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Was I Drunk - Georgia White
Georgia White (March 9, 1903 – c.1980) was an African American blues singer, most prolific in the 1930s and 1940s. Little is known of her early life. By the late 1920s she was singing in clubs in Chicago,…
Continue Reading »Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price
Lloyd Price (born March 9, 1933) is an American R&B vocalist. Known as "Mr. Personality", after the name of one of his biggest million-selling hits. His first recording, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" was a huge hit on Specialty Records…
Continue Reading »Sure as Sin - Laura Lee
Laura Lee (born Laura Lee Newton, 9 March 1945, Chicago, Illinois) is an American soul and gospel singer and songwriter, most successful in the 1960s and 1970s and influential for her records which discussed and celebrated women’s experience.…
Continue Reading »STEP BACK BABY - KING BISCUIT BOY
Richard Alfred Newell (March 9, 1944 – January 5, 2003), better known by his stage name King Biscuit Boy, was a Canadian blues musician. He was the first Canadian blues artist to chart on the Billboard Hot 100…
Continue Reading »The Call - Othar Turner and the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
Othar Turner's Rising Star Fife & Drum band (Turner, fife; G.D. Young, bass drum; E.P. Burton, snare; Eddie Ware, snare) play "the call" to picnic night at Othar's farm. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long…
Continue Reading »Bird's Nest - Charlie Parker Quartet
George Sylvester "Red" Callender (March 6, 1916 – March 8, 1992) was a jazz bass and tuba player, famous for turning down a chance to work with Duke Ellington's Orchestra and the Louis Armstrong All-Stars. Callender was born…
Continue Reading »Yank Rachell & Jimmy Walker
Pianist Jimmy Walker, associated with the blues scene in Chicago, should not be confused with James "Jim Daddy" Walker, linked likewise to the blues scene in Kansas City. The former was actually born a few years earlier than…
Continue Reading »Breezin' - Gabor Szabo
Gábor Szabó (8 March 1936 – 26 February 1982) was a Hungarian jazz guitarist, famous for mixing jazz, pop-rock and his native Hungarian music. Szabó was born in Budapest and began playing guitar at the age of 14,…
Continue Reading »Mustang Sally - Sweet Charles Sherell
"Sweet" Charles Sherrell (born Charles Emanuel Sherrell, March 8, 1943) is an American bassist known for recording and performing with James Brown. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Sherrell began his career playing drums with fellow Nashville residents Jimi Hendrix…
Continue Reading »Big Papa and The TCB - Six Pack of Cool - New release Review
I just received a copy of the new release, Six Pack of Cool by Big Papa and the TCB. The release opens with a real jumper, Papa's In The House, featuring big time horns from Maurice Oliva on…
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