Randall & Mick Abrahams
Michael Timothy 'Mick' Abrahams (born 7 April 1943, Luton, Bedfordshire, England) was the original guitarist for Jethro Tull. He recorded the album This Was with the band in 1968, but conflicts between Abrahams and Ian Anderson over the musical direction of the band...
Move On Down The Road – CANNED HEAT
Robert Ernest "Bob" "The Bear" Hite (February 26, 1943 – April 5, 1981) was the American lead singer of the blues-rock band, Canned Heat, from 1965 to his death in 1981.He was introduced to Alan Wilson by Henry Vestine and the two of them helped convince blues pianist...
He May Be Your Dog But He’s Wearing My Collar – Rosa Henderson
Rosa Henderson (November 24, 1896 – April 6, 1968) was an American jazz and classic female blues singer, and vaudeville entertainer.Born Rosa Deschamps in Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky, she is remembered as one of the greats of the 1920s and 1930s classic...
Martha’s Boogie – Martha Davis
Martha Davis (December 14, 1917 – April 6, 1960) was an African-American singer and pianist whose musical comedy act, "Martha Davis & Spouse", was popular in the late 1940s and 1950s.Davis was born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. By the mid 1930s,...
Dream Walking – Derrick Big Walker
Born in 1953 Fort Sill Lawton, Oklahoma, where his father, Golden Glove Boxer, Roy C Walker was stationed.In 1962 Derrick moved to San Francisco with his mother, who worked in a Community Theater, where Big also acted in several children's productions. In San...
She Caught The Katy – JP & The Crossroaders
The Crossroaders are a blues band mixed in with a hint of country and rock, playing the likes of Lowell Fulson, The Allman Brothers and Free.JP's voice is as great as ever and with a blues trio behind him it makes for a rockin' evening.Since the Wiseguys, JP has been...