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Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime - vaudeville , Delta and country blues , and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast . [ 2 ]
"King" Solomon Hicks (born February 8, 1995) is an American guitarist, blues, jazz singer, and composer. His style of music ranges from jazz, blues, classical, gospel, R&B, funk, Afro-Cuban, and classic rock. Hicks has been a blues guitarist since he was 13. [1] He plays a Benedetto GA35 guitar.
Gary Lee Clark Jr. [1] (born February 15, 1984) is an American guitarist and singer who fuses blues, rock and soul music with elements of hip hop. [2] In 2011, Clark signed with Warner Bros Records and released The Bright Lights EP. [3]
In 1982, his album St. Louis Blues (with his wife Vernell Townsend) was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the Traditional Blues Album category. [ 9 ] Townsend was a recipient of a 1985 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts , which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and ...
In 2023, Ingram was named as the Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year at the Blues Music Awards. [44] In October 2024, Ingram announced the launch of his new record label, Red Zero Records, in partnership with Exceleration Music. [45] Ingram's third studio album will be the label's first project, set to be released in 2025. [45]
Between 1996 and 2000, he was nominated for eight W. C. Handy/Blues Music Awards, including for his albums White Windows, The World Don't Owe Me Nothin', Mississippi Delta Blues Man, and a 2007 album on which he appears with Robert Lockwood Jr., Henry Townsend and Pinetop Perkins titled Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In ...
Robert Cray was born on August 1, 1953, in Columbus, Georgia, while his father was stationed at Fort Benning.Cray's musical beginnings go back to when he was a student at Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia.
Blues singers such as Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris and Roy Brown were getting much of the attention, but what writer Charles Keil dubs "the postwar Texas clean-up movement in blues" was also beginning to have an influence, driven by blues artists such as T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn and Brown. Their singing was lighter and more relaxed, and they ...