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Fan Favorite New Talent
Check out our new "Fan Favorites" section on our webpage (www.bmansbluesreport.com). As you know, we are always seeking new talent. As these artists are featured our page keeps track of how many viewings each artist gets and likes.…
Continue Reading »Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982), billed throughout his career as Big Joe Williams, was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar. Performing over…
Continue Reading »Rock Me Baby - Sugar Pie Desanto
Sugar Pie DeSanto (born Umpeylia Marsema Balinton, October 16, 1935, Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American rhythm and blues singer of the 1950s and 1960s. She was born to an African American mother and Filipino father.…
Continue Reading »To The Devil for a Dime - Tinsley Ellis
Tinsley Ellis (born June 4, 1957, Atlanta, Georgia) is an American blues/rock musician who grew up in southern Florida.His love for electric blues grew by listening to British Invasion bands such as The Yardbirds, The Animals, Cream, and…
Continue Reading »A visit with Etta Baker
Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006) was a Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina, United States.She was born Etta Lucille Reid in Caldwell County, North Carolina, of African American, Native American, and European…
Continue Reading »Deep Blues - Blues Documentary
This superb documentary vividly illustrates the enduring vitality of country blues, an idiom that most mainstream music fans had presumed dead or, at best, preserved through more scholarly tributes when filmmaker Robert Mugge and veteran blues and rock…
Continue Reading »What A Way It Used To Be - Pat Thomas
Pat Thomas from Leland, Missisippi. That's on Highway 61 south of Clarksdale between Greenville and Indianola. His dad was the late artist/musician James "Son" Thomas. Pat, an artist/musician like his father, has a soulful high lonesome voice that…
Continue Reading »Sad Streets of Clarksdale - Foster "Mr Tater" Wiley
Foster Wiley, a.k.a. ‘Mr. Tater,’ legendary street musician of Clarksdale, Mississippi, passed away on Friday, September 10th. According to friend John Ruskey, Wiley was 63 years old. Upon hearing of Mr. Tater’s failing health, Music Maker friend Will…
Continue Reading »Sittin on Top of the World - Cadillac John Nolden, Bill Abel, Bert Deivert
“Cadillac” John Nolden is a blues harmonica player, songwriter, and vocalist from Renova, Mississippi. He was born in Sunflower on April 12, 1927, one of ten children. The family worked on various plantations in the area, including one…
Continue Reading »Bloodshot Records: Want More - JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound - new release review
I have been listening to the new JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound release. This is a very upbeat recording fusing soul, power pop, funk,rock and blues (and a bunch of other stuff I'm sure. It's got the…
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