- November 16th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Jalacy Hawkins, best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins (July 18, 1929 February 12, 2000) was an African-American singer. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatri…
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Floyd Jones (July 21, 1917 December 19, 1989) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter, who is significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to recor…
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Buddy Guy First Time I Met The Blues blues The first time I met the blues,People, you know I was walkin, I was walkin down through the woods.Yes, the first time, the first time I met you, blues,Blues…
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- November 14th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Check it out"Cousin Joe" Pleasant (December 20, 1907 October 2, 1989) was a blues and jazz singer, later famous for his 1940s recordings with clarinetist Sidney Bechet and saxophonist Mez…
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- November 13th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
The ticket for the Blues & Gospel Train performance. Produced by famous Granada TV 'light entertainment' producer Johnny Hamp, this ticket gets you on the train leaving Central Station (…
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- November 12th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: PaPosse Blues Brothers
- November 10th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
You Can't Lose What You Never Had Muddy Waters, Allman Brothers Had a sweet little girl, I lose my baby, boy ain't that bad Had a sweet little girl, I lose my baby, boy ain't t…
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- November 8th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Rock Man Blues Band
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Rock Man Blues Band
TOM WAITS lyrics - I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)Well, I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see it in my dreams,Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and meHoist up a few ta…
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Rock Man Blues Band
- November 6th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Kokomo ArnoldFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaKokomo Arnold (15 February 1901 8 November 1968) was an American blues musician. Born James Arnold in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, Arnold recei…
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
I walked into a beer tavernTo give a girl a nice timeI had forty-five dollars when I enterWhen I left I had one dimeWasn't she a beer drinkin' woman?Don't ya know, man don't ya kno…
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- November 5th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Rock Man Blues Band
Well the smart moneys on harlow and the moon is in the streetAnd the shadow boys are breaking all the lawsAnd youre east of east saint louis and the wind is making speechesAnd the rain sounds like a r…
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- November 2nd, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Muddy Waters & John Mayall - Baby Please Don't Goby fuzz59"Baby, Please Don't Go" is a blues song first recorded by Big Joe Williams in 1935. It is related to a group of early 20th cent…
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- November 1st, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Come on out o hear some great blues and jazz!!!Get map directions
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
No one to talk to ....all by myselfNo one to walk with.....I'm happy on the shelfAin't misbehavin'......savin' my love for youI know for certain......the one I loveI'm through…
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- October 31st, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Leon Redbone (August 26, 1949[2]) is a singer and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century music, including jazz and blues standards and Tin Pan Alley classics.Recognized for hi…
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- October 30th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Goodnight, Irene"Goodnight, Irene" or "Irene, Goodnight," is a 20th century American folk standard. The lyrics tell how the singer lost his love through "rambling and gambling…
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- October 29th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Rock Man Blues Band
The Institute of the Arts is located at:1100 Belmont AvenueWyomissing, PA 19610Phone: 610-376-1576Fax: 610-376-2926
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- October 28th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
American blues singer, "King of The Twelve-String Guitar," who twice sang himself out of jails. Ledbetter helped to inspire the folk and blues revivals of the Fifties and Sixties and he was…
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
The train from Houston to San Antonio, approximating the route of Alternate 90, would arrive in Sugar Land at midnight, it's light shining brightly. Prisoners imagined it was their passage to fre…
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- October 27th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
The Midnight SpecialThe Midnight Special was the name of a passenger train formerly operated by the Chicago and Alton Railroad and its successor, the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The train ran on a…
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Odetta (born December 31, 1930) is an African-American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement." Her…
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- October 22nd, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: PaPosse Blues Brothers
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Robert Johnson lyricsTraveling Riverside Blues blues lyricsIf your man get personal, want you to have your funIf your man get personal, want you to have your funJust come on back to Friars Point, mama…
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
"Travelling Riverside Blues" is a blues song written and recorded in Dallas, Texas by legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. Johnson's June 20, 1937 recording has a typical 12 bar blues str…
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Jimi Hendrix watching Buddy Guy play the Generation Club
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
Hubert Sumlin (born November 16, 1931) is a blues guitar player known as both a solo artist and central element in Howlin' Wolf's backup band. Listed in Rolling Stone's The 100 Greatest…
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- September 7th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: PaPosse Blues Brothers
- September 5th, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Berks Blues Fest Blog
For some reason, Big Joe Williams wasn't taken quite as seriously by blues buffs in the '60s as he should have been. I think it was probably because, unlike Son House and Skip James who ha…
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- September 3rd, 2008
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sigudo has posted a new entry on: Alan Krimes
KRIMES WINS RACE, MONTIETH CLAIMS FIRST TRACK TITLE IN LINCOLN 410 SPRINTSAug 31, 2008, 01:49Frankie Herr becomes 4th winner in 4 events in super sportsman; Ort & Heckman 305 sprint winnersABBOTT…
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