Posts about blues music

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,[…]

Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was one of the most versatile, tireless, and influential figures in[…]

Mance Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976) was an American country blues singer, guitarist, and songster whose repertoire stretched far beyond what many[…]

Samuel Gene Maghett (1937-1969), known globally as Magic Sam, was a seminal figure in the Chicago blues scene, whose innovative style and electrifying performances left[…]