One of my most favouritist tracks ever that is. Does strange things to me.Tichtheid wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:20 am Good to hear from you Dan
Esther Phillips (born Esther Mae Washington; December 23, 1935 – August 7, 1984) was an American singer, best known for her R&B vocals. She rose to prominence in 1950, scoring several major R&B hits including "Double Crossing Blues" and "Mistrustin' Blues" under the moniker "Little Esther"
Blues Birthdays
It's absolute corker Dan
Frank Stokes (January 1, 1877 or 1888 – September 12, 1955)was an American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel, who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style
Frank Stokes (January 1, 1877 or 1888 – September 12, 1955)was an American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel, who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style
As often happens, there is a degree of uncertainty about the birth date of today's artist. For the sake of this post we'll say Arthur Prysock Jr. was born on January 2nd, 1924 (or perhaps 1929).
He was an American jazz and R&B singer best known for his live shows and his deep baritone.
This is one gorgeous voice.
He was an American jazz and R&B singer best known for his live shows and his deep baritone.
This is one gorgeous voice.
Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 9, 1911 – February 26, 1991 (another source says he was born on the 4th 
), also known as McVouty, was an American jazz singer and songwriter who played piano, guitar, vibraphone, and tenor saxophone. Gaillard was noted for his comedic vocalese singing and word play in his own constructed language called "Vout-o-Reenee", for which he wrote a dictionary.
In addition to English, he spoke five languages (Spanish, German, Greek, Arabic, and Armenian) with varying degrees of fluency
), also known as McVouty, was an American jazz singer and songwriter who played piano, guitar, vibraphone, and tenor saxophone. Gaillard was noted for his comedic vocalese singing and word play in his own constructed language called "Vout-o-Reenee", for which he wrote a dictionary.In addition to English, he spoke five languages (Spanish, German, Greek, Arabic, and Armenian) with varying degrees of fluency
Skipping past Elvis Presley for no reason other than everyone knows Elvis
Hudson Whittaker (born Hudson Woodbridge; January 8, 1903[1] – March 19, 1981), known as Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician.
His distinctive single-string slide guitar style, songwriting and bottleneck technique influenced other Chicago blues guitarists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James. In a career spanning over 30 years, he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum songs. His best-known recordings include "Anna Lou Blues", "Black Angel Blues", "Crying Won't Help You", "It Hurts Me Too", and "Love Her with a Feeling".
A keen ear will hear the melody here is the same or very similar to Sitting On Top of the World, which was first recorded in 1930 by The Mississippi Sheiks. This Tampa Red song is earlier, but that doesn't necessarily mean the tune is his.
Hudson Whittaker (born Hudson Woodbridge; January 8, 1903[1] – March 19, 1981), known as Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician.
His distinctive single-string slide guitar style, songwriting and bottleneck technique influenced other Chicago blues guitarists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James. In a career spanning over 30 years, he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum songs. His best-known recordings include "Anna Lou Blues", "Black Angel Blues", "Crying Won't Help You", "It Hurts Me Too", and "Love Her with a Feeling".
A keen ear will hear the melody here is the same or very similar to Sitting On Top of the World, which was first recorded in 1930 by The Mississippi Sheiks. This Tampa Red song is earlier, but that doesn't necessarily mean the tune is his.
Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy nominated violist. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992.
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy nominated violist. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992.
Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, 1930 – April 21, 1970) was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician", he performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, and John Lee Hooker and fronted his own bands. An early player of the electric guitar, Hooker was influenced by the modern urban styles of T-Bone Walker and Robert Nighthawk. He recorded several singles and albums as a bandleader and with other well-known artists. His "Blue Guitar", a slide guitar instrumental single, was popular in the Chicago area and was later overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters as "You Shook Me".
Jamesetta Hawkins (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012), known professionally as Etta James, was an American singer and songwriter. Starting her career in 1954, James frequently performed in Nashville's famed R&B clubs, collectively known as the Chitlin' Circuit, in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.[1] She sang in various genres, including gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, rock and roll, and soul, and gained fame with hits such as "The Wallflower" (1955), "At Last" (1960), "Something's Got a Hold on Me" (1962), "Tell Mama", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" (both 1967).[2] She faced a number of personal problems, including heroin addiction, severe physical abuse, and incarceration, before making a musical comeback in the late 1980s with the album Seven Year Itch (1988)
I admit to being a real Etta James fan Tich. Love a lot of her stuff, obviously "I'd Rather Be Blind" is probably the top, one of those songs that is so good there are numerous covers etc. Seems she never got the songwriting rights etc for that song.
She was a lady who put sassy into performances too I think.
She was a lady who put sassy into performances too I think.
She's fantastic, Dan.
We're coming into the last bend of this now, iirc it started around the time of the 6N last year. Here is another big favourite of mine;
Stéphane Grappelli 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands. He has been called "the grandfather of jazz violinists" and continued playing concerts around the world well into his eighties.
I saw him at the Cambridge Folk festival in 1983, when Martin Taylor sat in Django's chair.
We're coming into the last bend of this now, iirc it started around the time of the 6N last year. Here is another big favourite of mine;
Stéphane Grappelli 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands. He has been called "the grandfather of jazz violinists" and continued playing concerts around the world well into his eighties.
I saw him at the Cambridge Folk festival in 1983, when Martin Taylor sat in Django's chair.
Charlie Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American blues harmonica player and bandleader who came to prominence, along with Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, and Elvin Bishop, as a pivotal figure in helping to revive the Chicago Blues movement of the 1960s.
Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Elwood Blues, the character played by Dan Aykroyd in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers.
Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Elwood Blues, the character played by Dan Aykroyd in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers.
Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899– June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter. He was a pioneer of jazz guitar and jazz violin and is recognized as the first to play an electrically amplified violin
If you don’t know him, this is a guy worth listening to his back catalogue
If you don’t know him, this is a guy worth listening to his back catalogue
Pink Anderson, Born February 12th 1900, another of the Piedmont style players, he found early employment with, as Wiki puts it, "Dr. William R. Kerr of the Indian Remedy Company in 1914 entertaining the crowds, while Kerr tried to sell a concoction purported to have medicinal qualities." Anderson can be found as an influence today in the likes of Pokey LaFarge.
As an aside, Pink is reputed to be the Pink in The Pink Floyd, with Floyd coming from North Carolina bluesman Floyd Council. Syd Barrett knew his stuff.
As an aside, Pink is reputed to be the Pink in The Pink Floyd, with Floyd coming from North Carolina bluesman Floyd Council. Syd Barrett knew his stuff.
Ok, it's a couple of hours off the 15th of February, which brings up the full year in Blues Birthdays. It's been fun doing this and I think this thread gives an introduction to this music. Of course there are lots more to explore and I'd encourage anyone interested to do so.
So the final episode is a younger guy, just to show this isn't a museum genre full of guys from the Mississippi Delta from a hundred years ago, it's a living, breathing art form.
"Gary Lee Clark Jr. (born February 15, 1984) is an American guitarist and singer who fuses blues, rock and soul music with elements of hip hop."
I love the intensity over virtuosic playing here, something I'll take every damn time.
It's been a blast, Cheers
So the final episode is a younger guy, just to show this isn't a museum genre full of guys from the Mississippi Delta from a hundred years ago, it's a living, breathing art form.
"Gary Lee Clark Jr. (born February 15, 1984) is an American guitarist and singer who fuses blues, rock and soul music with elements of hip hop."
I love the intensity over virtuosic playing here, something I'll take every damn time.
It's been a blast, Cheers