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Looking Out the Window - Jimmy Don Smith and the Cold Cuts
Guitarist from Ft. Worth a member of the "Sundown Collection" and later on backed up Lloyd Price and then started his own band called the Cold Cuts. We had a couple of benenfits for him - one in…
Continue Reading »Trouble So Hard - Vera Hall
Adell Hall Ward, better known as Vera Hall (April 6, 1902 – January 29, 1964) was an American folk singer, born in Livingston, Alabama, United States. She is best known for her song "Trouble So Hard" (1937).Hall grew…
Continue Reading »San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller
Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 — January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues"Fuller was born in Jonesboro, Georgia, near Atlanta. He was sent by his mother to…
Continue Reading »Don't Open the Door - Martin, Bogan & Armstrong
Ted Bogan was one of the greatest musical artists to ever emerge from Spartanburg, SC, or "South Cackalacky," as the natives would describe it. Bogan was something like a growth from a massive tulip bulb, a bloom that…
Continue Reading »It's Not Easy - Joe Robinson
Joe Robinson (born 25 May 1991), is an Australian guitar player. Robinson is most famous for his fast-paced fingerpicking style and being the winner of the 2008 series of Australia's Got Talent.Robinson was born in Temagog, New South…
Continue Reading »Hollywood Fats and James Harman
Hollywood Fats (May 17, 1954 – December 8, 1986) was an American blues guitarist, active in Los Angeles, California.Hollywood Fats was born Michael Leonard Mann in Los Angeles, and started playing guitar at the age of 10. While…
Continue Reading »Bman's Birthday Report
Most of you don't know because this is my first birthday writing my report but I have a tradition of going home (to Pennsylvania) to see my parents (now parent) on my mothers birthday which is only a…
Continue Reading »New Release: Steel Guitar - Pete Herzog - Review
I have been listening to an interesting release called STEEL GUITAR a blues opera by Pete Herzog. Pete has put in an incredible amount of work on this 49 (22 songs) track forage into his thoughts about where…
Continue Reading »Hoochie Coochie Man - Billy Preston with Johnny Guitar Watson
William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding…
Continue Reading »Groundhog Blues - Blind John Davis, Eddie Taylor
The piano work of John Davis was featured on blues records by the score during the '30s and '40s. His accompaniments to Tampa Red, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, and others brought him fame as a blues…
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