Luther Allison was born on this day in 1939 and he passed away on August 12 in 1997. He was an blues guitarist who was born in Widener, Arkansas and moved with his family, at age twelve, to Chicago, Illinois in 1951. He taught himself guitar while still a kid down in Arkansas where he first heard the blues. Many years later he began hanging outside blues clubs with the hopes of being invited to...
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Samuel Johnson is credited with having said, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." It had been my intentions to write something about the capabilities of the new Apple iPhone. I think that the blues and high tech can mix well. One thing that will help to keep blues music alive is showing young people how cool it is to use their new shiny gadgets to enjoy good old music like the blue...
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According the the Blues Name Calculator, my blues name is Curly Lemon Hopkins.Glad they squeezed that Lemon in there!Click on the link above to get your blues name
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Boogie-Woogie is also one of my favorite forms of the blues. According to Wikipedia;Boogie-woogie is a style of piano-based blues that became very popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but originated much earlier, and was extended from piano, to three pianos at once, guitar, big band, and country and western music, and even gospel. Whilst the blues traditionally depicts sadness and sorrow,...
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