Born on this day – B.K. Turner:

B.K. Turner

Blues singer

Guitarist

December 21, 1905 – November 7, 1972

Credits:

Albums:

I'm the Boss Card in Your Hand (compilation, Arhoolie, 1992); The Black Ace: BK Turner and His Steel Guitar (studio album, Arhoolie, 1960).

Songs:

Beer Drinkin`Woman; Black Ace; Evil Woman; Hitch Hiking Woman; I Am the Black Ace; Interview; Your Legs Too Little.

Born on this day – Peetie Wheatstraw:

Peetie Wheatstraw

Blues singer

Guitarist

Pianist

December 21, 1902 – December 21, 1941

Credits:

Songs:

Ain’t It a Pity and a Shame; Blues At My Door; C and A Blues; Chicago Mill Blues; Crazy With the Blues; Devil’s Son‐In‐Law; Don’t Feel Welcome Blues; Drinking Man Blues; Four O'Clock in the Morning; Gangster Blues; Gangster’s Blues; Good Whiskey Blues; Hog-Love Blues; I'm A Little Piece Of Leather; Long Time Ago Blues; Midnight Blues; More Good Whiskey Blues; Packin' Up Blues; Pete Wheatstraw; Police Station Blues; Saturday Night Blues; Shack Bully Stomp; Six Weeks Old Blues; So Long Blues; Strange Man Blues; Suicide Blues; Sweet Home Blues; Tennessee Peaches Blues; The Break I'm Getting'; The Rising Sun Blues; Working on the Project; You Can't Stop Me from Drinking.

Albums:

ABC Of The Blues Vol 48 (2010); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Peetie Wheatstraw (2012); Blues Legend 1934-1941 (2011); Blues Legends: Peetie Wheatstraw (2014); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1: 1930-1932 (date?); Crazy With The Blues (2007); Macho Persona (2015); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 1 1930-1932 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 2 1934-1935 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 3 1935-1936 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 4 1936-1937 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 5 1937-1938 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 6 1938-1940 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 7 1940-1941 (2005); Saint Louis - Chicago - New York 1931-1941 (The Blues) (1996); This Is the Blues, Vol. 8 (Mono Version) (1962, EP).

Recommended reading:

The Devil's son-in-law:

The story of Peetie Wheatstraw and his songs

By Paul Garon.

Paperback.

Published 1971.

Published by Studio Vista.

ISBN 13: 9780289702116

ISBN 10: 0289702119

ASIN: 0289702119

Description:

Blue-singer, songwriter, piano and guitar player, William Bunch (1902-1941) was well-known as Peetie Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law and the High Sheriff from Hell. Long recognized by connoisseurs as one of the most influential blues people of all time, his life and work are little known to the broad public. Blues scholar Paul Garon's important and abundantly illustrated study - drawing on his own extensive interviews with Wheatstraw's relatives, and fellow musicians - brings the exciting Whatstraw saga to life at last. With insight and imagination, Garon explores Peetie Wheatstraw's crucial role not only in blues history, but also in African American urban mythology, and - via a penetrating analysis of song lyrics - his appreciable contributions to blues poetry and to vernacular surrealism. Originally published in the UK in 1971, this substantially revised and expanded edition includes a mass of new information and images, as well as an updated bibliography, discography and index. Also included is a 24-track CD portraying Peetie at his best, with a bonus track by Harmon Ray, the previously unissued Xmas Blues!

Born on this day – Lonnie Brooks:

Lonnie Brooks

Blues singer

Guitarist

Writer

December 18, 1933 – April 1, 2017

Born on this day – Dickey Betts:

Dickey Betts

Guitarist

Singer

Songwriter

Composer

December 12, 1943 – April 18, 2024

Credits:

Albums:

Atlanta's Burning Down (1978); Bougainvillea's Call: The Very Best of Dickey Betts 1973-1988 (2006); Dickey Betts & Great Southern (1977); Highway Call (1974); Let's Get Together (2001); Live at the Coffee Pot 1983 (2016); Live from the Lone Star Roadhouse (2018); Official Bootleg Vol.1 (2021); Pattern Disruptive (1988); Ramblin' Man: Live at the St. George Theatre (2019); Rockpalast: 30 Years of Southern Rock 1978–2008 (2010); The Collectors #1 (2002); The Official Bootleg (2007).

