In this column: nicknames, stage names, Papa Egg Shell, Hambone Eillie Newbern, Hogman Maxey, Steve Hickman, Scrapper Blackwell, Skip James, Son House, Hacksaw Harney, Rabbit Brown, Roosevelt "Grey Ghost" Williams, Jake Edwards, Louisiana Red, Peetie Wheatstraw, Shakey Jake, Harry Oster, Angola State Penitentiary, Studs Terkel, Gene Rosenthal, Adelphi studios In this episode names with a …
In this column: nicknames, stage names, Mickey Guitar Baker, Guitar Shorty, Guitar Slim, Earl King, Eddie "Guitar" Burns, John Lee Hooker, BJ Hegen Blues Band, Guitar Nubbit, Matt Guitar Murphy, Memphis Slim, The Blues Brothers, Washboard Sam, Harmonica Shah, Howard Glazer Stage names based on the instrument. MacHouston "Mickey Guitar Baker" Baker was an American …
In this column: nicknames, stage names, Memphis Minnie, Little Son Joe, Memphis, Mickey Baker, Mississippi John Hurt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Texas Alexander, Little Hat Jones, Georgia Tom Dorsey, Kansas City Red, Carolina Slim, Tallahassee Tight, Spark Plug Smith, Honeyboy Edwards, Robert Johnson, Dick Spottswood, Tom Hoskins, Alan Lomax, Shirley Collins, Christian Garrison Stage names with …
In this column: nicknames, stage names, phonetic spellings, Cat Iron Carradine, T-Bone Walker, Oak Cliff T-Bone, Bukka White, Booker T. Jones, The MG's, Lead Belly, Jaybird Coleman, The Birmingham Jug Band, Bo Weavil Jackson, Magic Sam, John Avery Lomax, Wah Ming Chang, Frederic Ramsey, Music from the South, Horace Sprott Nicknames that are created …
In this column: nicknames, stage names, lightnin', smokey, smoking, magic, mighty, Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, Lightnin' Hopkins, Smokey Robinson, The Miracles, Smokin' Joe Kubek, Bnois King, Smokin' Joe Bonamassa, Smokey Hogg, Magic Sam, Magic Slim, The Teardrops, Mighty Joe Young This episode tells the stories of the blues musicians, who chose or received an exciting …
In this column: nicknames, stage names, the bigs, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Joe Williams, Big Joe Turner, Big Boy Cudrup, Big Walter Hornton, Big Moose Walker, big-tall-slim, Long John Hunter, Hollywood Fats, Birdlegg Pitmann, Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim In the third episode I tell stories about “The Bigs”; big, tall and slim. William Lee Conley …
In this column: nicknames, stage names, the "Littles", Little Milton, Little Walter, Lil' Son Jackson, Little Brother Montgomery, Little Smokey Smothers, Little Hat Jones, Little Hatch, John Littlejohn, Aron Burton, Chris Strachwitz In the third episode I tell stories about “The Littles”. James "Little Milton" Campbell Jr. At the age of 12 he was already …
In this column: nicknames, stage names, Blind Teddy Darby, Blind Roosevelt Graves, Uaroy Graves, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Blake, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Willie Johnson, Sleepy John Estes, Charlie Specks McFadden In the first episode of "Nicknames and Stage Names" a start was made on …
In this column: nicknames, stage names, Chicago Bob Nelson, Howlin' Wolf, Mance Lipscomb, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Speckled Red, Pine Top Smith, Pine Top Sparks, Pine Top Perkins, Lindberg Sparks, Tampa Red, Homesick James, Big Bill Broonzy It's an interesting topic to figure out why blues musicians have adopted or been given different names over …
In this column: medicine shows, Leo Kahdot, Chief Thundercloud, Arthur “Peg Leg Sam” Jackson, Pink Anderson, Jim Jackson, Gus Cannon, Washaw Indian Medicine Show, Marshal Wyatt (Good for what ails you), Pete Lowry, My Money Never Runs Out, He’s In The Jailhouse Now, Delia’s Song, Nassau String Band, Johnny Cash Amongst the early outlets for …
In this column: The history and importance of Route 66, cities, the route, landscape, the highway in photos, dust bowl, Will Rogers Highway, Bobby Troup, Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry, Rolling Stones,
In this column: Kokomo, Kokomo Blues, Sweet Home Chicago, Madlyn Davis, James "Kokomo" Arnold, Francis "Scrapper" Blackwell, Freddie Spruell, Robert Johnson, Eleven Light City, speakeasy, Big `Boy Knox, Elwood Haynes, The Pioneer Freddie Spruell - Mr. Freddie's Kokomo Blues (1926) Now, these women 'round Chicago screamin', holl'in' 'bout the times so hard And the women …
In this column: Gospel, Blues, Denomination Blues, Getting the blues, Washington Phillips, Rosetta Tharpe, Ry Cooder, Big Bill Broonzy, Hans Theessink and Wilson Blount The blues were generated in the cotton fields, on the levees, or on the front porch of a people who has born unspeakable burdens of privation and destitution. Yet the …
In this column: Amen Corner, Gin House Blues, Alabama March, Lion's den, God locked their jaw, Swing low sweet chariot, Papa Charlie Jackson, J.B.Lenoir (photo), Levester "Big Lucky" Carter, Wallace Willis, Amen Corner (band), Cuby and The Blizzards, Nina Simone. ... There’s a preacher in the pulpit, Bible in his hand And the sister’s …
In this column: Judgement day, Twelve gates to the city (three in the east, three west, three south and three south), When the saints go marching in, Beulah Land, Outshine the sun, Hand writing on the wall, Snooky Pryor, Blind Boy Fuller, Barbecue Bob, Mavis Staples ... What you gonna do on judgement day The …
