"Muddy Waters McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who is often cited as the ""father of modern Chicago blues"", and an important figure on the post-war blues scene. Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating the local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941. In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time professional musician."
"Keaggy, and G.E. Smith remain essentially influenced by Bloomfield's early recorded work. Mike Bloomfield Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American guitarist and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, since he rarely sang before 1969. Respected for his guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues legends before achieving his own fame and was instrumental in popularizing blues music in the mid-1960s. He was ranked No. 22 on Rolling Stone's"
"Garfield Akers Garfield Akers (possibly born James Garfield Echols, c.1902 – c.1959) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He sometimes performed under the pseudonym ""Garfield Partee."" Akers' extant recordings consist of four sides, which are nonetheless historically significant. His most well-known song was his debut, ""Cottonfield Blues"", a duet with friend and longtime collaborator Joe Callicott on second guitar, based on a song performed by Texas blues musician Henry Thomas a few years earlier. Akers lived in Hernando, Mississippi most of his life, working as a sharecropper and performing during off-hours at local house parties and dances. He was"
"Mike Bloomfield Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American guitarist and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, since he rarely sang before 1969. Respected for his guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues legends before achieving his own fame and was instrumental in popularizing blues music in the mid-1960s. He was ranked No. 22 on Rolling Stone's list of ""100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"" in 2003 and No."
"Lonnie Mack Lonnie McIntosh (July 18, 1941 – April 21, 2016), known by his stage name Lonnie Mack, was an influential American pioneer of blues-rock music and rock guitar soloing. He made his mark in 1963, with the release of his debut album, ""The Wham of that Memphis Man"", and its hit-single instrumentals, ""Memphis"" and ""Wham!"". His instrumentals added ""edgy, aggressive, loud, and fast"" blues solos to the chords-and-riffs standard of early rock guitar. They raised the bar for rock guitar proficiency, helped push the electric guitar to the top of soloing instruments in rock, and became a ""model"" for"
"Louis Satterfield Louis Edward Satterfield (April 3, 1937, Shaw, Mississippi, United States – September 27, 2004, Chicago, Illinois) was an American bass and trombone player, primarily noted as a session musician and for his tours as a sideman with a large number of highly visible and commercially successful blues rock performers including B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Phil Collins. He was also a bass teacher, most notably of Verdine White. Satterfield was born Louis Edward in Shaw, Mississippi, a city in Bolivar and Sunflower counties, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, on April 3,"
"he nicknamed ""Sunshine"". Eric Clapton served as best man at their wedding in 1979. His sons, Larry ""Mud"" Morganfield and Big Bill Morganfield, are also blues singers and musicians. In 2017, another son, Joseph ""Mojo"" Morganfield, began publicly performing the blues, often with his brothers. Muddy Waters died in his sleep from heart failure, at his home in Westmont, Illinois, on April 30, 1983, from cancer-related complications. He was transported from his Westmont home, which he lived in for the last decade of his life, to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Illinois. There he was pronounced dead at the"
"combines blues with rock. With some notable exceptions, blues rock has largely been played by white musicians, bringing a rock sensitivity to blues standards and forms and it played a major role in widening the appeal of the blues to white American audiences. In 1963, American guitarist Lonnie Mack had developed a blues rock guitar style, releasing several guitar instrumentals, the best-known of which are the hit singles ""Memphis"" (Billboard #5) and ""Wham!"" (Billboard #24). The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Canned Heat were among the earliest exponents and ""attempted to play long, involved improvisations which were commonplace on jazz"
