Two more titles are joining Chess Records’ Acoustic Sounds Series: Chuck Berry‘s St. Louis To Liverpool and Etta James‘s Tell Mama. Both titles will be
Tag: Blues
In 1969, when the Alabama blues pioneer Big Mama Thornton inked a deal with Chicago’s Mercury Records to record her third album, Stronger Than Dirt,
He couldn’t boast the effortless authority of Muddy Waters. He wasn’t an outlandish marketable character like Bo Diddley. He couldn’t terrify you from across the
Towards the end of her life, Janis Joplin made a magnanimous gesture that confirmed her debt to an artist who was one of her greatest
Rock was changing fast in 1968. The concept album was in the air, a development encouraged by Sgt Pepper’s the previous year (though nobody seemed
Few rock bands of the ’60s were as symphonic sounding as the Moody Blues, as evidenced throughout their classic 1967 album, Days of Future Passed.
One of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Robert Johnson (1911-1938) was a legendary blues musician, whose influence spanned multiple
The year of 1969 went into the history of British blues-rock favorites Ten Years After as the one in which they broke through in America
In the last few days of January 1964, The Rolling Stones recorded the final version of what became their third UK single. It was called
The great blues artists talked, the savviest rockers listened. Without the blues there’d be no rock’n’roll, but certain tracks were especially pivotal. Either they were