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: 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 …
In this column: hard rock (Bukka White), nine-string guitar (Big Joe Williams), kalamazoo Model KG-14 (Robert Johnson), resonader guitar, 1930s Stella parlour guitar The 1933 National Duolin resonator guitar "Hard Rock" of Booker T Washington "Bukka" White. Bukka used used this guitar as his main gigging and touring guitar for three decades. He was a founding …
In this column: Symbolic meaning of animals in blues lyrics, pig in a sack, cow and milk, bee's, low down dog, salty dog, Salty Dog Blues, Salty Dog (Bluegrass), Roosevelt Sykes, Sara Martin, Ida Cox, Memphis Minnie, Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, Mississippi John Hurt, T-Bone Walker, Denver Pyle and Andy Griffith, PART1 The images …
