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The 1980s and ’90s brought about a blues recording boom that brought some well-deserved attention to veteran blues musicians: People like CeDell Davis, RL Burnside, Johnnie Bassett, and Robert “Bilbo” Walker found themselves on the road again, in demand at summer blues festivals and booked on extensive tours of big and small clubs around the U

Al Green was the first great soul singer of the ’70s and arguably the last great Southern soul singer With his seductive singles for Hi Records in the early ’70s, Green bridged the gap between deep soul and smooth Philadelphia soul

Detroit vocalist Al Hudson has led various funk and soul aggregations since the late ’70s Although he never landed anything remotely close to a big hit, the group consistently recorded through the ’70s and into the early ’80s

Al Jackson, Jr. Biography, Photos, Pictures

Al Jackson, Jr was the excellent drummer who kept Booker T & the MG’s in line, both on their own recordings as well as on dozens of sessions for artists contracted to Hi and Stax Records

For any musician of talent to be “dimly remembered,” as was once written about Al Killian, is a shame in itself If the subject in question was an accomplished high note trumpeter, it becomes a bit mysterious as well, as playing high notes with pizzazz is supposed to be what makes trumpeters famous, not obscure

Al King got several chances to record as a bandleader beginning in the early ’50s, when instrumental pop outings featuring extended tenor saxophone solos were actually considered commercial

”Telling these guys named Al King apart is like looking for a specific dune in the desert,” a research assistant griped to his boss, vintage R&B blaring on a jukebox in the background

The Inner City Blues Band of Columbus, OH, employed a recording engineer named Al Morgan to take care of mastering duties on an album entitled City Limits, released in 2001 This is not the same Al Morgan who played bass on a gargantuan pile of jazz and R&B records

Not to be confused with the great session bassist of the same name, background vocalist Al Morgan recorded with the R&B and early rap trio Something Special on an album that produced two hit singles, the inquisitive “I Wonder Who She’s Lovin’” and the undemanding “U Can Get Me Anytime

A mainstay of Chicago’s South Side club scene, sadly, Little Al Thomas recorded just one album for Cannonball Records before the label folded His 1999 debut album, South Side Story, with the Crazy House Band, was an instant classic from a vocalist who so many people in other parts of the country had never heard