Posts about music

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Gary Moore (1952–2011) was a Belfast-born guitarist whose career bridged British hard rock, jazz-fusion, and—most enduringly—electric blues. Best known to mainstream audiences for “Parisienne Walkways”[…]

Gustavus Cannon (September 12, 1883 – October 15, 1979), known to many as Banjo Joe, was a pivotal figure in American blues music. Born in[…]

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[…]