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Everyday I Have the Blues - Hi Tide Harris
Hi Tide Harris was born either as Willie Boyd or Willie Gitry in San Francisco on March 26, 1946. He sang with doo-wop groups in his youth and in 1963 learned how to play guitar from Herbert Owens.…
Continue Reading »NIKnSTIX - Drum Contest
From Orange County California, Nikke Blout is a drummer based out of Frankfurt, Germany and Los Angeles, California. With a musician for a father and a music-loving mother, Nikke fell in love with drumming at age seven. She…
Continue Reading »Matthew Davidson News - Rock 'N' Bowl in New Orleans!
Matthew is looking forward to spending part of his Spring Break in New Orleans. He's on the lineup at the Rock 'N' Bowl on Sat., March 31st at 8:30 PM. Hope you will share this newsletter with your…
Continue Reading »Hot Pants Baby - Detroit Jr.
Emery "Detroit Junior" Williams, Jr. (October 26, 1931 – August 9, 2005) was an American Chicago blues pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is known for songs such as "So Unhappy", "Call My Job", "If I Hadn't Been High",…
Continue Reading »Texas Flood - Larry Davis
Larry Davis (December 4, 1936 – April 19, 1994) was an American electric Texas blues and soul blues musician. He is best known for co-composing the song "Texas Flood", later recorded to greater commercial success by Stevie Ray…
Continue Reading »Joe Bonamassa - Live From New York - Beacon Theatre
Joe's newest release (DVD), Live From New York - Beacon Theatre opens with him standing in a subway playing what appears to be a Martin D41 and a very nice little intro tune called 72nd Street Subway Blues.…
Continue Reading »Daddy Wants You to Come Back Home - Fast Frank & The Hot Shout Blues
Franco "Fast Frank" Cersosimo has mediterranean origins but was born and grew up in Torino (in the north of Italy). He starts playing guitar at the age of seventeen.In the second half of the nineties,he becomes student by…
Continue Reading »Key to the Highway - The Delta Blues Alarm
"The Delta Blues Alarm" are a duo of young guitarists not yet very experienced! Friends since the early years of the Liceo Elijah Bertolazzi and Simon Marquis to cultivate their own way a passion for the music major…
Continue Reading »China Blues - Oscar Klein & Philadelphia Jerry Ricks
Born in 1940th in Philadelphia Ricks was the epitome of "Rambler", wanderers, who can never stay long in one place. Toured the world promoting the authentic black blues, and according to their own narratives certainly although some of…
Continue Reading »She Don't Treat Me Good No More - Curley Weaver
Curley James Weaver was born to Jim Weaver and Savannah Shepard of Newton County, Georgia on March 25, 1906. He grew up on the farm of a cousin, Tom Brown, at Liviston Chapel just outside Porterdale, Georgia. He…
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