King of the Delta Blues Singers, The Complete Recordings, King of the Delta Blues, I'll Play the Blues for You, Live at the Fox Venice Theatre, Collection, The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, The Genuine Article, Howlin' Wolf, Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, A Man & the Blues, Let the Good Times Roll, Live at the Regal, Ladies and Gentleman Mr. B.B. I enjoy the work and I enjoy the history of the music. I also record into my phone so I dont forget ideas. In 1997, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. With my music the influences are buried in a little more and are more subliminal. Robert Johnson Is An Early Member Of The 27 Club, And His Death May Be Due To A Deal With The Devil. For me, being on the radio was an accident and something that I didnt pursue. Brunswick, who took over Vocalion in the mid-20s but continued to release records under the imprint, went south and recorded Leroy Carr, Bo Chatman, Charlie McCoy, Furry Lewis, and Speckled Red. I then said I would do it. Re-taught his signature guitar licks byfanand future Canned Heat founder Al Wilson, House became part of the decade's folk-blues revival, performing live into the early 1970s and even returning to recording. Soon after, the band got a record deal with Epic Records and they recorded a debut album, Texas Flood. Signing with Okeh Records in 1925, Johnson recorded an estimated 130 songs over seven years, including several groundbreaking duets with Blind Willie Dunn (actually white jazz guitarist Eddie Lang). Usually, they are not right out front. After his death in 1949, Leadbelly songs including "Midnight Special," "Goodnight, Irene," and "The Rock Island Line" became hits for artists as diverse as the Weavers, Frank Sinatra,Johnny CashandErnest Tubb. They all recorded in 1923. I just booked my first post pandemic show on Monday June 28th at the City Winery in Manhattan. By the early 1940s, he was a semi-successful traveling musician. He signed a deal with Vizztone Records who released the album and it is being distributed by Redeye. Buddy Guy was born in Louisiana in 1936, one of six siblings born to a sharecropping family out of Lettsworth. Of the 57 records that topped the charts from October 1942 until the end of 1947, 31 (54%) were Decca releases; of the rest, nine were Capitol, and nine were from Victor/Bluebird, while just six independents topped the chart during this period. He continued to make more hit records over the next seven years, traveling between Chicago and Mississippi. What I dont like are guys that just want to play guitar solos for every single song and the song becomes secondary. Her big hits include My Baby Just Cares For Me, I Put a Spell on You and Feeling Good. As his mother was an unwed teen when he was conceived, Clapton was raised by his grandparents and grew up believing his mother was his sister. Born in 1942 in Dawson, Georgia, Otis Ray Redding Jr. moved to Macon, Georgia as a young boy. These nominations were for Best Rock Musician/Vocalist (multiple); Best Singer/Songwriter; Best Rock Band; Best Blues Band; Best Local CD (multiple); Early was also the recipient of the Critics Choice Award as Sacramentos Best Guitarist. Andrews is another musician we know next to nothing about. With a primal voice that could rise from a guttural howl to an ethereal falsetto throughout the course of a song, Johnson possessed a complex andtechnically advancedguitar-playing style that influenced a generation of Mississippi bluesmen, including Howlin' Wolf and Robert Nighthawk. Etta James, born JamesettaHawkins, used a shortened version of her birth nameand Muddy Waters, born McKinley Morganfield,was nicknamed Muddy as a kid due to his tendency to play in the mud. Four months before Mamie Smith recorded Crazy Blues a black man recorded a song with the word blues in the title, but it was not a blues tune. Aladdin founders Eddie and Leo Mesner set about signing some of the best jump blues artists in southern California, including Amos Milburn and Charles Brown. He made a living as a traveling musician, and by 1936 Johnson caught the eye of a talent scout named H.C. Speir. I really need to start establishing a touring base. Whether you like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, orEtta James, there's nodenying that they'resome of the most famous blues musicians of all time. He recorded a handful of his songs from the road there. Over the next decade, his prestige would only continue to grow. Early and his High Rollers create moods so thick you could cut them with a chainsaw, and his incisive guitar playing is always spot on. The origins of the blues are poorly documented. It has helped me with harmony and how to add melodies to harmonies. The three-CD set was recorded at the 200 capacity Lions Share club formerly located in the small town of San Anselmo, CA, just 20 miles north of San Francisco. She performed in shows and movies up until she died in 1946. Patton introduced House to his contacts atParamount Records. The first male, black, country blues musician to get the opportunity to record did so as a guitarist, not as a singer. Etta James. I used to tour but I have been tied to the radio station for a lot of years which means I have to be in NYC which is not a bad place to be. Initially, the company made phonographs, and in 1918 they branched out into the recording business. Early is a Blues Rock street poet, his songs living in a gritty urban landscape spanning New Yorks East Side street corners, bodegas, and the project park a world populated by characters like Little Hustler, Uptown Charlie, Tijuana Madonna, Sweet Lou the Butcher, Ruby, Shakey, funky old Mabel, and of course Mary with her Cha Cha hat. Down in Memphis, Tennessee, Samuel Cornelius Phillips, a radio engineer from Florence, Alabama, had a vision and established his Memphis Recording Studios at 706 Union Avenue, in January 1950, to record anything, anytime, anywhere. He began with local artists and sold the recordings to established labels such as Four Star Records, Modern Records, and their subsidiary RPM.