The story of James Cotton, harmonica powerhouse, whose music shaped blues and rock. Orphaned at 9, Cotton’s life tracks America’s history—from the post-depression cotton fields of the ...

Known as a soulful vocalist, dynamic harmonica master and superlative songwriter, Chris O'Leary will perform on Friday, Feb.

James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Jimmy Reed, Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr. West of Memphis was founded in 1999 by harmonica player Karl Cabbage and guitarist Tom Walpole. Committed to playing ...

Up the Mississippi from Memphis, the rapidly expanding metropolis offered an escape from the cotton plantations of ... and the precocious young blues-harp player, Little Walter, with whom he ...

Roots of Light of Day go back to a 1998 40th birthday party for artist manager Bob Benjamin, who had just been diagnosed with Parkinson's.

Springsteen — and singer-songwriter James Maddock — later joined ... The song turned into a frolicking country blues jam that included a guitar vs harmonica showdown between Springsteen ...

Duke attended Armstrong Manual Training School to studycommercial art ... York's Cotton Club beginning in 1927 extended Ellington's orchestra's national exposure and a parade of hit records, from ...

She is known for painting the ... "father of modern Chicago blues", Waters grew up on a plantation in Mississippi and by the age of 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica.