Rebel Storm’s music has been described as a “jazzy, blues-rock fusion, with a southern drawl”, incorporating elements of all these genres and more. Rebel Storm has performed to rave reviews in both the US and Europe. Scorching, double harmony lead guitars. Tight, solid rhythms. Soulful piano and organ. Thumping, rock-solid back beats. It’s a show that starts out rockin’, goes for hours, and just doesn’t stop! Their show was nominated for “Best Live-Act of 2002” by the readers at www.rocktip.de i...
Jul 14, 2006•5 min
Chumslick Nick and the Sharks are fast emerging as one of the most serious bands on the scene. Their debut album, in final mixdown at VuDu Studios, is the next natural evolution, a CD that will get them certain airplay on commercial stations playing local talent and college stations hungry for material that reflects a love for the style of music that a group plays. With recent rave reviews around the New York City scene as well,it's clear that 2001 is the year of the Shark." "This is a band dedi...
Jul 13, 2006•5 min
n 1999 I became aware of a growing music scene that was taking the Blues and using it to give glory to Jesus. Since I have been a performing artist for 35 years, and a Christian for 25 years, this seemed like a perfect match for me. We assembled this band and produced a CD of high quality blues, and classic rock with a funky, jazzy texture, and lyrics that have eternal significance. Since then we have covered a lot of territory, gotten some rave reviews and made some headway in becoming known. W...
Jul 12, 2006•4 min
Andy Kimbel is a very talented folk and country-blues performer whose star is rising quickly on the national blues and folk scene. Listen to him play and you will hear the influences of traditional blues, folk, R&B and a touch of New Orleans style roots music. Hard to pigeonhole, Kimbel has been likened to Lightning Hopkins, John Hammond, Chris Smither and Leo Kotkke. He performs a unique selection of material that ranges from gentle ballads and pointed originals, to hard driving country blu...
Jul 12, 2006•5 min
Exposed to music and surrounded by musicians for entire life. So many of life's tragedies have messed up reality, that songwriting and performing live music, is the desired realm of existence. Non-Conformity! Quoting from Hornor: "Rock and Roll let's the Blues groove, and the Soul can shine through too". Chance want's to "do his part", and then some. Plays with anyone and excells in multiple genres. Roots in Gospel, broke away young into Rock, R&B, and Soul. Records at home, jamming and reco...
Jul 12, 2006•4 min
BB Chung King & The Buddaheads are back on the LA scene after returning from a tour of Asia and the U.S. Taking a year and a half off, Alan Mirikitani (aka BB Chung King) established his own 24 track recording studio "Dawghouse Studios" in Burbank California. BB's music is a mix of roots rock with a blues base. BB has always claimed blues to be his first love, but comes from a generation that loves to rock. Their first CD "Blues Had A Baby", was released in 1994 on RCA/BMB and received gener...
Jul 11, 2006•4 min
Mike Musgrove is a guitarist from Fort Worth, Texas. He began playing rather late in life, while attending college at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. His music career took him through several phases ranging from touring the southwest in a rock and roll band in the early 80's to country music in the early 90's, before taking a 10 year hiatus from music all together. He regained his interest in music after rekindling friendships with some old musician friends a few years ago. His current directi...
Jul 10, 2006•5 min
Billy Marquis has been playing the blues and paying his dues around the Mississippi Delta for over a quarter of a century. Not bad for a guy who doesnt look a day over thirty, huh. He started out with RocknRoll but you cant grow up in the middle of the Mississippi Delta without hearing the Blues and the Blues won out. His music heritage? On the insert of his new CD, The Blues and Beyond He thanks a few poeple who have meant a lot to him over the years. Those people include his father, Billy G Ma...
Jul 10, 2006•7 min
The Dare Ya Blues Band is made up of seasoned Veterans playing the Long Island Music scene for many years. Former bandmates Johnny Dunn, Luke Alvino have rejoined. Their uniqueness is all about original blues with some twists to their favorite cover songs. Johnny Dunn has a unique talent for his writing ability which now Luke Alvino has joined in the Collaboration . With Johnny, Luke back together adding newcomer C.J. Calleri lead guitar,this band is tight and ready to make their music heard. ht...
