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Buck Wild - ColdtrainBlues
Big Daddy Payne is an extraordinary talent, having gone to UCLA and The Eubanks Conservatory Of Music And Arts studying arranging, piano and organ. In his youth, he studied drums and piano under the legendary Miss Alma Hightower,…
Continue Reading »Diamonds and Stones - Jake Lear - New Release Review
I just received a copy of Diamonds and Stones, the new Jake Lear release (December 4, 2012)and it's smokin'! Lear is joined by Roy Cunningham on drums and Carlos Arias on bass. The recording opens with Strange Things,…
Continue Reading »Giant Giant Sand
Giant Giant Sand November 8 with The Old Ceremony Listen to a track from their new album Tucson! Giant Giant Sand - The Sun Belongs to You Just when you thought Giant Sand couldn't get any bigger, Howe…
Continue Reading »One Of These Days - Big Boy Spires
Arthur "Big Boy" Spires (February 25, 1912 - October 22, 1990) was an American blues singer and guitarist, who recorded for a number of record labels in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s. Spires was born in Natchez,…
Continue Reading »CRYING - BLUE SMITTY
Claude "Blue Smitty" Smith, b Nov 26, 1924, in Marietta, Arkansas allegedly taught Muddy Waters, already an accomplished slide guitar player in the 1940s, how to finger the fretboard of his instrument. Smitty's lightning runs on "Crying" are…
Continue Reading »BLUES ALL DAY LONG - BOSTON BLACKIE AND OTIS BIG SMOKEY SMOTHERS
Blackie Boston Born: Nov. 6, 1943 Panola, AL R&B Vocals, Guitar aka Bennie Joe Houston Source: Alabama Music Hall of Fame Boston Blackie (Bennie Joe Houston) (aka Dog Man) - Died 7-11-1993 in Chicago, IL, U.S. - Shot…
Continue Reading »Crossroad Blues - Rory Block
Aurora "Rory" Block (born November 6, 1949, Princeton, New Jersey, United States) is an American female blues guitarist and singer, a notable exponent of the country blues style. Aurora Block was born in Princeton and grew up in…
Continue Reading »ANNA LEE - ROBERT NIGHTHAWK
Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967) was an American blues musician, who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early…
Continue Reading »Buy You A Chevrolet - Charlie and the Fez Kings
Charlie heard a great band called Bluebird at an early age and was stricken by this sound. Leaving the hometown of Quincy, Illinois after high school and hitting bigger venues in Peoria and Kansas City. Charlie traveled and…
Continue Reading »I Love My Man - Laura-May & The Bel Airs
Laura-May is a singer from the east coast of Scotland. She is signed with Lewis Hamilton Music Label and has worked with a number of bands, playing in a wide variety of styles. She is currently fronting two…
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