05 - Bukka White
(1909-1977)
At 14 starts to perform and all the 20 runs for the Mississippi playing and pulling on boxing.
His music was essential, yet rhythmically complex, played a simple acoustic delta blues with a determination that few knew emotional match.
also played the piano and told to have donated his guitar to BB King, his cousin, with whom the young King learned to play.
His first recording was in 1930 but then the economic crisis remains unchanged until the 37th, when he returned to record.
That same year he was arrested for affray and jailed for three years at Mississippi State Penintentiary also known as Parchman Farm (prison that we often find in the biographies of the first blues artists). Come back
writes his best songs sullla imprisonment and loneliness, as Parchman Farm Blues, Good Gin Blues Bukka's Jitterbug Swing, Fixin 'to Die Blues, later expanded the repertoire of classic delta blues.
In 1943 he retired from the screen to go to work as a laborer, but in 1962 recorded a cover of Bob Dylan Fixin 'to Die Blues thanks to which it is discovered and returned to play and affect until the end of 1975.
died of cancer in 1977.
06 - Blind Blake
(1893-1933)
motion is not known of his life and there are also doubts about his real name.
The first recordings date back to 1926 and his first record was with West Coast Blues Early Morning Blues "as a b-side.
Between 1926 and 32 recorded 80 tracks for Paramount, which represent their discography.
Great guitarist with an intricate fingerpicking style, so much detail that could produce a sound similar to ragtime piano, and that is often referred to as the king of ragtime guitar.
The fingerpicking style of playing was invented by guitarists and blues was to pluck the strings with the fingertips or fingernails instead of a plectrum.
Alcoholic died in 1933 in mysterious circumstances, perhaps a car accident.
07 - Gus Cannon
born in a cotton plantation in 1883.
Start to play in 15 years by turning to the train stations of the Mississippi delta.
In 1908 he played with Noah Lewis and Jim Jackson.
In 1914 he began to turn with the sellers of drugs, and street vendors selling miracle drugs that drew people into the exhibit IUG band (where the jug is where the bottle is blown to imitate the sound of the bass).
records for Paramount in 1927 under the name of the form and Banjo Joe Cannon's Jug Stompers her.
The band recorded in 28 and 30 and throughout the decade will be the jug band's most famous Beale Street, Memphis center in those days of the blues.
let the music in the late 30's to return to record only in 1956 and the Blues Revival of the 60 plays with Bukka White and Furry Lewis.
in 1963 with Will Shade Memphis Jug Band leader of another famous jug band in the 30s, recorded "Walk Right In, an album of their hits.
The album takes its name from its most famous passage.
He died in 1979.
08 - Memphis Jug Band
famous jug band active from 1927 to 1934 made by Will Shade.
The group never had a fixed formation, change music every day and often the same name from place to place, but it was a training ground for many blues and a springboard for their careers.
They were so popular as to have often in the audience even many whites, which at the time was very rare.
In 1937 Shade for economic reasons, the band dissolved, leaving the music to go to work as a laborer.
Even Shade is rediscovered with the Blues Revival of 1960 and 63 records with the above-mentioned Gus Cannon Interviewer
Walk Right In the album the hits of both: Narration, Kill It, Salty Dog, Going Around, The Mountain, Ol 'Hen, Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight, Is not Gonna Rain No More, Boll-Weevil, Come On Down To My House, Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor, Get Up In The Morning Soon and Crawdad Hole.
09 - Slim Harpo
James Moore (1924-1970) was the most famous exponent of post-war rural blues, active between the years 50 and 60. The name
harp is the way in which it is called the blues harmonica.
started playing very young on street corners with his brother Harmonica Slim and soon started to affect the succersso but only came in 1957 with songs like I'm a King Bee (later taken over by the Rolling Stones), Shake your Hips, I Got If You Want it, engraved by John Hammond Jr. In 1961
inicide the wonderful Rainin 'in My Heart, which gives him the national achievement.
His style hypnotic and obsessive then take the name of Swamp Blues. In 1966
affect his most famous song Baby Scratch My Back "(later recorded by the Fabulous Thunderbirds) and became very popular.
died of a heart attack in 1970.
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