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His mother played piano and his father, a doctor, played clarinet. He grew up surrounded by classical music. [1] In fourth grade, Bartley began to study clarinet, and in 1963 began playing the acoustic guitar. [1] [2] In 1967, he moved to Boston to attend Boston University. He has also lived in Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, New Hampshire and ...
Accolades included a Blues Music Award nomination for "Best Acoustic Blues Album". Davis has been nominated for ten such awards over the years including for "Best Traditional Blues Album", "Best Blues Song" ("Waiting On the Cards to Fall") and as "Best Acoustic Blues Artist" two times.
Acoustic blues* [365] Ted Hawkins: 1936 1995 Mississippi Acoustic blues [375] Big Boy Henry: 1921 2004 North Carolina Electric blues* [376] George Higgs: 1930 2013 North Carolina Electric blues* [377] Fruteland Jackson: 1953 Mississippi Electric blues* [377] Colin James: 1964 Canada Electric blues [378] Steve James: 1950 New York Acoustic blues ...
Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. (born May 17, 1942), better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, [1] often incorporating elements of world music into his work.
Ernie Hawkins (born Ernest Leroy Hawkins, 1947, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American acoustic blues guitar player, singer, songwriter, recording artist, and educator. Hawkins, along with fellow bluesmen Stefan Grossman and Roy Bookbinder , studied with blues legend Reverend Gary Davis [ 1 ] in New York City in 1965 and 1966.
Slide guitarists are musicians who are well-known for playing guitar with a "slide", a smooth, hard object, held in the fretting hand and placed against the strings to control the pitch. [1] Beginning with guitarists in the American South and Hawaii in early 20th century, [ 2 ] slide guitar styles have developed in a variety of musical settings ...
Katz won a Blues Music "Acoustic Album of the Year" for the trio record he collaborated on with Joe Louis Walker and Giles Robson, "Journeys to the Heart of the Blues". He released his first solo piano album titled Solo Ride on American Showplace Music in 2019. This all-instrumental album featured eleven original compositions and was a purely ...
Catfish Keith (born February 9, 1962) [1] is an American acoustic blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as an exponent of the resonator guitar. He has released several solo albums, including 2001's A Fist Full of Riffs. [3] The Guardian described him as "a solo revelation" who was "breaking new ground for blues. [2]