Posted by jaso 100 days ago in Player News
An under-sung hero of the blues, Jimmy Rogers played an essential role in creating the electrified, band-oriented postwar Chicago sound. He was best known for playing guitar in Muddy Waters’ lineups d...
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Posted by jaso 154 days ago in Player News
Decades ago, a fellow blues enthusiast sent me a package of official papers related to the life of Fulton Allen, who recorded as Blind Boy Fuller. Written during the 1930s by government officials, soc...
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Posted by jaso 154 days ago in Player News
Decades ago, a fellow blues enthusiast sent me a package of official papers related to the life of Fulton Allen, who recorded as Blind Boy Fuller. Written during the 1930s by government officials, soc...
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Posted by jaso 154 days ago in Player News
Decades ago, a fellow blues enthusiast sent me a package of official papers related to the life of Fulton Allen, who recorded as Blind Boy Fuller. Written during the 1930s by government officials, soc...
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Posted by jaso 177 days ago in Player News
For four decades, Willie Dixon loomed at the forefront of Chicago blues, working as a bassist, arranger, band leader, producer, talent scout, agent, A&R man, and music publisher. His most enduring...
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Posted by jaso 205 days ago in Player News
A singing street-corner evangelist, Blind Willie Johnson created some of the most intensely moving records of the 20th century. Void of frivolity or uncertainty, his 78s from the 1920s and ’30s are c....
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Posted by jaso 297 days ago in Player News
Sylvester Weaver and Sara Martin
During the early 1920s, OKeh Records called him “The Man with the Talking Guitar” and claimed “he certainly plays ’em strong on his big mean, blue guitar.” Meet Sylves...
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Posted by jaso 327 days ago in Player News
Renowned studio guitarist and solo artist Pete Carr was there the night Duane Allman was inspired to learn slide guitar. At the time, Pete was bassist in the Hour Glass, Duane and Gregg Allman’s final...
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Posted by jaso 334 days ago in Player News
Papa Charlie Jackson was the first commercially successful male blues singer. A relaxed, confident crooner and seasoned 6-string stylist, he launched his recording career in 1924 and became one of Par...
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Posted by jaso 341 days ago in Player News
Jimi Hendrix never took formal lessons, learned to read music, or cracked open a guitar instruction book. Yet in the course of a few years beginning in 1966, he established himself as rock’s greatest ...
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Posted by jaso 380 days ago in Player News
The passionate, hard-driving blues song “Dust My Broom” has been filling dance floors and exhilarating listeners for more than 60 years. The song’s been covered by countless performers – a quick searc...
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Posted by jaso 396 days ago in Player News
Blind Lemon Jefferson, who began recording for Paramount Records in late 1925, became the most famous bluesman of the Roaring Twenties. His 78s shattered racial barriers, becoming popular from coast t...
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Posted by jaso 405 days ago in Player News
Bob Marley’s music transcends politics, language, and cultures. His songs resound on every continent and are especially embraced by the oppressed and those seeking spiritual fulfillment. As esteemed a...
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Posted by jaso 416 days ago in Player News
Long before becoming a force in Chicago blues, Johnny Shines hoboed with Robert Johnson through Depression-era America. They hopped freights, played on street corners, shared rooms and whiskey, and ma...
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Posted by jaso 442 days ago in Player News
Tommy Tedesco, the most recorded guitarist in history, was also one of the most beloved characters to ever work the Los Angeles music scene. And work it he did: After arriving from Niagara Falls in 19...
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Posted by jaso 449 days ago in Player News
When it comes to the bible of women in rock and roll, chapter one, verse one should read: “In the beginning, there was Carol Kaye.” Unlike groundbreakers who found fortune and fame as headliners, Ca.....
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Posted by jaso 453 days ago in Player News
During my 1981 interview with Gregg Allman, I asked him to name his brother Duane’s best friends toward the end of his life. The first person Gregg mentioned? “John Hammond. He’s a beautiful man.” Du...
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Posted by jaso 458 days ago in Player News
During their journeyman days, Duane and Gregg Allman toured as the Allman Joys before moving to Los Angeles in 1967. Their new band in L.A., Hour Glass, would be their final project together before la...
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Posted by jaso 463 days ago in Player News
Aston “Family Man” Barrett probably has deeper reggae roots than any other living musician. “Fams,” as he’s known to those in his inner circle, and his younger brother, drummer Carlton “Carly” Barrett...
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Posted by jaso 476 days ago in Player News
On assignment for Blues Revue Quarterly, I journeyed to John Lee Hooker’s home in Redwood City, California, on December 29, 1992. I’d sold the magazine on a cover story that was to be entitled “Spinni...
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