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If Heartaches Were Nickels - Leslie West
I'm sorry that I can't find a video for this but I think it is terrific! Leslie West has made a number of great blues albums over the past few years and this is a fine example. (And…
Continue Reading »If I Could Borrow Some of Your Love - EC Scott & Smoke
No less a music industry legend than Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records, called E.C. Scott “one honest-to-God soul singer.” High praise indeed from the man who produced Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Wilson Pickett! Blues and R&B…
Continue Reading »IF I COULD SEE MY BABY- LITTLE CAESAR
Blues/R&B vocalist/actor. Born in Pittsburgh and migrating to California in 1949, Harry Caesar scored an R&B hit in 1952 for Los Angeles entrepreneur John Dolphin's Recorded in Hollywood label with the violent "Goodbye Baby." He was also involved…
Continue Reading »If I Did Not Have You - Arthur Adams Blues Band
Arthur Adams was born in a small town in Medon, Tennessee; twelve miles from Jackson, Tennessee. Jackson is eighty-four miles north of Memphis, Tennessee. Arthur attended Tennessee State University for one year, then, joined Jimmy Beck's Band in…
Continue Reading »If I Had Posession Over Judgement Day - Brett Wellman
From the flowing fields of cotton in the Mississippi Delta, to the gritty allyways of Chicago, the Blues is more than music. It's a journey. A fire that starts in your belly and makes its way through every…
Continue Reading »If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day - Dallas Frasca
After winning the 2010 MUSICOZ 'Artist Of The Year' Awards, Dallas Frasca and her songwriting partners in crime, Jeff Curran and Pete McDonald are working on their second full length record in New York. After the success of…
Continue Reading »If I had Possession Over Judgement Day - Lonnie Pitchford
Lonnie Pitchford (October 8, 1955 – November 8, 1998) was an American blues musician and instrument maker from Lexington, Mississippi. He was notable in that he was one of only a handful of young African American musicians from…
Continue Reading »If I Lose Let Me Loose - John Lee Ziegler
b. June 18 (or April 12), 1929 d. May 3, 2008 Part of John Lee Ziegler's unorthodox style comes from the fact that he was a left-handed guitarist who played a right-handed guitar upside-down, with the bass strings…
Continue Reading »If I Lose Let Me Loose - John Lee Ziegler
Ziegler’s recordings appear on the following collections: Georgia Blues Today (issued by Flyright in 1981 and reissued by Fat Possum), John Lee Ziegler: The George Mitchell Collection Vol. 6 (the same tracks appear on The George Mitchell Collection…
Continue Reading »If its News To You - Little Esther
Esther Mae Jones (December 23, 1935 – August 7, 1984) who performed as Little Esther and as Esther Phillips, was an American singer; she performed in the pop, country, jazz, and rhythm and blues fields, including soul music.…
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