Movies, video and television:

2004 Jammys: The Theatre at Madison Square Garden (2004); American Revolutions: Southern Rock (2005); And So It Goes (2014); Beat Shazam (2017); Belushi (2020); Big Fish (2003); Bird on a Wire (1990); Casey's Shadow (1978); Chicago Hope (1996); Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man (2020); Clear History (2013); Cockfighter (1974); Cold Case (2008); Comedian (2002); David Letterman (2011); Dickey Betts & Great Southern: Back Where It All Begins - Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum (2005); Dickey Betts & Great Southern: Back Where It All Begins - Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum (2005); Dickey Betts Band: Ramblin' Live at the St. George Theater (2018); Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009); Erik (2016); Fear (1996); Field of Dreams (1989); Fresh Off the Boat (2016); Guitar Hero II (2006); Guitar Hero: World Tour (2008); Incendiary (2008); Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (2020); Ken Park (2002); Lassie (1994); Late Show with David Letterman (2000); Miami Vice (1986); Mongrels (2010); Morning Joe (2021–2022); Musicians for Disaster Relief 05' (2005); My Generation (2000); Nash Bridges (1996); Ohne Filter (1991); Outside Providence (1999); Psych (2008); Push, Nevada (2002); Radio Arrow (1998); Rock Legends (2017); Rock n' Roll Fantasy Camp (2006); Southern Rock at the BBC (2012); Southern Voices, American Dreams (1985); Supernatural (2005–2008); The 47th Annual Grammy Awards (2005); The Allman Brothers Band: Brothers of the Road (1985); The Allman Brothers Band: Live at Great Woods (1992); The Big Interview with Dan Rather (2018); The Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995); The Cowboy Way (1994); The Exorcist (1973); The Full Moon Show (1992); The Good Guys (2010); The History of Rock 'n' Roll (1995); The Holdovers (2023); The Old Grey Whistle Test (1978); The Shipping News (2001); The Simpsons (2007–2023); The Three Stooges (2012); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2016–2017); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1990); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2012); The Waterboy (1998); Top Gear (2007–2010); Turn It Up! (2014); Unplugged (1990); Volunteer Jam (1976); Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008); When Harry Met Sally... (1989).

Born on this day – J.J. Cale:

J.J. Cale

Singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

Sound engineer

December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013

Credits:

Albums:

5 (1979); 8 (1983); After Hours in Minneapolis (2019); After Midnight: The Best Of (2014); Anyway the Wind Blows: The Anthology (1997); Best of J.J. Cale (1989); Blowin’ Down The Road (2021); Cajun Moon (1974); Closer to You (1994); Collected (2006); Crazy Mama (2023); Gold (2007); Grasshopper (1982); Guitar Man (1996); In Session (Live) (2016); In Session at Paradise Studios, Los Angeles, 1979 (2003); In Session at the Paradise Studios, Los Angeles, 1979 (2003); Independence Day (2018); J J Cale (Discoteca Básica) (Live) (2019); J.J Cale - Breezin’ at the Cafe (Live) (2019); J.J. Cale - Live on Kfc, San Francisco (2015); La Femme de mon pote (1984); Live (2001); Live at Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, 1975 (FM Radio Broadcast) (1975); Live at Ebbett’s Field, Denver, 1975 (FM Radio Broadcast) (1975); Live in Minneapolis 1988 (2019); Live: Ebbett’s Field Denver CO 13 FEB ‘75 (Digitally Remastered) (2016); Live: Town Park, Telluride, CO July 2, 1994 (2018); Moon Smoke (2021); Movin’ On (2023); Naturally (1971); Number 10 (1992); Okie (1974); One Way Ticket (Live Radio Broadcast) (2018); Really (1972); Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings (2007); Right Down Here (Live At Pacific High, San Francisco. 4 Dec ‘71) (2016); Roll On (2009); Shades (1981); Special Edition (1984); Stay Around (2019); The Definitive Collection (1993); The J.J. Cale Collection (2011); The Low Down (2024); The Road to Escondido (2006); The Silvertone Years (2011); The Very Best of J.J. Cale (1997); To Tulsa and Back (2004); Travel-Log (1989); Troubadour (1976).

