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Tore Up - "Killer" Ray Allison - Chicago Blues All-Stars
"Killer" Ray Allison first broke into the Blues scene in the late 70's playing drums behind Blues legends Buster Benton, L.V. Banks, Snooky Prior, Lovee Lee, Valerie Wellington, Paul Butterfield, J.W. Williams, Syl Johnson, Left Hand Frank, Robert…
Continue Reading »Buddy Guy Tour Schedule
Date City Venue Country 04/11/12 Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton Place Canada Time: 9:05pm. 04/13/12 Toronto, Ontario Massey Hall Canada Time: 9:00pm. 04/14/12 Montreal, Quebec Metropolis Canada Time: 8:00pm. 04/16/12 Johnsbury, VT Fuller Hall United States Time: 7:00pm. 04/17/12 Wilmington,…
Continue Reading »Piney Brown Blues - Jimmy "T-99" Nelson and Sean Carney Band
Jimmy "T99" Nelson (April 7, 1919 – July 29, 2007) was an American jump blues and rhythm and blues shouter and songwriter. With a recording career that spanned over 50 years, Jimmy "T99" Nelson became a distinguished elder…
Continue Reading »If Trouble Was Money - Mr. Bo
Louis Bo Collins was born on April 7, 1932 in Indianola, Mississippi; he moved north to Chicago in 1946 and settled in Detroit in the early 1950s. Befriended by Washboard Willie, his growing interest in performing the blues…
Continue Reading »Fine and Mellow - Billy Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris 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 »North By NorthWest - Elliott Randall & Mick Abrahams
Michael Timothy 'Mick' Abrahams (born 7 April 1943, Luton, Bedfordshire, England) was the original guitarist for Jethro Tull. He recorded the album This Was with the band in 1968, but conflicts between Abrahams and Ian Anderson over the…
Continue Reading »Move On Down The Road - CANNED HEAT
Robert Ernest "Bob" "The Bear" Hite (February 26, 1943 – April 5, 1981) was the American lead singer of the blues-rock band, Canned Heat, from 1965 to his death in 1981. He was introduced to Alan Wilson by…
Continue Reading »He May Be Your Dog But He's Wearing My Collar - Rosa Henderson
Rosa Henderson (November 24, 1896 – April 6, 1968) was an American jazz and classic female blues singer, and vaudeville entertainer. Born Rosa Deschamps in Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky, she is remembered as one of the greats of…
Continue Reading »Martha's Boogie - Martha Davis
Martha Davis (December 14, 1917 – April 6, 1960) was an African-American singer and pianist whose musical comedy act, "Martha Davis & Spouse", was popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. Davis was born in Wichita, Kansas, and…
Continue Reading »Dream Walking - Derrick Big Walker
Born in 1953 Fort Sill Lawton, Oklahoma, where his father, Golden Glove Boxer, Roy C Walker was stationed. In 1962 Derrick moved to San Francisco with his mother, who worked in a Community Theater, where Big also acted…
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