"musicians, including members of Chris Barber's band. At the time, English audiences had only been exposed to acoustic folk blues, as performed by artists such as Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Big Bill Broonzy. Both the musicians and audiences were unprepared for Muddy Waters' performance, which included his electric slide guitar playing. He recalled: Although his performances alienated the old guard, some younger musicians, including Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies from Barber's band, were inspired to go in the more modern, electric blues direction. Korner and Davies' own groups included musicians who would later form the Rolling Stones (named after"
"Luther Johnson (Guitar Junior) Luther Johnson (born April 11, 1939, Itta Bena, Mississippi) is an American Chicago blues singer and guitarist, who performs under the name Luther ""Guitar Junior"" Johnson. He is not to be confused with Luther ""Snake Boy"" Johnson, Luther ""Houserocker"" Johnson, from Atlanta; or Lonnie ""Guitar Junior"" Brooks. Johnson moved to Chicago with his family in 1955. During the 1960s, he performed with Magic Sam. He performed in Muddy Waters's band from 1972 to 1980. In 1980, four of his songs were included in an anthology released by Alligator Records. That same year he appeared as a"
"New Hampshire for many years but moved to Florida in 2017. Luther Johnson (Guitar Junior) Luther Johnson (born April 11, 1939, Itta Bena, Mississippi) is an American Chicago blues singer and guitarist, who performs under the name Luther ""Guitar Junior"" Johnson. He is not to be confused with Luther ""Snake Boy"" Johnson, Luther ""Houserocker"" Johnson, from Atlanta; or Lonnie ""Guitar Junior"" Brooks. Johnson moved to Chicago with his family in 1955. During the 1960s, he performed with Magic Sam. He performed in Muddy Waters's band from 1972 to 1980. In 1980, four of his songs were included in an anthology"
"ModFather'. The early mods listened to the ""sophisticated smoother modern jazz"" of musicians such as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck and the Modern Jazz Quartet, as well as the American rhythm and blues (R&B) of artists such as Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters. The music scene of the Mods was a mix of Modern Jazz, R&B, psychedelic rock and soul. Terry Rawlings writes that mods became ""dedicated to R&B and their own dances."" Black American servicemen, stationed in Britain during the early part of the Cold War, brought over R&B and soul records that were unavailable in Britain, and"
"At the same time, record companies launched the field of race music, which was mostly blues targeted at African American audiences. The most famous of these acts went on to inspire much of the later popular development of the blues and blues-derived genres, including the legendary delta blues musician Robert Johnson and Piedmont blues musician Blind Willie McTell. By the end of the 1940s, however, pure blues was only a minor part of popular music, having been subsumed by offshoots like rhythm & blues and the nascent rock and roll style. Some styles of electric, piano-driven blues, like boogie-woogie, retained"
"Your Hole."" With Lightnin' Hopkins With Jimmy Rogers With Muddy Waters Francis Clay Francis Clay (November 16, 1923 – January 21, 2008), was a jazz and blues drummer, best known for his work behind Muddy Waters in the 1950s and 1960s and as an original member of the James Cotton band. Clay's jazz-influenced style is cited as an influence by many of the British Invasion rock 'n' rollers of the 1960s such as Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones and Faces, respectively. Born and raised in Rock Island, Illinois, he started playing jazz, professionally at the age"
"popular in the early '60s when Columbia Records released a collection of called ""King of the Delta Blues Singers."" Bluesmen like Clapton and Keith Richards viewed the release as something of a blues bible, considered by some to be the ""King of the Delta Blues Singers"" The Rolling Stones recorded ""Love in Vain"" on their 1969 album, ""Let It Bleed"", and ""Stop Breakin' Down"" on their ""Exile on Main St."" (1972) album. While Robert Johnson's professional recording career can be measured in months, his musical legacy has survived more than 70 years. Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, two prominent Chicago"