Movies and television:

2 Meter Sessions (1994); A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974); A Room for Romeo Brass (1999); Any Way the Wind Blows (2003); Bad News Bears (2005); Band on the Run (1982); Bandits (2001); Barney's Version (2010); Breaking Bad (2009); Burden (2018); Crossroads Guitar Festival (2004); Cruising Bar (1989); Cuéntame cómo pasó (2013); Dancing with the Stars (2008); Divorce (2013); Dog the Bounty Hunter (2005); Eastbound & Down (2012); Echo (2023); El Camino (2019); Elementarteilchen (2006); Eric Clapton: One More Car, One More Rider - Live on Tour 2001 (2002); Extract (2009); Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004); Far Out (2015); Flikken Maastricht (2007); Friday Night Lights (2007–2008); Grass (1999); Growing Pains (1987); Hawaii Five-0 (2016); Hoy nos toca (2018); Ida Red (2021); Immediate Family (1989); J.J. Cale & Company 1981 (1981); J.J. Cale: No Time (1990); JJ Cale in Session (2002); Jonathan Creek (2003); Knight Rider (1982); Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006); Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014); Lawn Dogs (1997); Lord of War (2005); Lynyrd Skynyrd: Live at Freedom Hall (2008); Master of None (2015); Men in Trees (2008); Middle Men (2009); Montana Story (2021); Morning Joe (2021); Mulatschag (2012); My Best Friend's Girl (1983); Nursie (2004); O herdeiro (1976); Phenomenon (1996); Rain Man (1988); Reservation Dogs (2023); Ride (2014); Robert Zemeckis on Smoking, Drinking and Drugging in the 20th Century: In Pursuit of Happiness (1999); Role Models (2008); Schmidteinander (1994); Scrapple (1998); Some Kind of Heaven (2020); Soundstage (2003); Squzz Corn N' Ole Scratch (2012); Starsky & Hutch (2004); Sunshine State (2002); Tales of the City (1993); Talkin' Blues (1996); Tammy (2014); Taratata (1994); That '70s Show (1999); The 56th Annual Grammy Awards (2014); The Country Bears (2002); The Cream of Eric Clapton (1990); The Dukes of Hazzard (2005); The Education of Charlie Banks (2007); The House I Live In (2012); The Midnight Special (1980); The Motorway File (1975); The Sensitive kind - John Mayall (1) (1990); The Tender Bar (2021); The Unforgivable (2021); The Wonder Years (1989); To Tulsa and Back: On Tour with J.J. Cale (2005); Tohuwabohu (1993); Transparent (2014); United States of Tara (2009–2010); Unlawful Entry (1992); Vice Principals (2017); Viki ja Köpi Show (2024); Watchmen (2009); Wild Hogs (2007).

Born on this day – Brownie McGhee:

Brownie McGhee

Singer

Guitarist

Actor

November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996

Credits:

Songs:

Ain't Nothin' Like Whiskey; Better Day; Betty and Dupree; Big Legged Woman; Blues for the Lowlands; Born And Livin' With The Blues; Bring It On Home To Me; Change The Lock On The Door; Corn Bread, Peas And Black Molasses; Feed Me Baby; Fighting a Losing Battle; God and Man; Heart in Sorrow; Hootin' the Blues; I Love You Baby; Jesus Gonna Make It Alright; Life Is a Gamble; Midnight Special; On The Road Again; People Get Ready; Rainy, Rainy Day; Red River Blues; Sail Away; Southern Train; Stranger Blues; Thats How I Feel; The Battle Is Over; The Blues; Trouble in Mind; Walk On; Whoopin' the Blues; You Bring Out The Boogie In Me.

Albums:

A Long Way from Home (1969); Back Country Blues (2016); Blues Hoot (1961 / 1963); Blues Is Truth (1976); Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1959); Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry at the 2nd Fret (1962); Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing (1990); Brownie McGhee Blues (1955); Brownie McGhee Sings the Blues (1959); Brownie's Blues (1962); Down Home Blues (1960); Down South Summit Meetin' (1960); Facts of Life (1985); Folk Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1958); I Couldn't Believe My Eyes (1969 / 1973); Sonny & Brownie (1973); Sonny Is King (1963); The Folkways Years, 1945–1959 (1991); Traditional Blues, Vol. 1 (1951); Traditional Blues, Vol. 2 (1960); Washboard Band: Country Dance Music (1956).

