by Bman | Feb 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Barbara Carr (born 9 January 1941, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American blues musician.Carr started singing in the First Baptist Church in Elmwood Park, Missouri. She sang with her sisters, and this group became known as The Crosby Singers, and they performed in...
by Bman | Feb 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ishman Bracey (January 9, 1901 – February 12, 1970) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Mississippi, considered one of the most important early delta blues performers. With Tommy Johnson, he was the center of a small Jackson, Mississippi group of blues...
by Bman | Feb 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Eden Brent (born 15 Nov, 1965 in Greenville, Mississippi) is an award-winning American musician on the independent Yellow Dog Records label. A blues pianist and vocalist, she combines boogie-woogie with elements of blues, jazz, soul, gospel and pop. Her vocal style...
by Bman | Feb 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Abie "Boogaloo" Ames, who died at the age of eighty-one in February of 2002 in Greenville, Mississippi, was a master of the boogie-woogie piano style. Born in rural Georgia, he taught himself to play the piano by listening to songs on the radio and playing with them....
by Bman | Feb 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Eddie "Guitar" Burns (born February 8, 1928, Belzoni, Mississippi) is an American Detroit blues guitarist, harmonica player, singer and songwriter. His career has spanned seven decades, and in terms of Detroit bluesmen, Burns is deemed second only in stature to John...
