The Blues Connection
TheBluesHistory.com helps blues fans, musicians and curious newcomers discover and understand the music through deeply researched, engaging stories that connect the artists, songs, recordings, places and influences that shaped the blues—so they can uncover forgotten treasures, understand why the music matters and hear the blues in a whole new way.
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3 totalEarl Silas Johnson IV entered the world on February 7, 1934, in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city that does not merely host music but exhales it from every cracked sidewalk and rain-slicked street. He was the seventh son...
Magic Sam’s career lasted scarcely more than a decade, and his recorded legacy can be contained within a relatively small number of sessions. Yet few musicians in postwar blues made a more concentrated contribution. A...
