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Love Rears It's Ugly Head - Living Color
Is this blues? Sounds like blues to me. I think this song is just terrific!Get Facebook support for your favorite band or venue - click Here“Like” Bman’s Facebook page (available in over 50 languages). I will not relay…
Continue Reading »We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue/Give Me Your Love
This is an absolutely terrific song and a largely overlooked guitar player and vocalist outside of a few hit songs that he had. Mayfield was active throughout the 1970s and 1980s, though he had a somewhat lower public…
Continue Reading »Walk On
If you watched the movie "the Jerk" and wondered who the musicians were when all the family was sitting around singing ... that Was Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Here's a short little song by them that shows…
Continue Reading »Hold That Train
I first saw Lil' Ed at the Chesepeake Bay Blues Fest a few years back and he smoked the joint. If you like rowdy slide blues...Li'l Ed is your man!Lil’ Ed boasts a direct bloodline to blues history—his…
Continue Reading »Furry's Blues - Furry Lewis
I saw this Leon Russell special on PBS may years ago and Furry lewis was featured on it. He demonstrates some of that famous "John Lee Hooker" timing for his singing.Walter E. Lewis was born in Greenwood, Mississippi,…
Continue Reading »Guitar Slim
Buddy Guy, the best living blues artist, discusses Guitar Slim.Get Facebook support for your favorite band or venue - click HERE“Like” Bman’s Facebook page (available in over 50 languages). I will not relay senseless nonsense. In this way…
Continue Reading »Things That I Used to Do - Earl King
King was born Earl Silas Johnson IV in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, a local piano player, died when King was still a baby, and he was brought up by his mother. With his mother, he started going…
Continue Reading »Chicago Blues: A Living History
Chicago Blues: A Living History; The (R)evolution Continues is the much-anticipated follow-up to the Grammy-nominated Chicago Blues: A Living History (2009) and features legendary blues men Billy Boy Arnold, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell, John Primer and Carlos Johnson,…
Continue Reading »Earl's Boogie
Unlike his contemporaries Elmore James and Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker used standard tuning on his guitar for slide playing. He also used a short steel slide. This allowed him to switch between slide and fretted playing during a…
Continue Reading »Death Letter
Another generation bringing the blues. Traditional style buy with a new twist.John Anthony "Jack" White (previously Gillis; born July 9, 1975), often credited as Jack White III,[1] is an American musician, record producer and occasional actor. He is…
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