by Bman | Apr 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Lil Green (December 22, 1919 – April 14, 1954) was an American blues singer and songwriter. She was among the leading female rhythm and blues singers of the 1940s, possessed with an ability to bring power to ordinary material and compose superior songs of her own...
by Bman | Apr 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Kid Thomas, aka Tommy Louis, aka Tommy Lewis, was and is one of the great unsung heroes of that crazy kind of music that skirts the fine line between blues and straight-out rock & roll. Though success constantly eluded him throughout his career, it wasn't for lack...
by Bman | Apr 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Lester Chambers was born and raised with his seven brothers and five sisters in pre-WWII rural Lee County Mississippi. His god-fearing Baptist parents encouraged all thirteen of their children to sing in the choir of a little country church where his father was a...
by Bman | Apr 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
I just received the latest release, Sunny Road, by Arthur Big Boy Crudup and it's a smash! This is an unreleased studio release from 1969 and what a gem. This is real blues at it's finest, opening with title track, Sunny Road, a stripped down no frills blues track and...
by Bman | Apr 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Tommy McClennan (January 4, 1905 – circa 1962) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist.McClennan was born in Durant, Mississippi, United States, and grew up in the town. He played and sang blues in a rough, energetic style. He made a series of recordings for...
