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Artist Profiles

Artist Profiles: Phil Wiggins

Angel Romero November 5, 2017 No Comments bluesCephas and WigginsharmonicaPhil WigginsUnited States of America

Phil Wiggins was born in Washington D.C. in 1954. He began his musical career with some of Washington’s leading blues artists, including Archie Edwards and…

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Sake of the Sound

Angel Romero July 18, 2017 No Comments Bluegrassbluescountry musicFront Countryold time

Front Country – Sake of the Sound (Front Country, 2014) Front Country is an excellent San Francisco Americana band inspired by bluegrass, old time, blues,…

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Artist Profiles: Little Hatch

Angel Romero July 8, 2017 No Comments bluesharmonicaLittle HatchUnited States of America

Little Hatch likely was the best harmonica player ever to make Kansas City home. He died on January 14, 2003 at 81 years-old. Little Hatch…

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Artist Profiles: John Cephas

Angel Romero June 29, 2017 No Comments bluesCephas and WigginsJohn CephasPiedmont bluesUnited States of America

John Cephas was born in Washington D.C. in 1930 into a deeply religious family and raised in Bowling Green, Virginia. His first taste of music…

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Artist Profiles: Joe Louis Walker

Angel Romero June 29, 2017 No Comments bluesJoe Louis WalkerUnited States of America

Guitarist and vocalist Louis Joseph Walker Jr., beter known as Joe Louis Walker, was born December 25, 1949, in San Francisco, California. For many years,…

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Artist Profiles: Jimmy Johnson

Angel Romero June 26, 2017 No Comments bluesJimmy JohnsonUnited States of America

Guitar player and vocalist Jimmy Johnson has carved out a distinctive niche in the Chicago blues scene. James Earl Thompson was born November 25, 1928…

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Artist Profiles: Jerry Douglas

Angel Romero June 25, 2017 No Comments Bluegrassbluescountry musicdobroJerry Douglas

In addition to being widely acknowledged as the United States’ finest dobro players Jerry Douglas is a freewheeling recording artist whose output draws upon a…

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Artist profiles: Howard Levy

Angel Romero June 22, 2017 No Comments bluesharmonicaHoward LevyJazzUnited States of Americaworld music

Multi-instrumentalist Howard Levy has appeared throughout the Americas, Europe and Japan in a variety of jazz, Latin, folk, blues, pop and world music settings. A…

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Artist profiles: Henry Butler

Angel Romero June 21, 2017 No Comments bluesHenry ButlerNew OrleansUnited States of America

New Orleans pianist and vocalist Henry Butler is a virtuoso jazz, blues and r&b pianist, a schooled vocalist naturally imbued with gospel credibility a fierce…

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Artist profiles: Hazmat Modine

Angel Romero June 21, 2017 No Comments Balkan musicbluesGypsyHazmat Modine

Hazmat Modine is a band of unconventional musical instruments and cultural combinations that reflect the origins of the American musical soul. Their debut CD was…

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