Posts about blues music

Raymond Matthews Brown (1926–2002) was an American jazz double bassist renowned for his profound influence on jazz music over more than five decades. Celebrated for[…]

R.L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 – September 1, 2005) was a quintessential American Hill Country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His career spanned decades, yet[…]

Clarence "Pinetop" Smith (1904-1929) was a pivotal figure in the development of boogie-woogie blues piano. Though his life was tragically cut short, his influence on[…]

Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930 – April 24, 1970) is widely regarded as the foremost postwar Chicago blues pianist. Best known as the[…]

William Bunch (1902-1941), famously known as Peetie Wheatstraw, was an influential American blues musician of the 1930s. His distinctive style, characterized by his piano playing[…]

Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was a pioneering American jazz pianist and vocalist whose career bridged the worlds of swing, jazz,[…]

Napoleon Brown Goodson Culp — better known to the world as Nappy Brown — was a powerful-voiced R&B and blues singer whose emotionally charged delivery[…]

Memphis Slim — born John Len Chatman and sometimes credited as Peter Chatman — was one of the 20th century’s most influential blues pianists, singers,[…]

Lizzie Douglas — known to the world as Memphis Minnie — was one of the most formidable and influential figures in early American blues. A[…]

Anderson Meade "Lux" Lewis, commonly known as Meade Lux Lewis, was one of the defining piano voices of American boogie-woogie. A powerful and percussive pianist,[…]