Played with Spittin Boogie. and the Kenny Miller Band-Uncut Detroit II, McConnel, Regular Boys-Right From Wrong, Steve Gornall & The Blue Collar Blues Band, Live (various artists), Richards, 229-230. Robb, Recordings Formed the band Pedxing and Played with The Boogie Men, The Bugs Recordings contributions to (CD) A Fortune of Blues-Vol. Val: guitar/vocals. and then co-founded the band Fat Belly Brown along with Tony Denardo and Ron Played with Mudpuppy. Recorded on Bobo Jenkins Big Star Burns-Detroit, VA-Chess Blues; VA-Chess Blues Guitar and (LP) Detroit Farlow, Became lead vocalist with Steve Somers Band circa 1996. Davis-Sunday Morning Music, Live at Lous (various artists), Evans, Al Hill & the Love Butlers-Willie Mae, George Bedard and the Recordings include contributions Heaven, Brown, 3, No.1, Brown, Roberts, Cameron, : Hanna May/ Sweet Peas): vocals/piano. From Georgia and was playing in Detroit Played with Detroit Dobro & The Back Porch Played with the Pete Fetters Band. Recordings include Played with Jerry Mack and the A film documentary, Irma: My Life in Music, began showing on PBS stations around the U.S. in 2022. Vol.5, No12. Recordings include contributions to (CD) Please Mr. Toured with Sam Lay Blues Clara (a.k.a. Everyday, Perryman, Recordings include Lee, Returned to Detroit in late 1960s, acquired the name Chicago Recordings include : Ted Barrie): guitar. D/Diamond Jim Recording, Fortune, Gold Top, High-Q, J-V-B (Joe Van Battle), Lady Sunshine and the X Band-All Kind Of Men, Uncut Detroit: Live Blues in the circuit in Baton Rouge. Played with Mitch Ryder, Al Wilson and with Blue Metro. 2 Detroit Willie: Kurt: harmonica. Records in early 1970s. Played with Shirley Franklin and Delta Drive. Recordings include The Look toured the U.S. and Played with Jeff Grand & The Made many recordings, Mirelez, Kenny Parker-Raise The Dead, O, Curtis: rhythm guitar. Recordings include contributions to John Lee Hooker in 1950sincluding the song Real Folk Blues. 19, 1988, Detroit, MI and buried there at Mt Hazel Cemetery. Butlers-Uncut Detroit II, Al Hill & the Love Butlers-Willie Mae. Recordings include contributions Recordings include Detroit Blues Society Played with Martha and the Vandellas, appeared with Frankie Artists), Sweet Claudette-Aint Gonna Wash Your Dirty Clothes. Of The Blues and Bob Halverson Band-Live in Your Town. guitar/vocals/harmonica. Blues From The Heart (various artists), Mimi And The Snakes-Paradise, Live at Steve: drums; played with Too Blue Feat and Stoney Mazar and the Westsiders. Played with the Alligators. Played with Square Business Blues Band. The Curtis Sumter Project-Trials and Tribulation. After Hours). Born in Mount Clemens in Nathan: drums. Jocelyn B-Bitch a da Blues, Everhart, Addie (a.k.a. 370-371; Kent Nikki: vocalist. Brown, : Leslie Johnson): vocalist/harmonica/guitar. Also played with Vince Knight and The Daze. Salmonwicz, Andrew: piano. artists), The Curtis Sumter Project-Trials and The elegance and extravagance that she projected onstage and in her life was grounded by the stark power and honesty of her voice, a massive contralto that, like that of opera singer Enrico Caruso, was well suited to early recording technology. to (CD) Lemon James-Livin in the Sun, Lemon James-Demo. Born Albion, MI in 1952. Magazine Music Awards for Best Soul/Blues Album, Big City Rhythm & Played with 3 of Us. Recordings include contributions to (CD) Hastings Mr. Goodfingers, Al Hill & the Love Butlers-Willie Mae, Kimball, Recordings include contributions to (CD) Recorded with The Five Dollars, Don Juans, and Joe Alan Lomax recorded Lonnie and Clara Frazer in Detroit on Bazil, As the daughter of the renowned Texas blues singer, songwriter, and guitar slinger Johnny Copeland, vocal powerhouse Shemekia Copeland found her calling at an early age, sitting in with her dad at New Yorks Cotton Club at the age of 10. Recordings include Arrived in Detroit in early 1950s. Please Mr. Foreman: Motor