"Bell was ""a terrific talent in the tradition of Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter."" Bell was born Carey Bell Harrington in Macon, Mississippi. As a child, he was intrigued by the music of Louis Jordan and wanted a saxophone in order to be like his hero Jordan. His family could not afford one, so he had to settle for a harmonica, colloquially known as a ""Mississippi saxophone"". Soon Bell was attracted by the blues harmonica greats—DeFord Bailey, Big Walter Horton, Marion ""Little Walter"" Jacobs, Sonny Boy Williamson I and Sonny Boy Williamson II—and taught himself to play. By the"
"Junior Wells Junior Wells (born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr., December 9, 1934January 15, 1998) was an American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist. He was one of the pioneers of the amplified blues harp-style associated with Chicago. Wells is best known for his signature song ""Messin' with the Kid"" and his 1965 album ""Hoodoo Man Blues"", described by the critic Bill Dahl as ""one of the truly classic blues albums of the 1960s"". Wells performed and recorded with Various notable blues musicians, including Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker, and Buddy Guy. He remained a fixture on the blues scene"
"albums with Buddy Guy. Junior Wells Junior Wells (born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr., December 9, 1934January 15, 1998) was an American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist. He was one of the pioneers of the amplified blues harp-style associated with Chicago. Wells is best known for his signature song ""Messin' with the Kid"" and his 1965 album ""Hoodoo Man Blues"", described by the critic Bill Dahl as ""one of the truly classic blues albums of the 1960s"". Wells performed and recorded with Various notable blues musicians, including Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker, and Buddy Guy. He remained a fixture"
"#20 on the UK Albums Chart. Down and Out Blues Down and Out Blues is the first LP record by American blues musician Sonny Boy Williamson. The album was released in 1959 by Checker Records (see 1959 in music). The album was a compilation of Williamson's first singles for Checker, from ""Don't Start Me to Talkin'"" b/w ""All My Love in Vain"" through ""Dissatisfied"" b/w ""Cross My Heart"". The album features many famous blues musicians backing Williamson, including Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, and Willie Dixon. The first session that Williamson recorded for Checker was on August 12, 1955 where he"
"several occasions in the 1970s. Wells's album ""South Side Blues Jam"" was released in 1971, followed by ""On Tap"" in 1975. His 1996 release ""Come On in This House"" includes performances by the slide guitarists Alvin Youngblood Hart and Derek Trucks, among others. Wells appeared in the film ""Blues Brothers 2000"". One overlooked performance by the then very young Junior at the American country blues festival in 1962 stole a show from the likes of Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, and Sonny Boy Williamson himself. Without blowing one note on his harp he showed Elvis and James Brown a thing or"
"nominations with one win at the Grammy Awards and twenty-one nominations with seven wins at the W.C. Handy Blues Music Awards. Robert Lockwood Jr. Robert Lockwood Jr. (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only guitarist to have learned to play directly from Robert Johnson. Lockwood is known for his longtime collaboration with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter. Lockwood was born in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, a hamlet west"
"Johnny ""Big Moose"" Walker Johnny ""Big Moose"" Walker (June 27, 1927 November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and organist. He worked with many blues musicians, including Ike Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lowell Fulson, Choker Campbell, Elmore James, Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, Jimmy Dawkins and Son Seals. Walker was primarily a piano player but was also proficient on the electronic organ and the bass guitar (he played the bass guitar when backing Muddy Waters). He recorded solo albums and accompanied other musicians in concert and on recordings. John Mayon Walker"
"in the folk and traditional arts. Williams is from Takoma Park, Maryland, Summerour from Rockville, Maryland, and Selby from Washington Grove, Maryland. Warner Williams and Jay Summerour Warner Williams and Jay Summerour are an American folk duo, who perform under the name Little Bit A Blues. They have played at numerous folk and blues festivals and at concerts at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. They are known for playing in the Piedmont blues style, a regional variant of the blues that developed in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia. Williams and Summerour have been playing music"
"The Kansas City Red Blues. Towards the end of his life, he toured with Big Daddy Kinsey and the Kinsey Report. He died in November 1986, aged 51. Middle Walter James Jones (known by his stage name Middle Walter) (July 16, 1935 - November 1, 1986) was an American blues harmonica player. He was based in Gary, Indiana. Middle Walter was born in Augusta, Arkansas, United States. His stage name was given to him by Johnny Littlejohn, placing him between Big Walter Horton and Little Walter Jacobs. He was featured in issue 63 of ""Juke Blues"" magazine. The times when"
"Electric blues Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s. Their styles developed into West Coast blues, Detroit blues, and post-World War II Chicago blues, which differed from earlier, predominantly acoustic-style blues. By the early 1950s, Little Walter was a featured soloist on blues harmonica or blues harp using a small hand-held microphone fed into a guitar amplifier."
