Luther Allison
Luther Allison broke onto the national blues scene as the hot young up-and-comer from Chicago in 1969, so highly touted that he even scored a contract with Motown in 1973 -- almost unheard-of for a [...]
Lillian McMurry
Every record producer dreams that the music he or she helps create will become timeless. But very few producers can claim to have made 'Classic' records. In the blues world, no one can surpass the [...]
Messing with the Kid — Junior Wells (Chief, 1960)
Amos Blackmore had barely shaken the dust of his native Memphis' streets from his pants cuffs when he began to make a name for himself in Chicago Blues. Soon after the pugnacious 12-year-old moved north [...]
I’ll Play the Blues for You — Albert King (Stax, 1972)
When the contemporary blues firmament was in dire need of a new bigger-than-life hero in the mid-1960s, someone armed with a fresh, blazing electric guitar conception and the unyielding power to triumph over an invading [...]
Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips was often greeted crudely by the citizens of Memphis who couldn't understand the traffic of black musicians in and out of his recording studio. Back in the early days of his Memphis Recording [...]
Blues from the Delta, by William Ferris
The essential connection between music and the specific places where musicians live and create their sounds would seem to be an obvious matter. How can one conceive of history of the subject in this country [...]
Junior Wells
Amos Blackmore had barely shaken the dust of his native Memphis' streets from his pants cuffs when he began to make a name for himself in Chicago Blues. Soon after the pugnacious 12-year-old moved north [...]