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Chicken In The Rough - Roscoe Gordon & The Red Tops
Rosco Gordon (April 10, 1928 – July 11, 2002) was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known for his 1952 #1 R&B hit single, "Booted", and two #2 singles "No More Doggin'" (1952 RPM 350)…
Continue Reading »You Know I Do - Big John Wrencher, SP Leary, Erwin Helfer, John Brim, Tom Buckley
John Brim (April 10, 1922 – October 1, 2003) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, songwriter and singer. He wrote and recorded the original "Ice Cream Man" that Van Halen covered on their first album and David Lee…
Continue Reading »Open Up Your Heart.Shirley - Ray Agee
Known primarily for his tough 1963 remake of the blues standard "Tin Pan Alley" (featuring the moaning lead guitar of Johnny Heartsman) for the tiny Sahara logo, vocalist Ray Agee recorded for a myriad of labels both large…
Continue Reading »BUS 52 - Alabama Blues Project
"When you feel like you have no way out of a situation that you are in, nine times out of ten, you've heard a blues song that gives you an answer to your situation and you can figure…
Continue Reading »Cold Chills - Hip Linkchain
Cancer struck guitarist Hip Linkchain down before he could shed his status as a Chicago blues journeyman. With a fine album on the Dutch Black Magic logo, Airbusters, to his credit shortly before he died, Linkchain might have…
Continue Reading »Hold On I'm Coming - Sam and Dave
Sam & Dave were an American soul and rhythm and blues (R&B) duo who performed together from 1961 through 1981. The tenor (higher) voice was Samuel David Moore (born Samuel David Hicks on October 12, 1935 in Winchester,…
Continue Reading »Its Just A Matter Of Time - Brook Benton
Brook Benton (September 19, 1931 – April 9, 1988) was an American singer and songwriter who was popular with rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music audiences during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he…
Continue Reading »Baby Please Don´t Go - The Big Hollers
Daniel Tena and Raúl T-Bonski, from Nasty Boogie, created a old-school blues duo in Valencia (Spain), called Big Hollers in 2009. With different bands, they played at some of the most important blues festivals of Spain as the…
Continue Reading »Slow Blues - Eric Bell
Eric Robin Bell (born 3 September 1947 in East Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish rock musician and guitarist, best known as a founder member and the original guitarist of the rock group Thin Lizzy. Bell began…
Continue Reading »Borracho - Duca Belintani
Duca Belintani celebrates 25 years of career with new CD "Na Trilha do Blues." New Work of Guitarist Duca Belintani, turned to the instrumental blues, the album features the maturity of a musician. From 1986 until now, Duca…
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