This is just a short update on Joe's repertoire. He'd been playing lots of pre war tunes on his two albums plus there's a whole ...

David McCarn was born in 1905 in Gaston County, North Carolina. In 1917, at the age of twelve, McCarn began working as a doffer at the Chron...

Eddie Mapp, who was born around 1910, could have had the brightest future as a harmonica player one can imagine - if he hadn't been stab...

For countless years Adam Sikora is an institution to Berlin's Blues Scene now. Strongly influenced by the likes of Sonny Terry , Johnny ...

In December 1973, David Morton recorded the late DeFord Bailey as a Christmas present for his father. At http://defordbailey.info/audio the...

James Francum Braswell (1908-1958) was born in 1908, the son of a farm family, in Piney, in Caldwell County, in western North Carolina. B...

Born William Jennings Cox at Eagle, West Virginia in 1897, Bill very soon learned to play the harmonica and later the guitar. From 1927 on...

George Pegram of Union Grove, NC, and Walter Parham of Leicester, NC, have been playing and singing together for many years. They appear ...

Burl C. Coleman was born in Gainesville, AL. on May 20, 1896. He started performing blues as an entertainer for the American soldiers whil...

Recorded 1940 in Shafter Farm Security Administration Camp, CA. During their first of two trips to FSA Camp, Charles L. Todd & Robert So...