Sonny Boy Williamson

A flipar con Sonny Boy Williamson II

Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Your Funeral and my trial

Happy 65th Birthday, Robbie Robertson (Just Another Willy Loman)

Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008

Somewhere By The Crazy RiverThe Weight from the Last Waltz with the Staple Singers

Sonny Boy Williamson & The Animals - Bo Diddley

Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

in post click to read post from Moistworks .

JSP BOX SET: The Original SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON (4CDs)

BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008

Sonny Boy Williamson - Bring It On Home

Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008

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DARRELL NULISCH: Goin' Back To Dallas (2007) Severn Records

BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008

Darrell Nulisch goes back to his roots with his new release "Goin' Back to Dallas." In addition to performing some of his favorites by Freddie King, Sonny Boy Williamson and Jimmy Reed, Darrell and songwriting partner Steve Gomes team up for four new originals. I’ve wanted to make a straight-out blues CD for a long time. After touring Europe last spring as a quartet we decided now was the time. I came...

Happy Birthday Big Foot!

Joe Pastry (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008

Today marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of legendary blues man Howlin' Wolf, one of the great exponents (along with Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson) of the electrified Chicago blues sound. One of the most commercially and financially successful blues musicians of his day, Howlin' Wolf was a giant of the 50's blues scene, both artistically and physically (the man measured...

Blue heaven: music mogul Marshall Chess

The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008

With beatific bemusement, Marshall Chess says that he never set out to be a music legend: "It's amazing. Chess Records, then The Rolling Stones, then the birth of hip-hop... I didn't go after one of those things. They just happened."

downchild blues band - gone fishing

nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008

Downchild was spawned out of Toronto blues jams at Grossman's Tavern fronted by Donnie Walsh back in 1969. With sidemen - Woodward, Wall, Milne, and brother Rick Walsh - Donnie Walsh chose Sonny Boy Williamson's song 'Downchild Blues' to christen the act. Classically trained pianist Jane Vasey joined the band in 1973 at the time their most memorable tune "Flip, Flop, And Fly" was becoming a hit. The...

Johnny Winter

Live on 35mm - by Valerio Berdini (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008

Is it a privilege to photograph Johnny Winter? I must be frank I am not sure any longer. A famous Italian song translate somehow as “…All heroes are young and beautiful…”. Unconsciously I must have believed it. I am a blues fan. I was looking forward to this; approaching Johnny Winter is not only the closest I could [...]

Sonny Boy Williamson - Got the Bottle up and Gone

Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008

in post The Ten Worst Cover Songs I Have Ever Heard from Communications Major, English Minor .

'Honeyboy' Edwards, Delta bluesman, outlasts them all

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

With his 93rd birthday a month away, David "Honeyboy" Edwards admits it's getting hard to walk long distances.

She'll be Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight

ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008

A follow up to Doc's Sonny Boy Williamson post. Audio. If it doesn't open, click off the play in rhapsody only and reload.

Would You Play Blues Guitar In Street Corners for Dimes?

ArticlePower.org (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008

In his youth he played on street corners for dimes and pennies! He was born on 16 September, 1925 on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola. He spent his youth playing on street corners for dimes. Today B.B. King (Riley B. King) averages 250 'packed to the rafters' concerts around the world each and every year.

• BB King The Blues Legend Played On Street Corners - articlemarketer.org

SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON: Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Vol. 4 (4 April 1941 to 2 July 1945)

BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008

In a brief life of thirty four years John Lee Williamson achieved immortality as the first of the three of four musicians who developed an instrument often described as 'semi-legitimate' into a major voice in the blues. His popularity and influence were immense and survive until today. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on the 30th March, 1914 to Ray Williamson and Nancy Utley but left home early....