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Santa Barbara Blues Society-Sponsored Memphis IBC Benefit For The Alastair Greene Band At SOhO Music Club
SBBS IBC Fundraiser for the Alastair Greene Band - Sunday, December 2 at SOhO (Santa Barbara) - The Santa Barbara Blues Society (SBBS) presents a Fundraiser for the Alastair Greene Band, winners of the recent SBBS' IBC (International…
Continue Reading »Mercury Blues - 'Long Gone' Miles & Bernie Pearl
Luke "Lone Gone" Miles (May 8, 1925 – November 23, 1987) was an American Texas blues and electric blues singer and songwriter. He was a protégé of Lightnin' Hopkins, and variously recorded or performed with Hopkins, Sonny Terry,…
Continue Reading »My Life In Ruin - Chemako
Gianfranco "French" Scala con la sua chitarra trova nella sezione ritmica formata nel 1993 da Roberto Re (basso) e Stefano Bertolotti (batteria) un terreno fertile su cui coltivare il suo accattivante ed espressivo stile chitarristico. Ne risulta un…
Continue Reading »A Mighty Flood - Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison writes and performs exclusively his own material, songs for the present that tip their hat to the past. They take as their starting point the pre-war acoustic blues greats but they are wholly individual. Some are…
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Continue Reading »Safe Travels, Happy Shopping!
Black Friday at Music Maker! It's that time of year again - 5am door-buster deals and long lines, getting all your Holiday shopping done in one day - it's Black Friday! If you're home instead, enjoying your leftovers…
Continue Reading »Watermelon Man - Gloria Lynne
Gloria Lynne (born Gloria Alleyne, November 23, 1931) is an American jazz vocalist with a recording career spanning from 1958 to 2007. She grew up in Harlem; her mother was a gospel singer. Lynne was born in New…
Continue Reading »The Hustle Is On - Little Mike Markowitz
Queens native Little Mike grew up on the very competitive New York City music scene. He started playing harp at age 14 and took up piano two years later. His first brush with the blues came while hearing…
Continue Reading »That's What Love Is All About - Mary Lane
A longtime staple of Chicago's West Side blues circuit, singer Mary Lane was born November 23, 1935 in Clarendon, Arkansas. After honing her skills in local juke joints in the company of Howlin' Wolf, Robert Nighthawk, Little Junior…
Continue Reading »There'll Come a Time - Betty Everett
Betty Everett (November 23, 1939, Greenwood, Mississippi – August 19, 2001, Beloit, Wisconsin) was an American soul singer and pianist, best known for her biggest hit single, the million-selling "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)". Everett…
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