"Down and Out Blues Down and Out Blues is the first LP record by American blues musician Sonny Boy Williamson. The album was released in 1959 by Checker Records (see 1959 in music). The album was a compilation of Williamson's first singles for Checker, from ""Don't Start Me to Talkin'"" b/w ""All My Love in Vain"" through ""Dissatisfied"" b/w ""Cross My Heart"". The album features many famous blues musicians backing Williamson, including Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, and Willie Dixon. The first session that Williamson recorded for Checker was on August 12, 1955 where he recorded ""Don't Start Me to Talkin'"""
"Blues - Mississippi Blues (feat. Mr. Sipp)<br> Funkwrench Blues - She's Gone (feat. Andrew Jr. Boy Jones)<br> Funkwrench Blues - Subway (feat. Duke Robillard)<br> Funkwrench Blues - Stroll (feat. Bob Margolin)<br> Funkwrench Blues - Macha Cha Cha (feat. Reeves Gabrels)<br> Funkwrench Blues - Short Circuit (feat. Barry Goldberg) Frank Swart Frank Swart (born September 5, 1961, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is an American musician, composer and producer. His main instrument is the electric bass. Swart is a founding member of the psychedelic electric blues rock band, SIMO along with guitarist/vocalist JD Simo and drummer Adam Abrashoff. He has recorded"
"as the songwriter. In 1960, Sonny Boy Williamson II recorded ""Checkin' Up on My Baby"" as an uptempo Chicago blues shuffle that features his harmonica playing. Backing Williamson on vocal and harmonica are Otis Spann on piano, Robert Jr. Lockwood and Luther Tucker on guitars, Fred Below on drums, and an unidentified bassist. Despite its brief length (less than two minutes), blues historian Gerard Herzhaft has been identified the song as among ""the most accomplished masterpieces of postwar blues"". The song was first released on the Williamson Chess Records compilation ""The Real Folk Blues"" in 1966. ""Checkin' Up on My"
"Middle Walter James Jones (known by his stage name Middle Walter) (July 16, 1935 - November 1, 1986) was an American blues harmonica player. He was based in Gary, Indiana. Middle Walter was born in Augusta, Arkansas, United States. His stage name was given to him by Johnny Littlejohn, placing him between Big Walter Horton and Little Walter Jacobs. He was featured in issue 63 of ""Juke Blues"" magazine. The times when he was most active was during the 1950s and 1960s. He also played harmonica for Big Daddy Simpson and Melvin Simpson. In the 1970s, he played bass for"
"of 72, in November 1999. With Lightnin' Hopkins With Curtis Jones Johnny ""Big Moose"" Walker Johnny ""Big Moose"" Walker (June 27, 1927 November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and organist. He worked with many blues musicians, including Ike Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lowell Fulson, Choker Campbell, Elmore James, Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, Jimmy Dawkins and Son Seals. Walker was primarily a piano player but was also proficient on the electronic organ and the bass guitar (he played the bass guitar when backing Muddy Waters). He recorded solo albums and"
"Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Joe Williams, Booker T. Laury, Kim Simmonds, Koerner, Ray & Glover, Fred McDowell, and Lead Belly. His track ""Every Morning Blues"" (recorded August 2, 1934, in New York), appeared on the 1992 compilation album, """". In 1994, Document Records released a twin set of all of Roland's solo recordings. Walter Roland Walter Roland (possibly December 20, 1902 – October 12, 1972) was an American blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, guitarist and singer, noted for his association with Lucille Bogan, Josh White and Sonny Scott. The music journalist Gérard Herzhaft stated that Roland was ""a great"
"from his left hand, playing on Maxwell Street, and learned to play the guitar without the missing finger. In the late 1940s Williams was once more playing on Maxwell Street and in clubs, often working with his cousin, the mandolin player Johnny Young; with the harmonica player Snooky Pryor and the guitarists Floyd Jones and Moody Jones; or with Little Walter. He joined the musicians' union around this time. He acquired the nickname Uncle Johnny, by which he was known among his blues associates for the rest of his life. Williams's first recordings were made in 1947 with Johnny Young"
