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Jeff
Taylor los angeles, california
Taylor released Back Home Someday, a collection of
all-original contemporary blues for the discerning bluesophile, on his own indie labe.
Read Sonny Boy Lee's review here.
Great stuff!
Sonny Boy Terry houston, texas
Click on some song samples from Houston harpmaster
Sonny Boy Terry's CD, Breakfast Dance, and you'll be a convert. How could a guy named
Sonny Boy go wrong?
Big Mama
Thornton blues heaven
Blues singer and songwriter Willie Mae Thornton was born in Montgomery, Alabama, but is
known to have had a profound effect on Texas music. She is most famous for recording
"Hound Dog," for which she got a total of $500, and "Ball and Chain."
A couple of other folks did pretty well by these songs later, recording them as covers.
Big Mama bitterly lamented in the twilight of her life that "Hound Dog" was her
song, and not that guy with the pelvis. Ain't nothin' but the blues.
Karen Tyler paso robles, california via austin, texas
In the magazine Big Daddy BluzHarp,
Steve Harvel wrote: "Karen Tyler is, in my opinion, the best female vocalist that I
have ever heard in my 46 years of living."
