Posts about blues music

Jesse “Lone Cat” Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was a Georgia-born, Bay Area–based one-man band whose blend of country blues, folk, ragtime,[…]

Jimmy Reed (born Mathis James Reed) was one of the most influential and widely popular blues artists of the post-World War II era. With a[…]

James Henry Cotton (1935–2017) was one of the most electrifying harmonica players in modern blues—an unmistakable live force whose gale-strength tone and showmanship carried Delta[…]

Janis Lyn Joplin, born on January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas, and tragically departed on October 4, 1970, in Los Angeles, California, at the[…]

J. B. Lenoir (1929–1967) was a singular voice in postwar Chicago blues—instantly recognizable for his bright, high-pitched tenor, sharp social commentary, and flamboyant stage presence[…]

Ida Cox (born Ida Prather) was one of the defining voices of the classic female-blues era of the 1920s. Marketed as the “Uncrowned Queen of[…]

Howlin’ Wolf—born Chester Arthur Burnett—was one of the towering architects of post-war electric blues. With an immense, grainy baritone, a physically commanding stage presence, and[…]

Houston Goff (September 28, 1910 – September 23, 1980), better known as Houston Stackhouse, was a Mississippi Delta blues guitarist, singer, and mentor whose fingerprints[…]

Hound Dog Taylor (born Theodore Roosevelt Taylor) was a combustible slide-guitar powerhouse whose raw, joyous Chicago blues helped launch Alligator Records and inspired generations of[…]

David “Honeyboy” Edwards (1915–2011) was one of the last living links to the first generation of Mississippi Delta blues. A guitarist, singer, and storyteller, he[…]