The Clarksdale Press Register is reporting that the Official Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of…
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Amazingly, he began playing guitar at the age of three. He would lay the instrument across his lap, allowing him to use all five fingers of his left hand to fret notes and chords.
The Chocolate Drops were just following the example of the string bands that came before them. Like Chatmon Family, who made up the Mississippi Sheiks. Dom Flemons has more.
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A jelly roll is a dessert made of sponge cake that has been spread with jam (or jam mixed with cream) and rolled up into a log, but this is the blues and that’s not all it means!
The coming of fall means one thing for blues fans and bands across the planet: local International Blues Challenge competitions.
Rest in peace to a true wild man of the blues….
Steve from the award-winning, longstanding blues band MonkeyJunk opens up about great albums, the Canadian border issue, and much more!
Isaiah ‘Ikey’ Owens, the celebrated key player for Jack White, has passed away while on tour in Mexico. He was 38.
We don’t know much about him. We’re not even sure of his real name. What we know we get from his music. We know that he was good at guitar. Really good.