Born on this day – Henry Townsend:

Henry Townsend

Blues singer

Guitarist

Pianist

October 27, 1909 – September 24, 2006

Credits:

Albums:

Blues Piano and Guitar (2019); Cairo Blues (1973); Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas (2007); More Devil's Music (2006); Mule / Expanded Edition (1980); Mule's Blues (2015); My Story (2001); St. Louis Blues Ace (1996); The 88 Blues (1998); The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 3: Henry Townsend (1984); The Real St. Louis Blues (2001).

Movies and television:

10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads (2007); Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Blues Story (2003); Thats the Way I Do It (1986); The Devil's Music (1979).

Born on this day – Steve Cropper:

Steve Cropper

Guitarist

Songwriter

Record producer

October 21, 1941 – December 3, 2025

Albums:

Dedicated (2011); Fire It Up (2021); Friendlytown (2024); Jammed Together (1969); Midnight Flyer (2010); Night After Night (1982); Nudge It Up A Notch (2008); Playin' My Thang (1981); Steve Cropper, Lou Marini and the Original Blues Brothers Band (2017); The Interview – Play It, Steve! (1998); This Is ... Steve Cropper & His Friends (1971); With a Little Help from My Friends (1969).

Movies and television:

28 Days (2000); 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996); 40 Hits of 1985 at the BBC (2025); 54 (1998); 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (2020); A Bronx Tale (1993); A Celebration of Blues & Soul: The 1989 Inaugural Concert (2014); A Day at the Beach (1970); A Good Life: The Joe Grushecky Story (2007); A Heartbeat Away (2011); A League of Their Own (2022); A Many Splintered Thing (2000); A Night at the Adonis (1978); A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988); A Single Man (2009); A Very English Scandal (2018); Addicted to Love (1997); Alien Nation (1988); AM HQ Weekend (2025); Amazon Women on the Moon (1987); American Bandstand's 33 1/3 Celebration (1985); American Boyfriends (1989); American Crime Story (2016); American Dad! (2009); American Graffiti (1973); American Horror Story (2019); American Idol (2003–2012); America's Morning Headquarters (2025); Amii Stewart: Knock on Wood (1979); An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000); Andre (1994); Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022); Apollo 11 (1996); Aquarius (2015); Argo (2012); Ask Körfezi (1979); Ask the Family (1978); B.B. King: In the Midnight Hour (1985); B.B. King: Into the Night (1985); Ballers (2018); Banda sonora (2008); Bandstand (1965); Barfly (1987); Baseball (1994); BBC TV Cricket (1963); Be Kind Rewind (2008); Beat Shazam (2018); Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (2024); Bedazzled (2000); Belushi (2020); Best (2000); Big Wednesday (1978); Blow (2001); Blues Brothers 2000 (1998); Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison: My Back Pages (Live) (1993); Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (1992); Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011); Bodkin (2024); Boomers (2014–2016); Boy Swallows Universe (2024); Britain's Got More Talent (2015–2018); Britain's Got Talent (2012); Cab Calloway, le dandy de Harlem (2010); Calendar Girl (1993); Canadian Idol (2003); Candy Cane Lane (2023); Carnage Park (2016); Casino (1995); Cass (2008); Casual (2016); Caught (2018); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2025); CBS Saturday Morning (2017); Chicago Hope (1995); Classic One Day Finishes (1992); Cold Case (2009); Conan (2018); Cricket: Today at the Test (2020); Crime Spree (2003); Crip Camp (2020); Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008); Cyndi Lauper: Let the Canary Sing (2023); David Holzman's Diary (1967); De Mike Burstyn show (1981); De provincie (1991); Der Mann auf der Brücke (2009); Detroit (2017); Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2007); Die große Chance (2013); Digging to China (1997); Discomania (2004); Dolemite Is My Name (2019); Dolly (1976); Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993); Dream a Little Dream (1989); Due Date (2010); Dystopia Tonight with John Poveromo (2021); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); EastEnders (2013); Easy A (2010); Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987); Electric Dreams (2009); Empire Falls (2005); Empire of Ash III (1989); Enie backt (2012); Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 (2013); Extreme Justice (1986); Falcon Crest (1988); Fame (1985); Family Guy (2017); Far Cry New Dawn (2019); Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998); Femme Fatales (2011); Festival de Viña del Mar (2007); Flash of Genius (2008); Footloose (2011); For the Boys (1991); For the Love of Music: The Story of Nashville (2013); Frasier (1995); Freeform (1970); Frequency (2000); Fright Night Part 2 (1988); Fringe (2012); From the Earth to the Moon (1998); Funkytown (2011); Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006); Genesis: Live at Wembley Stadium (1988); Genesis: The Mama Tour (1984); Genius (2021); Georgia (1995); Get Shorty (1995); Getting Wasted (1980); Glory Road (2006); Godfather of Harlem (2021); Good Morning Britain (2019); Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); Graines de star (1996); Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004); Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland (1978); Great Performances (2004–2007); Guitar (1991); Hamburger Hill (1987); Happy Ending (2018); Happy Gilmore (1996); Heartbeat (1992); High School (1968); Hollow Reed (1996); Hollywood a Go Go (1965–1966); Hollywood's Master Storytellers: The Blues Brothers (2005); Homicide: Life on the Street (1999); Honest (2000); Houseguest (1995); I Don't Know How She Does It (2011); Idol - Jakten på en superstjerne (2005); Idol stjörnuleit (2003); Ídolos (2003); Idols (2002–2011); Idool 2003 (2003); Idool 2004 (2004); If Beale Street Could Talk (2018); If Not Us, Who? (2011); In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul (2013); Indecent Proposal (1993); Intimate (2025); Intimate Strangers (2004); Into the Night (1985); It Takes Two (2008); Jackass (2001); James Burton & Friends: the Rock & Roll Supershow (2024); Jesus' Son (1999); Jimmy Barnes Feat. Steve Cropper: I Worship the Ground You Walk On (2016); Jools's Hootenanny (2009); Julia (2008); K-9: P.I. (2002); Kalp Kalbe Karsidir... (1978); Kara Simsek (1985); Karaoke Revolution Volume 2 (2004); Karaoke Revolution Volume 3 (2004); Killing Cinderella (2000); Kizi da Anasi Gibi (1980); Klassfesten (2002); Knuckles (2024); La rentadora (2007); Late Night with David Letterman (1991); Legend (2015); Legends & Lyrics Reboot: 8-Part All-Star Concert (2023); Les 50 ans du Disco - les stars chantent pour le Sidaction (2023); Les femmes... ou les enfants d'abord... (2002); Leyendas de la guitarra (1991); Lilyhammer (2012); Little Big League (1994); Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live (2005); Love Child (2014); Love Ranch (2010); Mad Love (1969); Mafia III (2016); Marriages (1998); Mavis! (2015); Maximum Bob (1998); Meet the Raisins! (1988); Memoirs of a Madam (1972); Memphis Music Hall of Fame 10th Anniversary (2022); Miami Vice (1985); Michael Bolton: The Dock of the Bay (1988); Midsomer Murders (2007–2009); Mission: Impossible (1971); Mondo Trasho (1969); Monterey Pop (1968); Morfi, todos a la mesa (2016); Murphy Brown (1989); My Family (2000); My Fellow Americans (1996); My Own Private Oshawa (2002); Mystery Date (1991); New Zealand Idol (2004); Night and Day (2016); Night School (2018); No me la puc treure del cap (2012); Nothing to Lose (1997); Nunca es tarde (2016); Obscurity (2014); Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002); One Hit Wonderland (2012); One Last Thing... (2005); Only the Strong Survive (2002); Operación triunfo (2003); Otis Redding: Soul Ambassador (2013); Paltrocast with Darren Paltrowitz (2020); Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1992); Paul Rodgers: Live in Glasgow (2007); Perfect Days (2023); Pistol (2022); Plump Fiction (1997); Pop Idol (2003); Premier Festival International de Pop Music (1969); Private Life (2018); Quadrophenia (1979); Quantum Leap (1990–1993); Raisins Sold Out: The California Raisins II (1990); Rampe & Naukkis - Kaikkien aikojen superpari (1990); Reborn in the USA (2003); Resident Alien (2021); Ride (1998); Riding in Cars with Boys (2001); Road House (1989); Roadie (1980); Robot Dreams (2023); Rock & Roll (1995); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Feelin' Alright (2009); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: I'll Take You There (2009); Rock Around the Dock (1986); Rock Influence (1984); Rock 'n' Roll Guns for Hire: The Story of the Sidemen (2017); Room for Rent (1971); Rough Trades (1977); Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl - Unraveled (2014); Rugby League's Legendary Watersplash Final (2018); RuPaul's Drag Race (2011); Rush Hour (1998); Safe Men (1998); Satisfaction (1988); Saturday Night Live (1978–1993); Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd (2005); Saturday Night Live: The Best of John Belushi (2005); Scandal (2012–2014); Scarecrow (1973); Scary Movie 2 (2001); Scratch (2001); Shake! Otis at Monterey (1987); Shindig! (1965); Show Business Is My Life, But I Can't Prove It (2022); Sjans (1992); Skate. (2007); Sling Blade (1996); So You Think You Can Dance (2005–2007); So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2008); Something in the Air (2012); Sons of Anarchy (2013); Soul America (2020); Soul Comes Home (2003); Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music (2005); Soul Men (2008); Soul to Soul (1971); Soulsville (2003); Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016); Sounds of Memphis (2002); Star 80 (1983); Stars in Their Eyes (1997); State of Mind (2007); Stax, le label soul légendaire (2018); STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A. (2024); Stepmom (1998); Stranded in Canton (2005); Striptease (1996); Sugar Hill (1994); Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021); Supernatural (2007); 't Schaep met de 5 pooten (2013); Take Me to the River (2014); Tales of the City (1993); Talk to Me (2007); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023); TFI Friday (1996); The 27-Hour Day (2021); The 36th Annual Grammy Awards (1994); The Addams Family (2019); The Bank Job (2008); The Beanie Bubble (2023); The Bear (2024); The Benny Hill Show (1989); The Best of Dan Aykroyd (1986); The Best of John Belushi (1985); The Best of the Blues Brothers (1993); The Big Chill (1983); The Big Lebowski (1998); The Blues (2003); The Blues Brothers (1980); The Blues Brothers: Soul Biscuit (1978); The Commitments (1991); The Compleat Al (1985); The Dean Martin Show (1970); The Deuce (2017); The Devil's Own (1997); The Ed Sullivan Show (1968); The Ernie Sigley Show (1975); The Experts (1989); The Fall of the House of Usher (2023); The Fear (El Miedo);  (2006); The Flamingo Kid (1984); The Go!! Show (1966); The Great Outdoors (1988); The History of Rock 'n' Roll (1995); The Hollywood Knights (1980); The Johnny Cash Show (1969); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1995); The Kenny Everett Video Show (1979); The Last Days of Disco (1998); The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021); The Lawrence Welk Show (1969); The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004); The Loving Story (2011); The Making of 'Blues Brothers 2000' (1998); The Marty Stuart Show (2010–2014); The Meat Rack (1979); The Midnight Hour (1985); The Missing Picture (2013); The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009); The Project (2024); The Red King (2024); The Ronnie Wood Show (2012); The Sandlot (1993); The Secret Disco Revolution (2012); The Shrink Next Door (2021); The Simpsons (2019); The Sopranos (1999–2002); The South Bank Show (2004); The State (1995); The Stories Behind the Making of 'the Blues Brothers' (1998); The Story of the Songs (2020); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1993); The Twilight Zone (2019); The Vietnam War (2017); The Voice UK (2012); The Voices (2014); The Warriors (2005); The Wednesday Play (1965); The Witches (2020); The Young Ones (1983); Things We Did Last Summer (1978); Third Watch (2000); This Is Tom Jones (1969); Three Giant Men (1973); Tigerland (2000); Tiswas (1979–1980); Tom Jones: Live in Australia (1966); Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022); Tony! Toni! Toné!: If I Had No Loot (1993); Top 2000 a gogo (2008); Top Gun (1986); Top of the Pops (1979–1985); Top of the Pops: The Story of 1980 (2015); Tornavida (1979); Trial and Error (1997); Trust (2018); Tu cara me suena (2014); Tuff Turf (1985); Twin Peaks (2017); Twins (1988); Unsung (2015); Uptight (1968); Vacanze di Natale '91 (1991); Vampires (1998); Viki ja Köpi Show (2023); Vinyl (2016); War Dogs (2016); We zijn weer thuis (1991); What's Behind the Groupies? (1975); When Pigs Fly (1993); When We Were Boys (2013); White Boy Rick (2018); White of the Eye (1987); Wild West (2002); Wimbledon (2017); Wired (1989); WKRP in Cincinnati (1981); X-Men: First Class (2011); XXX's & OOO's (1994); Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary (2024); Young Sheldon (2021).

