Biography: Big Advice, Big Al Downing, Big Amos Patton, Big B and the Magic Bullets, Big Bad Smitty, Big Bam Boo, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Bill Morganfield, Big Boy Ben, Big Boy Henry,

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Los Angeles-based Big Advice unites three R&B veterans in a supergroup, of sorts, who specialize in 1970s-style funk grooves with distinct jazz overtones, in the classic style of Earth, Wind & Fire, Tower of Power and Stevie Wonder

Big Al Downing Biography, Photos, Pictures

Big Al Downing was a unique if unsung figure in the annals of popular music, becoming one of the first African-Americans to enjoy success in the white-dominated realms of rockabilly and country

Big Amos Patton Biography, Photos, Pictures

Big Amos Patton came to music with one of the more extraordinary pedigrees a man could have, as a nephew of Charley Patton himself Born in 1921 in Sardis, MS, he grew up along with the blues as a recorded medium, and his own style was heavily influenced by that of Rice Miller, aka Sonny Boy Williamson II

Big B and the Magic Bullets Biography, Photos, Pictures

Genre bending Motor City blues collective Big B and the Magic Bullets serve up an eclectic mix of jazz, soul, and psychedelic blues-rock that challenges any preconceived notions of what a classic bar band should sound like

Big Bad Smitty Biography, Photos, Pictures

Big Bad Smitty, whose real name is John Henry Smith, is a Mississippi guitarist in the style of Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters During his youth, Smitty played in the region of Greenville with Roosevelt “Booba” Barnes, a friend from school

The half-British, half-Canadian duo Big Bam Boo released only one album, 1987’s Fun, Faith, & Fairplay, which featured simple, catchy songwriting delivered with acoustic guitars and plenty of vocal harmonies

Big Bill Broonzy Biography, Photos, Pictures

In terms of his musical skill, the sheer size of his repertoire, the length and variety of his career and his influence on contemporaries and musicians who would follow, Big Bill Broonzy is among a select few of the most important figures in recorded blues history

Big Bill Morganfield Biography, Photos, Pictures

Many men try to fill their father’s shoes when they join the family business Few, however, must prove they are up to the task in front of an audience as large as the one that watched Big Bill Morganfield

The subject of pseudonyms used by blues recording artists is a fascinating field of research, the most common reward being the important realization that a totally obscure recording artist with a strange name is actually another performer, perhaps even more obscure and with an even stranger name

Big Boy Henry Biography, Photos, Pictures

Born Richard Henry, this North Carolina country blues artist enjoyed a unique niche in his later life as a folk festival and club performer, bringing great pleasure to blues fans in a period when many older artists in this genre were passing away

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