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Cadillac Walk- Cub Koda
Michael "Cub" Koda (October 1, 1948 - July 1, 2000) was a rock and roll singer, guitarist, songwriter, disc jockey, music critic, and record compiler. Rolling Stone magazine felt that Koda was best known for writing the song…
Continue Reading »Cairo Blues - Henry Townsend
Henry 'Mule' Townsend (October 27, 1909 – September 24, 2006) was an American blues singer, guitarist and pianist Townsend was born in Shelby, Mississippi and grew up in Cairo, Illinois. He left home at the age of nine…
Continue Reading »Cajun and Blues Music Festival Coming Next Month To Simi Valley, CA
BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY CANNED HEAT LEO "BUD" WELCH ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD CANDYE KANE GUITAR SHORTY REVEREND TALL TREE THE RECORD COMPANY SPENCER DAVIS GROUP BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY DWAYNE DOPSIE AND THE ZYDECO HELLRAISERS TERRANCE…
Continue Reading »Cakewalk Into Town
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician with two Grammy Awards to date who folds various forms of world music into his offerings. A…
Continue Reading »Cakewalkin´Babies from Home - Eva Taylor and Peruna Jazzmen
Peruna Jazzmen 1. Co. Mikael Zuschlag, 2.Co. Peter Aller, Cl. Claus Forchhammer, Trb. Arne Hojberg Pno. Annette Strauss, Bjo.Peter Faurschou, Tu. Leo Hechmann, Wasb. Lasse Borup, Rec Maj 1975. www.peruna-jazzmen.dk Eva Taylor, born Irene Gibbons, she was a…
Continue Reading »Caldonia - Boog-A-Loo Aimes
Abie "Boogaloo" Ames, who died at the age of eighty-one in February of 2002 in Greenville, Mississippi, was a master of the boogie-woogie piano style. Born in rural Georgia, he taught himself to play the piano by listening…
Continue Reading »Caldonia - Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson
Frank Isaac Robinson (born 28 December 1938), known in his early career as a musician as Sugar Chile Robinson, is an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, singer, and later psychologist, whose career began as a child prodigy. Robinson…
Continue Reading »Caldonia - Jorma Kaukonen, George Porter, Geoff Achison
In a career that has already spanned a half-century, Jorma Kaukonen has been the leading practitioner and teacher of fingerstyle guitar, one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots music, blues, and Americana, and at the…
Continue Reading »Caldonia - Louis Jordan
Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known…
Continue Reading »Caldonia - Vernon Harrington
Vernon Ray Harrington’s life is one of the great lost storybooks of the blues. The story begins in 1953 in a place where church basements double as recording studios, schoolyards threaten those without guitars, and backyards fuse blues,…
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