Born on this day – Johnny Temple:

Johnny Temple

Blues singer

Guitarist

October 18, 1906 – November 22, 1968

Credits:

Albums:

Johnnie Temple 1935-1940: From Mississippi to Chicago (The Blues) (1997); Johnnie Temple Vol. 2 1938-1940 (2005); Johnnie Temple Vol. 3 1940-1949 (2005); Johnny Temple's Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out (2006); Lead Pencil Blues (2015); Presenting Johnnie Temple (1935); Vol. 1 1935-1938 (2005).

Songs:

Beale Street Sheik; Between Midnight and Dawn; Big Boat Whistle; Big Leg Woman; Big Woman Blues; County Jail Blues; East Saint Louis Blues; Every Dog Must Have His Day; Fare You Well; Gimme Some of That Yum Yum Yum; Gonna Ride 74; Hoodoo Women; I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again; Jacksonville Blues; Lead Pencil Blues; Louise Louise Blues; Mama's Bad Luck Child; Mean Baby Blues; New Louise Louise Blues; New Vicksburg Blues; Olds "98" Blues; Peeping Through The Keyhole; Pimple Blues; Rhythm Mama; Snapping Cat; So Lonely And Blue; Something in the Moon That Gives Me a Thrill; Stavin' Chain; The Evil Devil Blues; What Is It That Smells Like Gravy?; Yum, Yum, Yum.

Born on this day – Big Joe Williams:

Big Joe Williams

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982

Credits:

Songs:

49 Highway Blues; Ain't Nothin' Like Whiskey; Baby Please Don't Go; Big Road Blues; Black Gal; Blues for Gamblers; Bye, Bye, Blues; Crawlin' King Snake; Drop Down Mama; First Meeting; Flour Dough Blues; Hand Me Down My Old Walking; Highway 49; House Lady Blues; I May Be Wrong; I Wanna Die Easy When I Die; If You Steal My Chickens, You Can't Make 'Em Lay; Jivin' Woman; Juanita; King Biscuit Stomp; Little Leg Woman; Mellow Apples; Motherless Children; My Grey Pony; P Vine Blues; Ramblin' On My Mind; She Left Me A Mule To Ride; Sloppy Drunk Blues; Sugar Mama; Tell Me Mama; Vitamin A; Wimmin From Coast To Coast.

Albums:

An American Singer, Songwriter, Blues Master, Volume 2 (2021); An American Singer, Songwriter, Blues Master, Volume 4; The Complete Singles 1935-1941 (2021); An American Singer, Songwriter, Blues Master, Volume 5; The Complete Singles 1942-1960 (2021); Baby Please Don't Go (2019); Back To The Country (1964); Back to the Roots (2023); Big Joe Williams (1964); Big Joe Williams at Folk City (1963); Big Joe Williams King Of The Delta Blues (2023); Blues Bash (1973); Blues for 9 Strings; Blues Masters Vol. 6 - Big Joe Williams (2009); Chewred Up Grass (2019); Chicago ‘63 (2023); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 2 (1945-1949) (1991); Delta Blues Live (2019); Down South Summit Meetin' (1960); Fantastic Music for Christmas (All the Greatest Tracks) (2016); Four Classic Albums (Piney Wood Blues / Tough Times / Blues on Highway 49 / Mississippi's Big Joe Williams and His Nine String Guitar) (Digitally Remastered) (2021); Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick (1969); Hell Bound and Heaven Sent Blues (1968); Highway 49 (2018); I Got Wild (2003); Instinctively the Blues - Big Joe Williams (2020); Just the Blues, 1958-1961, (24 Successes) (Blues Left Texas) (2018); Malvina My Sweet Woman (1974); Meet Me Around the Corner (Nothing But the Blues) (2012); Nine Strings (2020); No More Whiskey (1998); Piney Wood Blues (1997); Piney Woods Blues (1958); Po' Joe (1999); Studio Blues (1964); The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins (1969); The Blues Collection: Big Joe Williams, Baby Please Don't Go (1994); The Blues Collective - Big Joe Williams (2023); The Essential Big Joe Williams (1945-1961), Vol. 1 (2020); The Essential Big Joe Williams (1945-1961), Vol. 2 (2020); The Original Ramblin' Bluesman 1945-1961; The Ultimate Jazz Archive 12 - Blues (2 Of 4) (2007); These Are My Blues (Live) (1998); Throw a Boogie Woogie; Watergate Blues (2000); Wild Cow Blues (2018).

Movies, television and video:

AC/DC: Baby, Please Don't Go (1976); American Masters (2005); Archer (2014); Blue Chips (1994); Blues Odyssey (2003); Count Basie at Carnegie Hall (1981); Countdown (1974); Drop Zone (1994); Focus (2015); Friday Night Football (2015); Good Mornin' Blues (1978); Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); Heart Condition (1990); Hollywood a Go Go (1965); I Am Not Your Negro (2016); Metal Evolution (2011); Nightmare Code (2014); Otis (2008); Out of Sight (1966); Passage to Mars (2016); Poor White Trash (2000); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (1995); She's Out of Control (1989); Shindig! (1965); Swing In (1968); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 1 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 2 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festivals: The British Tours 1963-1966 (2007); The Beach Boys (2024); The Bikeriders (2023); The Blues (1966); The Buttercup Project (2010); The Devil's Music (1979); The Instigators (2024); The Led Zeppelin Story (2004); The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009); Treme (2011); Two Weeks to Live (2020); Wild at Heart (1990).

