Biography: Charles Billingsley, Charles Blackwell, Charles Brown, Charles Caldwell, Charles Crawford, Charles Davis, Charles Holland, Charles Johnson, Charles Johnson, Charles Johnson,

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Charles Billingsley Biography, Photos, Pictures

CCM performer Charles Billingsleyfirst surfaced in 1992 with his debut LP Choice of a Lifetime; after another solo effort, Until Then: A Collection of Hymns, he signed on as a vocalist and trumpeter in the venerable Christian group NewSong, joining their ranks in 1993

Charles Blackwell Biography, Photos, Pictures

This drummer is equally likely to be credited as Chuck Blackwell, Charles Blackwell, Charlie Blackwell, and last but not least, Chuck “Brother” Blackwell It is all the same drummer, a Tulsa native from the same clique as Leon Russell and Carl Radle

Charles Brown Biography, Photos, Pictures

How many blues artists remained at the absolute top of their game after more than a half-century of performing? One immediately leaps to mind: Charles Brown His incredible piano skills and laid-back vocal delivery remained every bit as mesmerizing at the end of his life as they were way back in 1945, when his groundbreaking waxing of “Drifting Blues” with guitarist Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers invented an entirely new blues genre for sophisticated postwar revelers: an ultra-mellow, jazz-inflected sound perfect for sipping a late-night libation in some hip after-hours joint

Charles Caldwell Biography, Photos, Pictures

Charles Caldwell was a tall (six foot eight) and charismatic guitar player who unfortunately was dealt a cruel hand by the music fates Born in 1943, Caldwell lived his whole life in the north Mississippi hill country around Coffeeville, working at a fan-making factory in Greneda, and playing the local juke joints on the weekends for often no more pay than free liquor

Charles Crawford Biography, Photos, Pictures

Soul singer Charles Crawford released just one single, “A Sad Sad Song”/”Fat ‘N Funky,” for the Hy-Sign label in Shreveport, LA in 1973 “A Sad Sad Song” was a slow ballad very much in the pleading Otis Redding style, prefaced by a long spoken introduction that, even by the standards of soul music, wallowed in bathos

Charles Davis Biography, Photos, Pictures

This artist has been active since the ’90s with bluesy performers such as James Peterson and Sandy Ross ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide

Charles Holland Biography, Photos, Pictures

This vocalist should not be confused with the earlier black singer Charles Holland, whose aspirations to become a great classical lyric tenor were thwarted by the type of people who don bedsheets for their evening meetings

Charles Johnson Biography, Photos, Pictures

Charles Johnson is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose contributions to the gospel music genre include a classic song that is sometimes mistaken for a depressing weather report, “It’s Gonna Rain Again

Scholars researching the influence of Batman on soul music including rap and hip-hop should put the name of Charles Johnson in bold-face type, providing they can figure out just which Charles Johnson is under discussion

Trombonist Charles Johnson, who has recorded with the Highlife All Stars as well as country blues performer Corey Harris, should not be confused with the trombonist Charley Johnson who recorded with Benny Carter in the ’40s