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unusual facts about blues music



Benyamin Sueb

From the late 1960s until early 1970s, he was influenced by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers' blues and James Brown's soul.

Cuby + Blizzards

Cuby + Blizzards – also known as Cuby & the Blizzards are a Dutch blues group, founded in 1964 by vocalist Harry Muskee, and guitarist Eelco Gelling.

Don L. Harper

Harper’s first CD, Dream and Variations, is a hybrid of jazz, Americana, rock, spirituals, blues, and bluegrass.

Efim Schachmeister

He himself played the violin, characteristically in a gypsy-manner, but was also capable of adjusting his style to a more Blues-influenced technique when necessary.

Free Spirit Records

It was established in 2002, primarily as an outlet for the recordings of acoustic blues guitarist and singer, Sonny Black.

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best is the debut album by American folk blues musician Karen Dalton, originally released in 1969 by Capitol Records (see 1969 in music).

L.A. Woman

It allowed Jim Morrison to express his 'old blues man' personality as it gave him the freedom to sing the Blues music that he was influenced by as a child, including musicians such as Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker.

Malaco Records

Malaco is and has been the home of various major soul, blues and gospel acts, such as Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Bland, Z. Z. Hill, Denise LaSalle, Benny Latimore, Dorothy Moore, Little Milton, Shirley Brown, Marvin Sease, and the Mississippi Mass Choir.

Panama Limited

A song immortalizing the train under its original name is credited to blues singer Bukka White, who recorded it in the 1930s.

WEGL

WEGL 91 is a traditional "college radio" station in that the station's programming consists of an eclectic mix of genres including, but not limited to: Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Country & Bluegrass, Soul, Dance & Techno, R&B, Reggae, World Music, Oldies, and Gospel.

Wild Pumpkins At Midnight

Wild Pumpkins at Midnight was an Australian blues/roots rock band which formed in Tasmania in 1984, with Debra Manskey on vocals and guitar, Dan Tuffy on bass guitar and vocals and Michael Turner on guitar and vocals.

WMMM-FM

The station is owned by Entercom Communications and runs an adult album alternative format as "105-5 Triple M." WMMM-FM also airs "The Delta," a 24-hour blues music format on its HD Radio subchannel (105.5-HD2).

WVON

In 1963, WHFC became WVON when it was purchased by Leonard and Phil Chess, the owners of Chess Records, a successful record label specializing in blues music.


see also

Asylum Street Spankers

Spanker Madness, primarily country blues music about drug use, is generally pro-marijuana, but several songs examine the negative side of drug use and incisively criticize the War on Drugs.

Bill Coday

Mitchell's reputation in the soul and soul blues music industry includes producing such artists as Al Green and Ann Peebles.

Dead Shrimp Blues

Dr. Al Robbins (Robert David Hall) is a fan of blues music and has much knowledge of it as does Prof. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) and is seen singing along to "Dead Shrimp Blues" as he is performing an autopsy in the CSI episode, "The Gone Dead Train".

Ethan Kenning

In the mid-1960s he performed folk and blues music in clubs in Chicago, and as a session singer with Dunwich Records.

George Frazier

Frazier wrote the song "Harvard Blues" (music by Tab Smith), recorded in 1941 by Count Basie and included on the compilation The Count Basie Story, Disc 3 - Harvard Blues (2001, Proper Records).

Harry Muskee

Through listening to the American Forces Network radio station – for U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany – Muskee came into contact with blues music.

Jonno Zilber

He began performing at the age of 12 years old after becoming interested in blues music after hearing the Muddy Waters song 'Mannish Boy'.

Juggy

Juggy Murray (1923–2005), American rhythm and blues music producer

Moondog Matinee

It consists entirely of cover material taken from the group's love of R&B and blues music, with one exception in their interpretation of the theme from the film The Third Man.

New blues

New blues is a name given to blues music by artists such as The White Stripes, John Mayer Trio, Seasick Steve, NuBlues, Stephen Dale Petit, and The Black Keys, who are ushering the blues into the 21st century.

Paul Ambrose Oliver

:For the researcher into architecture and blues music, see Paul Oliver.

Provogue Records

The label, originally founded by Ed Van Zijl in 1990, mostly specializes in guitar loaded Rock and Blues music releases.

Resonator guitar

The resonator guitar is also significant to the world of blues music, particularly the Southern style of country blues that grew out of the Mississippi Delta and Louisiana.

Stephen Dale Petit

He went from being a performer in the London Underground to giving masterclass University lectures on blues music whilst becoming a well known stage act.

Storyville Records

Storyville Records is a large international record label based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializing in jazz and blues music.

Taylor Hicks discography

The following article is a complete discography of every album and single released by American pop, soul and blues music artist Taylor Hicks, who won the fifth season of American Idol in 2006.