by Bman | Feb 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
March brings Hamilton and Band to KY, IN, OH, PA, VA, NC, and GA! To our friends in Maryland who experienced Hamilton at the Western MD Blues Fest in Hagerstown last year, come right over the PA border to Blondie's in Rouzerville PA on March 18 -- details are below!...
by Bman | Feb 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Photo by Frank ScottThomas Shaw (March 4, 1908 – February 24, 1977), aka Tom Shaw, was an American blues singer and guitarist.Thomas Edgar Shaw was born in Brenham, Texas, and as a young man he worked with Blind Lemon Jefferson, J. T. Smith and Ramblin' Thomas. In the...
by Bman | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
R.S. Rankin was born in Royce City, TX. on February 22, 1933. Growing up in the East Texas cotton fields, his mother would always talk about her brother Aaron and how he had made it big as a blues musician. One day in 1946, his famous uncle dropped by their farm to...
by Bman | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Texas Johnny Brown is truly one of the legendary figures of the American blues scene. Johnny began his professional musical career in Houston in the mid- 1940s with Amos Milburn's "Aladdin Chickenshackers". Johnny played guitar on many of Milburn's recordings on...
by Bman | Feb 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
I just received and had the opportunity to review the new release by Del Castillo entitled Infinitas Rapsodias. This is definitely not a blues recording but is quite interesting. As you may have guessed from the title, if you aren't familiar with the band, this is a...