Born on this day – Johnnie Bassett:

Johnnie Bassett

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

October 9, 1935 – August 4, 2012

Credits:

Albums:

Bassett Hound (1997); Cadillac Blues (1998); I Can Make That Happen (2012); I Gave My Life to the Blues (1997); Live at the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival (1994); Party My Blues Away (1999); The Gentleman Is Back (2009).

Born on this day – Little Hat Jones:

Little Hat Jones

Blues singer

Guitarist

October 5, 1899 – March 7, 1981

Credits:

Songs:

Awful Moaning Blues, Pt. 1; Awful Moaning Blues, Pt. 2; Boe Hog Blues; Bye Bye Baby; Bye Bye Baby Blues; Cherry Street Blues; Corpus Blues; Cross The Water Blues; Frost Texas Tornado Blues; Gold Tooth Blues; Hurry Blues; Johnny Behren's Blues; Kentucky Blues; Little Hat Blues; New Two Sixteen Blues; Ninety-Eight Degree Blues; Rolled From Side To Side Blues; Seen Better Days; Two String Blues; Water Bound Blues.

Born on this day – Deborah Coleman:

Deborah Coleman

Blues singer

Guitarist

October 3, 1956 – April 12, 2018

Albums:

Blues Caravan: Guitars & Feathers (2008); I Can't Lose (1997); Livin’ On Love (2001); Soft Place to Fall (2000); Soul Be It (2002); Stop The Game (2007); Takin' a Stand (1995); The Essential Deborah Coleman (2015); Time Bomb (2007); What About Love? (2004); Where Blue Begins (1998).

Songs:

Another Hoping Fool; Bendin’ Like a Willow Tree; Brick; Can You Hear Me?; Deserted Highway; Don't Lie to Me; Fine & Mellow; Good Understanding; Goodbye Misery; Heaven’s Got the Blues; I Believe; I Can't Lose; If You Love Me Like You Say; I'm a Woman; Lie No Better; Light of Day; Livin’ on Love; Look What You Do to Me; Love Moves Me; My Heart Bleeds Blue; Nobody To Blame; Nothin' to Do With Love; Roll With Me; So Damn Easy; The Day It Comes; The Dream; The Man Is Mine; The River Wild; Torn in Two; Travelin' South; When Will I Be Loved?; You’re With Me.

Documentary:

Blues Divas (2005).

Born on this day – B.B. King:

B.B. King

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

Producer

September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015

Born on this day – Barbecue Bob:

Barbecue Bob

Blues singer

Guitarist

September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931

Credits:

Songs:

Bad Times Blues; Barbecue Blues; Black Skunk Blues; Blind Pig Blues; California Blues; Cloudy Sky Blues; Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name; 'Fo Day Creep; Freeze to Me Mama; Going up the Country; Good Time Rounder; Honey Your Going Too Fast; I'm on My Way Down Home; It Just Won't Hay; It's Just Too Bad; Jacksonville Blues; Me and My Whiskey; Mississippi Heavy Water Blues; Motherless Chile Blues; My Mistake Blues; New Mojo Blues; Poor Boy a Long Ways From Home / Poor Boy Long Way From Home; She Moves It Just Right; She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day; Spider and the Fly; Tellin' It to You; Thinkin' Funny Blues; Twistin’ Your Stuff; We Sure Got Hard Times; When the Saints Go Marching In; Yo Yo Blues.

Albums:

ABC Of The Blues Vol 2 (2010); Atlanta Blues (2021); Atlanta Moan (2019); Barbecue Blues (2007); Barbecue Bob Vol. 1 (1927 - 1928) (2005); Barbecue Bob Vol. 2 (1928 - 1929) (2005); Barbecue Bob Vol. 3 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Blues (2024); Blues Essentials (2011); Chef's Blues (2015); Chocolate To The Bone (1992); New Standards (1992); Presenting Barbecue Bob (1927); Rough Guide To Barbecue Bob (2015); Textures in Hi-Fi with Pete Rugolo and his Orchestra (1999); Winter Awhile (2022); Winter Awhile / 2023 Remaster (2023).

Born on this day – Floyd Council:

Floyd Council

Blues singer

Guitarist

Mandolin player

September 2, 1911 – May 9, 1976

Albums:

Poor And Ain’t Got A Dime (2008); Runaway Man Blues (2012); Working Man Blues (2008).

