1955 James Doug Suggs+
1956 Big Bill Morganfield*
1971 Ronaldo Severo*
1986 Tiffany Harp*
2015 Wendell Holmes*
1956 Big Bill Morganfield*
1971 Ronaldo Severo*
1986 Tiffany Harp*
2015 Wendell Holmes*
Happy Birthday
Big Bill Morganfield *19.06.1956
Den Blues-Anhängern William Morganfield aka Big Bill Morganfield vorzustellen, bedarf es wenig. Muddy Waters' Sohn war zunächst eher Musikkonsument und entschied sich relativ spät, selbst ein Instrument zu spielen. Er studierte Gitarre und schon sein zweites Album mit dem richtungweisenden Titel "Rising Son" (1999) sorgte für Aufsehen, denn es brachte ihm stante pede einen Blues Music Award in der Kategorie 'Best New Album' ein. Was Tonträger angeht, ging es 1997 mit "Nineteen Years Old" los und 2001 hieß es "Ramblin' Mind". Es folgten "Blues In The Blood" (2003) sowie "Born Lover" (2009).
"Blues With A Mood" steht unter einem besonderen Stern. Am 04.04.2013 wäre Muddy Waters einhundert Jahre alt geworden und Big Bill Morganfield schaut, mit diesem besonderen Datum im Auge auch musikalisch zurück in die Hochzeit seines Vaters, Howlin' Wolf oder John Lee Hooker.
William "Big Bill" Morganfield (born June 19, 1956)[1] is an American blues singer and guitarist, who is the son of Muddy Waters.
Morganfield was born in Chicago, Illinois. He had little contact with his father.[1] Instead he was raised in Southern Florida by his grandmother, and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia.[1][2] As a child he listened to his father's records, but also to more popular fare such as The Jackson Five.[1] He came to music later in life, having first worked as a teacher after earning a bachelors degree in English from Tuskegee University and another in Communications from Auburn University.[1] He did not begin playing music seriously until after his father's death in 1983, and then spent six years studying guitar.[2] A well-received performance with Lonnie Mack at Atlanta's Center Stage convinced Morganfield that his career move was a good one, but dissatisfied with his craft, he returned to studying traditional blues forms and songwriting while continuing work as a teacher.[2]
His first independent album,"Rising Son", was released in 1999 by Blind Pig Records.[2] The album was recorded in Chicago, and featured Paul Oscher, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, and Pinetop Perkins.[2] In 2000, he won the W.C. Handy Award for Best New Blues Artist.[2] The title cut was featured in the 2004 film A Love Song for Bobby Long. (In 1997 Taxium Records released a demo-intended recording of Big Bill Morganfield called "Nineteen Years Old" without the consent of Big Bill Morganfield. American laws do not apply as this recording was taken to Germany for release.)
In 1999 Morganfield appeared at the San Francisco Blues Festival.
Ramblin' Mind, Morganfield's next album, included Taj Mahal on two songs, plus his song "Strong Man Holler". Billy Branch played harmonica on the album.[2] In 2009, Morganfield released the album Born Lover, produced by Bob Margolin and Brian Bisesi.[3]
In concert, Morganfield performs his own material with an occasional number from his father's work. He also performed at a Kennedy Center Honors tribute to his father.[2] During the 2000s (decade), Morganfield headlined many festivals and performed at venues around the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bill_Morganfield
Big Bill Morganfield-live-14.11.2014
Big Bill Morganfield w/ The Delta Sonics
Big Bill Morganfield w/ The Delta Sonics at D Note in Arvada Colorado,
Mar 30, 2014. Great Show! Al Chesis on harp, Willie Panker on drums,
John Butler on bass, Bob Pellegrino on guitar.
Tiffany Harp *19.06.1986
Ihre größten Vorbilder waren Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Sonny BoyWilliamson (John Lee), Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller), Chester ArthurBurnett (aka The Howlin’ Wolf), Muddy Waters, und viele weitere "Meister des Blues".
