by Bman | Sep 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Bishop Dready Manning You may have been going to church all your life, but chances are you have never attended a church with as much spirit as Bishop Dready Manningโs St. Mark Holiness Church outside Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Born in 1934, Bishop Manning, a...
by Bman | Sep 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Floyd Council (September 2, 1911 โ May 9, 1976) was an American blues guitarist and singer. He became a well-known practitioner of the Piedmont blues sound from that area, popular throughout the southeastern region of the US in the 1930s.Born in Chapel Hill, North...
by Bman | Aug 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Jimmy Soul (August 24, 1942 โ June 25, 1988) was an American vocalist. He is best remembered for his 1963 million selling recording, "If You Wanna Be Happy."Born James McCleese in Weldon, North Carolina, he performed gospel music as a teenager, later scouted by Frank...
by Bman | Aug 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Carolina Slim (August 22, 1923 โ October 22, 1953) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer. His best known tracks were "Black Cat Trail" and "I'll Never Walk in Your Door". He used various pseudonyms during his relatively brief recording career, including...
by Bman | Aug 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
Talk about a versatile musician: Alden Bunn (aka Tarheel Slim) recorded in virtually every postwar musical genre imaginable. Lowdown blues, gospel, vocal group R&B, poppish duets, even rockabilly weren't outside the sphere of his musicianship. However, spirituals were...
