2023年9月13日 · Singer and legendary blues guitarist McKinley Morganfield was born in 1915 in Issaquena, Mississippi.. By the early 1940s, he was a semi-successful traveling musician. He made his way north to Chicago in 1943. That year he was gifted his first electric guitar.

Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. [2] In the last several decades, blues music has developed a less regional character and has been influenced by rhythm and ...

2022年7月17日 · The legendary blues singer started touring in 1937 but unfortunately passed the year after at 27 years old. King of the Delta Blues Singers, a compilation album of his works, was released in 1961 and became a highly influential LP.

Taylor’s contributions to the blues genre and her influence on future generations of female blues singers have left an indelible mark on the music world. #13 Son House. Son House, born Eddie James House Jr. in 1902, was an American blues singer and guitarist, known for his deep, emotional voice and his raw, powerful slide guitar playing.

2016年3月25日 · Singer/guitarist Tony McPhee was a blues obsessed kid who formed 1960s band The Groundhogs. Named after John Lee Hooker’s Ground Hog Blues, McPhee and his cohorts backed The Boogie Man on his 1964 UK tour before providing the same service for harp legend Little Walter, Jimmy Reed and Champion Jack Dupree when they visited the UK.

2016年3月25日 · Marriott’s greatest post-Small Faces vocal occurs on the old Ike And Tina Turner cut Black Coffee, on Humble Pie’s ’73 album Eat It. The studio version is great but you should eyeball his performance on the BBC TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test on YouTube. ... As Eric Clapton once said, Robert Johnson was the “most important blues ...

2025年1月16日 · These best blues singers are known for their great voices and music that will stand the test of time, and for spearheading legendary tracks with their good blues bands. Note that this ranking is for blues artists only - no best blues rock bands here. Many of the greatest blues-men, old blues singers, and female blues artists are sadly no longer ...

2013年8月20日 · B.B. remains one of history’s most well-known blues artists. He’s managed to live into old age, avoiding the early deaths that claimed so many musicians and blues artists. King was born on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi in 1925. In 1947 he hitched a ride to Memphis, Tennessee, chasing his music dreams.

2023年3月19日 · Dubbed the “Empress of the Blues”, Bessie Smith was an African-American blues singer widely known during the Jazz Age and the most popular female of blues of the 1930s. She is known as a significant influence on fellow blues singers and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. 10. Albert King

Her swagger, style and strong, passionate voice epitomized what the early vaudeville style blues was all about. Most women blues singers point to Bessie as the one who set the standard. Tommy Johnson (1896 - 1956) Along with Charley Patton and Son House, Tommy Johnson was one of the pioneering Delta blues artists.