Jul 08, 2006•3 min
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed-music http://www.rosecitykings.com/ Hailed for its entertaining performances, Rose City Kings gives audiences a fresh, dynamic approach to the classic Blues traditions. The band’s well-honed songs propel the heart of traditional Delta and Chicago Blues forward into a unique Powerhouse sound. Combining hard-driving rhythms with soulful vocals, Rose City Kings pleases general audiences and Blues enthusiasts alike. Rose City Kings has been on an...
Jul 08, 2006•6 min
Central New York blues band, playing a mix of Chicago blues, West Coast swing, old school jump,and killer originals. Instruments are guitar, bass, drums and harp (with keyboards on the CD). CD, entitled "Love Recession", was released in 2001. The band has played all over Central New York and out of state (including the Cape Fear Bluesfest in North Carolina). They have also toured India three times.
Jul 08, 2006•4 min
The Skyla Burrell Blues Band is a hard working full time traveling blues band playing local, regional, national and international venues. The band averages 200 shows a year. With co-founder Mark Tomlinson on lead guitar and Skyla Burrell on vocals and lead guitar, the band's live show consists of all original high energy electric blues. In July of 2004 the band released their debut studio CD, "Working Girl Blues", containing 12 original songs - several of the cuts topping the charts on independe...
Jul 08, 2006•3 min
in 1925, banjoist Papa Charlie Jackson’s “I’m Alabama Bound” showed the links between all three titles. “Elder Greene” would be featured on later recordings by Blind Lemon Jefferson Charlie Patton(1920s) and in 1958 by Mississippi singer/guitarist “Cat-Iron”. “Alabama Bound” was recorded by Leadbelly in 1935 and 1940 and cropped up c.1956 by Lonnie Donegan during the British skiffle craze! Whilst “Don’t Leave Me Here” was first recorded in 1927 by a Mississippi group who were sometimes billed as...
Jul 07, 2006•3 min
Like many destitute people with physical disabilities at the time, Blind Willie Johnson earned his living from music. He quickly picked up the twelve-string guitar, and his father would often leave him on street corners to sing for money, where his newfound powerful voice left an indelible impression on passersby (legend has it that he was arrested for nearly starting a riot at a New Orleans courthouse with a powerful rendition of "If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down", a song about Samson...
Jul 06, 2006•3 min
Robert Timothy Wilkins was a seminal blues guitarist and vocalist. Of African American and Cherokee descent, he was born January 16, 1896, in Hernando, Mississippi, 21 miles from Memphis, Tennessee. He died May 26, 1987. Wilkins worked in Memphis during the 1920s at the same time as Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie (whom he claimed to have tutored), and Son House. He also organized a jug band to capitalize on the "jug band craze" then in vogue. Though never attaining success comparable to the Memphis...
Jun 08, 2006•21 sec
Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California) is a musician and a founding member of the band Grateful Dead; he played bass guitar in that group throughout their entire 30-year career. Lesh started out as a trumpet player with a keen interest in avant-garde classical music and free jazz; he also studied under the Italian modernist Luciano Berio (a classmate was the minimalist composer Steve Reich). While still a college student he met then-bluegrass banjo player Jerry Garcia...
May 18, 2006•6 min
one night after a late night jam session, a group of fishin' musicians, led bu a guy nick-named "Chummy", put down there instruments, and picked up their gear for a fishing trip. A few hours later, and a few sharks later, an inspiration, a song, and Chumslick Nick and the Sharks were born."
May 02, 2006•5 min
Charley Patton (May 1, 1891–April 28, 1934) is best known as an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of Delta Blues" and therefore one of the oldest known figures of American popular music. Charley Patton is one of the first mainstream stars of the Delta blues genre. Patton, who was born in Hinds County, Mississippi near Edwards or Bolton, lived most of his life in Sunflower County, in the Mississippi Delta. He was extremely popular across the U.S. South, and...
