BLUESMUSE18 Johann Graupner The world’s first public performance of African-American-influenced music most probably occurred at the Federal Street Theatre, Boston, in 1799, but not quite in the manner the time-worn myth or Wikipedia portrays. According to popular legend, one of the era’s leading classical musicians, the German oboist, Johann Christian Gottlieb Graupner, is said to…
BluesMuse17 Check out the Sister’s original 1944 recording below http://www.aintnothinbut.com/strange-things-happening-everyday-sister-rosetta-tharpe/ Sister Rosetta Tharpe Big Boy Crudup drops to number five in my ‘Earliest Rock & Roll Releases’ list (below) because America’s original soul sister has taken his spot. Sister Rosetta Tharpe recorded the rocking, ‘Strange Things Happen Every Day’, with Decca’s house band in New…
OBITUARY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cbkxn4G8U … … It’s rare for an Australian Aborigine to hit the music charts, even in Australia. Such a rare individual was Yunupingu*, the front man of rock band, Yothu Yindi, who died this week of kidney disease in Australia’s remote Arnhem Land, aged 56. Yothu Yindi became huge in Australia and gained worldwide…
“I have visited your blog every day. I’ve got a lot of benefits and increased my knowledge.” John García (@JohnGarciiia. July 2, 2013. UPDATED: October 5, 2021. BluesMuse 16. A young T-Bone, in his prime Just to show that Chicago wasn’t the only place people were producing breakthrough electric blues in the early 1940s, in…
Updated 13 March 2019 BluesMuse15 As America wound down after World War Two, white Chicago blues pioneer, Lester Melrose, still hadn’t finished tinkering with the development of the blues (see BluesMuse8). Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup He didn’t know it then, but Lester was busy helping create rock & roll. Albert Ammons, also from Chicago, had…
