💡 Interesting Facts
singer Al Bernard, known as "The Boy From Dixie", helped popularize W.C. Handy's blues songs, and also recorded as the female half of a vocal duo with Ernie Hare?radio DJ and blues expert Mike Raven also worked at various times as an actor in horror films, a sculptor, a sheep farmer, a presenter of religious TV programmes, and a ballet dancer?in his mid-career, the American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, Big Joe Duskin, did not touch a keyboard for sixteen years as a promise to his father who thought he played the devil's music?in 1995, American blues harmonica player James Harman recorded a song named for the Zoo Bar club in Lincoln, Nebraska?the Beirut-born, American blues guitarist Otis Grand was voted 'Best UK Blues Guitarist' seven years running (1990–1996) by the British Blues Connection magazine?the Canadian television series The John Allan Cameron Show featured different traditions of folk music from Celtic to blues?the music of Louisiana blues performer Lonesome Sundown was described by his producer as "the sound of the swamp"?the American Piedmont and country blues singer and guitarist Alec Seward was one of at least five musicians billed as 'Guitar Slim'?the American blues singer and pianist Maggie Jones, who recorded 38 songs between 1923 and 1926, was billed as "The Texan Nightingale"?the American blues pianist Buster Pickens was shot dead following an argument in a bar?in 1987, American blues pianist Whistlin' Alex Moore became the first African American Texan to be awarded the National Heritage Fellowship?due to his home country's proximity to Ireland, the music of Davy Knowles – a Manx blues guitarist – is influenced by the Celtic genre?blues singer Jesse Fortune, better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man," passed on performing in Europe because he did not want to disappoint customers at his Chicago barbershop?blues scholars seem undecided if the American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter Ramblin' Thomas's nickname referred to his style of playing, or itinerant nature?blues musician Henry Gray is credited as helping to create the distinctive sound of the Chicago blues piano?Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens created the album Flamenco A Go-Go after seeing flamenco guitarist Paco de LucÃa play live, and that the album spans many genres including dance, flamenco, blues and rock?Arthur Adams, the singer of "You've Got the Floor", was a bandleader at B. B. King's blues club in Los Angeles?blues-harp, rather than a type of harp, is a style of playing an ordinary diatonic harmonica that originated in the blues in which the in-drawn notes are made primary and the blown notes secondary?blind blues musician Cortelia Clark won a Grammy for his 1966 album recorded live on a sidewalk in Nashville, Tennessee?Will Dockery, by building Dockery Plantation (pictured), home of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, was fundamental to the development of the blues?Sugar Blue, the American Grammy Award winning blues harmonicist, took his stage name from Sidney Bechet's track, "Sugar Blues"?Matthew T. Dickerson is a computational geometer, scholar of J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings, novelist, blues musician, fly fisherman, maple sugar farmer, and beekeeper?1950s blues musician Little Sammy Davis left the music scene for decades before being rediscovered in 1990?