Living Blues magazine, founded by Bruce Iglauer, Jim O'Neal, Amy van Singel, Paul Garon, Diane Allmen, Andre Souffront and Tim Zorn. Chicago, 1970. Living Blues, America's first blues magazine, was created to fill a stateside [...]
Original edition: Blues and Gospel Records 1902-1942, by Robert M.W. Dixon and John Godrich, Hatch End, Middlesex, England: Rust, 1964. Latest edition: Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943, Fourth Edition, by Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich [...]
The first English-language magazine devoted (almost) wholly to blues, Blues Unlimited, was founded as The Journal of the Blues Appreciation Society in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, in 1963. Society co-founders Simon Napier and Mike Leadbitter enlisted [...]
Big Walter Horton was widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and creative musicians ever to play the harmonica. Born near Horn Lake, Mississippi, on April 6, 1921 (the date officially confirmed by Mississippi's [...]
Freddie King was one of the most successful instrumentalists in the blues, able to turn a seemingly endless string of themes into crafty guitar hooks with dance beats in keeping with the times during the [...]
Magic Sam (Samuel Maghett) was at the forefront of the new electric blues movement in Chicago that is often called the West Side style, because many of the artists often performed or recorded on the [...]
No other artist has starred across such a range of genres as Ray Charles, whose records hit the No. 1 position at various times on Billboard's pop, R&B, jazz, and country charts. But blues was [...]
The term urban blues is usually applied to post-World War II blues band music, but one of the forefathers of the genre in its pre-electric format was singer-pianist Leroy Carr (born March 27, 1905, in [...]
Columbia's 1961 compilation of Robert Johnson's 1936-37 recordings was not a best seller, unlike the boxed set that created a frenzy nearly 30 years later, but it was arguably the single most important blues reissue [...]