Chico’s High-Rise Blues
It’s hard to think of a more appropriate place for a blues musician to be born than on a steamboat in Shreveport, Louisiana. That’s where Napoleon Chism, known to the…
Established 1968
It’s hard to think of a more appropriate place for a blues musician to be born than on a steamboat in Shreveport, Louisiana. That’s where Napoleon Chism, known to the…
Photo: Muddy Waters at Birmingham Town Hall, 1964. Copyright Jim Simpson. In honour of Muddy Waters’ birthday on 4th April, Jim Simpson pays tribute to the great man and many…
Way back in the mists of time, 1969 to be precise, Big Bear were representing a number of bands that we, and a whole bunch of folk hereabouts, believed to…
Taking advantage of the forced lull in our life, thanks to Covid, we are endeavouring to put the Big Bear archives into some semblance of order – and finding it…
Whereas Mississippi Delta Blues is a well-known and recognisable form of the music, there is a lesser-known style that might well have slipped under the radar of some folks. It…
In the early 1960s I was working days as a photographer at Birmingham College of Advanced Technology, now known as Aston University. I somehow found myself running the students’ weekly…
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