by Bman | Jan 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Simeon "Blind Simmie" Dooley (July 3, 1881 - January 17, 1961) was an American country blues singer and guitarist. Dooley was born in Hartwell, Georgia. Dooley met Pink Anderson in 1916 and taught him to play guitar. The two played on the street and at parties when...
by Bman | Jan 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Eugene "Buddy" Moss (January 16, 1914 – October 19, 1984) was, in the estimation of many blues scholars, one of two the most influential East Coast blues guitarists to record in the period between Blind Blake's final sessions in 1932 and Blind Boy Fuller's debut in...
by Bman | Jan 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Jabbo Smith, born as Cladys Smith (December 24, 1908 – January 16, 1991) was a United States jazz musician, known for his hot virtuoso playing on the trumpet. Smith was born in Pembroke, Georgia. At the age of 6 he went into the Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston, South...
by Bman | Jan 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
George Mitchell: My friend Precious Bryant, the great blues singer and guitarist from Waverly Hall, Georgia, who I had the pleasure of first recording in the 1960's, died today, I am very sad to say. I have so many fond memories of her. To tell all of them would take...
by Bman | Jan 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Gussie Nesbit was a guitar evangelist from Georgia. His first recording session was in 1930 in Atlanta for Columbia. Four titles were recorded but only two were issued. Five years later he had his second and final session in New York City for Decca. Ten songs were...
