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Good Times Here, Better Down The Road - Joel Hopkins
b. 3 January 1904, Centreville, Texas, USA, d. 15 February 1975, Galveston, Texas, USA. An elder brother of Lightnin’ Hopkins, guitarist Joe learned his trade from Blind Lemon Jefferson when they travelled together during the 20s. Joel Hopkins…
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Clyde Langford: Lightnin’ Hopkins’ older brother, Joel, taught me when I was 13 years old. He was a guitar picker, and he was sweet on my grandmother that lived with us. And he found out some kind of…
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by Rovi b. 3 January 1904, Centreville, Texas, USA, d. 15 February 1975, Galveston, Texas, USA. An elder brother of Lightnin’ Hopkins, guitarist Joe learned his trade from Blind Lemon Jefferson when they travelled together during the 20s.…
Continue Reading »Good Woman Blues - Doug Quattlebaum
Doug Quattlebaum(b-January 22, 1927)The Post War Blues was a record label set up in 1965 by Mike Rowe. It specialized in reissuing obscure post war blues recordings on LP samplers. The label has been one of the first…
Continue Reading »Good-Bye Baby - Robert Lucas
West Coast vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Robert Lucas forged a path for himself in the blues world after the release of his much-hailed 1990 self-produced debut cassette, Across the River. Based in Long Beach, CA, as a solo…
Continue Reading »Goodbye , Good Luck To You - Creole George Guesnon
Creole George Guesnon (May 25, 1907, New Orleans - May 6, 1968, New Orleans) was an American jazz banjoist, guitarist, composer, and singer. Guesnon worked for his father, a plasterer, as a teenager, and learned to play ukulele…
Continue Reading »GOODBYE BABY - LITTLE CAESAR
Harry 'Little' Caesar was born into a family of steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 28, 1928. He grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, and formed a gospel group during his hitch in the Army between 1948 and 1950.…
Continue Reading »Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was a highly-influential American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader. Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music…
Continue Reading »Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - John Mc Laughlin
Phenomenal!! John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England), also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English jazz and jazz fusion guitarist and composer. He played with Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles…
Continue Reading »Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Joni Mitchell
I felt like writing about Joni tonight. I love this song. I really would have preferred to bolg the Hissing of Summer Lawns but I could not find a good video. This is a super band including Jaco…
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