"who was fifteen years older than Ace, taught him his guitar playing techniques. The instrument is still used by some blues players, notably Taj Mahal, Eric Sardinas, Alvin Hart, The Deacon Brandon Reeves, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Roland Chadwick, John Hammond Jr., Roy Rogers, and John Mooney. Single resonator guitars with a bowl resonator and spider (""Dobro style"") are often heard in bluegrass music, while tricone (""National style"") instruments are still preferred by many blues players. Single-resonator biscuit (also sometimes called ""National style"") instruments are also currently produced, and give a different sound again. Many bluegrass players"
"in the Muddy Waters band, and Walter commandeered the Aces (the Myers brothers and Below). As Little Walter and the Nightcats, they became one of the top electric blues bands in Chicago. In 1955, Below left Little Walter's band to concentrate on working as a session musician for Chess Records. However, he continued to play on Little Walter's records. He also played on hit records for Waters, Wells, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Rogers, Elmore James, Otis Rush, Howlin' Wolf and others. Below worked with bassist Willie Dixon, Little Walter, and guitarist Robert Lockwood, Jr. on John Brim's last single"
"Warner Williams and Jay Summerour Warner Williams and Jay Summerour are an American folk duo, who perform under the name Little Bit A Blues. They have played at numerous folk and blues festivals and at concerts at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. They are known for playing in the Piedmont blues style, a regional variant of the blues that developed in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia. Williams and Summerour have been playing music together under the name of Little Bit A Blues since the early 1990s. During their tenure together, they have recorded several albums,"
"and Saturday night fish fries around Bogalusa where cajun music, zydeco and blues were performed. Nelson recalled, ""It was just people eating, jamming and having a good time!"" Nelson began playing the harmonica at the age of eight. As a youngster he was encouraged and instructed by Versie's musical cohorts, Louisiana blues legends (and Excello recording artists) Slim Harpo (James Moore) and Lazy Lester (Leslie Johnson). Nelson credited Harpo, Lester, Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck Miller) and Jimmy Reed (all of whom he knew) as his primary influences, as well as Sonny Boy (John Lee) Williamson whose recordings he studied."
"was recorded by Sonny Boy Williamson I in 1938. World War II interrupted his recording career, which he did not resume until 1953, when a single of his, ""Wrong Blues""/""Cool Playing Blues"", was released on Parrot, featuring L. C. McKinley on guitar. Jones's first full-length album appeared in 1960 on Bluesville, by which time he had become a noted performer on the Chicago folk music scene. A solo album was released in 1962, by which time Jones had moved to Europe. He lived there and in Morocco for the rest of his life. He made further albums in the UK,"
"on this success. Duncan died in Northlake, Illinois, in August 2008, of complications following brain surgery, at the age of 74. Little Arthur Duncan Little Arthur Duncan (February 5, 1934 – August 20, 2008) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter. He was a member of the Backscratchers and over his career was associated with Earl Hooker, Twist Turner, Illinois Slim and Rick Kreher. Duncan was born in Indianola, Mississippi. His first instrument was the drums. In 1950, aged 16, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, and became acquainted with Little Walter, who helped him"
"those by the Harlem Hamfats, Big Bill Broonzy, Roosevelt Sykes, Washboard Sam, Sonny Boy Williamson, T-Bone Walker, Tommy McClennan, and Muddy Waters. He played on Arthur Crudup's ""That's All Right"", recorded in 1946. He died in Chicago in 1967, aged 55. Ransom Knowling Ransom Knowling (24 June 1912 – 22 October 1967) was an American rhythm and blues musician, best known for playing bass on many blues recordings made in Chicago between the 1930s and 1950s, including those of Arthur Crudup and Little Brother Montgomery. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and began playing professionally around 1930 in the"
"Robert Lockwood Jr. Robert Lockwood Jr. (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only guitarist to have learned to play directly from Robert Johnson. Lockwood is known for his longtime collaboration with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter. Lockwood was born in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, a hamlet west of Helena. He started playing the organ in his father's church at the age of 8. His parents divorced, and later"
