by Bman | Jan 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Little Smokey Smothers (January 2, 1939 – November 20, 2010) was an African American, Chicago blues guitarist and singer. His elder brother, Otis (died 1993), was known as the bluesman Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, with whom he was sometimes confused. Albert Abraham...
by Bman | Jan 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Rev Rubin Lacey and wife (source: Harris' Blues Who's Who, p. 315; photographer: David Evans) Rubin "Rube" Lacey (January 2, 1901 – 1972) was an American country blues musician, who played guitar and was a singer and songwriter. Lacey was born in Pelahatchie,...
by Bman | Jan 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Johnny Young (January 1, 1918 – April 18, 1974) was an American blues singer, mandolin player and guitarist, significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after the Second World War, and as one of the few mandolin...
by Bman | Dec 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
Roosevelt Graves (December 9, 1909, Meridian, Mississippi – December 30, 1962, Gulfport, Mississippi) was an American blues guitarist and singer, who recorded both sacred and secular music in the 1920s and 1930s. On all his recordings, he played with his brother Uaroy...
by Bman | Dec 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
Willie Brown (August 6, 1900 -- December 30, 1952) Born Willie Lee Brown in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Brown played with such notables as Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson. He was not known to be a self-promoting frontman, preferring to "second" other musicians. Little...