Movies and television:

A Complete Unknown (2024); A Face in the Crowd (1957); A Matter of Degrees (1990); A Roomful of Music (1965); Acoustic Routes (1992); Anarchy in Manchester (2014); Angel Heart (1987); Arena (1988); Babysitting (1987); Bandstand (1966); Baseball (1994); Blues and Gospel Train (1964); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Book of Numbers (1973); Buck and the Preacher (1972); Dave's Place (1965); Dogfight (1991); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); Family Ties (1988); Festival (1967); Folk America (2009); Folk Britannia (2006); Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century (2001); From the Vaults (2018); Get Crazy (1983); Guy X (2005); House at the End of the Street (2012); House of Lies (2013); Leadbelly (1976); Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Library of Congress (1945); Loving (2016); Matlock (1989); Muromachi: Plate Lunch (1998); Physical Graffiti: A Classic Album Under Review (2008); Quest (1962); Superbad (2007); Thank You, M'am (1977); The Blues (1966 / 2003); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour (1970); The Jerk (1979); The Midnight Special (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1973); The Old Grey Whistle Test (1973); The Revlon Revue (1959); The Rosey Grier Show (1970); The Soul of a Man (2003); The Strolling '20s (1966); The Sunday Break (1958); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); To Hear Your Banjo Play (1947.

Born on this day – Bukka White:

Bukka White

Blues singer

Guitarist

November 12, 1900 – February 26, 1977

Credits:

Songs:

Aberdeen Mississippi Blues; Parchman Farm Blues; Fixin' To Die Blues; Special Stream Line; Poor Boy Long Ways From Home; Black Train Blues; Bukka's Jitterbug Swing; Bald Eagle Train; High Fever Blues; District Attorney Blues; The Panama Limited; Sugar Hill; Pinebluff, Arkansas; I Am the Heavenly Way; Sic 'Em Dogs On; Baby Please Don't Go; Po' Boy; The New Frisco Train; My Baby; Good Gin Blues; Streamline Special; Old Lady; Jitterbug Swing; New Orleans Streamline; Army Blues; Mama Don't Allow; Mixed Water; Aberdeen Blues; Black Cat Bone Blues; Big Daddy; Corinna, Corinna; Drunken Leroy Blues; Cryin' Holy Unto the Lord; Big Daddy.

Albums:

Mississippi Blues (1963); Sky Songs (1990); Big Daddy (1974); Baton Rouge Mosby Street (1972); 1963 Isn't 1962 (1994); Presenting Bukka White (1931); The Atlanta Special (2010); Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues (Live in Germany) (2019); Introducing Bukka White (2014); Blues Legend of the Century (2012); Patchman Farm Blues (date?); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Bukka White (2011); High Fever (2018); Big Boat up the River (2022); Bukka White (Hd Remastered Edition) (2018); Parchman Farm (1970); The Complete Bukka White (1969); Memphis Hot Shots (1969); Shake 'em On (2023); Bukka White Blues (2019); Contemporary Guitar: Spring ’67 (1967); Saga Blues: Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (2007); The Panama Ltd. (2000); Live, Cafe Au Go Go, 1965 (2014); The Vintage Recordings 1930 - 1940 "Aberdeeen Mississippi Blues" (2003); The Complete Sessions 1930-1940 (1990); Bukka's Jitterbug Swing (2013); Party! At Home (2001); Special Streamline (2018); Fixin' to Die (2004); Shake 'Em On Down (1994); Blues At Home 7 (2013); The New Frisco Train (2018); Parchman Farm Blues (2015); Pinebluff Arkansas (2014); Good Gin Blues (1899); Missipi blues giant (2006); The Old Wild Shadow (2015); Tonight in Time (2015); Instinctively the Blues - Bukka White (2020); Blues Heatwave - Bukka White's 1940s Summer Grooves (2023); Two Blues Icons (2014); Two of a Kind: Big Bill Broonzy & Bukka White (2022); The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (1968); Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (2015); Behind the Mule (2015).

Movies and television:

American Masters (2005); B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Deadwood (2004); Death of a Champion, Birth of a Rule: The Tony Marino Story (2016); Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966 (1996); Doug MacLeod: Captured Alive (2006); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); From the Vaults (2018); Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007); Life (1999); Memphis '69 (2019); Mississippi Drug War Blues: The Case of Cory Maye (2008); On the Road (2012); One Last Chance (2004); Reacher (2022); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 - Volume 3 (2004); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Devil's Music (1979); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003); Two Trains Runnin' (2016).

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 – 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

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

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).