"Communications from Auburn University. He did not begin playing music seriously until after his father's death in 1983, and then spent six years studying guitar. A well-received performance with Lonnie Mack at Atlanta's Center Stage convinced Morganfield that his career move was a good one, but dissatisfied with his craft, he returned to studying traditional blues forms and songwriting while continuing work as a teacher. He got his first break in 1996 when he and his band (""The Stone Cold Blues Band"" 1996-1998) played at the Blue Angel Cafe in Chattanooga Tn. The band consisted of professional Atlanta based musicians"
"James Crutchfield James Crutchfield (May 25, 1912 – December 7, 2001) was a St. Louis barrelhouse blues singer, piano player and songwriter whose career spanned seven decades. His repertoire consisted of original and classic blues and boogie-woogie and Depression-era popular songs. Known as the ""King of Barrelhouse Blues"", his better-known songs include ""I Believe You Need a Shot"" and ""My Baby Cooks My Breakfast"". There is no record of James Crutchfield's birth: ""My mama never know'd what day it was, she never know'd what month it was, but she always know'd what year it was. 'Lotta folks back in them"
"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"
"Mississippi Joe Callicott ""Mississippi"" Joe Callicott (October 10, 1899 – May 1969) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist. Callicott was born in Nesbit, Mississippi, United States. In 1929 he played second guitar in Garfield Akers' duet recording, ""Cottonfield Blues"". His ""Love Me Baby Blues"" has been covered by various artists, e.g. (under the title of ""France Chance"") by Ry Cooder. Arhoolie Records recorded Callicott commercially in the mid-1960s. Some of his 1967 recordings (recorded by the music historian, George Mitchell) were re-released in 2003, on the Fat Possum record label. His best known recordings are ""Great Long Ways"
"Harmonica Frank Frank Floyd, known as Harmonica Frank (October 11, 1908 – August 7, 1984) was an American blues singer, guitarist and harmonicist. Frank Floyd was born in Toccopola, Mississippi, the son of itinerant parents who separated without giving him a name, though he is recorded in the 1910 census as Shankles Floyd. He was raised by his sharecropping grandparents, who died while he was a teenager. He taught himself to play harmonica when he was 10 years old, and he eventually learned guitar. He gave himself the name Frank Floyd, and began performing in the 1920s for traveling carnivals"
"doesn't owe a little something to Lafayette Thomas"". With Little Brother Montgomery With Memphis Slim Lafayette Thomas Lafayette Jerl Thomas (June 13, 1928 – May 20, 1977) was an American blues singer, and guitarist. Thomas was born on June 13, 1928 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He sang in a local church choir as a youth, and was first introduced to blues guitar by his uncle, musician Jesse ""Babyface"" Thomas. Thomas began his music career in 1947 after a move to San Francisco, California, playing with Al Simmons’ Rhythm Rockers. The following year he joined Jimmy McCracklin's band, and continued to work"
"not hurt. Kirkland was survived by his wife, Mary, and nine children. He was predeceased by one child Betty, and his first wife Ida. Eddie Kirkland Eddie Kirkland (August 16, 1923 – February 27, 2011) was an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. Kirkland, known as the ""Gypsy of the Blues"" for his rigorous touring schedules, played and toured with John Lee Hooker from 1949 to 1962. After his period of working in tandem with Hooker he pursued a successful solo career, recording for RPM Records, Fortune Records, Volt Records, and King Records, sometimes under the stage name"
"Mississippi, and died in Chicago Heights, Illinois, from a heart attack in January 1986, at the age of 51. McKinley Mitchell McKinley Mitchell (December 25, 1934 – January 18, 1986) was an American Chicago-based blues and rhythm and blues singer, who started out performing gospel music. His first recorded single was for Boxer Records around 1959. His big break came with his 1962 record, ""The Town I Live In,"" which became a national R&B hit on the One-der-ful label in Chicago. ""The Town I Live In"" peaked at number eight on the US ""Billboard"" R&B chart. In his later career"
"match the incredible drive, intricate rhythms and ferocious intensity."" Kent also called Akers ""one of the greatest vocalists in blues history."" Author/historian Michael Gray called this recording ""the birth of rock 'n' roll … from 1929!"" ""Dough Roller Blues"" was probably the first of many versions of ""Roll and Tumble Blues"" by Hambone Willie Newbern (Okeh Records 8679). Garfield Akers Garfield Akers (possibly born James Garfield Echols, c.1902 – c.1959) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He sometimes performed under the pseudonym ""Garfield Partee."" Akers' extant recordings consist of four sides, which are nonetheless historically significant. His most well-known"
