Tag: The Blues

• Blues singer’s violent life and lasting legacy

  

  Blues singer Lead Belly was an early 1900s chain gang convict whose music and songs was a huge influence on The Beatles and many other bands.

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  December 5, 2021

  FAMOUS MUSICIANS

  ‘Pick a Bale of Cotton’, Folk Music, George Harrison, Huddie Ledbetter, John and Alan Lomax, Lead Belly, Martha Promise Ledbetter, The Beatles, The Blues

• Hobo makes good

  

  Sam Lightnin’ Hopkins, country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist, died on this day, January 30, 1982 at the age of 69. He was a ‘ferocious electric stylist during the sixties folk-blues revival.”

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  January 29, 2020

  BLUES MUSICIANS

  Blind Lemon Jefferson, Centerville Texas, Robert “Mack” McCormick, Rolling Stone magazine, Sam “Lightnin’ Hopkins, The Blues