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Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women
Who can resist a three-piece acoustic band that pens, performs and records
numbers such as "Bitch With a Bad Attitude" and regularly storms the halycon
fields of male-dominated blues? Sample their Real Audio wares and believe.
Shame Shame dallas, texas
Shame Shame has played around the state, including San Antonio at the late Billy Blue's
(Rest In Peace). Visit their web site for info on their CD, I Can't Help It Because I
Got the Blues.
Mem Shannon new orleans, louisiana
Award-winning guitar master Shannon plays and sings his own style of hot, funk blues in a
manner that will permeate every molecule. Get a copy of his all original CD and believe.
Click here for a March 1999
interview with Mai Cramer of Real Blues.
Big Walter Smith minneapolis, minnesota | born in oklahoma
Sonny Boy Lee considers Big Walter Smith to be his mentor. Based out of Philadelphia,
they played together in various blues bands, performing all over the Midwest and Eastern
United States off and on from 1965 to 1985. Lee calls Smith "a blues vocalist in
the tradition of Bobby Blue Bland, Little and the late Big Twist." Now in his 60s,
Smith has been honored with numerous awards and a Living Blues feature article. He
currently performs in Minneapolis and the upper Midwest with his nine-piece band, The
Groove Merchants.
Sonny Boy Lee
san antonio, tx via minneapolis,
minnesota and points north, west and east
Sonny learned his blues licks as a young man in Chicago, all the while keeping in mind Muddy Water's advice. It took.
Victoria Spivey blues heaven | born in houston
Spivey began her career
singing and playing piano in Houston saloons and whorehouses. She recorded in the '30s on
the Victor, Vocalion, Decca and Okey labels, and formed her own record company, Spivey
Records, in the 1960s. She performed until she died in 1976.
Jim Suhler and the Monkey Beat dallas,
texas
Blues and
blues based rock from a seasoned performer once called a "criminally
underrated guitarist."
