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Article - Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy (born George Guy, July 30, 1936 in Lettsworth, Louisiana) is an American blues music and rock music guitarist, as well as a sin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1934: Encyclopedia - 1934
1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1934 - Events. January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guitarist: Encyclopedia - Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarist - Noted guitarists. Guitarist - Classical. François Campion (ca 1688-1748...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddy Guy: Encyclopedia - Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy (born George Guy, July 30, 1936 in Lettsworth, Louisiana) is an American blues music and rock music guitarist, as well as a sin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Willie Dixon: Encyclopedia - Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992) was a well-known American blues bassist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blues: Encyclopedia - Blues
The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. The fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicago Blues: Encyclopedia - Chicago Blues
The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by adding electricity, drums, piano, bass guitar and somet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 29: Encyclopedia - April 29
April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). There are 246 days remaining. April 29 - Events. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blues: Encyclopedia Ii - Blues - History
Blues - Origins. Main articles: Origins of the blues, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]], ... See also:Blues, Blues - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blues: Encyclopedia Ii - Blues - History
Blues - Origins. Main article: Origins of the blues Blues has evolved from the spare music of poor black laborers into a wide variety...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duane Allman: Encyclopedia Ii - Duane Allman - Success Layla And Tragedy
The Allman Brothers Band went on to become one of the best and most influential rock groups of the 1970s, described by Rolling Stone's Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rush: Encyclopedia Ii - Rush - People
Rush - Surname. Barbara Rush, American actor Benjamin Rush, founding father of the United States Bobby Rush, U.S. Representative from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddy Guy: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddy Guy - Biography
Buddy Guy - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Guy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14, 2005 by Eric Clapton and B.B....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stevie Ray Vaughan: Encyclopedia Ii - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Life And Career
After playing in a series of bands, Dallas-native Vaughan formed the blues rock combo Double Trouble with drummer Chris Layton and bassis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Blues Musicians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Blues Musicians - Blues Since 1990
List of blues musicians - Blues in conventional pop music. Harold Arlen, "Blues in the Night" and "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime" DeSy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guitarist: Encyclopedia Ii - Guitarist - Noted Guitarists
Guitarist - Classical. François Campion (ca 1688-1748) Antoine Carré Francisco Corbetta (ca 1620-1681) Nicolas Desrosiers Giovanni ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mike Tetrault: Encyclopedia Ii - Mike Tetrault - Biography
Mike Tetrault - Early Life. Tetrault was born in March 1956 on Cincinnati's middle-class East side. His father, Edward Bradley Tetrault...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1934: Encyclopedia Ii - 1934 - Events
1934 - January-April. January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison. January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duane Allman: Encyclopedia Ii - Duane Allman - Allman Joys And Hour Glass
The Allman boys started playing publicly in 1961, joining or forming a number of small, local groups. Shortly thereafter Duane quit high ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duane Allman: Encyclopedia Ii - Duane Allman - Session Musician
Duane's playing on the two Hour Glass albums and an Hour Glass session in early 1968 at FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duane Allman: Encyclopedia Ii - Duane Allman - Formation Of The Allman Brothers Band
The limits of full-time session playing frustrated Duane. The few months in Muscle Shoals were by no means a waste, however, because besi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duane Allman: Encyclopedia Ii - Duane Allman - Early Years
Duane was born in Nashville, Tennessee. At the age of three, while the family was living near Norfolk, Virginia, his father, Willis, a Un...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duane Allman: Encyclopedia Ii - Duane Allman - Memorials
After Duane's funeral and a few weeks of mourning, the five surviving members of the Allman Brothers Band carried on with the name, resum...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stevie Ray Vaughan: Encyclopedia Ii - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Discography
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Albums. Texas Flood (1983) Couldn't Stand the Weather (1984) Soul to Soul (1985) Live Alive! (Live, 1986) In Step...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blues: Encyclopedia Ii - Blues - Characteristics
Blues - Origins. There are few characteristics common to all blues, because the genre takes its shape from the peculiarities of individ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blues: Encyclopedia Ii - Blues - Musical Impact
As the origin of the blues scale, the blues has exerted a profound influence on many styles of music. Many jazz, folk or rock performers,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1934: Encyclopedia Ii - 1934 - Births
1934 - January. January 7 - Charlie Jenkins, American runner January 9 - Bart Starr, American football player January 11 - Jean Chrét...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stevie Ray Vaughan: Encyclopedia Ii - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Posthumous Recognition
A duet album, Family Style, with his brother, Jimmie Vaughan (also a noted blues-rock guitarist and former member of The Fabulous Thunder...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blues: Encyclopedia Ii - Blues - Social Impact
Like jazz, rock and roll and hip hop music, blues has been accused of being the "devil's music" and of inciting violence and other poor b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stevie Ray Vaughan: Encyclopedia Ii - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Equipment
There are many falsities reported about Stevie's stage equipment, but here are the facts, as reported by his guitar technician Rene Marti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blues: Encyclopedia Ii - Blues - Social Impact
Like jazz, rock and roll and hip hop music, blues has been accused of being the "devil's music" and of inciting violence and other poor b...   » Read the article