Blues Music Artist

Henry Townsend, who first arrived in St. Louis and began playing guitar in the mid-1920s, was an integral part of the St. Louis blues scene during its formative years. Three-quarters of a century later, Townsend is the last remaining link to the early blues world of St. Louis. This enchanting oral history recounts Townsend's early days as a shoeshiner fronting for a bootlegging operation, his passion for the guitar ("the sound of that guitar just went through me, just penetrated me like a bullet"), and his collaborations and friendships with many of the musicians and entrepreneurs who shaped the blues scene in St. Louis. Through Townsend's easy reminiscences, the guitarist Lonnie Johnson, the pianists Walter Davis and Roosevelt Sykes, and the promoter Jessie Johnson come vividly to life, along with scores of other individuals both remembered and forgotten who left their mark on a key musical genre. Touching on important social aspects of St. Louis life, from racism and police harassment to honky-tonk speakeasies, A Blues Life offers a personal and often moving commentary on music and culture in the city. Townsend recounts that in the 1920s, St. Louis's Booker Washington Treatre brought in famous acts like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Peg Leg Bates, but very few local blues artists ever appeared there. While middle-class blacks regarded jazz as on the border of respectability, the blues were far over the line, and especially the raw, "gut bucket style blues" that Townsend says set St. Louis blues apart from the styles developing in Chicago, Kansas City, and Mississippi. A living legend, Townsend is still active as a performer and a recording artist. His story is a pricelessfirsthand account of a world long gone, even as his music-making continues to influence a new generation of St. Louis blues artists.

This is the ultimate reference book for blues lovers - a comprehensive biographical encyclodpedia, with more than 600 entries profiling every important blues artist from Bessie Smith to Koko Taylor, Charlie Patton to Robert Cray, Blind Willie McTell to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Each entry gives the essential biography, characterizes the artist's style and musical contributions to the blues, tracks their recording career, and ends up with a list of "essential listening" - the recordings you must go to if you want to hear that person's best work. No other single source brings together so much personal information and discography, including artists in the UK, and covers all the blues: Classic Blues, Piedmont Blues, Chicago Blues, Pre-War Blues, Memphis Blues, Mississippi Delta Blues, Texas Blues, Rhythm and Blues, and Contemporary Blues. It is an entertaining and richly informative guide for blues aficionados and new listeners alike.

East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival - The East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival is an annual music festival held for five days over the Easter long weekend at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. As an event it features a huge selection of blues and roots performers, both international and local.

Johnny Duncan (country music artist) - *This article is about Johnny Duncan the country music artist. For the blue grass artist see: Johnny Duncan.

Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues: the Music of Marvin Gaye (also known as Inner City Blues: A Tribute to Marvin Gaye) is a tribute album to soul singer Marvin Gaye who died in 1984. It was released in 1995 on the Motown label.

MTV Video Music Award for Best Artist Website - The following is a list of the nominees for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Artist Website. This award was given out once in 1999.

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