Born on this day – John Lee Hooker:

John Lee Hooker

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001

Born on this day – Luther Allison:

Luther Allison

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997

Credits:

Albums:

Bad News Is Coming (1972); Blue Streak (1995); Hand Me Down My Moonshine (1994); Here I Come (1985); I Owe It All To You (2024); Learn From The Past (2022); Let's Have A Natural Ball (1985); Let's Try It Again (1992); Life Is a Bitch (1984); Live '89: Let's Try It Again (2006); Live At Montreux 1986 (2006); Live in Chicago (1999); Live in Montreux 1976-1994 (2006); Live in Paris (1979); Love Me Mama (1969); Love Me Papa (1977); Luther Allison Live in Paris 1979 (2005); Luther's Blues (1974); Montreux 1976 (Live) (2017); More From Berlin (1990); My Time Ain't Long (2023); Night Life (1976); Pay It Forward (2002); Power Wire Blues (1979); Reckless (1997); Rich Man (1995); Serious (1987); Songs From The Road (2009); Soul Fixin' Man (1994); South Side Safari (1979); Standing at the Crossroad (1977); Sweet Home Chicago (2006); The Alligator Records Years (2013); The Motown Years 1972-1976 (1996); Time (1989); Underground (2007); When The Sun Goes Down (2024); Where Have You Been? Live In Montreux 1976-1994 (1996).

Movies and television:

Chorus (1978–1980); Cooley High (1975); Die Harald Schmidt Show (1996); Karussell (1985–1987); Lieder & Leute (1982); Little Fires Everywhere (2020); Lord Thing (1970); Mad Money (2008); Magnum P.I. (2020); Musical express (1979); Nobody (2021); Taratata (1997); The Big Easy (1997); The Breed (2006); The Good Life (2014).

Born on this day – Willie Lee Brown:

Willie Lee Brown

Blues singer

Guitarist

August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952

Credits:

Albums:

Tell Me Why Love Don't Last / EP (2015); Two Men on Fire - The Blues Brothers of the Delta (2025); Voice Throwin' Blues (2022).

Songs:

Cadillac Boogie; Camp Hollers; Cut It Out; Do It Like That; East St. Louis Blues; Fever; Fo' Clock Blues; Four O'clock Flower Blues; Future Blues; Going to Fishing; Gonna Make It On Back; Gonna Make on Back; Government Fleet Blues; Korea Blues; Levee Camp Blues; Love That Stranger; M & O Blues; M and o Blues; Make Me a Pallet on the Floor; Mississippi Blues; Ragged and Dirty; Sleep; So Gorgeous; Take My Love; Talk To Me, Talk To Me; Tell Me Why Love Don't Last Always; Together; Together Intrumental; Walkin' Blues; Walking Blues.

Movie:

Crossroads (1986).

Born on this day – Mike Bloomfield:

Mike Bloomfield

Blues singer

Guitarist

Composer

July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981

Credits:

Albums:

American Hero (1982); Analine (1977); At The Bottom Line New York, 1975 (Hd Remastered Edition) (2017); Between A Hard Place And The Ground (2011); Between the Hard Place and the Ground (1979); Bloomfield Blues (2009); Bloomfield Harris (1979); Blues at the Fillmore / Electric Blue Live (2011); Blues In B-Flat (2009); Bottom Line New York, 1974 (Hd Remastered Edition) (2017); Chicago Blues Union (2006); Count Talent and the Originals (2006); Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’ (1980); Don’t Say That I Ain’t Your Man! – Essential Blues (1994); Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12/13/68 (2003); Fillmore West 1969 (2023); Great Gifts From Heaven (2010); Greatest Moments - One Night Only (2008); If You Love These Blues, Play ‘Em as You Please (1976); I’m with You Always (2008); Initial Shock (1988); It’s Not Killing Me (1969); Junko Partner (1984); Knockin Myself Out (2006); Late At Night: McCabes, January 1, 1977 (2018); Let It Shine (Record Plant, Sausalito ‘73 KSAN Broadcast Remastered) (2020); Live at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West (1969); Live At Bottom Line Cabaret, 31 March 1974 (2015); Live At McCabe’s Guitar Workshop, January 1, 1977 (2017); Live At The Bottom Line (2022); Live at the Old Waldorf (1998); Live at the Record Plant 1973 (2017); Live from The Palms Cafe - San Francisco 1977 (2023); Live in Italy (1981); Living in the Fast Lane (1980); Michael Bloomfield (1978); Mike Bloomfield & The Electric Flag Getting Down (2021); Red Hot & Blue (1981); San Francisco Nights (2018); Solid Blues (1995); Steelyard Blues (1972); Super Session (1968); The Gospel Truth (2021); The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper (1969); The Record Plant ‘73 (2017); Timeless Blues: Mike Bloomfield (2011); Triumvirate (1973); Try It Before You Buy It (1975).

