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Walking On My Thin Soul Shoes - Choker Campbell
Walter Luzar "Choker" Campbell (March 21, 1916 – July 20, 1993) was an American musician. Born as an only child in Shelby, Mississippi, his family moved to Saginaw, Michigan, when he was only five years old. Campbell studied…
Continue Reading »Hungry Woman - Gaye Adegbalola
Gaye Todd was born and raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She graduated as valedictorian of the then-segregated Walker-Grant High School. She finished Boston University with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. Prior to becoming a teacher,…
Continue Reading »Ain't No Use - Freeky Cleen
The one-man rock 'n' roll band Freeky Cleen was started in 2004 when Ilya Polishchuk (guitar, bass, vocals, percussion and harmonica) and Alex Okhrimenko (tech) fondly decided to challenge the world’s major record labels by creating their own…
Continue Reading »Honey Bee - Big Jack "The Oil Man" Johnson
Big Jack Johnson (July 30, 1940 – March 14, 2011) was an American electric blues musician. One commentator noted that Johnson, along with R. L. Burnside, Paul "Wine" Jones, Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes and James "Super Chikan" Johnson, were…
Continue Reading »The New Blues - Sonny Red Sextet
Sonny Red (December 17, 1932 in Detroit as Sylvester Kyner Jr. – March 20, 1981) was an American alto saxophonist associated with the hard bop idiom among other styles. He had some success in the 1960s, but had…
Continue Reading »Blues For Marian - Billy Butler
Billy Butler (December 15, 1925 – March 20, 1991) was an American soul jazz guitarist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He played with The Harlemaires, Tommy Flanagan, tenor saxophonist Floyd "Candy" Johnson, Houston Person, organist Harry "Doc" Bagby, Benny…
Continue Reading »Operator - Eddie Shaw
Eddie Shaw (born March 20, 1937, Stringtown, Mississippi, United States) is an African American, Chicago blues tenor saxophonist. In his teenage years, Shaw played tenor saxophone with local blues musicians such as Little Milton and Willie Love. At…
Continue Reading »Blues Leaf Records artists: Nicole Hart and Anni Piper - Split Second - New Release Review
I just received the new release (to be released April 9, 2013), Split Second, from Nicole Hart and Anni Piper and it's quite good! The release opens with a vocal duet rhumba, Can't Let You Go. This track…
Continue Reading »Sugar Boogie - Marcia Ball
Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949, Orange, Texas, United States) is an American blues singer and pianist, born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana. She was described in USA Today as "a sensation, saucy…
Continue Reading »Orange County Blues Alert: Papa J & Friends in Concert at HOB/Anaheim, Olde Ship This Week
Real Blues Festival/Orange County Blues Society founder Papa J (pictured above) & Friends perform at the House of Blues/Anaheim this Thursday, March 21 and at the Olde Ship's 20th Anniversary Gala in Santa Ana on Friday, March 22.…
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