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Super Chikan - Interview - Building Guitars - Talkin' Chicken
James "Super Chikan" Johnson is a Blues Music Award winning American blues musician, artist and guitar maker based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the nephew of fellow blues musician Big Jack Johnson.James Louis Johnson was born in Darling,…
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ZZ Top the way you like it...raw and wild!Rio Grande Mud is the second album by American blues-rock band ZZ Top, released in 1972 (see 1972 in music).The Rio Grande, from where the album name derives, is the…
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Robert Cray (born August 1, 1953, Columbus, Georgia) is an American blues guitarist and singer.Cray started playing guitar in his early teens. At Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia, his love of blues and soul music flourished…
Continue Reading »Cold Cold Feeling - Albert Collins
Albert Collins (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993) was an electric blues guitarist and singer (and occasional harmonica player) whose recording career began in the 1960s in Houston and whose fame eventually took him to stages across…
Continue Reading »Devil Got My Woman - Skip James
Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902 – October 3, 1969[2]) was an American delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. Born in Bentonia, Mississippi, he first learned to play guitar from another bluesman from the area, Henry…
Continue Reading »The Dying Crapshooter's Blues (1935) - Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell (May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was an influential African-American blues musician and songwriter who sang and accompanied himself on the guitar. He was a twelve-string finger picking Piedmont and country blues guitarist who…
Continue Reading »Tech Talk - Gibson GA-6 (1954)
GA-6 (tweed)10-14W 2x12" Guitar Combo (identical to the GA-14 Titan except for the 12" speaker)Speakers: 2x12"Inputs (instr. + mic.): 2+2 (tweed)Channels: 2Volume Controls: 2Tone Controls: 1Tremolo: NoTubes: 5 (2x12AX7, 2x6V6, 5Y3 or (newer version) Pre (2x7025), Pow (1x6V6…
Continue Reading »Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey Part 4
This is a definitive history of the Blues, hosted by Rolling Stones founder member and highly accomplished all-round musician Bill Wyman. The two-part programme examines the development of the songs, that characteristic 12-bar pattern, the writers, the performers,…
Continue Reading »You Shook Me - Beth Hart - Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck did a number of old blues tunes on his first solo cd back in 1968. This is a modern update on his original take of the Willie Dixon tune featuring Beth Hart.While playing the Los Angeles…
Continue Reading »Love In Vain" - The Real Willie Mae
John Hammond interview with Willie Mae who was Robert Johnsons girlfriend and Honey Boy Edwards who is of course robert Johnsons cousin.Enjoy“Like” Bman’s Facebook page (available in over 50 languages). I will not relay senseless nonsense. In this…
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