November 29th, 2012
(via Mickey Baker, Guitarist Whose Riffs Echo Today, Dies at 87 - NYTimes.com) Mickey Baker with Sylvia Vanderpool Robinson. They recorded “Love Is Strange,” which sold more than a million copies.

(via Mickey Baker, Guitarist Whose Riffs Echo Today, Dies at 87 - NYTimes.com)

Mickey Baker with Sylvia Vanderpool Robinson. They recorded “Love Is Strange,” which sold more than a million copies.

31 notes Source: The New York Times #Mickey Baker#Guitarist#obituary#NYTimes#Sylvia#Vanderpool Robinson#Love Is Strange#photo#vintage
October 28th, 2012
(via Yesterday’s Papers: Race Record Advertisements from 1926-29) Blue Belle (Bessie Mae Smith, with guitarist Lonnie Johnson) sings ‘High Water Blues’ — August 13, 1927

(via Yesterday’s Papers: Race Record Advertisements from 1926-29)

Blue Belle (Bessie Mae Smith, with guitarist Lonnie Johnson) sings ‘High Water Blues’ — August 13, 1927

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June 3rd, 2012
electricized: Duane Allman 1946-1971 Hard not be under the spell of the Skydog. The guitar prodigy that is Duane Allman has granted us with flawless studio work, sublime live improvs and electrifying slides, throughout a career interrupted way too early. Besides his talent, he made guitar playing look and feel so effortless, and that grants him a prime seat in the pantheon of guitar gods, very close to Hendrix.  Duane Allman is mostly remembered as a Les Paul Standard player. He also played a 61 SG for slides and Strats during his pre-Allman brothers session work. Photo: Richard Hombre

electricized:

Duane Allman

1946-1971

Hard not be under the spell of the Skydog. The guitar prodigy that is Duane Allman has granted us with flawless studio work, sublime live improvs and electrifying slides, throughout a career interrupted way too early. Besides his talent, he made guitar playing look and feel so effortless, and that grants him a prime seat in the pantheon of guitar gods, very close to Hendrix. 

Duane Allman is mostly remembered as a Les Paul Standard player. He also played a 61 SG for slides and Strats during his pre-Allman brothers session work.

Photo: Richard Hombre

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May 29th, 2012
(via Doc Watson obituary: Guitarist-singer dies at 89 - latimes.com) In 1962, Doc Watson and some of his musician neighbors set out from their home in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the journey of a lifetime, to perform at the Ash Grove folk club in Los Angeles. “I remember the first trip we did,” Watson said in a 2008 interview. “We borrowed a little station wagon from the late Clarence Ashley’s son and drove to California and back, and I remember thinking, ‘Lord, what a big old country this is.’ I was a mountaineer, just a country boy. I’d never been nowhere like that before.” Within a few years, Watson seemingly had been everywhere, as his prowess on guitar and his vast store of traditional Southern music made the blind musician an internationally celebrated artist. Watson, 89, who recorded more than 50 albums and won seven Grammy Awards, died Tuesday at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., according to his representatives at Folklore Productions, a Santa Monica management company. He had undergone colon surgery Thursday…

(via Doc Watson obituary: Guitarist-singer dies at 89 - latimes.com)

In 1962, Doc Watson and some of his musician neighbors set out from their home in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the journey of a lifetime, to perform at the Ash Grove folk club in Los Angeles.

“I remember the first trip we did,” Watson said in a 2008 interview. “We borrowed a little station wagon from the late Clarence Ashley’s son and drove to California and back, and I remember thinking, ‘Lord, what a big old country this is.’ I was a mountaineer, just a country boy. I’d never been nowhere like that before.”

Within a few years, Watson seemingly had been everywhere, as his prowess on guitar and his vast store of traditional Southern music made the blind musician an internationally celebrated artist.

Watson, 89, who recorded more than 50 albums and won seven Grammy Awards, died Tuesday at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., according to his representatives at Folklore Productions, a Santa Monica management company. He had undergone colon surgery Thursday…

24 notes Source: Los Angeles Times #Doc Watson#obituary#Guitarist#singer#latimes
December 4th, 2011
(via Bluesman Hubert Sumlin, guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf, dies at 80 - Aurora Beacon News) Hubert Sumlin performs during a Howlin’ Wolf tribute at the 2010 Chicago Blues Festival in Grant Park. JOHN J. KIM~SUN-TIMES

(via Bluesman Hubert Sumlin, guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf, dies at 80 - Aurora Beacon News)

Hubert Sumlin performs during a Howlin’ Wolf tribute at the 2010 Chicago Blues Festival in Grant Park. JOHN J. KIM~SUN-TIMES

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