Gene Nobles
Bill “Hoss” Allen, Gene “Daddy” Nobles, and “John R.” (John Richbourg), the late-night announcing crew of WLAC radio in Nashville, were inducted together into the Hall of Fame in 1994 for their groundbreaking work in [...]
Wynonie Harris
One of the most popular and powerful singers to contribute to the birth of 1940s rhythm & blues, Wynonie Harris achieved his greatest hits by rocking long and hard or by making his listeners laugh [...]
The Complete Recordings of T-Bone Walker 1940-1954 — T-Bone Walker (Mosaic, 1990)
Mosaic Records has excelled in the compilation of high-quality boxed set reissues, primarily focusing on co-founder Michael Cuscuna's passion for Blue Note Records' vaunted jazz catalogue. Along the way Mosaic has also issued a few [...]
Texas Flood — Larry Davis (Duke, 1958)
Texas Flood was the 1958 classic covered for a far wider audience by Stevie Ray Vaughan 25 years later. Larry Davis was already a soulful vocalist in 1958, and would become a powerful guitarist, but [...]
John & Alan Lomax
John Lomax, Sr., one of America's most important folklorists, documented a variety of musical genres in his extensive studies, recording more than 10,000 songs for the Library of Congress. He was the man who brought [...]
John R. (Richbourg)
Bill “Hoss” Allen, Gene “Daddy” Nobles, and “John R.” (John Richbourg), the late-night announcing crew of WLAC radio in Nashville, were inducted together into the Hall of Fame in 1994 for their groundbreaking work in [...]
Bill ‘Hoss’ Allen
Bill “Hoss” Allen, Gene “Daddy” Nobles, and “John R.” (John Richbourg), the late-night announcing crew of WLAC radio in Nashville, were inducted together into the Hall of Fame in 1994 for their groundbreaking work in [...]
Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup
After Elvis Presley recorded three of Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup's songs in the 1950s, Crudup became known as “The Father of Rock 'n' Roll.” Crudup was recorded for RCA Victor or its Bluebird subsidiary from [...]
Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians, edited by Lawrence Cohn
New York: Abbeville Press, 1993. Nothing but the Blues is one of the most wide-ranging and comprehensive books on the blues, consisting of 11 chapters, each by a different writer recruited for the project by [...]
I Can’t Quit You Baby — Otis Rush (Cobra 1956)
I Can't Quit You Baby' kicked off the recording career of Otis Rush, then in his early twenties, and launched a new Chicago label, Cobra, in grand fashion. Although both Rush and Cobra came up [...]