Sonny Boy Williamson
There were two Sonny Boy Williamson blues performers. The first Sonny Boy was John Lee Williamson. He rose to prominence before World War II as a harmonica player and actually…
Category: Music Makers
William Warfield
William C. Warfield was a well known bass-baritone concert artist, who had a long career that included stage, song and film. William was born January 22, 1920 to Robert Warfield…
James Cotton
James Cotton was known as one of the world’s most popular and renowned harmonica players in the world. He managed to have one of the longest blues careers around and…
Bertha Lee Pate
Remembering Bertha Lee from Fanny Baker in the book Chasin’ that Devil Music: Searching for the Blues by Gayle Wardlow written in 1998. Bertha Lee was a fine looking woman…
Levon Helm
Mark Lavon(Levon) Helm was born on May 26, 1940 outside Elaine in Phillips County, Arkansas to Nell and Diamond Helm. He had two sisters and one brother. The Helms…
Robert Nighthawk
“Nobody else could play a slide like him. They think they can but they can’t…. I ain’t never heard anybody play a slide like Robert Nighthawk. It’s wailin’ man.” Thats…
Sam Carr
Sam Carr was born April 17, 1926 in Marvel, Arkansas. Marvel is a small town in Phillips County, just west of Helena. His parents were Robert Lee and…
Frank Frost
Frank Frost was born on April 15, 1936 in Auvergne, Arkansas. Like a lot of people, it was his family that inspired him to get into music. His Father…
