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Provogue Records artist: Walter Trout - Blues For The Modern Daze
I have been listening to the soon to be released cd, Blues For The Modern Daze by Walter Trout for a few weeks now. Why have I been holding out on you you ask? The cd isn't going…
Continue Reading »Music Maker artists at Jazzfest!
Music Maker Artists and Founder at New Orleans Jazzfest!We're thrilled that four MMRF artists as well as MMRF board members the Carolina Chocolate Drops will all be performing at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival !It will…
Continue Reading »Jim Marshall has passed
The guitar amp pioneer and founder of Marshall Amplification passes away Jim Marshall, 1923 - 2012 © Frank Maechler/dpa/Corbis Dr Jim Marshall OBE, founder of Marshall Amplification, has died aged 88. Since the company was founded 50 years…
Continue Reading »Sonny Landreth's first-ever all-instrumental album features Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani
SONNY LANDRETH’S 11th ALBUM ELEMENTAL JOURNEY IS FIRST ALL-INSTRUMENTAL OUTING May 22 release features Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Robert Greenidge and Steve Conn. BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — Sonny Landreth’s 11th album, bearing the fittingly evocative title Elemental Journey,…
Continue Reading »Tin Pan Alley - Big Al Calhoun with H. Townsend and V. Townsend
This session, featuring Big Al Calhoun on amplified harmonica and vocals, with Henry Townsend (electric guitar, vocals) and Vernell Townsend on vocals, was recorded in August, 1979, in St. Louis. Big Al had worked for years with Henry…
Continue Reading »Johnny & the Devil - Hans Theessink
We've already had an American in Paris, but a Dutchman in Vienna? And one who has dedicated himself, body and soul, to American blues and roots music? Okay, Hans Theessink (pronounced Tay-sink) did not pick the easiest way…
Continue Reading »First Line - Bob Stewart Quartet
Jerome Harris has won international recognition as one of the more versatile and penetrating stylists of his generation on both guitar and bass guitar.Jerome's first major professional performances were as bass guitarist with Sonny Rollins in 1978; from…
Continue Reading »Highway 61- Willie Foster
Birthdate - September 19, 1921Birthplace - Outside Leland, MississippiDeath - May 20, 2001Last Residence - Greenville, Mississipi Willie James Foster, known around his home of Greenville, Mississippi as the "Godfather of The Blues", says, I am the blues…
Continue Reading »Bottleneck Blues - Sylvester Weaver & Walter Beasley
Sylvester Weaver (July 25, 1897 – April 4, 1960) was an American blues guitar player and pioneer of country blues.On October 23, 1923, he recorded in New York City with the blues singer Sara Martin "Longing for Daddy…
Continue Reading »Billy Bizor with his cousin Lightnin Hopkins
Born in Centerville, Texas in 1917, Bizor (also, variously, Bizer and Biser) dwelled in almost total obscurity prior to the 1960s, developing a spare, haunted sound largely unaffected by the passage of time, making him a prime candidate…
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