Movies and television:

American Masters (2005); And This Is Free (1965); Bad (1977); Bongo Wolf's Revenge (1970); Born in Chicago (2020); Easy Rider (1969); Festival (1967); Fillmore (1972); Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story (2017); In Concert (1973); Independent Lens (2014); Medium Cool (1969); Muscle Shoals (2013); Newport and the Great Folk Dream (2025); Rocketman (2019); Sneakers (1992); Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days (1975); Soundstage (1974); Steelyard Blues (1973); Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield (2013); The Blues (2003); The Intimate Rebels (1974); The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival (2007); The Trip (1967); Turn It Up! (2014).

Born on this day – Buster Benton:

Buster Benton

Blues singer

Guitarist

July 19, 1932 – January 20, 1996

Credits:

Albums:

Blues and Trouble (2002); Blues at the Top (1993); Blues Buster (1979); Buster Benton Is the Feeling (1980); First Time in Europe (1983); I Like to Hear My Guitar Sing (1991); Money's the Name of the Game (1989); Spider in My Stew (1978); That's the Reason (1997); Why Me (1988).

Television:

Àngel Casas Show (1985).

Born on this day – Mary Stuart:

Mary Stuart

Actress

Guitarist

Singer

Songwriter

July 4, 1926 – February 28, 2002

Credits:

Album:

Joanne Sings (1956), with Stuart and Percy Faith, music inspired by the TV show Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986).

Movies and television:

50 Years of Soaps: An All-Star Celebration (1994); 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); After Hours: From Janice, John, Mary and Michael, with Love (1976); April Showers (1948); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); California Casanova (1991); Colt .45 (1950); Dark Delusion (1947); Dinah! (1975); Donahue (1985); Embraceable You (1948); Face of a Stranger (1991); Father Makes Good (1950); Good News (1947); Guiding Light (1996–2002); Help Wanted (1983); Henry, the Rainmaker (1949); Here We Go Again (1942); Highways by Night (1942); Hollywood Opening Night (1951); Hour Magazine (1981–1987); June Bride (1948); Ladies' Day (1943); Leave It to Henry (1949); Lights Out (1950); Living in a Big Way (1947); Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942); Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942); Mr. Lucky (1943); Musical Chairs (1975); NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986); NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); Omnibus / Segment: The Bad Men (1952); One Life to Live (1968–2013); Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986); Seven Days' Leave (1942); Song of the Islands (1942); Springtime in the Rockies (1942); Stars Over Hollywood (1950); The 12th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (1985); The 1st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (1974); The 28th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2001); The 30th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2003); The Big Punch (1948); The Big Street (1942); The Bob Braun Show (1976–1982); The Canterbury Tales (1972); The Cariboo Trail (1950); The David Frost Show (1972); The David Letterman Show (1980); The Dick Cavett Show (1968); The Falcon Strikes Back (1943); The Girl from Jones Beach (1949); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime);  (1978); The Hucksters (1947); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1979); The Regis Philbin Show (1982); The Unfinished Dance (1947); The Web (1950); This Land Is Mine (1943); This Time for Keeps (1947); Thunderhoof (1948); Today (1980); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1976); Triple Threat (1948); Week-End in Havana (1941); When Angels Fly (1983).

Born on this day – Big Bill Broonzy:

Big Bill Broonzy

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

June 26, 1893 – August 14, 1958

Credits:

Albums:

1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1937, 1938 (2005); 1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1938, 1939 (2005); 1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1939, 1940 (2005); A Retrospective Big Bill Broonzy (2014); Amazing Performance (2013); Amsterdam Concerts 1953 (2006); Barrelhouse of Blues (2015); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Big Bill Broonzy (2011); Big Bill Blues (2014); Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam (1962); Big Bill Broonzy Selected Favorites (2006); Big Bill Broonzy Sings (1956); Big Bill Broonzy Sings Country Blues (1957); Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs (1962); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 13 (1949-1951) (2013); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 4 1935 – 1936 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 5 1935 – 1936 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 6 1937 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 7 1937 – 1938 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy's Pig Meat Blues (2006); Big Bill's Blues (1957); Blues and Gospel No. 3: Big Bill Broonzy (Mono Version) (1962); Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1959); C.C.Rider Meets Lonesome Road Blues (2014); Chicago Blues (2013); Classic Box Set: The Bill Broonzy Story (2015); Hey Hey (2012); I Believe I'll Go Back Home (2014); Introducing Big Bill Broonzy (2014); Just a Dream for Big Bill Broonzy (2009); Key to the Highway (2010); Little Bug (2000); On Tour in Britain, 1952 (2002); Recorded In Club Montmartre 1956 Vol. 1 (1993); Recorded In Club Montmartre 1956 Vol. 2 (1993); Rockin' In Chicago 1949-53 (2007); St. Louis Blues (2007); Tell Me Baby (2014); The 1955 London Sessions (1990); The Blues Volume 2 (2008); The Hip Star (2014); The Historic Concert Recordings (2013); The Southern Blues (1996); Trouble In Mind - Previously Unissued Live Concert Recordings (1990); Volume 3: The War And Postwar Years 1940 – 1941 (2007); Volume 3: The War And Postwar Years 1945 – 1949 (2007); What a Wonderful Blues World (2013).

