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Girl Dressed In Green - JOHN TINSLEY
John E. Tinsley born in Chestnutain, Va on February 10, 1920. Couldn't find much else.Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! - Herehttp://youtu.be/Rp6MfjbUp2Y“Like” Bman’s Facebook page (available in over 50 languages). I…
Continue Reading »Wah Diddy Wah - Little David & The Harps with Leroy Kirkland Orchestra
A guitarist whose most illustrious training grounds were the Jimmie Lunceford and Cootie Williams big bands, Kirkland idolized jazz guitarist Tiny Grimes. Solos in the Grimes style were something he really never stopped tossing into songs as if…
Continue Reading »Roll 'Em Pete - Big Joe Duskin and Martijn Schok
Big Joe Duskin (February 10, 1921 – May 6, 2007) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist. He is best known for his debut album, Cincinnati Stomp (1978), and the tracks "Well, Well Baby" and "I Met a…
Continue Reading »You're No Good Woman - Boa and the Constrictors
“Boa is a flat-out killer guitarist, capable of about any blues lick you could ever want to hear. He bends those strings with both emotion and devotion (and can play an improv beer bottle slide in a pinch).…
Continue Reading »Will Not Play Your Game - Marcus Bonfanti
The 28-year-old was born and raised in London to an English mother and a 'dangerously Italian' father. Being a self-taught guitarist he has already packed in plenty having worked as a sideman for artists such as PP Arnold,…
Continue Reading »Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor - Ursula George / Sugar Ray Norcia
Ursula is a blues singer from Providence, RI presenting very cool, sexy and contemporary interpretation of Vaudeville-era blues tunes, mostly penned by the female writers of the day. Check out Marty Ballou's bass solo out of "Make Me…
Continue Reading »Highway 61 - Willie Foster
Willie Foster was born Sept. 19, 1921 on a cotton sack four miles east of Leland while his mother was picking cotton. After that experience she was never able to have any more children. His family share cropped…
Continue Reading »Mother in Law Blues - Johnny Heartsman
The blues world is full of shadowy figures,names only known from there discograpies and from there recollections of better known artist. JOHNNY HEARTSMAN is one of those shadowy figures.The veteran bay area blues men spoke about him with…
Continue Reading »Mississippi Marvel Passing Confirmed - tribute by Jeff Konkel
Owner/President of Broke and Hungry Records: It is with deep sadness that I report the passing of The Mississippi Marvel, an outstanding blues artist and a true gentleman. He was 81 years old. I was fortunate to work…
Continue Reading »Hello Stranger - Barbara Lewis
Barbara Lewis (born February 9, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter whose smooth style influenced rhythm and bluesLewis was born in Salem, near Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was writing and recording by her teens with record producer…
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