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Johnny Williams (May 15, 1906 – March 6, 2006) was an American blues guitar player and singer based in Chicago, who was one of the first of the new generation of electric blues players to record after World War II.
Junior Wells played only on his album, but the other musicians are the same on both albums. Buddy Guy and his younger brother Phil Guy played guitars, J. W. Williams played bass, and Ray "Killer" Allison drums. All lead guitars played by Buddy Guy, except "Cut Out the Lights" and the first lead of "I Smell Something" by Phil Guy.
On October 31, 1979, Guy and his band recorded 13 songs, for two albums – this one and the Junior Wells album Pleading the Blues (Wells only played on the tracks for his album, but the band is the same on both albums). Guy's brother Phil played rhythm guitars, J. W. Williams played bass, Ray "Killer" Allison played drums. "Are You Losing Your ...
JW-Jones (born July 15, 1980) is a Canadian blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader. He is a Juno Award nominee (2015), Billboard magazine Top 10 Selling [1] artist, and winner of the International Blues Challenge for "Best Self-Produced CD Award" for his release 'High Temperature' in 2017 and Best Guitarist in 2020.
Guercio was born on July 18, 1945, in Chicago, Illinois, to James Guercio, Sr (1922-1998) and Grace Guercio (née Williams, 1923 – 2010). He is of Italian, German, Irish, Scottish, and English descent. He has four brothers and two sisters. As a child, he was friends with future Styx keyboardist and vocalist Dennis DeYoung.
Jay Mayo "Ink" Williams (September 25, 1894 – January 2, 1980) was a pioneering African-American producer of recorded blues music. Some historians have claimed that Ink Williams earned his nickname by his ability to get the signatures of talented African-American musicians on recording contracts, [1] but in fact it was a racial sobriquet from his football days, when he was a rare Black ...
It reopened with a concert by blues great B.B. King. Ruby Diamond died in 1982 at age 95. ... In October 1823, territorial commissioners John Lee Williams and William Simmons, met with Neamathla ...
Billy Branch (born William Earl Branch, October 3, 1951) is an American blues harmonica player and singer of Chicago blues. Branch is a three-time Grammy nominee, a retired two-term governor of the Chicago Grammy Chapter, an Emmy Award winner [ citation needed ] , and a winner of the Addy Award .