Two Wrongs Make a Right |
Blues is Truth
A tribute to Brownie McGheeby Styve Homnick The secret of selling yourself is to have a product you truly believe in. Brownie McGhee is the perfect embodiment of these words. He is a k...
Posted by Blues Abusers on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:09:00 PST |
I had No Hunger For it Anymore |
Dylan's Self-PortraitHis memoir Chronicles is plain-spoken, but the mystery only deepens By MIKAL GILMOREFrom the moment he became a name that people began to recognize, Bob Dylan has maintained he ca...
Posted by Blues Abusers on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:23:00 PST |
Just a Few Steps Ahead of Oblivion |
Bobby"Blue"Bland
A master musician with extraordinary staying power, for decades his evocative vocal style has taken the blues out of the barroom and into the bedroom.By Sean Elder If there was any ju...
Posted by Blues Abusers on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:16:00 PST |
Jimi and the Chitlin Circut |
Jimi Hendrix and the Chitlin' Circuit
By Oscar J. Jordan III
It still astonishes me when I meet people I consider knowledgeable who have no clue about Jimi Hendrix and his role in Ameri...
Posted by Blues Abusers on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:48:00 PST |
Besse Smith |
Reflections Of 1920's And 30's Street Life In The Music Of Bessie Smith.
by Ross Whitney
As the saying goes, "you gotta pay the dues if you wanna sing the blues." In no other way than living the kin...
Posted by Blues Abusers on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:24:00 PST |
Otis Spann |
Otis Spann
On September 24, 1953 a Muddy Waters recording session featured a pianist for the first time since Muddy's 1947 debut with Sunnyland Slim. The fortunate musician was a twenty-three y...
Posted by Blues Abusers on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:56:00 PST |
Ray |
Ray in his own words
Insightful Ray Charles interview in his prime
Years ago, when he was still working the lounges, second-billed to such as Mongo Santamaria, Flip Wilson had an album out tha...
Posted by Blues Abusers on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:00:00 PST |
"Big Daddy" is at his Office |
Bukka White
By Arne Brogger
Booker T. Washington White was born in Aberdeen, Mississippi, in 1902. I first met Bukka in Memphis in 1972 when Steve LaVere and I arrived at his house on Leath Str...
Posted by Blues Abusers on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:47:00 PST |
Sonny Boy |
Sonny Boy II Told His Sisters "Keep It To Yourself"
But They Told Me His Best-kept Secret
By William E. Donoghue AKA 'Fessor Mojo
Ya Gotta Wonder. What's a best-selling author of mutual fund g...
Posted by Blues Abusers on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:31:00 PST |
The Crossroads |
The Crossroadsby Daniel LearyBetween April 1930 and sometime in 1932, Johnson lived in Martinsville, Mississippi (LaVere 1990, p. 12). Martinsville, carved out of a thick wilderness known as Piney Woo...
Posted by Blues Abusers on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:13:00 PST |
