Reconsider Baby,' sometimes known under other titles after the song's opening line ('So long, oh, how I hate to see you go'), was Lowell Fulson's wistful goodbye and plea to a departing lover, with a [...]
Jimmy Rogers recorded for Chess from 1950 to 1959, coming up with a number of classics that have been performed by blues bands ever since, but during much of his recording heyday he was also [...]
Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1966. Published in 1991 “with a new Afterword.” Urban Blues was an eye-opening, progressive look at the blues when it was first published in 1966, and though [...]
One of the blues world's most colorful characters, William Thomas' “Champion Jack' Dupree was both a first-rate entertainer and a top-quality artist, whether he took the role of merry mirthmaker, political commentator, or down-and-out denizen [...]
One of the foremost figures in postwar blues over a period of several decades, Lowell Fulson possessed an impressive ability to adapt to or set his own trends in the blues. Born on a Choctaw [...]