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Mud Morganfield CD Release Party Saturday at Legends!
On March 20 Severn Records released the first national release by Mud Morganfield, the eldest son of Muddy Waters. This release is called Son Of The Seventh Son and it has already received about 20 rave reviews which…
Continue Reading »Another Man Done Gone - Sugar Blue
Grammy Award-winning harmonica virtuoso Sugar Blue is not your typical bluesman... Born James Whiting - he was raised in Harlem, New York, where his mother was a singer and dancer at the fabled Apollo Theatre. He spent his…
Continue Reading »Trouble In Mind - Cortelia Clark
Cortelia Clark (c. 1907, Chicago, Illinois, United States – December 24, 1969, Nashville, Tennessee) was an African American blues singer and guitarist, known for his performances on the streets of Nashville. He won a Grammy for Best Folk…
Continue Reading »Eighth Avenue Blues - Peanut, The Kidnapper w/ Robert McCoy
Alabama barrelhouse blues pianist Robert McCoy (born Aliceville 1908) had two rare LPs in the early Õ60s on the Vulcan label. Delmark has acquired the masters and is now re-issuing the material on CD for the first time…
Continue Reading »Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921 – March 7, 1999) was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. Fulson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for business reasons as Lowell Fullsom and…
Continue Reading »Since You Been Gone - Big Maceo
Big Maceo Merriweather (March 31, 1905 – February 23, 1953) was an American Chicago blues pianist and singer, active in Chicago in the 1940s. Born Major Merriweather (or Merewether) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, he was a self-taught…
Continue Reading »Piedmont Blues - Etta Baker
Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina. She was born Etta Lucille Reid in Caldwell County, North Carolina, of African American, Native American, and European…
Continue Reading »RICHARD 'RIP LEE' PRYOR
Richard "Rip Lee" Pryor currently resides in Carbondale Illinois. Since 1994 he has been playing Harmonica, fronting a variety of bands and now plays in the region for countless fans. If you like what I’m doing, Like Bman’s…
Continue Reading »Evil Hearted Woman - John Lyons Band
John Lyons is a passionate, soulful American Blues / R&B musician curently living in Zürich, Switzerland. The John Lyons Band is guaranteed to get you moving. Sometimes rocking out, sometimes soulful and soft, always dynamic with a killer…
Continue Reading »Dave Widow And The Lineup Layin' A Foundation (Room) At House of Blues April 4
"Dave Widow and the Lineup do an amazing job channeling the authenticity of blues, covering influential legends like Taj Mahal and T-Bone Walker without compromising their own style...Widow's guitar playing oozes with emotion and his raspy vocals hit…
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