"sawed-off neck of a bottle. The slide guitar became an important part of the Delta blues. The first blues recordings from the 1920s are categorized as a traditional, rural country blues and a more polished city or urban blues. Country blues performers often improvised, either without accompaniment or with only a banjo or guitar. Regional styles of country blues varied widely in the early 20th century. The (Mississippi) Delta blues was a rootsy sparse style with passionate vocals accompanied by slide guitar. The little-recorded Robert Johnson combined elements of urban and rural blues. In addition to Robert Johnson, influential performers"
"Forest City Joe Joe Bennie Pugh (July 10, 1926 – April 3, 1960), known as Forrest City Joe or Forest City Joe, was an American blues musician who is mainly remembered for his ability as a harmonica player. He performed with other major blues acts of the period; he was the harmonica player in Muddy Waters's first band and regularly performed in the Chicago area. Despite his meager recording career, Joe was considered one of the top harmonica players of the era. Pugh was born in Hughes, Arkansas, near Forrest City, and was raised on a cotton farm as an"
"as Muddy Waters, Elmore James and Robert Johnson. The band's use of blues harp, played by Derek Kingaby, adds to an authentic, traditional blues sound. The band's ten albums to date have been well received. ""Blues In Britain"" magazine selected ""Nothing Stays the Same"" as one of its 20 albums of the year. ""Blues Matters"" magazine said of the same record, ""This outfit has the potential to change how British blues is perceived and received."" ""Rock'n'Reel"" magazine called ""Split Decision"" ""the very definition of blues rock"". The majority of the songwriting is by Norsworthy, but all four members of the"
"the age of 81, in Minneapolis, after a long hospitalization. George ""Mojo"" Buford George Carter Buford, Jr. (November 10, 1929 – October 11, 2011), known as Mojo Buford, was an American blues harmonica player best known for his work in Muddy Waters's band. Buford relocated from Hernando, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee, in his youth, where he studied the blues. He relocated to Chicago in 1952, forming the Savage Boys, which eventually was known as the Muddy Waters, Jr. Band. They substituted for Waters at local nightclubs while he was touring. Buford first played in Waters's backing band in 1959, replacing"
"Robert Johnson (English composer) Robert Johnson (c. 1583 – 1633) was an English composer and lutenist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras. He is sometimes called ""Robert Johnson II"" to distinguish him from an earlier Scottish composer. Johnson worked with William Shakespeare providing music for some of his later plays. Robert Johnson was the son of John Johnson, who was lutenist to Elizabeth I. In 1594 Robert's father died, and in 1596 he joined the household of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon as an apprentice. Robert is assumed to have been around 13 at the time, as this"
"Mustang. James Madison (musician) James ""Pee Wee"" Madison (May 4, 1935 – January 7, 2008) was an American blues guitar player. Born in Osceola, Arkansas, he moved to Chicago in the late 1950s, molding his musicianship on that of Little Walter. His big chance came when he joined the band of Muddy Waters in 1963, replacing guitarist Pat Hare who was incarcerated for killing his girlfriend. Starting in 1964, Madison played on most of Muddy Waters' recordings. He played with Muddy Waters' band until the ending of Muddy Waters' world tour in 1973, mostly playing rhythm guitar on an upside-down"
"also influenced Louisiana's zydeco music, with Clifton Chenier using blues accents. Zydeco musicians used electric solo guitar and cajun arrangements of blues standards. British blues emerged from the skiffle and folk club scene of the late 1950s, particularly in London, which included the playing of American acoustic blues. Critical was the visit of Muddy Waters in 1958, who initially shocked British audiences by playing amplified electric blues, but who was soon performing to ecstatic crowds and rave reviews. This inspired guitarist and blues harpist Cyril Davies and guitarist Alexis Korner to plug in and they began to play a high-powered"
"became a center for electric blues from 1948 on, when Muddy Waters recorded his first success, ""I Can't Be Satisfied"". Chicago blues is influenced to a large extent by Delta blues, because many performers had migrated from the Mississippi region. Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Jimmy Reed were all born in Mississippi and moved to Chicago during the Great Migration. Their style is characterized by the use of electric guitar, sometimes slide guitar, harmonica, and a rhythm section of bass and drums. The saxophonist J. T. Brown played in bands led by Elmore James and by J. B."
