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David Honeyboy Edwards | Everything you need to know about Blues Music
David “Honeyboy” Edwards was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, born on June 28, 1915, in Shaw, Mississippi, USA. He began his musical career in the 1930s and played alongside many famous blues musicians of his era, including Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Big Walter Horton.
Edwards was known for his unique fingerpicking style and heartfelt vocals, which earned him a reputation as one of the last surviving Delta bluesmen. He recorded his first song, “Wind Howlin’ Blues,” in 1942 and continued ..read more
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Buddy Guy | Everything you need to know about Blues Music
Buddy Guy is a legendary blues singer and guitarist, known for his innovative style and influential sound. Born in Lettsworth, Louisiana, in 1936, Guy was raised in a musical family and began playing guitar at an early age. He moved to Chicago in the late 1950s and quickly established himself as a top-notch blues musician. Over the years, Guy has collaborated with many other artists, including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Guy’s music is characterized by his powerful vocals and masterful guitar playing. He is kno ..read more
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Blind Willie Johnson | Everything you need to know about Blues Music
Blind Willie Johnson, born in Brenham, Texas in 1897, was a legendary bluesman and virtuoso of the “bottleneck” or slide guitar. Despite being blind from a young age, Johnson had aspirations to be a preacher and performed at Baptist Association meetings and churches around Marlin and nearby Hearne, Texas. Eventually, he settled in Beaumont and made his professional debut as a gospel artist. He recorded thirty songs for Columbia Records between 1927 and 1930, becoming known for his unique voice and original compositions that ..read more
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Albert King | Everything you need to know about Blues Music
Albert King (1923-1992) was a renowned blues guitarist and singer, who was widely recognized as the “King of the Blues Guitar” due to his powerful string-bending style and soulful, smoky vocals. Although King often claimed to have been born in Indianola, and to be the half-brother of B.B. King, there is little official documentation to support these claims. Nevertheless, King’s music and style earned him a lasting legacy as one of the most important artists in the history of the blues.
King was born on April 25, 1923 (or 1924) in Mis ..read more
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1y ago
RL Burnside | Everything you need to know about Blues Music
RL Burnside was a blues musician born on November 23, 1926, in Harmontown, Mississippi. He learned to play guitar in his youth and was heavily influenced by Mississippi Fred McDowell, as well as local artists Ranie Burnette and Son Hibler. After a brief stint in Chicago, Burnside returned to Mississippi, where he spent much of his adult life as a cotton sharecropper and played music mostly on weekends.
In 1967-68, folklorist George Mitchell recorded Burnside, as well as other North Mississippi artists, for a documentation of distinct ..read more
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1y ago
Albert Collins | Everything you need to know about Blues Music
Albert Collins Biography: The Master of the Telecaster
Albert Gene Drewery, better known as Albert Collins and the Ice Man, was an American electric blues guitarist and singer born in Leona, Texas, on October 1, 1932. He gained popularity for his powerful playing, distinct sound, and his use of altered tunings and a capo. His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to his title as “The Master of the Telecaster.” He passed away on November 24, 1993, at the age of 61 due to lung cancer.
Collins was a significant influence on ..read more
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1y ago
Brownie McGhee | Everything you need to know about Blues Music
Brownie McGhee was a celebrated Piedmont-style bluesman and guitarist, widely regarded as one of the leading blues musicians of his time. Born as Walter Brown McGhee in Kingsport, Tennessee, he contracted polio at a young age, leaving him with a serious limp. However, he turned to guitar playing to pass his time, learning from his father Duff McGhee.
McGhee’s younger brother, Granville McGhee, also played guitar and helped him move around in a small cart propelled by a stick. In 1937, a March of Dimes operation restored most of Mc ..read more
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1y ago
Sonny Boy Williamson | Everything you need to know about Blues Music
Sonny Boy Williamson, born Aleck or Alex or Willie “Rice” Miller, was a legendary blues artist known for his sly and world-weary delivery, powerful harmonica playing, and mordant wit. While much of his life remains shrouded in mystery and misinformation, it is known that he began his career in the mid-1930s as Little Boy Blue, traveling the Delta and playing with blues legends like Robert Johnson, Robert Nighthawk, and Elmore James. In the early 1940s, he became the star of KFFA’s King Biscuit Time, a live blues radio show ..read more
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1y ago
Elmore James | Everything you need to know about Blues Music
Elmore James, whose birth name was Elmore Brooks, was born on January 27, 1918, in Richland, Mississippi. Growing up, he was raised in a sharecropping family and developed a love for music at a young age. In his teenage years, James taught himself how to play the guitar and began performing locally.
In the late 1930s, James had the opportunity to tour the Mississippi Delta with Robert Johnson, one of the most significant blues musicians of his time. Johnson had a profound impact on James’ music, and he incorporated many of Johnson’s ..read more
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1y ago
The Crossroads of Clarksdale
At the crossroads of Clarksdale town,
Where dusty roads converge and wind around,
The Delta Blues emerged one fateful night,
When Robert Johnson made a deal for his life.
He played his guitar with a haunting sound,
And sang of pain and sorrows abound,
His music spoke of a life so hard,
And struck a chord thru this immortal bard
In Clarksdale, where the blues still reign,
The legacy of Robert Johnson remains,
His spirit lives on in every note,
And echoes through the streets where he once wrote.
So come and visit this hallowed place,
Where the Delta Blues still hold ..read more