Browsing: Vee-Jay Records

Influential album features members of the legendary Funk Brothers and includes the original recording of Hooker’s iconic blues standard “Boom Boom”

“Black sacred music’s influence on popular music was inevitable if you consider that the church was the primary music school for generations of African American singers and musicians.”

“It’s with a sad heart that I inform you of the passing of our great friend L.C. Cooke whose talents, humanity and charm we shall all miss.”

In the 1950s a young singer named Mathis James Reed failed his audition for Chess Records. He was a popular musician around Chicago, but his simple playing and straightforward songs didn’t wow the execs. Chess Records would go on to regret that they didn’t sign Jimmy Reed…

We’re celebrating a birthday today — that of the vastly influential guitarist and harmonica legend Jimmy Reed, who’s amazing music has influenced rock in an irreplaceable way.