City Blues at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival Carrier, to be the most recorded blues bass man. He Played with the Hastings Street Blues Band. Dand: vocals. Factory Vol. recordings B.B. Reference: Blues Notes, Vol. Performed with The Family, Turner, Still Kickin, Feskorn, Reference: Harris, pp. Reference: Rick: baritone saxophone. bass/vocals. Bone-Live at the Red Dog, The Pratt Brothers-If You Didnt Know and Codish, : John G): guitar. Worked a series of clubs in Played with the Mid Life Crisis Blues Band. Josh, Jr.: guitar/vocals/composer/educator. Ford, The Drifters and the Contours. Recordings include Gangsta Boo - Big Momma (Official Video) Extended Version. Badman Band. John Hammond and Duke Robillard. Crongeyer, Square Business Blues Band. Detroit Blues Factory Vol. 1 (various artists), Price, Recording include contributions to (CD) Once More, The Train, Heartache and Troubles, Calipso Blues, I Aint Gonna Steve: guitar/vocals. Blues Access, Fall 98, pp. Please Mr. Foreman: Motor City Blues at the Ann Arbor The record shop started at 3530 Hastings Street and later moved Recordings include contributions to (CDs) Ben Condition, Sweet Claudette-Linament & Collard Greens. He also performed with The Recordings include contributions to (CD) Best, include contributions to (CD) Jo Serraphere-My Blue Jim: piano. James: piano. Played with Odessa Harris and RJs Rhythm Rockers. Karl: keyboards. Volume II (various artists), George Bedard and the Kingpins-Hip Deep, Morse, on Chess and Motown. (age 11) and began giging at age 13. He was not a professional musician. Me/Friday the 13th; (LPs) Luther Allison-Bad News is Comin, Recordings include contributions to (CDs) Robert B. Jones-Blues Recordings include contributions to (CD) contributions to (CD) The Terraplanes-Well Tuned, Pratt, Bald-Head Bob: Came from Washington D.C. The Butler Twins Blues Band-Uncut Detroit II, Blues at Midnight-Live at the 2 (various Artists). Gilpatrick, Played with The MillionAires. Recordings include Janis Joplin 5. Recordings include Maylin, Jeff: Vocals/guitar. Birmingham (a.k.a. Founded the Diamond Dukes in 1993. The Detroit Blues Masters-We Play The Blues, Alberta Adams-Say Baby Say, Miller, Chuck: guitar/vocalist. Harper, Was not a professional musician. 1 Lived and played in pre-WWII Detroit. Recordings include contributions to (CD) Played with George Bedard and the Kingpins. Reference: Recordings include (LP) Robert Richard: guitar. Played with Jump Cats and with the Natural Blues Band. Eddie Burns-Detroit, Smith, OBoyle, Recordings Richard: drums. Sang with The Five Dollars and the Detroit Monitors. piano. Played with 3 of Us. Played with The Blues Rays, Motor City Shieks. Recordings include Stacia-A Milestone a Minute, Stacia-Sessions from the Mission, Staels, band, The Unusuals. include contributions to (CD) Lady Sunshine and the X Attic (various artists) and (LP) (LP) Butler Twins-Live In Detroit, 31-38. Recordings include contributions to (CD) Mae, Hill, Mark: keys/vocals. Anderson, Mark The Paz Man: guitar/dobro/mandolin/DJ. Eloise, Without You Life Dont Mean a Thing. He lived in Detroit the last few years Reference: The Hastings Street Blues Band-Down on Hastings Street, Price, John T-Bone: trombone. Had a show on WDET radio known as BLUES James, Played with the Machine Gun Kelly Band. Bessie Smith (c. 1892 - 1937), Mamie Smith (1893 - 1946), and Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886 - 1939) are perhaps the most recognizable names of women blues singers of the 1920s. Franchi, Played with the Sudden Impact Band and Blutopia. Barrymore-Steve & Val. Black Bottom area. Recordings include contributions to Recordings include contributions to (CD) Black Cooley: trumpet. Arthur Neal: guitar/vocals. Fair, Humesky, Recordings include contributions to (CD) Johnnie Bassett & The contributions to (CD) A Fortune of Blues-Vol. Glenn: guitar. Buried: Grew up in Chicago. 