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My Man - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and…
Continue Reading »My Mood Too - Otis Grand
OTIS GRAND, the Gentle Giant of the Blues, has absorbed a wide spectrum of Blues styles in the past four decades and now leads the hottest TRUE Blues and R & B band around today. More importantly, he…
Continue Reading »My Next Door Neighbor - Jerry "Boogie" McCain
Jerry McCain, often billed as Jerry "Boogie" McCain (born June 18, 1930, Gadsden, Alabama, United States), is an American electric blues musician, best known as a harmonica player. One of five children of a poor family, many of…
Continue Reading »My Ohio Home - Eddie Thomas & Carl Scott
Being a sharecropper, lack of money and technology did not stop folks from making great music. Take this duo who put on a porch concert with a ukulele, washboard & kazoo. A teapot becomes a horn, a wooden…
Continue Reading »My Own Fault - Mississippi Adam Riggle with Wesley Jefferson Southern Soul Band
Wesley Junebug Jefferson (1944-2009) Bassist, vocalist, and bandleader Wesley Jefferson has been a stalwart of the Clarksdale blues scene since the mid-1960s. He was born in Roundaway in Coahoma County on March 23, 1944, the oldest boy of…
Continue Reading »My Pony Run Blues - Jewell Long
Jewell Long was born in Sealy, TX. on June 30, 1908. He was equally adapt at playing guitar and piano but worked all of his life as a laborer. He was recorded one summer afternoon in 1960, and…
Continue Reading »My Race Hoss - Sonny Blake
4th day of January in 1923 Blues harmonica player Sonny Blake was born Clennon Lee Blakes in Dundee, MS. Fine Memphis-based singer and harmonica player, who made a few singles for CMC, an EP for Rooster Records, and…
Continue Reading »MY SEDUCTION - Bob Schultz
Big Foot Bob is one of the most respected Rhythm and Blues singers and musicians throughout Michigan. His career began in the Sixties as the organist in the Bob Seger System. When you hear "Ramblin Gamblin Man", or…
Continue Reading »My Starter Won't Start - Justin Townes Earle
Cool performance of an Old Lightnin Hopkins song. Justin Townes Earle (Born January 4, 1982 in Nashville, Tennessee), son of Steve Earle, stepson of Allison Moorer, and named for songwriter Townes Van Zandt is an AMA winning, Americana…
Continue Reading »My Sweet Woman - Drifting Slim
Elmon Mickle Profile: Blues musician, singer and harmonica player, born 1919 Arkansas, died 1977. Aliases: Elmon Mickle, Model "T" Slim If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and…
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