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Love So Cold - Ian Parker and Friends
Ian Parker (born Ian James Parker, 13 December 1976, Birmingham, England) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born in Birmingham, he was brought up in near-by Stourbridge. Inspired by The Beatles, he began playing guitar at the age…
Continue Reading »Love Will - Jimmy Hall
Jimmy Hall was born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in Mobile by a musical family steeped in gospel tradition. At the age of 20, he moved to Macon, Georgia with his newly formed band, Wet Willie, and was…
Continue Reading »Love With A Feeling - Tampa Red
Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician. Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who…
Continue Reading »Lovelight Blues Band
Join the Lovelights and be lifted off the killing floor and into the arms of Oakland's New Blues sound.: Say it loud and say it proud. Dee Washington brings the roughest toughest bluesman stuffest vibe to the forefront…
Continue Reading »Lover Man - Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt Alto Sax, Walter Bishop Piano. Tommy Potter Bass, Kenny Clarke Drums. Edward "Sonny" Stitt (born Edward Boatner, Jr., February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He…
Continue Reading »Lover Man - Sonny Stitt,Walter Bishop,Tommy Potter,Kenny Clarke.
Charles Thomas Potter, born in Philadelphia on September 21, 1918, died March 1, 1988, was a jazz double bass player. Potter is known for having been a member of Charlie Parker's "classic quintet", with Miles Davis, between 1947…
Continue Reading »Lovin Home Blues - James "Guitar Slim" Stephens
James "Guitar Slim" Stephens (d.1989) was born on March 10, 1915, near Spartanburg, South Carolina. He began playing pump organ when he was only five years old, singing spirituals he learned from his parents and reels he heard…
Continue Reading »Loving You - Minnie Riperton
Minnie Julia Riperton (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979) was an American singer-songwriter best known for her vocal range of five-and-a-half octaves, and her 1975 single "Lovin' You". She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard…
Continue Reading »Low Down Dirty Blues - Big James Montgomery
The Chicago Playboys first saw the light of day as the back-up band for Chicago blues and soul singer Little Johnny Christian, and the name has been carried forward by two of his former brass men who came…
Continue Reading »Low Down Dirty Shame
Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982), billed throughout his career as Big Joe Williams, was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar. Performing over…
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