“I met Willie on many occasions — the first of which is when I cold-called him out of the Chicago phone book and asked him to come to my high school radio station.” Cary Baker
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We’ve gathered 30 blues men and women who go by different names than those they were born with. We’re betting a few of them surprise you.
“‘The Language of Curiosity’ is a snapshot of life right now, like looking at different sides of the Rubik’s cube.” – Simon Campbell
“The banjo has a plunky, non-sustaining tone. Still, I believe the banjo deserves to be an instrument of the blues. Even its history could be a blues song!” – Poet laureate Norbert Krapf
‘Mr. Handy’s Blues’ has now been picked up for worldwide distribution in the educational space!
The Peter Green-ish track is beautifully recorded, and is more about attitude than age.
“I get my mojo from the classic greats—the masters of blues-rock and even classic rock, but everything I play comes from my own heart…” Micki Free
“Trains are a huge inspiration – harps & trains are cool friends – and I’ve wanted to do a video shoot on a train for a long time. I’m so grateful to all the people, who helped me to finally get on the tracks.” – Tomislav Goluban
“I have written a lot of jingles, but one of the things I like best is that I wrote the theme to ‘This Old House’ that ran for fifteen years.”
‘100 Years of Blues’ shows that while there’s over a century of playing between the two of them, they still have new things to say.