Latest additions
Caravan's 40th anniversary UK tour starts January 8
JANUARY 2013 UK TOUR Plus special guest Garron Frith Tickets on sale Monday June 18th 24hr Box Office: 0844 478 0898 www.eventim.co.uk 40th Anniversary tour of their seminal 1973 album "For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night"…
Continue Reading »Congratulations Carolina Chocolate Drops!
Carolina Chocolate Drops nominated for Grammy! Music Maker Next Generation artists and Board Members the Carolina Chocolate Drops have been nominated for a Grammy for their recording "Leaving Eden." This is the second nomination in the Best Folk…
Continue Reading »ROLLING AND TUMBLING - EDDIE ONE STRING JONES
In most blues reference books, the name Eddie Jones refers to the given handle of the New Orleans guitarist better known as "Guitar Slim." But this time, we take pause to relate what little information exists on another…
Continue Reading »Take Me Back - Linda Hayes
Linda Hayes (born Bertha Williams, December 10, 1923, Linden, New Jersey) is an American jazz, and R&B singer. Sister of The Platters' lead singer, Tony Williams, in the early 1950s she recorded two singles backed by the Red…
Continue Reading »Trouble Don't Last - Guitar Slim
Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), better known as Guitar Slim, was a New Orleans blues guitarist, from the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song, produced by Johnny Vincent at Specialty Records,…
Continue Reading »JAN AKKERMAN
Jan Akkerman (born 24 December 1946) is a Dutch guitarist. Akkerman is a distinctive guitar player, constantly experimenting with new equipment and guitars. Akkerman's distinctive sound is characterised by his pioneering use of volume swells which produce a…
Continue Reading »I Hear The Blues - Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976) was an American blues singer and songwriter. During a recording career that spanned forty years, from 1926 to the mid 1960s, she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Clarence…
Continue Reading »Red House - Jon Butcher
Grammy-nominated Jon Butcher is one of a select handful of influential recording artists comprising the legendary Boston music scene. MTV vids and hit songs, "Life Takes A Life" ,"Wishes", "Holy War", "Goodbye Saving Grace", "Miracles", "Send Me Somebody"…
Continue Reading »Messin' With The Kid - Junior Wells
Junior Wells (December 9, 1934 – January 15, 1998), born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr., was an American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist. Wells, who was best known for his performances and recordings with Muddy Waters,…
Continue Reading »John Henry - Carolina Chocolate Drops w/ Joe Thompson
It is not widely known in this day that the fiddle and banjo were commonly played by African Americans from slavery times to well into this century. The two instruments in combination once provided much of the dance…
Continue Reading »