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I Just Keeps On Wanting - Herman E. Johnson
Another of the many performers briefly illuminated by the spotlight of the folk-blues revival of the 1960s, Louisiana-born country bluesman Herman E. Johnson was the product of a highly religious family environment, a background which heavily informed the…
Continue Reading »Erja Lyytinen Band
Erja Lyytinen (Photo by Hans Lehtinen) ‘Forbidden Fruit’ is the fifth solo album from Erja Lyytinen, a pocket dynamo often referred to as Finland’s Queen Of The Slide Guitar. She had also been tagged as her homeland’s answer…
Continue Reading »Sons of Abraham - Lisa Chavous and the Philly Blues Messengers
Mike Albrecht, guitar, vocals: A math teacher in the School Distict of Philadelphia, Mike formed the Blues Astronauts in 1981 while earning a degree cum laude in Fine Arts at Yale University. For over three years in New…
Continue Reading »Sexy Thang - The Harless Brothers Band
Nick Harless is the lead guitarist and songwriter of the band. At 21 years of age Nick has been playing guitar for only 6 years, but in those few short years, he has progressed at an alarming rate.…
Continue Reading »Overtime Blues - Walter Vincent
Walter Vinson (February 2, 1901 – April 22, 1975) was an American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks, worked with Bo Chatmon and his brothers, and co-wrote the blues standard,…
Continue Reading »Little Red Rooster - James Blood Ulmer
James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 2, 1942) is an American jazz, free funk and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer plays a semi-acoustic guitar. His distinctive guitar sound on the semi-acoustic guitar has been described as "jagged" and "stinging."…
Continue Reading »I Feel Like Crying - Andrew Tibbs
Melvin Andrew Grayson, 2 February 1929, Columbus, Ohio, USA, d. 5 May 1991, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Although little-known now, Tibbs was an important contributor to the early success of the Aristocrat record label, the precursor of Chess Records…
Continue Reading »Smoked Like Lightning - Horace Sprott
Alabama songster and harmonica player Horace Sprott was born February 2, 1890, the son of former slave Bessie Ford, and his surname was taken from the Sprott Plantation where he was born. He took up guitar and harmonica…
Continue Reading »Keep It Clean - Rufus & Ben Quillian
Rufus Quinlan, 2 February, 1900, Gainesville, Georgia, USA, - 31 January 1946; piano, vocals - Ben, 23 June, 1907, Gainesville, Georgia, USA; vocals) worked in various combinations, but mostly in a group named the Blue Harmony Boys. This…
Continue Reading »CHARLESTON TWIST - Red Prysock
Wilburt Prysock (February 2, 1926 – July 19, 1993) known as Red Prysock, was an American rhythm and blues tenor saxophonist, one of the early Coleman Hawkins-influenced saxophonists to move in the direction of rhythm and blues, rather…
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