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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown playing guitar on stage in Norway (1981) Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown in 1940s Duke-Peacock Records publicity photo Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 – September 10, 2005) was an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana. [1]
St. Louis blues [29] Reverend Gary Davis: 1896 1972 South Carolina Piedmont blues [30] Walter Davis: 1911* 1963 Mississippi St. Louis blues [31] Tom Delaney: 1889 1963 South Carolina Urban blues [32] Georgia Tom Dorsey: 1899 1993 Georgia Urban blues [33] Little Buddy Doyle: 1911* 1960* Tennessee Memphis blues [34] Bernice Edwards: 1907 1969 ...
Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix. [1]
John Lee Curtis "Sonny Boy" Williamson (March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948) was an American blues harmonica player and singer-songwriter. [1] He is often regarded as the pioneer of the blues harp as a solo instrument. He played on hundreds of recordings by many pre–World War II blues artists.
His sound has been described as "hard-driving Windy City blues, soul-tinged balladry, acoustic country blues and gospel uplift….good natured fretboard fireworks." [ 4 ] When he left the South for Chicago in 1950, he worked as a dishwasher while living with an uncle, through whom he met many of Chicago's blues masters, including Otis Rush (who ...
Norton Buffalo (far right, in the blue-green shirt) on his last tour with the Steve Miller Band during the summer of 2009. Phillip Jackson (September 28, 1951 [1] – October 30, 2009), [2] best known as Norton Buffalo, was an American singer-songwriter, country and blues harmonica player, record producer, bandleader and recording artist who was a versatile proponent of the harmonica ...
James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) [1] was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many fellow blues artists and with his own band. He also played drums early in his career. Cotton began his professional career playing the blues harp in Howlin' Wolf's band in the early 1950s. [3]
Rick Estrin, a leading professional player as well, was quoted in Blues Revue (2002) as saying, "He can get so much sound out of that harp — such a beautiful, just enormous, fat, rich tone." [citation needed] In 2004, Portnoy appeared on the album, Me and Mr. Johnson, with Eric Clapton. He currently has available an online harmonica playing ...