Apr 25, 2006•3 min
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1909/1912 to August 16, 1938) can arguably be considered as the most famous Delta blues singer and guitarist in history, even though he didn't live to see his thirtieth birthday and didn't start recording until three years before his death. Johnson died of pneumonia a week after being poisoned and shot for fooling around with a married woman.
Apr 24, 2006•3 min
Local studio musicans from several band decided to form a partnership to write and record original songs. We offer our time and talents free of charge to other musicians involved in this project. We plan to develop into a publishing company, and possibly a full time band.
Apr 22, 2006•7 min
Hi...I'm Robbie King, blues guitarist and song writer.My music is both retro and modern..sort of Ottis Redding meets Robert Cray meets Stevie Ray Vaughan! This isn't by copying someones style either...I was born in Witchita FallsTexas and grew up listening to some of the greatist R&B and Blues artist there were at the time..artist such as Ray Charles to BB King and everyone in between. As I grew into the Blues, my sights were set high. I wanted to play on stage with the likes of Eric Clapton...
Apr 17, 2006•4 min
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Apr 14, 2006•3 min
Started out like everyone else scrambling for gigs. Hosting mid-week jam nights. Playing every chance we got sometimes for the "exposure". We lost our (at the time) female lead singer,which definately was a set back! Now this was with "Delta 88" with Rhonda Monge (Frenchy) one of the finest vocalists I've, in my 35 years of playing,had the chance to play with. Well when she left I thought what the hell I'm horny to play so I'm putting together a new band and I'm gonna sing till I find someone be...
Apr 08, 2006•4 min
TITLE: Country Woman Blues MATRIX NO.: 13718-1 SINGER: Will Batts V, with prob Jack Kelly, prob Dan Sain (Dan Sane, Dan Sing), g/sp COMPOSER(S): DATE OF REC.: New York, 2 August 1933 ORIGINAL ISSUE(S): Vocalion 02531 REISSUE(S): Yazoo 2008, Blues Documents BDCD-6005
Apr 07, 2006•3 min
The year 1999 will mark what is believed to be the 125th anniversary of the birth of Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas. When Thomas first recorded for the Vocalion label in the late 1920s, he was already over 50 years old and most assuredly was the eldest African-American performer ever to lay down tracks considered Blues music at the time. Thought to have been born in 1874 in Big Sandy, Texas, Henry was one of nine children by parents who were former slaves and sharecroppers raising cotton. Having a...
Apr 06, 2006•3 min
Public domain music Phil Lesh & Friends featuring Joan Osborne, Jimmy Herring, Barry Sless, Rob Barraco and Jeff Sipe along with the John Mayer Trio will be performing on December 29 at The Fillmore, December 30 at The Warfield Theater, and on December 31 at the Bill Graham Civic Center. We are planning a New Year's Eve show that would make Bill Graham proud including a special midnight set featuring Phil and John Mayer.
Apr 05, 2006•13 min
Born William Samuel McTell in 1901, Blind Willie lost his sight in late childhood, yet earned the status as one of the most accomplished guitarists and lyrical storytellers in Blues history. Blind Willie became an accomplished musical theorist, able to both read and write music in Braille, through an encouraging family and strong faith. While few of his recordings ever earned mainstream popularity, his influence on the modern music and art scene is widely known. His songs (Statesboro Blues, Brok...
Apr 05, 2006•3 min
THE BEGINNER — Bob Walkenhorst When a great rock n’roll band comes to an end, where does the music go? Bob Walkenhorst, lead singer and songwriter of The Rainmakers, answers that question on his first solo CD, The Beginner. “I didn’t want to make a record where I set out to prove that I could single-handedly make up for the absence of the Rainmakers. Instead, I wanted this to be a discovery of what I truly sounded like without them.” In thirteen new (and very short) songs, Walkenhorst has pared ...
Apr 05, 2006•5 min
All songs Public domain Paul Barrere plays guitar and slide guitar, and sings lead and background vocals for Little Feat. Paul Barrere joined Little Feat for the band's third album Dixie Chicken, and has been with the band since. During Little Feat's early 80's hiatus, Paul led the group Chicken Legs. Since Little Feat's return with "Let it Roll", Paul has stepped more into the spotlight.
Apr 05, 2006•4 min