Tiffany Harp gehört zu den traditionellen amerikanische Bluesharmonica Spielern. Sie wurde in Südbrasilien in Santa Catarina geboren. Mit 16 begann sie Mundharmonika zu spielen und hat seither eine steile Entwicklung durchlebt. Seit 2003 spielt sie professionell Mundharmonika und überzeugt mit ihrer besonderen Technik und der Musik im Stil der 50er und 60er Jahre weltweit ihre Fans.
Ihre größten Vorbilder waren Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Sonny BoyWilliamson (John Lee), Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller), Chester ArthurBurnett (aka The Howlin’ Wolf), Muddy Waters, und viele weitere "Meister des Blues".
Ihre größten Vorbilder waren Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Sonny BoyWilliamson (John Lee), Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller), Chester ArthurBurnett (aka The Howlin’ Wolf), Muddy Waters, und viele weitere "Meister des Blues".
Tiffany Harp was born in South Brazil - Santa Catarina State - (Itajaí City). She started to play the harmonica when she was 16 years of age. Now a World Wide household name, a truly wonderful, naturally gifted harmonica player.
Tiffany Harp is a traditional American Blues Harmonicaplayer.
She was born in Southern Brazil, Itajai, Santa Catarina.
She started playing harmonica at the age of 16.
A naturally gifted Harmonica Player, she is self-taught, listening to recordings of Blues Players, and has been playing professionally since 2003 and with surprising development, drawing attention to her technical ability and strong footprints of mastery reminiscent of the 1950's and 1960's recordings of Chessand Checker Records (something rare and refreshing today).
She has gained popularity worldwide having many loyal fans.
She has made appearances not just in her local area, but nationally as well in Blues Festivals.
Tiffany represents with talents and charms a rather small minority of female Harmonica players, in the male dominated style of Chicago Blues.
She was born in Southern Brazil, Itajai, Santa Catarina.
She started playing harmonica at the age of 16.
A naturally gifted Harmonica Player, she is self-taught, listening to recordings of Blues Players, and has been playing professionally since 2003 and with surprising development, drawing attention to her technical ability and strong footprints of mastery reminiscent of the 1950's and 1960's recordings of Chessand Checker Records (something rare and refreshing today).
She has gained popularity worldwide having many loyal fans.
She has made appearances not just in her local area, but nationally as well in Blues Festivals.
Tiffany represents with talents and charms a rather small minority of female Harmonica players, in the male dominated style of Chicago Blues.
Tiffany Harp Band - Telephone Blues
Ronaldo Severo *19.06.1971
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Der Stil von Velha Coruja ist der Blues Rock. Gegründet wurde sie von fünf Bewohner der Stadt Porto Alegre: Ronaldo Severo (Gesang und Gitarre), Anderson Vorzelt (Bass und Backing Vocals), Lucas Cavalcante (Mundharmonika und Gesang), Giovanni Arroque (Gitarre) und Juliano Gomes (Schlagzeug und Backing Vocals). Die Vielfalt der Stil macht den Unterschied in den Sound der Band, eine Mischung aus alten und neuen ohne Gerichtsverfahren Grenzen gesetzt. Shows verschmolzen Copyright Kompositionen und interessante Interpretationen von Musikern wie B. B. King, John Mayall, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Gary Moore und anderen Künstlern, die in der Welt gute Musik zu verweisen.
übersetzt mit Google
Velha Coruja - Culpa dos Amigos (17/05/14)
Velha Coruja - Sobre o Tempo (17/05/14)
R.I.P.
James Doug Suggs +19.06.1955
Doug Suggs
pianist, referred to by Bob Koester and Harris who calls him a "Chicago pianist," but says he was born in St. Louis, Dec 3, 1894. Not to be confused with James Douglas Suggs, a guitarist. The notes to Harry Oster's Primitive Piano LP on his Folk-Lyric label state that he was an "ear player" influenced most of all by Claude Brown, the composer of "Sweet Patootie, a number that reached Chicago's South Side via Doug. He adds that Suggs supplemented his income by working as a porter at the Sox Ball Park in the summer and at the Merchandise Mart in the winter.
