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…
Artist Profiles: Phil Wiggins
Tag: blues
Sake of the Sound
Front Country – Sake of the Sound (Front Country, 2014) Front Country is an excellent San Francisco Americana band inspired by bluegrass, old time, blues,…
Artist Profiles: Little Hatch
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…
Artist Profiles: John Cephas
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…
Artist Profiles: Joe Louis Walker
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,…
Artist Profiles: Jimmy Johnson
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…
Artist Profiles: Jerry 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…
Artist profiles: Howard Levy
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…
Artist profiles: Henry Butler
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…
Artist profiles: Hazmat 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…