by Bman | Feb 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967) was an American blues musician, who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk.The band here is Mc Coy on guitar, Sonny Boy Williamson on Harmonica and Speckled Red on...
by Bman | Feb 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
"Blind Joe" Reynolds (1900 or 1904 - March 10, 1968), was a singer-songwriter.Reynolds is thought to have been born in Tallulah, Louisiana in 1904, although his death certificate stated his birthplace as Arkansas in 1900. He was blinded by a shotgun blast to the face...
by Bman | Feb 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Little Johnny Taylor (born Johnny Lamont Merrett; February 11, 1943 – May 17, 2002) was an American blues and soul singer, who made recordings throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and continued public performances through the 1980s and 1990s.Born in Gregory, Arkansas,...
by Bman | Feb 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Arbee Stidham (February 9, 1917 – April 1988) was an American blues singer and mufti-instrumentalist, most successful in the late 1940s and 1950s.He was born in De Valls Bluff, Arkansas, United States, to a musical family - his father played with Jimmie Lunceford and...
by Bman | Feb 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan...
