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He released albums for many labels, including Bullseye Blues, Duke Records, and many others. [31] Chris Duarte – (born February 16, 1963) Born in San Antonio, Texas, Duarte is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, in 2010. Johnson's first recording session took place on Monday, November 23, 1936, in San Antonio, Texas. [2] A makeshift studio had been set up in the Gunter Hotel, where the recording equipment was located in one room and a second, Room 414, was where the musicians performed. [3]
Duarte was inspired by blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, [4] and credits John Coltrane as his number-one musical idol. [ 4 ] Duarte won a label recording contract with Silvertone Records and released Texas Sugar/Strat Magik in 1994, [ 3 ] and was named "Best New Talent" in Guitar Player ' s 1995 Reader's Poll.
The state's R&B recording industry was based in Houston with labels such as Duke/Peacock, which in the 1950s provided a base for artists who would later pursue the electric Texas blues sound, including Johnny Copeland and Albert Collins. [1] Freddie King, a major influence on electric blues, was born in Texas, but moved to Chicago as a teenager ...
The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA)...formed in 1921."
“The Blues Society,” a documentary that unpacks the Memphis Country Blues Festival, will be released on video on demand in July. The film, which is narrated by actor Eric Roberts ...
In the days before the first Memphis Country Blues Society festival in July 1966, some 400 members of the KKK marched at Overton Park, even burning a cross at the parking lot. That didn’t stop ...
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.