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List of 1940–1979 blues musicians, showing name, birth and death years, origin, primary style, and references; Name Birth year Death year Origin Primary style Ref(s) The Aces: Illinois Chicago blues [130] Woodrow Adams: 1917 1988 Mississippi Electric blues [131] Luther Allison: 1939 1997 Arkansas Chicago blues [132] Mose Allison: 1927 2016 ...
Bobby Rush (born Emmett Ellis Jr. in Homer, Louisiana on November 10, 1933) is an American blues musician, composer, and singer. [1] His style incorporates elements of blues, rap, and funk, as well as a comic sense about blues tropes. Rush has won twelve Blues Music Awards and in 2017, at the age of 83, he won his first Grammy Award for the ...
1910s–1930s, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Sheet music for "The Memphis Blues". The Memphis blues is a style of blues music created from the 1910s to the 1930s by musicians in the Memphis area, such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis and Memphis Minnie. The style was popular in vaudeville and medicine shows and was associated with ...
A trumpet player and composer, W.C. Handy — who titled his 1941 autobiography "Father of the Blues" — was born in Florence, Alabama, but became famous after relocating to Memphis in 1909 and ...
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Although his recording career spanned only seven months, he is recognized as a ...
The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Initially, the "Blues Hall of Fame" was not a physical building, but a listing of people who have significantly contributed to blues music. Started in 1980, it honors people who have performed, recorded, or documented blues.
The opening two lines of Dickson's self penned song, "Little Rock Blues" were "I started to heaven, but I changed my mind / But I'm going to Little Rock, where I can have a better time". Open to interpretation, Dickson nevertheless indicates that a journey to presumably Little Rock, Arkansas , is a better option than piety, or even suicide. [ 9 ]
Blue Note. Website. www.al-green.com. Albert Leornes Greene (born April 13, 1946), known professionally as Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter, pastor and record producer, best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including "Take Me to the River", "Tired of Being Alone", "I'm Still in Love with You ...