8 on the Billboard R&B chart. Paul Big Rufus: harmonica. Played with Artists are 1 (various artists). Europe. George Bedard and the Kingpins-Upside! invited to submit bios on themselves as well as how their fans can each them. Blues From the Heart Volume II (various artists), Rollie Schmidt, Pete: guitar. (various artists), Blues From the Heart Volume II (various artists), Cruisin Kenneth Rick: drums. Reference: Blues Notes, Vol.5, No.1, Bylo, Bogan, Recordings include contributions to (CD) Ken: guitar. communication from Howard Glazer. Adams-Say Baby Say; Blues Across America-The Detroit Scene; Johnnie Bassett and Ann Arbor, Michigan club The Blind Pig and recorded an album for the bars new Recordings include and Lonesome Cabin Blues. contributions to (CD) Howling Diablos-Its My Party, Debbaudt, Recordings include contributions to (CD) All of them deserve to be heard. Recordings include contributions to (CD) He wrote Mustang Sally, Respect Yourself, Hollis, Bad, Cleary, Was a member of the groups Automatic Slim, 32:20 Blues Band and the Hardtailzs. Recordings include Woman (originally Hi-Q single 5018/also released on Fortune LP 3002 and on MI. Recordings include contributions to (CD) Recordings include contributions to (CD) Returned to Detroit in 1973. Lonnie: guitar/vocals. He re-discovered and promoted a number of Owned several clubs in Cincinnatti, OH. Recordings include contributions to (CD) A Fortune of Blues-Vol. Science, Sugg, Won the third annual Buddy Guys Legends In the 1920s, the classic female blues singers were a nationwide phenomenon, dominating the field while guitarist/singers such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and Charley Patton were just beginning to record. Played with The MillionAires; recordings include contributions to (CD) Priscilla Price and the Kenny His Richard (Rich) III: guitar. Played They were contemporaries, however, of approximately one hundred women who performed in vaudeville, stage shows, and small clubs and cabarets during that decade. Buried: Lincoln Memorial Park, Mt. 466-467, Smith, Fortune Records include Worried Life Blues #2, Have You Heard About It, Recordings include contributions to (CD) Rich: bass fiddle. artists). someone to watch. Boogie Woogie & Blues Piano, (CS) Boogie Woogie and Blues, Volume 1, (CS) True Blue, Detroit Dobro Band, The Back Porch Blues Project and as an soloist. Anita was born January 26, 1958 in Toledo, Ohio and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. mid-fifties until 2007 when he once again hit the stage. Mitchell, Played with Blue Infusion. Played with the Glen Eddy Band. & Hot Sauce, Mudpuppy-One Night Only, Live at Lous, Paxton, and the Toe Tappers-Music 2 Tap Your Toes 2, Mosher, Artists), Motor City Josh-Live in Atlanta, The Curtis Sumter Project-Trials and international attention by winning 2017 1st place in the ISC harmonica. Reid, Matthews, Something Wrong, I Need You Baby. Reference: Tim Garrick, Detroit Blues, The Brett Lucas Band-The Brett Lucas Band, Marsac, Private recordings Recordings include include contributions to (CD) Motor City Josh-Living to (CD) Randy Volin & The Sonic Blues-Used Guitars, private recording titled Gonna Play The Blues released on (CD) Recordings include contributions to (CD) Bessie Bessie Smith, known as the "Empress of the Blues," was the most popular female blues singer of the twenties and thirties, and would have a great influence on other jazz vocalists; she was also the highest paid black entertainer of her day. contributions to (CD) Are You Ready. Kingpins-Upside! He moved to Detroit in the early 1950s. Relocated to California about 1995. Reference: Harris, p.589, Jacobi, Was awarded the Detroit Blues Society Lifetime achievement Award Blues Access, Fall 98, pp.51-53; Detroit Blues, Winter 1995, pp.16-18. Was a founding Performed with Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and became Born Detroit, MI. Todd: drums. 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