"James Madison (musician) James ""Pee Wee"" Madison (May 4, 1935 – January 7, 2008) was an American blues guitar player. Born in Osceola, Arkansas, he moved to Chicago in the late 1950s, molding his musicianship on that of Little Walter. His big chance came when he joined the band of Muddy Waters in 1963, replacing guitarist Pat Hare who was incarcerated for killing his girlfriend. Starting in 1964, Madison played on most of Muddy Waters' recordings. He played with Muddy Waters' band until the ending of Muddy Waters' world tour in 1973, mostly playing rhythm guitar on an upside-down Fender"
"Robert Johnson. His trio includes Guy DeVito, formerly of FAT, on bass, and Billy Klock, on drums. Bassist Guy DeVito has recorded and performed with his band FAT (Atlantic Recording Corp.] and [RCA) and with Felix Pappalardi, John Kay and Steppenwolf, Matt ""Guitar"" Murphy, and Stevie Wonder. Drummer Billy Klock is a graduate of the Hartford Conservatory of Music who has kept time and recorded with many major players, most recently touring nationally with Greg Piccolo and Heavy Juice, formerly of Roomful of Blues. Since 1994 Zoss has been the annual recipient of a Special Music Award from the American"
"Johnny Winter John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014), known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Best known for his high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s, Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. After his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was ranked 63rd in ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's list of the ""100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"". Johnny"
"the skiffle club and reopened a month later as The London Blues and Barrelhouse Club. It acted as a venue for visiting artists and their own performances. The visit of Muddy Waters in 1958 had a major impact on the duo and on the nature of British R&B in general. Initially British audiences were shocked by Waters's amplified electric blues, but he was soon playing to ecstatic crowds and receiving rave reviews. Where British blues had often emulated Delta blues and country blues in the emerging British folk revival, Davies and Korner, who had supported Waters on tour, now began"
"Robert Johnson Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Johnson's poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise to much legend. One Faustian myth says that he sold his soul to the devil at a local crossroads of Mississippi highways to achieve success. As an itinerant performer who played mostly on street corners, in juke joints, and at Saturday night dances, Johnson had little commercial"
"root there during a much acclaimed Muddy Waters tour. Waters, unsuspecting of his audience's tendency towards skiffle, an acoustic, softer brand of blues, turned up his amp and started to play his Chicago brand of electric blues. Although the audience was largely jolted by the performance, the performance influenced local musicians such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies to emulate this louder style, inspiring the British invasion of the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds. In the late 1950s, a new blues style emerged on Chicago's West Side pioneered by Magic Sam, Buddy Guy and Otis Rush on Cobra Records. The"
"in blues were also created by black rock artists. Other elements of rock such as many rock guitar sounds were developed my black rock artists such as Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, and others. The rock guitar sounds and rhythms that define rock music were developed by artists like Chuck Berry, Muddy Water, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. For example, Muddy Waters was one of the first musicians to amplify a guitar, which is one of the defining features of Rock music: “Muddy Waters caused a storm by playing through an amplifier, the sort of thing associated with rock n’ roll.” Often"
"I learned that Earl Phillips was playing on those records like a jazz drummer, playing swing, with a straight four."" Jagger, recalling when he first heard the likes of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Fats Domino, and other major American R&B artists, said it ""seemed the most real thing"" he had heard up to that point. Similarly, Keith Richards, describing the first time he listened to Muddy Waters, said it was the ""most powerful music [he had] ever heard ... the most expressive."" He also recalled, ""when you think of some dopey, spotty seventeen year old from Dartford, who"
"Rollin' Stone ""Rollin' Stone"" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1950. It is his interpretation of ""Catfish Blues"", a Delta blues that dates back to 1920s Mississippi. Although the single (with ""Walkin' Blues"" as the B-side) did not appear in the national record charts, it sold about 70,000 copies. ""Still a Fool"", recorded by Muddy Waters a year later using the same arrangement and melody, reached number nine on the Billboard R&B chart. ""Rollin' Stone"" has been recorded by a variety of artists, and both ""Rolling Stone"" magazine and the rock group the Rolling Stones are named"
