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Overtime Blues - Walter Vinson
Walter Vinson (February 2, 1901 – April 22, 1975) was an American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks, worked with Bo Chatmon and his brothers, and co-wrote the blues standard,…
Continue Reading »I Feel Like Crying - Andrew Tibbs
Andrew Tibbs (February 2, 1929 – May 5, 1991) was an American electric and urban blues singer and songwriter. He is best known for his controversial 1947 recording, "Bilbo Is Dead", a song relating to the demise of…
Continue Reading »Jesus Going to Make Up My Dying Bed - Horace Sprott
Alabama songster and harmonica player Horace Sprott was born February 2, 1890, the son of former slave Bessie Ford, and his surname was taken from the Sprott Plantation where he was born. He took up guitar and harmonica…
Continue Reading »Satisfaction Blues - Rufus & Ben Quillian
Rufus Quillian was born in Gainesville, Georgia on February 2, 1900. His brother Ben was born in Gainesville on June 23, 1907. In 1929 they made several recordings for Paramount Records in New York City as the "Blue…
Continue Reading »Leslie West Performs for First Time Since Leg Amputation
Former Mountain guitarist Leslie West heroically rolled onto the stage of New York’s BB King Blues Club Tuesday night (Jan. 31) to perform in public for the first time since he was forced to have his lower right…
Continue Reading »Bloody Tears - John Littlejohn, C. Bell, L.Burton, W. Kent & C. Jones
John Littlejohn (guitar & vocals), Carey Bell (Harp & vocals), Willie Kent (bass), Larry Burton (guitar) & Casey Jones (drums) John Wesley Funchess (April 16, 1931 – February 1, 1994) known professionally as John (or Johnny) Littlejohn, was…
Continue Reading »Somebody - Little Jimmy King JW Jones & Fernando Noronha
Manuel Gales, 4 December 1968, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, d. 21 July 2002, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Citing Albert King and Jimi Hendrix as influences, King’s guitar style exhibited an uneasy amalgam of both disparate elements, which he struggled to…
Continue Reading »Soulshine - Larry McCray
Larry McCray is one of a handful of talented young blues performers leading the genre across boundaries and into the new century. McCray’s savage blues-rock guitar and warm, soulful vocals have drawn attention worldwide.McCray’s hard work paid off…
Continue Reading »Johnny Blues
You might go out of your house any day and come across in the dusty banking of the Square of Weapon, in the Orphans' land next to the Yellow House, perhaps in Providence along with a kiosk of…
Continue Reading »I AM A STREAKER - Arelean Brown
Arlean Brown (b June 10, 1924)Comments by Bob Koester, owner of Delmark Records. "In the early seventies there was a bunch of us that used to go out to the clubs. Sometimes we'd get pretty drunk. Bob as…
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