"Vol. 4"", Various Artists, Euphonic ESR-1204 (1957) ""Barrelhouse Blues And Stomps: Vol. 5"", Various Artists, Euphonic ESR-1205 (1967) ""Original Barrelhouse Blues"", Swingmaster 2109 (1985) ""Biddle Street Barrelhousin""', Various Artists, Delmark DE-739 (2000) ""St. Louis Blues Piano"", Swingmaster CD 2205 (2001) ""The Story Of Piano Blues: From The Country To The City"", Various Artists, Wolf CD 120106 (2013) ""Another Friend Like Me"", Various Artists, Document DOCD 32-20-19 (2013) James Crutchfield James Crutchfield (May 25, 1912 – December 7, 2001) was a St. Louis barrelhouse blues singer, piano player and songwriter whose career spanned seven decades. His repertoire consisted of original and"
"Eventually, he released a rock-oriented record on Elektra. A second album, 'Ready or Not', remains unreleased by the label. Later, McClelland moved to Memphis at the urging of Skip McQuinn. While there, his passion for the blues led him to produce the first Big Bill Morganfield recording, engineered by Mike Durff & Tyler Bell. McClelland continues to be a regular in clubs and festivals throughout the Southeast. McClelland also worked with Bo Diddley and Albert Collins. His album ""Judgment Day"" (2000) received critical acclaim from all the major blues magazines. McClelland helmed Mojo:Saint, a contemporary blues project, along with veteran"
"Kansas Joe McCoy Wilbur ""Kansas Joe"" McCoy (May 11, 1905 – January 28, 1950) was an American Delta blues singer, musician and songwriter. McCoy played music under various stage names but is best known as Kansas Joe McCoy. Born in Raymond, Mississippi, he was the older brother of the blues accompanist Papa Charlie McCoy. As a young man, McCoy was drawn to the music scene in Memphis, Tennessee, where he played guitar and sang during the 1920s. He teamed up his with future wife, Lizzie Douglas, a guitarist better known as Memphis Minnie, and their 1930 recording of the song"
"Paul Butterfield Paul Vaughn Butterfield (December 17, 1942May 4, 1987) was an American blues harmonica player and singer. After early training as a classical flautist, he developed an interest in blues harmonica. He explored the blues scene in his native Chicago, where he met Muddy Waters and other blues greats, who provided encouragement and opportunities for him to join in jam sessions. He soon began performing with fellow blues enthusiasts Nick Gravenites and Elvin Bishop. In 1963, he formed the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which recorded several successful albums and was popular on the late-1960s concert and festival circuit, with"
"Lafayette Thomas Lafayette Jerl Thomas (June 13, 1928 – May 20, 1977) was an American blues singer, and guitarist. Thomas was born on June 13, 1928 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He sang in a local church choir as a youth, and was first introduced to blues guitar by his uncle, musician Jesse ""Babyface"" Thomas. Thomas began his music career in 1947 after a move to San Francisco, California, playing with Al Simmons’ Rhythm Rockers. The following year he joined Jimmy McCracklin's band, and continued to work and record with McCracklin for most of the rest of his life. He also frequently"
"by various record companies, including Document Records, in addition to LPs previously issued by Heritage, Biograph, and Matchbox Records. His known recorded songs are the following: Ramblin' Thomas Willard Thomas, better known as Ramblin' Thomas (c. 1902–c. 1945), was an American country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. He is best remembered for his slide guitar playing and for several recordings he made in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Blues scholars seem undecided if his nickname referred to his style of playing or to his itinerant nature. He was the brother of the blues musician Jesse Thomas. Thomas was born"
"mentioned someone who is most likely Tommy McClennan, though Miller did not know his name: ""... and I saw another fella he put some records out, they (him and Willie Brown) be together, but he be by himself when I see him, they called him ""Sugar""... I ain't never known him as nothing but Sugar, he put out a record called Bottle Up and Go... I sold him my guitar."" Bob Dylan covered Tommy McClennan's ""Highway 51"" on his self-titled debut album in 1962. Tommy McClennan Tommy McClennan (January 4, 1905 – May 9, 1961) was an American Delta blues"
"Eddie Kirkland Eddie Kirkland (August 16, 1923 – February 27, 2011) was an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. Kirkland, known as the ""Gypsy of the Blues"" for his rigorous touring schedules, played and toured with John Lee Hooker from 1949 to 1962. After his period of working in tandem with Hooker he pursued a successful solo career, recording for RPM Records, Fortune Records, Volt Records, and King Records, sometimes under the stage name Eddie Kirk. Kirkland continued to tour, write and record albums until his death in February 2011. His last performance, the night before his death,"
