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By the time that Atlanta's noted blues club, Blind Willie's, opened in 1986, Johnson was a solo act. By jamming with other local musicians, they became a group known as the Houserockers, and Johnson played with a varied line-up under that name for several years. [ 4 ]
Sandra L. Hall (born September 5, 1951) [3] is an American blues and soul blues singer and songwriter. She has been billed as Atlanta's "Empress of the Blues" [1] Hall is an Honorary Member of the Atlanta Blues Society. [4] To date she has released five albums, including three on Ichiban Records. [5]
A billiards bar and concert venue in Statesboro, Georgia, was named Blind Willie's in the 1990s. The venue is now closed but remains a fond memory for Georgia Southern University students at the time. [18] Another Blind Willie's bar in the Virginia-Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta named after McTell that features blues musicians and bands. [19]
Atlanta blues refers to the local blues scene in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, which had its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s.According to AllMusic,"The Atlanta blues scene of the 1920s was among the most fertile in all the South, with a steady stream of rural musicians converging on the city hoping to gain exposure playing the local club circuit, with any luck rising to perform at Decatur ...
Though not a blues capital like Memphis or New Orleans, Atlanta has been home to a blues scene and a number of notable bluesmen including Buddy Moss, Curley Weaver, Barbecue Bob and Blind Willie McTell. In the blues bar named after McTell, Blind Willie's, and several others, blues musicians such as Francine Reed, Delta Moon, [12] and Sandra ...
The Soul of a Man is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Wim Wenders, as the second instalment of the documentary film series The Blues, produced by Martin Scorsese.The film explores the musical careers of blues musicians Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir.
Blind Willie Johnson was born on January 25, 1897, in Pendleton, Texas, a small town near Temple, Texas, to sharecropper Dock Johnson and Mary King. [2] His family, which according to the blues historian Stephen Calt included at least one younger brother (named Carl), moved to the agriculturally rich community of Marlin, where Johnson spent most of his childhood.
Kate McTell (born Ruthy Kate Williams; August 22, 1911 – October 3, 1991) [1] [2] [3] was an American blues musician and nurse from Jefferson County, Georgia.She is known primarily as the former wife of the blues musician Blind Willie McTell, whom she accompanied vocally on several recordings.