Johnny Winter starts out playing a traditional delta blues number mixing in some Robert Johnson for good measure before launching into a dazzling guitar solo. Johnny Winter (guitar & vocals) performs the delta blues classic “Mississippi Blues” with the unmistakable influence and borrowed verse of … Continue reading
John Lee Hooker was born in Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper, and rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He … Continue reading
Often considered just a blues pianist Little Brother Montgomery played barrelhouse boogie, orchestrated jazz, and everything in between. Caught between Jazz & the Blues. He couldn’t read music relying instead on an impeccable memory and ear. The legend himself is featured performing piano and vocal … Continue reading
J. B. At Home. His name is J. B. Lenoir In footage captured by husband and wife Swedish blues enthusiasts the Seaberg’s, J. B. Lenoir introduces himself in song from the living room of his Chicago home in 1965, accompanied by Steve Seaberg on … Continue reading
Otis Rush is back with a mid-60s concert performance of his first hit I Can’t Quit You Baby. Following an introduction to the audience courtesy of Roosevelt Sykes, Otis breaks out with a stunning vocal at the start. Since he recorded it in 1956 this song, written … Continue reading
Hendrix performs the blues masterpiece “Red House” at a 1969 gig in Stockholm, Sweden. Astonishingly, Hendrix did not pick up a guitar until he was 15 years old. That means his life on the guitar from first note to its end was … Continue reading
Jimi and Buddy play together! James Marshall Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington. Jimi, whose parents refused to buy him a guitar, found a one-stringed ukulele in the trash and studiously learned to play songs by ear. His career took off … Continue reading
From the confines of his own living room at his home in Chicago at the intersection of Dante and 41st Street for Steve and Ronnog Seaburg in 1965, J. B. Lenoir conjures up the roll of thunder and a spark … Continue reading
November 16th, 1968 : Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland #1 The Jimi Hendrix Experience went to No.1 on the US album chart with Electric Ladyland. The double album included Crosstown Traffic, Voodoo Chile and All Along the Watchtower and featured guest … Continue reading
It’s not as if Albert King hadn’t tasted success in his first decade and a half as a performer, but his late-’60s/early-’70s recordings for Stax did win him a substantially larger audience. Though 1972’s I’ll Play the Blues For You followed … Continue reading