by Bman | Oct 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
This superb documentary vividly illustrates the enduring vitality of country blues, an idiom that most mainstream music fans had presumed dead or, at best, preserved through more scholarly tributes when filmmaker Robert Mugge and veteran blues and rock writer Robert...
by Bman | Oct 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
“Cadillac” John Nolden is a blues harmonica player, songwriter, and vocalist from Renova, Mississippi. He was born in Sunflower on April 12, 1927, one of ten children. The family worked on various plantations in the area, including one owned by the mayor of Sunflower,...
by Bman | Oct 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
James "Son" Thomas (1926-1993)was one of the great Delta blues musicians, as well as a self-taught sculptor. Born in Eden, Mississippi, he was taught to play guitar by his uncle and grandfather, but began to play seriously only after reaching the age of fifty. Soon...
by Bman | Oct 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Blind Mississippi Morris (born Morris Cummings, April 6, 1955, Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues artist. Cummings lost his sight at the age of four, but that did not stop him from learning the blues. Morris has become a popular blues act on...
by Bman | Sep 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Willie Kent (February 24, 1936 – March 2, 2006) was an American blues singer, bassist and songwriter.Kent was born in Inverness, Sunflower County, Mississippi. Although he had played the bass guitar in Chicago's clubs since the 1950s, Kent worked full time until he...