Sweet Patootie - Doug Suggs' version by Jacques Covo
Wendell Holmes +19.06.2015
Die Holmes Brothers waren eine US-amerikanische Band, die in ihrer Musik Blues, Gospel, Soul, R&B, Rock and Roll und Country mischten.[1]
Biographische Daten
Die Band bestand aus den Brüdern Sherman (* 29. September 1939 in Plainfield, New Jersey) und Wendell (* 19. Dezember 1943 in Plainfield, New Jersey; † 19. Juni 2015) Holmes und Popsy Dixon (* 26. Juli 1942 in Norfolk, Virginia; † 9. Januar 2015). Das musikalische Interesse der Brüder wurde von ihren Eltern geweckt, die sie mit Gospel, aber auch mit dem Blues von Jimmy Reed, Junior Parker und B. B. King vertraut machten. Sherman lernte Klarinette und Klavier, bevor er mit dem Bass begann, Wendell lernte Trompete und Gitarre. Musikalische Erfahrungen sammelten die Brüder in einer Band, die oft Blues- und Soulacts begleitete. 1979 gründeten die Brüder "The Holmes Brothers", gemeinsam mit dem Schlagzeuger Popsy Dixon.
Diese Drei bildeten das Herz der Band, für Tourneen verstärken sie sich gelegentlich mit anderen Musikern.[2] Ihr dreistimmiger Harmoniegesang entzückte immer wieder ihre Fans. Wendells rauer Gesang mit Dixons Falsett und Shermans Bariton brachten den Geist der Gospelmusik in jedes Lied, das sie spielten.[1]
Obwohl sie schon jahrelang zusammen in Harlem auftraten, wurden sie erst in den späten 1980er-Jahren bekannt. 1992 unterzeichneten sie bei Peter Gabriels Real World Records als erste amerikanische Gruppe des bekannten World Music Labels. Von da an ging es mit ihrer Karriere steil bergauf, so traten sie mit Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Willie Nelson, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Merle Haggard, Keith Richards, Al Green, Ben Harper, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Levon Helm, Rosanne Cash, Odetta und anderen auf bzw. nahmen mit ihnen Alben auf. 1996 traten sie im Film Lotto Land auf, für den sie auch den Soundtrack schrieben. Zwischen 2007 und der Veröffentlichung ihres letzten Albums kämpfte Wendell Holmes mit Krebs, den er aber besiegte.[1] Am 9. Januar 2015 erlag Schlagzeuger Popsy Dixon im Alter von 72 Jahren einer Krebserkrankung.[3] Am 19. Juni verstarb Wendell Holmes an einer Lungenkrankheit.
By KASEY JONES - Associated Press - Friday, June 19, 2015
BALTIMORE (AP) - Wendell Holmes, the guitarist, pianist and singer and songwriter of the soul and blues band The Holmes Brothers, has died.
Paul Kahn, Holmes’ manager, says the 71-year-old musician died Friday at his home in Rosedale, Maryland. Kahn says Holmes died of complications from pulmonary hypertension.
Holmes and his older brother, bassist Sherman Holmes, played churches in Virginia when they were growing up, and after high school, played professionally in New York. Drummer Willie “Popsy” Dixon started working with the brothers and they played the bar circuit. The three formed The Holmes Brothers in 1979.
Dixon died in January.
Kahn says Wendell Holmes was a natural musical talent, and said his most popular song was the soul ballad “We Meet, We Part, We Remember.”
Wendell Holmes, vocalist, guitarist, pianist and songwriter of the critically acclaimed soul/blues band The Holmes Brothers, died on Friday, June 19 at his home in Rosedale, Maryland of complications due to pulmonary hypertension. Earlier this week, Wendell addressed his fans and friends in an open letter as he moved into hospice care. He was 71.
Wendell retired from touring earlier this year when he was first diagnosed. Holmes Brothers drummer Willie "Popsy" Dixon died on January 9, 2015 of complications from cancer. Brother and bassist Sherman Holmes continues to carry on The Holmes Brothers legacy with The Sherman Holmes Project featuring Brooks Long and Eric Kennedy.
