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The Chicken - Alligator Band
ALLIGATOR is a type of crocodile from the Amazon River and spread to the Mainland of Florida, this crocodile type including the ferocious and aggressive but is closest to the human settlement as compared to other species, the…
Continue Reading »Smokin' Banana Records Artist: Monkey Paw Finger - Smokin' Banana - New Release Review
Been listening to Smokin' Banana, the new release from Monkey Paw Finger. This is a pretty cool cd with a little taste of everything and a lot of fun. The band is primarily Michael J Hartman (guitars, bass,…
Continue Reading »Severn Records artist: The Nighthawks - Damn Good Time - New Release Review
I just got the new Nighthawks release called Damn Good Time and that's exactly what it is. This recording will be released on May 15 by Severn Records fresh off of their first ever Blues Music Award from…
Continue Reading »Big Railroad Blues - Cannons Jug Stompers
Gus Cannon (12 September 1883 — 15 October 1979) was an American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon’s Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s. There’s doubt about his birth year;…
Continue Reading »Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959), was an influential Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of…
Continue Reading »The Girl Can´t Dance - Bunker Hill
The mighty, mighty Bunker Hill was born David Walker on May 5, 1941, and was raised in the Washington, DC, area. Walker was a successful gospel singer, first with the Sensational Wonders and then with the Mighty Clouds…
Continue Reading »Dust My Broom - T.D. Bell & Erbie Bowser
BOWSER, ERBIE (1918–1995). Erbie Bowser, blues, jazz,qqv and boogie-woogie pianist, was born in Davila, Texas, on May 5, 1918, the youngest of ten children. Bowser's parents moved the family to Palestine, Texas, when he was five. His father…
Continue Reading »My Bucket's Got A Hole In It - Paul Barbarin
Adolphe Paul Barbarin (May 5, 1899 – February 17, 1969) was a New Orleans jazz drummer, usually regarded (along with Baby Dodds) as one of the very best of the pre-Big Band era jazz drummers. He studied under…
Continue Reading »Walking on a Tightrope - Johnny Adams
Johnnie Harrison Taylor (May 5, 1934 – May 31, 2000) was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from rhythm and blues, soul, blues and gospel to pop, doo-wop and disco. Johnnie Taylor was born in…
Continue Reading »The Thrill Is Gone - Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield (17 December 1942 – 4 May 1987) was an American blues vocalist and harmonica player, who founded the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the early 1960s and performed at the original Woodstock Festival. He died of…
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