"Mississippi Fred McDowell Fred McDowell (January 12, 1906 – July 3, 1972), known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American hill country blues singer and guitar player. McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee. His parents, who were farmers, died in his youth. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville. Wanting a change from plowing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926, where he worked in the Buck-Eye feed mill, which processed cotton into oil and other products. He also had a number of other jobs and played music for"
"simply ""J C"". This was subsequently donated by his family to the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. At the ceremony Arhoolie Records presented Callicott's wife Doll with a check for his past royalties. Changes by Macon Callicott Mississippi Joe Callicott ""Mississippi"" Joe Callicott (October 10, 1899 – May 1969) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist. Callicott was born in Nesbit, Mississippi, United States. In 1929 he played second guitar in Garfield Akers' duet recording, ""Cottonfield Blues"". His ""Love Me Baby Blues"" has been covered by various artists, e.g. (under the title of ""France Chance"") by Ry Cooder."
"Ramblin' Thomas Willard Thomas, better known as Ramblin' Thomas (c. 1902–c. 1945), was an American country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. He is best remembered for his slide guitar playing and for several recordings he made in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Blues scholars seem undecided if his nickname referred to his style of playing or to his itinerant nature. He was the brother of the blues musician Jesse Thomas. Thomas was born in Logansport, Louisiana, one of nine children in his family. His father played the fiddle, and Willard and his brothers Joe L. and Jesse learned to"
"tips. In 1928 he moved to Mississippi to pick cotton. He finally settled in Como, Mississippi, about 40 miles south of Memphis, in 1940 or 1941 (or maybe the late 1950s), and worked steadily as a farmer, continuing to perform music at dances and picnics. Initially he played slide guitar, using a pocketknife and then a slide made from a beef rib bone, later switching to a glass slide for its clearer sound. He played with the slide on his ring finger. Although commonly regarded as a Delta blues singer, McDowell may be considered the first north hill country blues"
"Willie Morganfield Reverend Willie Morganfield (July 11, 1927 – October 18, 2003), was an American gospel musician and minister. He started his music career, in 1959, with the release of a single, ""What Is This?"". His albums were primarily released by Jewel Records with a few by Paul Records. The only release that charted, ""Golden Hits"", was released by Jewel in 1984, and this placed on the ""Billboard"" magazine Gospel Albums chart. Morganfield was born on July 11, 1927 in Stovall, Mississippi. He was raised in Memphis, Tennessee by a father who preached at King Solomon's Church. He was the"
"Magic Slim Morris Holt (August 7, 1937 – February 21, 2013), known as Magic Slim, was an American blues singer and guitarist. Born at Torrance, near Grenada, Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers, he followed blues greats such as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf to Chicago, developing his own place in the Chicago blues scene. In 2017, Magic Slim was posthumously inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame. Magic Slim was forced to give up playing the piano when he lost his little finger in a cotton gin mishap. He moved first to nearby Grenada. He first came to Chicago"
"a segment of Bob Phillips' syndicated television anthology series ""Texas Country Reporter"". In the interview, McFalls explained to Phillips how important the legacy of Memphis, Texas, had been to his singing career and his peace of mind as a person. 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"
"to Duffy) at the Evergreen Cemetery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Guitar Gabriel Robert Lewis Jones (October 12, 1925 – April 2, 1996), known as both Guitar Gabriel and Nyles Jones, was an American blues musician. Gabriel's unique style of guitar playing, which he referred to as ""Toot Blues"", combined Piedmont, Chicago, and Texas blues, as well as gospel, and was influenced by artists such as Blind Boy Fuller and Reverend Gary Davis. After hearing of Guitar Gabriel from the late Greensboro, North Carolina blues guitarist and pianist, James ""Guitar Slim"" Stephens, musician and folklorist Tim Duffy located and befriended Gabriel,"