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Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (born January 19, 1999) is an American blues guitarist and singer from Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, who became a well-known performer as a teenager. His debut album, Kingfish , was released in May 2019. [ 3 ]
[3] The Washington Post said, "Jarekus Singleton is an exciting new young blues guitarist with melody, hooks, swagger and a strong, original voice. His lyrics are modern, personal, acutely poetic and deeply mature." [4] USA Today said of Singleton, "Stinging blues guitar and potent, original songs herald the emergence of a major new talent." [5]
Carl Weathersby (1953–2024) – blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ; Boogie Bill Webb (1924–1990) – blues guitarist and singer ; Bukka White (1909–1977) – Delta blues guitarist and singer ; Carson Whitsett (1945–2007) – keyboardist, arranger, and songwriter
Acoustic and electric guitarist and singer of North Mississippi hill country blues, Delta blues and juke joint blues. [27] Little Freddie King (born July 19, 1940, McComb, Mississippi). Guitarist. [28] He appears in the 2015 documentary film I Am the Blues. [29] King Solomon Hill (1897, McComb, Mississippi – 1949, Sibley, Louisiana). Singer ...
This led him to record some tracks that year and again in 1961, with the resulting album, Clarksdale Blues: The Blues of Robert Curtis Smith, released in 1963. [1] [2] One of his songs, "Council Spur Blues", made direct references to the conditions on the plantation where he worked. [4] [5] In 1968, he left Mississippi again for Chicago, where ...
Johnny "Man" Young (January 1, 1917 – April 18, 1974) [1] was an American blues singer, mandolin player and guitarist, significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after the Second World War. He was one of the few mandolin players active in blues music in the postwar era.
His father was a blues musician who played guitar and accordion. When Henry was young, his family moved near Cairo, Illinois. [2] Henry left home at the age of nine because of his abusive father and hoboed his way to St. Louis, Missouri. [3] He learned guitar while in his early teens from a locally renowned blues guitarist known as Dudlow Joe. [4]
Edward James "Son" House Jr. (March 21, 1902 [a] – October 19, 1988) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing. After years of hostility to secular music , as a preacher and for a few years also working as a church pastor, he turned to blues performance at the ...