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Boogie - Gene Rodgers
Gene Rodgers (March 5, 1910, New York City - October 23, 1987, New York City) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He is best known for being the pianist on Coleman Hawkins' famous 1939 recording of "Body…
Continue Reading »GOING DOWN THAT ROAD FEELING BAD - PRESTON FULP
Preston Fulp, born in 1915, was a sawmill worker, a tobacco sharecropper, moonshiner, and blues and old-time guitarist. He made his recordings at the age of 78 and died a few months later in October 1993. Preston weaves…
Continue Reading »She Left Me Crying - Esquerita
Esquerita was the stage name of singer, songwriter and pianist Eskew Reeder Jr, originally known as Steven Quincy Reeder Jr. and also known as S.Q. Reeder and SQ Jr. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, he was born…
Continue Reading »Terraplane Blues - Colin Linden
Colin Linden (born 16 April 1960) is a Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with a wide variety of artists including Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, T-Bone Burnett, Colin James, Leon Redbone, Rita Chiarelli, Chris Thomas…
Continue Reading »Little Red Rooster - Swamp Train
Swamp Train’s voyage started in the spring of 2010 when Blaze teamed up with Nikworks and Rattlebrained to form a cigar box guitar / washboard blues band. Thus, they played a couple of gigs as a trio before…
Continue Reading »Dirty Dozen Boogie - Speckled Red
Speckled Red (October 23, 1892 - January 2, 1973)[ was born Rufus Perryman in Monroe, Louisiana. He was an American blues and boogie-woogie piano player and singer, most noted for his recordings of "The Dirty Dozens", with exchanges…
Continue Reading »My Baby's Gone - Finney-Mo
Leslie Finney II, was born in New Orleans on October 29, 1929. Finney relocated to Dallas where he was a well known singer and comedian on the Dallas & Fort Worth club scene in the 1950's & 60's.…
Continue Reading »Little School Girl - L.C. Green
b. 23 October 1921, Minter City, Mississippi, USA, d. 24 August 1985, Pontiac, Michigan, USA. Vocally and for his repertoire, L.C. Greene, whose records were issued without the final ‘e’ to his name, was indebted to John Lee…
Continue Reading »Knock Knock - Carol Fran
Carol Fran (born October 23, 1933) is an African American soul blues singer, pianist and songwriter. Fran is best known for her string of single releases in the 1950s and 1960s, and her later musical association with her…
Continue Reading »Mockingbird - Inez & Charlie Foxx
Charlie Foxx (October 23, 1939 – September 18, 1998) and his sister Inez Foxx (born September 9, 1942) were an African-American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina. Inez sang lead vocal, while Charlie sang…
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