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CHICAGO/ The Blues Yesterday Volume 25
CHICAGO/ The Blues Yesterday/ Volume 25The Drummers After a long hiatus, we are getting back to our Chicago/ The Blues Yesterday Series. This 25th (!) volume brings the focus on some...
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BIG JOE TURNER/ The Pablo Sessions
Quand Big Joe Turner (1911-85) enregistre pour Norman Granz, il est quelque peu oublié. Pionnier du blues de Kansas City, partie prenante de la folie du boogie woogie dans les années 30...
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SOUTH ILLINOIS COUNTRY BLUES FESTIVALS/ The early 70's
SOUTH ILLINOIS COUNTRY BLUES FESTIVALS/ The 1970's While the music enjoyed a more and more strong following in Europe, the late 60's and early 1970's were very lean years for the blues in...
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JOHNNY FULLER/ Complete Recordings 1948-62
JOHNNY FULLER/ Complete Recordings 1948-62 Il y a actuellement un net regain d’intérêt pour l’œuvre de Johnny Fuller et cet article répond donc à plusieurs demandes. Né à...
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JAMES COTTON/ Complete Early recordings 1953-66
JAMES COTTON/ Complete Early Recordings 1953-66 Si James Cotton jouit aujourd'hui à juste titre d'une grande réputation et figure au Panthéon des grands harmonicistes de blues, cela n'était...
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BIG WALTER HORTON/ Complete Recordings 1951-66
BIG WALTER HORTON/ Complete Recordings 1951-66 I guess it's certainly not necessary to present Big Walter Horton, also named Shakey Horton, to the followers of my blog. His reputation is very...
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FOREST CITY JOE
FOREST CITY JOE/ Complete Recordings Forest City Joe, aujourd'hui connu pour les enregistrements de terrain effectués par Lomax en 1959, a cependant failli s'affirmer comme un des grands...
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JIMMY "PREACHER" ELLIS/ Complete Recordings
JIMMY "PREACHER" ELLIS/ Complete Recordings Certainly not the best well known of all West Coast bluesmen, Jimmy "Preacher" Ellis nevertheless recorded a good amount of blues and soul that...
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EDDY CLEARWATER/ Complete Studio Recordings 1958-79
EDDY CLEARWATER/ Complete Early Recordings 1958-79 Jadis quelque peu considéré uniquement comme un imitateur de Chuck Berry, Eddy Clearwater (né Eddie Harrington le 10 janvier 1935 à Macon,...
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SWAMP BLUES/ Volume 4
SWAMP BLUES/ Volume 4 Let's go back to the Louisiana Swamps! Our 4thopus starts with singer/guitarist Jimmy Dotson. Born in Ethel, near Baton Rouge on October 19 1933 Jimmy...
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SWAMP BLUES/ Vol. 5: LAZY LESTER Complete Early recordings
SWAMP BLUES Vol. 5 LAZY LESTER/ Complete Early recordings 1956-65Lazy Lester (Leslie Johnson) (born 20th June 1933 at Torres, La) was of course one of the archetype of the so called Swamp blues style:...
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KOKO TAYLOR/ Complete Early recordings 1963-71
KOKO TAYLOR/ Complete Early Recordings 1963-71 Née Cora Walton à Bartlett, Tn le 28 septembre 1928 ou 1935 mais venue très jeune habiter dans le South Side de Chicago, celle qui allait...
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SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON/ Live Recordings (Re-post)
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON (Rice Miller)/Live Sessions Si les enregistrements en studio pour Trumpet, Chess ou Storyville de Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) qui regorgent de chefs d'œuvre et...
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BROTHER WILL HAIRSTON/ Complete Recordings
BROTHER WILL HAIRSTON/ Complete Recordings (revised and updated)Detroit Blues Masters Vol. 11 Ce 11ème volume sur Detroit est consacré au magnifique compositeur et chanteur de Gospels,...
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CLARENCE EDWARDS/ 1959-90
CLARENCE EDWARDS/ 1959-90 Although he never recorded for Jay Miller, Khoury, Shuler or any louisianaproducers, Clarence Edwards was anyway a major exponent of the so-called...
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PEE WEE CRAYTON/ 1960-1973
PEE WEE CRAYTON/ 1960-73 If the recordings from the late 1940's and 1950's by one of the master of the Texas-California guitar blues style, Pee Wee Crayton have been well reissued and are...
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WILLIE DIXON/ 1952-62
WILLIE DIXON I guess it's no use to present Willie Dixon (1915-1992) to most of this blog's followers who are, for the most part, hardcore blues buffs! Singer and bassist,...
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CHICAGO/ The Blues Yesterday/ Volume 26
CHICAGO/ The Blues Yesterday/ Volume 26 Let's go back to our very popular series "Chicago/ The blues Yesterday"! For this 26th Volume, we start with the great singer Arelean...
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DETROIT JUNIOR: Complete Early Recordings
DETROIT Jr/ Complete Early Recordings(New Links) De l'Arkansas (où il est né à Haynes le 26 octobre 1931) à Detroit et Flint - un séjour qui lui donnera son surnom - puis Chicago en 1955,...
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NEW YORK CITY/ The Blues Yesterday/ Vol. 8
NEW YORK CITY/ The Blues Yesterday/ Volume 8 It has been some time now that we have not been back to New York R&B ... the yesterday years of course. This 8th Volume opens...
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