by Bman | Feb 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Caption in Wardlow book reads: "Gress Barnett of Quitmanknew both Sonny Scott , who recorded in 1934, and Salty Dog Sam (Collins) from the McComb area of South Mississippi. Wardlow collection." (Stefan Wirz)Like my Facebook Page, Post your video on my Wall or post...
by Bman | Feb 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Sam Myers (February 19, 1936 β July 17, 2006) was an American blues musician and songwriter. He appeared as an accompanist on dozens of recordings for blues artists over five decades. He began his career as a drummer for Elmore James, but was most famous as a blues...
by Bman | Feb 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Fiddler Will Batts was the primary instrumentalist in Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band, a popular string band whose music owed a heavy debt to the blues as well as minstrel songs, vaudeville numbers, reels and rags. Born January 24, 1904 in Michigan, Mississippi,...
by Bman | Feb 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 β June 21, 2001) was a highly influential American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally...
by Bman | Feb 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Born and raised in the heart of Jackson, Mississippi, Zac Harmon is a true disciple of the music that emanated from the cityβs historic Farish Street district, universally recognized as the home of such great blues legends like the late, great Elmore James.While in...