Wendell, the man Entertainment Weekly has called "a timeless original," was born in Christchurch, Virginia on December 19, 1943. He and his older brother Sherman were raised by their schoolteacher parents, who nurtured the boys’ early interest in music. As youngsters they listened to traditional Baptist hymns, anthems and spirituals as well as blues music by Jimmy Reed, Junior Parker and B.B. King. According to Wendell, “It was a small town, and my brother and I were about the only ones who could play anything. So we played around in all the area churches on Sundays.” The night before, though, they would play blues, soul, country and rock at their cousin’s local club, Herman Wate’s Juke Joint. “When he couldn’t get any good groups to come from Norfolk or Richmond, he’d call us in,” Wendell recalls. “That’s how we honed our sound. We used to say we’d rock ‘em on Saturday and save ‘em on Sunday.”
Once Wendell finished high school he joined Sherman, who had already begun playing professionally in New York. The two brothers played in a few bands before forming The Sevilles in 1963. The group lasted only three years, but they often backed up touring artists like The Impressions, John Lee Hooker and Jerry Butler, gaining a wealth of experience. Sherman and Wendell met drummer Popsy Dixon, a fellow Virginian, at a New York gig in 1967. Dixon sat in with the brothers and sang two songs. “After that second song,” recalls Wendell, “Popsy was a brother.” They continued to play in a variety of Top 40 bar bands until 1979, when the three officially joined forces and formed The Holmes Brothers band.
The band toured the world, releasing 12 albums starting with 1990's In The Spirit on Rounder. Their most recent release is 2014's Brotherhood on Alligator. The New York Times calls The Holmes Brothers "deeply soulful, uplifting and timeless."
In September 2014, The Holmes Brothers were honored with a National Endowment For The Arts National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor the United States bestows upon its folk and traditional artists. They won two Blues Music Awards including Blues Band Of The Year in 2005. The Holmes Brothers are featured on the cover of the current issue of Living Blues magazine.
Wendell is survived by his wife, Barbara, daughters Felicia and Mia, brothers Sherman and Milton, and three grandsons.
Memorial service arrangements have not yet been announced.
Wendell retired from touring earlier this year when he was first diagnosed. Holmes Brothers drummer Willie "Popsy" Dixon died on January 9, 2015 of complications from cancer. Brother and bassist Sherman Holmes continues to carry on The Holmes Brothers legacy with The Sherman Holmes Project featuring Brooks Long and Eric Kennedy.
Wendell, the man Entertainment Weekly has called "a timeless original," was born in Christchurch, Virginia on December 19, 1943. He and his older brother Sherman were raised by their schoolteacher parents, who nurtured the boys’ early interest in music. As youngsters they listened to traditional Baptist hymns, anthems and spirituals as well as blues music by Jimmy Reed, Junior Parker and B.B. King. According to Wendell, “It was a small town, and my brother and I were about the only ones who could play anything. So we played around in all the area churches on Sundays.” The night before, though, they would play blues, soul, country and rock at their cousin’s local club, Herman Wate’s Juke Joint. “When he couldn’t get any good groups to come from Norfolk or Richmond, he’d call us in,” Wendell recalls. “That’s how we honed our sound. We used to say we’d rock ‘em on Saturday and save ‘em on Sunday.”
Once Wendell finished high school he joined Sherman, who had already begun playing professionally in New York. The two brothers played in a few bands before forming The Sevilles in 1963. The group lasted only three years, but they often backed up touring artists like The Impressions, John Lee Hooker and Jerry Butler, gaining a wealth of experience. Sherman and Wendell met drummer Popsy Dixon, a fellow Virginian, at a New York gig in 1967. Dixon sat in with the brothers and sang two songs. “After that second song,” recalls Wendell, “Popsy was a brother.” They continued to play in a variety of Top 40 bar bands until 1979, when the three officially joined forces and formed The Holmes Brothers band.
The band toured the world, releasing 12 albums starting with 1990's In The Spirit on Rounder. Their most recent release is 2014's Brotherhood on Alligator. The New York Times calls The Holmes Brothers "deeply soulful, uplifting and timeless."
In September 2014, The Holmes Brothers were honored with a National Endowment For The Arts National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor the United States bestows upon its folk and traditional artists. They won two Blues Music Awards including Blues Band Of The Year in 2005. The Holmes Brothers are featured on the cover of the current issue of Living Blues magazine.
Wendell is survived by his wife, Barbara, daughters Felicia and Mia, brothers Sherman and Milton, and three grandsons.
Memorial service arrangements have not yet been announced.
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