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Cold Blooded Murderer - Sam Chatmon
Chatmon was born in Bolton, Mississippi on January 10, 1897. Chatmon's family was well known in Mississippi for their musical talents; Chatmon was a member of the family's string band when he was young. He performed on a…
Continue Reading »Cold chills - Larry Garner
Larry Garner (born July 8, 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American Louisiana blues musician best known for his 1994 album Too Blues. Garner grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his first inspiration being the guitar-playing preacher…
Continue Reading »Cold Chills - Hip Linkchain
Cancer struck guitarist Hip Linkchain down before he could shed his status as a Chicago blues journeyman. With a fine album on the Dutch Black Magic logo, Airbusters, to his credit shortly before he died, Linkchain might have…
Continue Reading »Cold Chills - Hip Linkchain
Hip Linkchain was born in Jackson, Mississippi on November 10, 1936. He was raised in Louise, Mississippi. Hip picked cotton from age seven to age eighteen; he then moved to Chicago. He has played the blues all of…
Continue Reading »Cold Chills - HIP LINKCHAIN
Hip Linkchain (November 10, 1936 – February 13, 1989) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. His best known numbers were "Change My Blues" and "That Will Never Do". Allmusic described him as a "solid, no-frills…
Continue Reading »Cold Chills - Larry Garner
Larry Garner was comfortable in the 9-to-5 routine of commuting to his day job, and making a good salary working for Dow Chemical. On his drive home one night, he was forced to take an alternate route. “There…
Continue Reading »Cold Cold Feelin' - Sam Myers with the Hi-Tones
Sam Myers (February 19, 1936 – July 17, 2006[1]) was an American blues musician and songwriter. He appeared as an accompanist on dozens of recordings for blues artists over the past five decades, and fronted one of the…
Continue Reading »Cold Cold Feeling - Albert Collins
Albert Collins (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993) was an electric blues guitarist and singer (and occasional harmonica player) whose recording career began in the 1960s in Houston and whose fame eventually took him to stages across…
Continue Reading »Cold Cold Feeling - John Slaughter Blues Band
Chris Barber’s bands have almost always had a guitarist (as opposed to a banjoist) since Alexis Korner was a band member in 1949. In the 1950s American stars such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Muddy Waters, and Brownie McGhee…
Continue Reading »Cold Cold Feeling - Motor City Josh
Blues Ace just sent in live from the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival that this guy is tearing the place up! Josh is a straight up singin', guitar slingin', songwriting, crowd-pleasing Blues man. Son of a preacher man and…
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