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Too Tight Blues - Peg Leg Howell
Joshua Barnes Howell, known as Peg Leg Howell (March 5, 1888 - August 11, 1966), was an African American blues singer and guitarist, who connected early country blues and the later 12-bar style. He had the strong delivery…
Continue Reading »Too Tight Blues No 2 - Blind Blake
"Blind" Blake (born Arthur Blake; 1896, Newport News, Virginia – December 1, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. Blind Blake recorded about 80 tracks for Paramount Records from 1926 to 1932. He…
Continue Reading »Toot Blues - Film
In the late 1980s, Timothy Duffy, a penniless North Carolina musicology student, set out to document and preserve traditional southern roots and blues music. On his travels from Winston-Salem's drinkhouse music scene, an off-the-grid hotbed of gritty traditional…
Continue Reading »Toots Lorraine & the Traffic - Make It Easy - New Release Review
I just received the newest release, Make It Easy, from Toots Lorraine & The Traffic and it is some red hot smoking blues. Opening with title track, Make It Easy, Lorraine opens on vocal supported by Aki Kumar…
Continue Reading »Top Frog Music artist:George Kilby Jr. - Six Pack - New Release Review
I just received a new release, Six Pack, by George Kilby Jr. Joining Kilby on this set of 6 tracks is Neil Thomas (keys, accordion), Eric Halvorson (drums), Arturo Baguer (bass)and Jono Manson (guitar and backing vocals). This…
Continue Reading »Top R&B/Blues Ensemble Blowin' Smoke Return To Harvelle's For Pre-Christmas Concert/Dance Party
Hotter Than St. Louis BBQ! Larry "Fuzzy" Knight Presents... Blowin' Smoke - St. Louis-Style Rhythm & Blues Revue Saturday, December 22@Harvelle's Larry "Fuzzy" Knight (pictured below) fronts high-energy eleven-piece ensemble, Blowin' Smoke, along with the hot, sultry and…
Continue Reading »Tore Down - Freddie King
Freddie King (September 3, 1934 – December 28, 1976), thought to have been born as Frederick Christian, originally recording as Freddy King, and nicknamed "the Texas Cannonball", was an influential African-American blues guitarist and singer. He is often…
Continue Reading »Tore Down - Lena Mosley
Raised in Alabama, Lena grew up singing gospel in her grandmother’s church. She moved to Sacramento with her family in 1966. In 1976, Gene Chambers heard Lena sing and encouraged her to sing the blues, taking her around…
Continue Reading »Tore Down/ Pack Fair and Square - Nine Below Zero
1977-78 As punk hits the UK, Dennis Greaves and Mark Feltham form Stan’s Blues Band. They quickly develop a reputation as an excellent high energy live act. 1979 The band find management after a blistering show at The…
Continue Reading »Tore My Heart - Barry Darnell and the Mobile Slim Band
Mobile Slim was born to a boogie-woogie ivory-tickling mother and a construction-working harmonica-playing father in the segregated Southern gulf coast: Mobile, Bay St. Louis, and New Orleans. He eventually moved to Georgia, where he played juke joints and…
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