Posts about blues music

This biography covers Gary B.B. Coleman (born Gary Don Coleman, 1947–1994), the American soul-blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and club promoter from Paris, Texas—not to[…]

Freddie King (1934–1976) — often called the “Texas Cannonball” — fused Texas bite and Chicago muscle into a modern electric-blues language that galvanized both U.S.[…]

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins) stands as one of American music’s most expressive voices—a singer who could move effortlessly from raw R&B and blues to[…]

Eric Patrick Clapton (born March 30, 1945) is one of the most influential guitarists and singer-songwriters in modern music. Over six decades he has defined[…]

Elmore James (1918–1963) is one of the defining architects of postwar electric blues and a towering figure in slide-guitar playing. Nicknamed the “King of the[…]

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (1917–1996) is widely celebrated as the “First Lady of Song”—a jazz vocalist whose musical language was steeped in swing and bebop but[…]

Django Reinhardt (born Jean Reinhardt, January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Belgian-born, Romani-French guitarist and composer who became one of jazz’s first[…]

Art Tatum (1909–1956) is widely regarded as one of the most astonishing pianists in jazz history—an improviser whose technique, harmonic imagination, and rhythmic command reset[…]

Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893–1929) stands as one of the first country-blues superstars and a defining architect of the Texas blues sound. Emerging in the mid-1920s[…]

Nehemiah Curtis “Skip” James (1902–1969) was a singular voice in American music—a Delta blues guitarist, pianist, and singer whose eerie falsetto, complex guitar figures, and[…]