"that followed, ""Jumps, Boogies & Wobbles"" and ""Modern Sounds of Ancient Juju."" Howell took up the blues harmonica at age 14. While still a teenager, he would sit in during blues shows at venues in Oakland, CA that would allow a minor to play, including Eli’s Mile High Club and Your Place Too, where he played with Haskell Robert Sadler, also known as Cool Papa. Later he would also play harmonica with Arkansas-born country blues guitarist/singer Robert Lowery in Santa Cruz, CA. Howell's chief harmonica influences are Sonny Boy Williamson II, Little Walter, and Sonny Terry. He took up guitar"
"piano. He has toured across the United States, as well as in Europe, Russia, Japan and Australia. Closer to his roots, Shah still occasionally performs for free at John's Carpet House in East Detroit. He legally changed his birth name to Seward Shah. Shah's more recent release was the 2009 album, ""If All You Have Is a Hammer"", on his current record label, Electro-Fi Records. Harmonica Shah Seward Daward Shah, known as Harmonica Shah (March 31, 1946) is an American Detroit and electric blues harmonicist and singer. His playing was influenced by Junior Wells, Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, Lazy Lester,"
"he updates the song in his own style. It is performed as a slow blues with Walter playing a distinctive harp intro and accompaniment to his vocals. When Little Walter recorded ""Blues with a Feeling"" in Chicago on July 23, 1953, he was backed by one of the classic Chicago blues bands. Sometimes known as the Aces, Dave Myers and Louis Myers (or possibly Jimmy Rogers) provide guitars, with Willie Dixon on upright bass, and Fred Below on drums. Walter biographer Tony Glover notes the ""nice interplay between the guitar and the harp... with Below providing momentum with his shuffling"
"Chicago’s finest blues artists of the time, and over the course of the next 20 months, recorded over 300 tracks. "" Featured in this series of recordings are the performers Tampa Red, Washboard Sam, Big Bill Broonzy, Walter Davis, John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, Big Joe Williams, Henry Townsend, Robert Lee McCoy, Speckled Red, Merlene Johnson, Addie “Sweet Peas” Spivey, Bill “Jazz” Gillum and One Arm Slim, amongst many others. Williams likely first heard ""My Bucket's Got a Hole in It"" from Rufus Payne, nicknamed ""Tee Tot,"" a black street singer who taught a young Hank to play blues guitar."
"Blues Boy Willie William Daniel McFalls, better known as Blues Boy Willie (born November 28, 1946), is an African-American electric blues singer and harmonica player from Memphis, Texas, United States. McFalls is attempting to revive the popularity which the blues enjoyed in his native Memphis during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. McFalls is known for his unique urban sound and his keen sense of humor as he attempts to make blues, sometimes defined as the ""secular folk music of American blacks"" pertinent to modern society. Reared in a musical family, his father was in Ma Rainey's touring minstrel show. Among"
"including for the Smithsonian Folkways label. Eric Selby joined up with Warner and Jay several years ago, completing the current trio. Their most recent recording, ""The Best of Little Bit A Blues: Live at B.B. King's Bluesville,"" on Soul Stew Records reached number one on the Blues411 chart, was nominated for a WAMMIE for Blues/Traditional R&B Recording of the Year as well as received a JIMI Award for Best Live Recording of the Year. Warner Williams is a recipient of a 2011 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor"
"the conventional string. Later electric styles overhadowed his fame, and he went on to live a quiet life until his death. Nelson died in November 1998, in Greenville, Mississippi, at the age of 89. Sonny Boy Nelson Sonny Boy Nelson (December 23, 1908 – November 4, 1998) was an American blues musician. He was born Eugene Powell, in Utica, Mississippi, the child of an interracial affair. His white father soon abandoned the family. His family soon moved to a plantation at Lombardy near Shelby, Mississippi. He learned to play the guitar by the age of seven. He and his half-brother"
"2, 1948, Joe recorded a single in his only session at Aristocrat Records (later Chess Records). Muddy Waters was intended to be a session musician for the recording, but instead Joe was paired with J. C. Coles, a jazz guitarist, who contributed very little to the recordings. A single resulted from the sessions, but other songs were unissued because the guitarist had hindered the recordings. Joe and Waters had previously been working together in a band, and Waters remembered Joe as being a ""great harp player"". In 1949, shortly after Williamson's death, the single, ""Memory of Sonny Boy"" backed with"