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My Girlfriend Left Me - Bill Williams
Bill Williams, a 72-year old bluesman from Greenup. The previously unrecorded Williams ranks among the most polished and proficient living traditional bluesmen, and has a large repertoire embracing ragtime, hillbilly, and even pop material. He is also the…
Continue Reading »My Give A Damn Gave Out - Latimore
Benjamin "Benny" Latimore (born 7 September 1939, Charleston, Tennessee), usually known professionally simply as Latimore, is an American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist. He was born in Charleston, Tennessee, and was influenced by country music, his Baptist church…
Continue Reading »My Give A Damn Gave Out - Latimore
Benjamin "Benny" Latimore (born 7 September 1939, Charleston, Tennessee), usually known professionally simply as Latimore, is an American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist. He was born in Charleston, Tennessee, and was influenced by country music, his Baptist church…
Continue Reading »My Good Pott - Doc Pomus
Jerome Solon Felder, better known as Doc Pomus (June 27, 1925 - March 14, 1991), was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lyricist of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted…
Continue Reading »My Guitar's My Only Friend - James "Buddy" Rogers
I just received a copy of the new release, My Guitar's My Only Friend, by James "Buddy" Rogers and it's really good. Rogers, who formed a band at 11 and having formal bookings by 15 has been at…
Continue Reading »My Guy - Mary Wells
Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. Along with The Miracles, The Temptations, The Supremes, and the Four…
Continue Reading »MY HEAD IS BALD - Tail Dragger and The Robbert Fossen Blues Band
Tail Dragger is Lowdown and Dirty Real Deal Chicago Blues at its best- Blues with a Feeling!! You must experience a Tail Dragger live performance; your life will not be the same. After the legendary Howlin' Wolf passed…
Continue Reading »My Head Is Bald - Tail Dragger with Jimmy Dawkins and Lurrie Bell
James Yancy Jones, aka Tail Dragger, was born in Altheimer, AR, in 1940. He was brought up by his grandparents and was influenced as a child by the electric Chicago blues of Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and…
Continue Reading »My Heart Beats Like a Hammer/ Shake Your Moneymaker - Fleetwood Mac
Maybe a little lip synching here.... Fleetwood Mac were formed in 1967 in London when Peter Green left the British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received…
Continue Reading »My Heart Is Crying - Cash McCall
Guitarist Cash McCall has segued from gospel to soul to blues over a distinguished career spanning more than three decades. Born Morris Dollison, Jr. in 1941 in Missouri, he found that the best way to exit his rural…
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