Juke Boy,The Lone Cat, Stovepipe and The Good Doctor
Considering the importance of the one man band in the Blues lexicon, it is remarkable how few of them ever achieved significant prominence. The first of this rare and precious…
American Blues Legends ’74
American Blues Legends ’74 took the likes of Doctor Ross, Cousin Joe, Big John Wrencher and Eddie Playboy Taylor on a tour across the UK and Europe, before recovening in…
Too Much Monkey Business
Chuck Berry, photographed by Jim Simpson at Birmingham Hippodrome in 1964 Chuck Berry was a difficult man. Moody, erratic, arrogant, rude and utterly Trumpian when it came to greed. He…
McHouston Baker
Following on from last week’s Part 1 of Paris Blues featuring Memphis Slim and Willie Mabon, we feature the third of those great American bluesmen who made Paris their home…
Paris Blues
Since the early 1920s Paris had become a bolt-hole for black American musicians. During the First World War black U.S. troops had discovered a racial freedom that was denied them…
Remembering Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon, maybe the single most influential of bluesmen, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the first day of July 1915. A composer, record producer, arranger, bass player, recording artist,…