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Tommy Castro (born April 15, 1955) is an American blues, R&B, and rock guitarist and singer. He has been recording since the mid-1990s. His music has taken him from local stages to national and international touring.
Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town, Tommy Castro: B. B. King Entertainer of the Year: Tommy Castro: Band of the Year: Tommy Castro & The Painkillers Best Emerging Artist Album: Live On Beale Street: A Tribute To Bobby "Blue" Bland, Rodd Bland and the Members Only Band Contemporary Blues Album of the Year: 662, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
Michael Burks (July 30, 1957 – May 6, 2012) was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his tracks, "Everybody's Got Their Hand Out", "I Smell Smoke" and "Hard Come, Easy Go", and variously worked with Johnnie Taylor, O. V. Wright, and Marquise Knox.
A legendary Mississippi bluesman is to be celebrated in Jackson. See details of when and where. ... Born in Benton, Mississippi in 1944 and raised in Mileston near the Delta town of Tchula ...
Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi. [2] He learned to play music from his father, a guitarist and violinist. [3] At the age of 14, he left home to travel with the bluesman Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician, which he maintained through the 1930s and 1940s.
The blues came from me simply being a product of my surroundings. Clarksdale is a historical blues city. I lived right next to a blues band when I was little, a blues band full of local legends.
They’d seen another way of living and came home wanting the same freedom they’d fought to give the British and the French. “We return from fighting,” W.E.B. Du Bois said. “We return ...
Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, [4] to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children.