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Take A Little Walk - Louis Myers
Though he was certainly capable of brilliantly fronting a band, remarkably versatile guitarist/harpist Louis Myers will forever be recognized first and foremost as a top-drawer sideman and founding member of the Aces -- the band that backed harmonica…
Continue Reading »TAKE A LITTLE WALK WITH ME - Boyd Gilmore
b. 12 June 1910, Belzoni, Mississippi, USA, d. 23 December 1976, Fresno, California, USA. A guitarist, although seemingly not recorded as such, and an exuberant singer, Gilmore recorded for Modern in 1952 with Ike Turner on piano and…
Continue Reading »Take A Little Walk with Me - The Aces
The Aces was one of the earliest and most influential of the electric Chicago blues band in the 1950s. Led by the guitarist brothers Louis and Dave Myers, natives of Byhalia, Mississippi, the brothers originally performed under the…
Continue Reading »Take a Swig - The Pumpers
The Pumpers are a blues band based out of Eastern Iowa and includes multiple members of the Iowa Rock N Roll Hall of Fame and the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame. Collectively the Pumpers have over 170 years…
Continue Reading »Take a Whiff on Me - Keith Hills - Richard Plank
Now, you might well have seen these two guitarists over the years, playing & singing around a large number of Cornish venues. Indeed, they've toured around the rest of the UK, large parts of Europe and up &…
Continue Reading »Take It To The Bridge Records artists: The Boneshakers - One Foot In The Groove - New Release Review
I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, One Foot In The Groove, by The Boneshakers, and it's a cool blues rocker with a soulful edge. Opening with funky rocker, Mr. Alice Doesn't Live Here…
Continue Reading »Take Me Back - Linda Hayes
Linda Hayes (born Bertha Williams, December 10, 1923, Linden, New Jersey) is an American jazz, and R&B singer. Sister of The Platters' lead singer, Tony Williams, in the early 1950s she recorded two singles backed by the Red…
Continue Reading »Take me back to Tulsa - Bob Wills
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing, he was universally known…
Continue Reading »Take You Downtown - The Blues Doctors
Adam Gussow and Alan Gross, a.k.a. The Blues Doctors, are Mississippi-based blues veterans who play a mix of down-home Delta standards and urban grooves from the Texas-to-Chicago axis with some New Orleans funk thrown in. They're a two-man…
Continue Reading »Take Your Hands off of Me - Robert "bilbo" Walker
Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr. (born February 19, 1937) is a blues musician. who is known in the blues music world due to his "rock 'n' roll showmanship" and "flamboyant Chuck Berry imitations Walker was born near Clarksdale, Mississippi.…
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