Movies and television:

All You Need Is Love (1977); Arena (1985); Big Bill Blues (1957); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Blues Masters (1999); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Cold Case (2006); Deadwood (2005); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Eric Clapton: One More Car, One More Rider - Live on Tour 2001 (2002); Folk Britannia (2006); Frank's Place (1987); Hitsville: The Making of Motown (2019); Holiday (1957); Home Sweet Home (2013); I Go Back Home: Jimmy Scott (2016); I Love You (1986); Intolerable Cruelty (2003); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Love Hurts (2012); Matlock (1992); Mississippi Grind (2015); Panoptikum (1970); Passage to Mars (2016); Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020); Presley (1987); Six-Five Special (1957); Supernatural (2006); The Beatles Anthology (1995–1996); The Big Something (2011); The Blues (2003); The Buttercup Project (2010); The Roaring 20s: Mick Jagger's Glory Years (2011); The Terminal (2004); Toxic Apocalypse (2016); Traveller (1997); Unplugged (1992).

Born on this day – Joe Negri:

Joe Negri

Guitarist

Actor

Teacher

June 10, 1926 – May 30, 2026

Credits:

Books:

A Common Sense Approach to Improvisation for Guitar (2002); Interviews with the Jazz Greats... and More! (2001); Voices in Jazz Guitar: Great Performers Talk About Their Approach to Playing (2006).

Albums:

Afternoon in Rio (1998); Dream Dancing (2010); Guitar, With Love (1960); Guitars for Christmas (2003); Michael Feinstein, Fly Me to the Moon (2010); Uptown Elegance (2004).

Movies and television:

Alongside Night (2014); Christmastime with Mister Rogers (1977); Drink, Drank, Drunk / Segment: There's a Tavern in the Town (1974); Kismet (1967); Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968–2001); Mister Rogers: It's You I Like (2018); MisteRogers (1964–1966); Old Friends... New Friends (1980); Speedy Delivery (2008); Summer Sounds (1966); We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told (2018); Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018).

Born on this day – Skip James:

Skip James

Blues singer

Guitarist

Pianist

Songwriter

June 9, 1902 – October 3, 1969

Credits:

Music:

Songs:

22-20 Blues; Be Ready When He Comes; Cherry Ball Blues; Cypress Grove Blues; Devil Got My Woman; Drunken Spree; Four O'Clock Blues; Hard Luck Child; Hard Time Killing Floor Blues; How Long 'Buck; If You Haven't Any Hay Get on Down the Road; Illinois Blues; I'm So Glad; Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader; Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues; Special Rider Blues; What Am I to Do; Yola My Blues Away.

Albums:

Blues from the Delta (1998); Cypress Grove Blues (2004); Devil Got My Woman (1968); Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers (1964); Hard Time (2003); Hard Time Killin' Floor (2005); Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (2003); Heroes of the Blues: The Very Best of Skip James (2003); I'm So Glad (1978); ive: Boston, 1964 & Philadelphia, 1966 (1994); She Lyin' (1964 / 1996); Skip's Guitar Blues (1999); Skip's Piano Blues, 1964 (1998); Studio Sessions: Rare and Unreleased, 1967 (2003); The Complete Bloomington, Indiana Concert, March 30, 1968 (1999); The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James – 1930 (1994); Today! (1966).

Movies and television:

Babo 73 (1968); Burlesque (2010); Dancing in the Street: A Rock and Roll History (1996); Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966 (1996); Devil's Knot (2013); Die Föhnforscher (1985); Down from the Mountain (2000); Ghost World (2001); Great Performances (2005); Her (2013); James Sonny Ford James, Delta Artist (1969); Mad Dogs (2016); Morgan (2016); O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000); Omnibus (1968); Rage (2012); Reacher (2023); Rock Concert (1974); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 - Volume 3 (2004); The Blues (2003); The Soul of a Man (2003); Two Trains Runnin' (2016).

Born on this day – Lil McClintock:

Lil McClintock

Blues singer

Guitarist

June 5, 1883 – 1930s or 1940s

Exact date of death unknown

Music:

Don't Think I'm Santa Claus / By The Watermelon Vine, Lindy Lou (78 record) (1930); Atlanta Blues 1927 - 30: The Complete Recordings In Chronological Order Of Julius Daniels And Lil McClintock (Compilation album) (1986).