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Pages in category "African-American guitarists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 532 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
However, blues rock soon distinguished itself from hard rock and acts continued to play or rewrite blues standards, as well as write their own songs in the same idiom. In the 1980s and 1990s, blues rock was more roots-oriented than in the 1960s and 1970s, even when artists such as the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan flirted with ...
The Lost were formed at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1964. [1] [2] Initially they were an interracial band featuring black guitarist and singer Hugh Magbie.Their original lineup consisted Magbie on lead guitar and vocals, Ted Myers on rhythm guitar and vocals, Walter Powers III on bass, harmonica, and vocals, Willie "Loco" Alexander on keyboards, percussion and vocals, and Tony ...
Guitar Nubbit: 1923 1995 Florida Electric blues [198] Guitar Slim: 1926 1959 Louisiana Louisiana blues [199] Buddy Guy: 1936 Louisiana Chicago blues [200] Phil Guy: 1940 2008 Louisiana Electric blues [201] John P. Hammond: 1942 New York Electric blues [199] James Harman: 1946 2021 Alabama Electric blues [202] Harmonica Slim: 1934 1984 Texas ...
Robert June Ward Sr. (October 15, 1938 [1] – December 25, 2008) [2] was an American blues and soul guitarist. He was known for founding the Ohio Untouchables, the band that later would become the Ohio Players. He played the guitar with a unique tone soaked in vibrato coming from a Magnatone amplifier. [3]
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
While there, he recorded the instrumental "Black Fox", which became a minor pop hit reaching #56 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 29 on the R&B chart. [ 2 ] In the early 1970s, he worked with English blues bandleader John Mayall , playing on the album Jazz Blues Fusion , and recorded LPs with trumpeter Blue Mitchell .
Young's mid-1970s Ovation LPs were said by AllMusic's Bill Dahl to have "showcased the guitarist's blues-soul synthesis". [6] Reviewing Young's 1976 self-titled LP in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "If Young's voice weren't as gruffly workaday as his guitar, he might be a threat—he's got a knack for the blues subject, from mama-in-law ...