Guess whose father-in-law was the original King of the Blues Guitar?
Updated July 28 2019.
Updated July 28 2019.
The DEF of the America’s Gift Index. Anyone here you know? Daddy Stovepipe first recorded in 1924 aged 60. He’s in AMERICA’S Gift Here’s more of the AMERICA’S Gift index. THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW BLUES EVOLVED. OUT NOW! D starts with Daddy Stovepipe, possibly the earliest blues performer ever known? Born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1867, Daddy entered…
“I’m in the, ‘I can’t get my fingers to do that f——- F major chord’ phase.” DJ Bob (@zczbob) October 24, 2013. One of many Heineken posters. When I worked in advertising agencies, we used to refer to market research groups as ‘the ideas abattoir’, our reasoning being that good off-the-wall creative ideas nearly always…
Sorry to impose a plug for my new book on you here, folks, but it’s finally available on the Amazon links below and I can’t contain my excitement. Getting all those old blues photographs and illustrations, many of them quite rare, into Kindle format, has been like trying to stuff an elephant into a mouse…
BLUESMUSE24 In 1928, the former Ma Rainey and Butterbeans and Susie accompanist, Clarence ‘Pinetop’ Smith, recorded his renowned boogie piano track, Pinetop’s ‘Boogie Woogie’. A 24-year old Alabama comedian and piano player, Pinetop enjoyed one of the first-ever boogie hits with this number, which was hugely responsible for popularising the style we now know as…
Dive straight into the new 12-minute film below. Hit on Freddie King. Four Kings Albert King, B. B. King, Freddie King and who else? Hear some fantastic electric blues guitar and meet the fourth and original King of the blues guitar. They’re all on a podcast I did a year or two ago for Code Zero Radio in the U.S….
UPDATED April 12th 2017 The A, B and C of the AMERICA’S Gift book index. Talk about a revolution. American music’s evolution into blues and rock & roll. Just in case you think America’s Gift is a stodgy old history book, it’s been described as a lightening read. America’s Gift is also a BIG read: 11′…