"James Cotton, who replaced Little Walter as Waters' harmonica player. Otis Spann on piano, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Dixon or Andrew Stephen on bass, and Francis Clay on drums. ""AllMusic"" critic Matthew Greenwald notes the song's influence: ""A sturdy jump blues rhythm and tempo drive the song, while a basic 1/4/5 chord progression defines the melody. The meeting of these two styles is the basis for the rock & roll genre and makes the song one of the most influential."" This song has been the subject of copyright litigation. McKinley Morganfield, a.k.a. Muddy Waters, heard Ann Cole perform it while"
"Washington, D.C. area. He later continued graduate studies at Howard University, Washington, D.C. where he received a Master of Arts degree in Music Education (1970). He is not to be confused with the American blues bassist, Calvin ""Fuzz"" Jones (1926–2010), who backed Muddy Waters amongst others. Calvin Jones (musician) Calvin James Jones, Sr. (September 27, 1929 – October 10, 2004) was an American trombonist, bassist, pianist, bandleader, composer and educator. Born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Jones moved to Washington, D.C. in the 1970s where he remained until his death from a heart attack in October 2004. He"
"Bob Johnson (musician) Robert Johnson (born 18 March 1944) is a British guitarist. He was formerly in British folk rock band Steeleye Span from 1972 to 1977, and again from 1980 to 2001. Johnson was born in London; his mother was a music teacher. He was educated at Westminster City School in London and the University of Hertfordshire. Johnson played acoustic and electric guitars and sang on Appalachian dulcimer player Roger Nicholson's 1972 album ""Nonesuch for Dulcimer"", credited as Robert Johnson. He went on to become a member of the successful English electric folk band Steeleye Span in 1972, after"
"a sideman declined. Albums on which he appears include those with: Chuck Berry Bo Diddley Fleetwood Mac with Otis Spann, Buddy Guy, et al. Howlin' Wolf Sam Lazar Little Walter Jimmy Reed Jimmy Rogers Muddy Waters Sonny Boy Williamson II Johnny Winter Willie Dixon William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time. Next to Muddy"
"July 12, 2008 during the 11th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. Red dirt (music) Red Dirt is a music genre that gets its name from the color of soil found in Oklahoma. Stillwater, Oklahoma is considered to be the center of red dirt music (and many acts got start in bars surrounding Oklahoma State University); but the genre also extends to music made south of the Red River in Texas. Outlaw country legends Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson have been associated with the distinctive Texas sound, while the late Oklahoma singer-songwriter Bob Childers is widely recognized as the Father of"
"1995, a compilation album entitled ""Downhome Delta Harmonica"" was released on the DeltaCat label. The album covers all of Joe's material along with that of another musician, Polka Dot Slim (b. Monroe Vincent, 1919–1982). Forest City Joe Joe Bennie Pugh (July 10, 1926 – April 3, 1960), known as Forrest City Joe or Forest City Joe, was an American blues musician who is mainly remembered for his ability as a harmonica player. He performed with other major blues acts of the period; he was the harmonica player in Muddy Waters's first band and regularly performed in the Chicago area. Despite"
"known by white audiences. The style continues to be popular in the new millennium. Soul blues Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music. Singers and musicians who grew up listening to the traditional electric blues of artists such as Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed and Elmore James; soul singers such as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and Otis Redding; and gospel music wanted to bridge their favorite music together. Bobby Bland was one of the pioneers of this style. This is"
"of slide electric guitar. Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters were for their deep, ""gravelly"" voices. Bassist and composer Willie Dixon played a major role on the Chicago blues scene. He composed and wrote many standard blues songs of the period, such as ""Hoochie Coochie Man"", ""I Just Want to Make Love to You"" (both penned for Muddy Waters) and, ""Wang Dang Doodle"", ""Spoonful"" and ""Back Door Man"" for Howlin' Wolf. Most artists of the Chicago blues style recorded for the Chicago-based Chess Records and Checker Records labels, there were also smaller blues labels in this era including Vee-Jay Records and"
"Soul blues Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music. Singers and musicians who grew up listening to the traditional electric blues of artists such as Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed and Elmore James; soul singers such as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and Otis Redding; and gospel music wanted to bridge their favorite music together. Bobby Bland was one of the pioneers of this style. This is a subgenre of blues that is very popular with African American audiences but less"