Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Curtis Williamson) was originally a Chicago pioneer of the blues harp, but a pretender born Aleck Ford stole his identity and tried to pass himself off as the ...

Few blues songs have been as frequently covered ... both records featured the original Sonny Boy Williamson No. 1 on harmonica. The 1947 version had Ransom Knowling on bass and Judge Riley on ...

John Lee Hooker was a blues hero to the young Stones and ... “Dust My Broom,” which was recorded with Sonny Boy Williamson II on harmonica. For their first gig, at the Marquee Jazz Club ...

Tomcat Courtney, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Hound Dog Taylor, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, T-Bone Walker, Otis Rush, The Paladins, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), John Lee Hooker ...

Eventually, about 5,000 other Blues Brothers ... didn’t know that John, before Second City, was fronting a band, playing drums and singing, and Dan was really playing harmonica.

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In a performance just shy of three and a half-minutes, Junior Wells fully demonstrates why he's held in such high regard as a progenitor of blues music at ...

The new road between Warkworth and Pūhoi is not a toll road Photo / NZME Inevitably the question comes up when we are halfway down the road: “Have you paid the toll?”. We don’t go often ...

and harmonica whiz Walbank. She also was behind the pair’s 2010 trip to Memphis. The blues foundation back then hosted a battle of the bands contest and Flattley, who has been involved in the ...

John Lennon’s “Yer Blues,” which the Beatles featured on their 1968 eponymous “White Album,” was meant to directly parody the blues’ surge in popularity in England around that time.