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DUTCH MASON
DUTCHIES LAST ONTARIO GIG...WITH PAT RUSH,JOHN LEE,ROLY PLATT,JOE MACLEOD,COLONEL JESSOME AND SAB SABOURIN. Dutch Mason, CM (19 February 1938 – 23 December 2006) was a Canadian musician from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was inducted into the Canadian Jazz…
Continue Reading »SHADY GROVE - LITTLE WHITT & BIG BO
Veterans of the Alabama blues scene for more than four decades, Little Whitt (born Jolly Wells, February 19, 1931) and Big Bo (born Bo McGee, October 9, 1928) reached out to an audience outside their home state for…
Continue Reading »Lawdy, Lawdy, Lawdy - Glenn Lane
Born in Beaumont, Texas on February 8, 1950, Lane grew up in a strictly religious but loving, caring family enviroment. One of nine brothers and sisters, Lane took to music at very early age like a duck takes…
Continue Reading »Grady Shady Music artist: Grady Champion - Tough Times Don't Last
I just received the newest release, Tough Times Don't Last, from Grady Champion and it's his best to my taste that I've heard. The release opens with My Time Baby, a Chicago blues style track featuring Champion on…
Continue Reading »Luke Winslow-King Album Release Details, Tour + SXSW, Song Stream
LUKE WINSLOW-KING ANNOUNCES RELEASE DATE, ALBUM DETAILS, AND PRE-RELEASE AND SXSW TOURS LISTEN TO A NEW SONG, “YOU DON’T KNOW BETTER THAN ME” [photo by Jason Kruppa – LINK] Two months ago Bloodshot announced the signing of New…
Continue Reading »Rukus Juice and Chittlin' - Memphis Jug Band with Robert Burse
The Memphis Jug Band was an American musical group in the 1920s and 1930s. The band featured harmonicas, violins, mandolins, banjos, and guitars, backed by washboards, kazoo, and jugs blown to supply the bass; they played in a…
Continue Reading »Crawlin King Snake - Earl Bell
Earl Bell born February 19, 1914 in Hernando, Mississippi and died July 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee. George Mitchell Collection If you support live Blues acts, up and coming Blues talents and want to learn more about Blues news…
Continue Reading »Second Line - Kid Sheik, Brother Cornbread
A huge hunk of cornbread would not have been more welcome during the potato famine than it is as a nickname in the career of New Orleans jazz reed player and vocalist Joe "Cornbread" Thomas. Thanks to the…
Continue Reading »Gettin' Ready Blues - Paul Howard Quality Serenaders
Although not a major soloist himself, Paul Howard has a certain amount of fame among vintage jazz collectors because his Quality Serenaders was an exciting band in the late 1920s; among his sidemen were Lionel Hampton (on drums)…
Continue Reading »Country Woman - Will Batts
Fiddler Will Batts was the primary instrumentalist in Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band, a popular string band whose music owed a heavy debt to the blues as well as minstrel songs, vaudeville numbers, reels and rags. Born…
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