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You Didn't Have To G0 -- Johnny B. Moore
Johnny B. Moore (born Johnny Belle Moore, January 24, 1950, Clarksdale, Mississippi) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a member of Koko Taylor's backing band in the mid 1970s, but…
Continue Reading »Got My Mojo Working - Ann Cole
Got My Mojo Working" is a 1956 song written by Preston Foster and first recorded by Ann Cole, but popularized by Muddy Waters in 1957. Waters' rendition of the song was featured on the Rolling Stone magazine's list…
Continue Reading »Hey Bartender - John Belushi (Blues Brothers)
John Belushi (January 24, 1949 - March 5, 1982) was a castmember from 1975 to 1979, and was among the very first castmembers of SNL. John became good friends with SNL co-star Dan Aykroyd, and the two became…
Continue Reading »Doctor Medicine - Jack Kelly and his South Memphis Jug Band
Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band (1933-1939, BDCD-6005) Twenty years have passed since Bengt Olsson's monograph, 'The Memphis Blues", was published. To this day our knowledge of the city's musical development is largely based on his…
Continue Reading »Let My People Go - Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson ( April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American concert singer (bass), recording artist, actor, athlete, and scholar who was an advocate for the Civil Rights Movement in the first half of the…
Continue Reading »Levee Bound Blues -Georgia Tom Dorsey
Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899, Villa Rica, Georgia – January 23, 1993, Chicago) was known as "the father of black gospel music" and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in…
Continue Reading »I Ain't The One - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Larkin Allen Collins Jr. (July 19, 1952 – January 23, 1990) was one of the founding members and guitarists of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and co-wrote many of the band's songs with late frontman Ronnie Van Zant.…
Continue Reading »I Ain't Mad at You - Big Maybelle
Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972), known professionally as Big Maybelle, was an American R&B singer and pianist. Her 1956 hit single "Candy" received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. Born in…
Continue Reading »Gonna Leave This Place - John F. Klaver Band
John-F. Klaver is a (blues) guitarist/singer from The Netherlands. Together with his band he plays groovin' blues music. The emotional-intensity of blues together with 'in the pocket ' grooves. His goal is to make music that hits people…
Continue Reading »I'm a Blues Man - Matthew "Dutch" Tilders
Dutch Tilders (29 August 1941–23 April 2011) (born Mattheus Frederikus Wilhelmus Tilders, anglicised as Matthew Tilders) was a Netherlands-born Australian blues musician Dutch Tilders was born in the Netherlands in 1941 and emigrated with his parents and siblings…
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