Posts Tagged ‘Singer’

Modern Blues players find appreciative audiences all over the world, and Ben Harper has travelled a long way from his local club scene in the last two decades singing his incisive, modern songs. He uses traditional Folk and Blues forms to address contemporary issues in his songwriting, and his guitar work, especially when he plays…

Chris Thomas King was born to the Blues. He built a career in the 80s as an electric Blues guitarist and talented songwriter; introduced hip-hop beats and rapping fusions to his work in the 90s; and gained worldwide fame as ‘Tommy Johnson’ in the film ‘Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?’ Further feature film and TV…

James ‘Son’ Thomas was a Mississippi Bluesman to the core. His guitar playing, with its vigorous boogies and delicate fingerpicking passages, and his sweet-toned but heartfelt vocals, he left us with some of the deepest, dirtiest Blues of the modern era. A talented sculptor, whose work featured some macabre subjects and used items like skulls…

In the juke-joints of Northern Mississippi, up in the hills above the Delta, people played a raw-boned, good-time Blues which lay almost undiscovered until the 90s, when labels like Fat Possum and High Water began to record the fantastic, high energy Blues player they found in the small towns up there. Paul ‘Wine’ Jones was…