Biography: Ella Washington, Elliott & The Untouchables, Ellis Hooks, Elmer Alexander, Earl Thomas, Elmo Williams & Early, Hezekiah, Elmore James, Earl Van Dyke, Eloise Laws, Elton Island Spivey,

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Ella Washington Biography, Photos, Pictures

An outstanding Southern soul vocalist, Ella Washington was another performer whose style was so raw and intense that it had little chance of attracting any attention outside the R&B world

Elliott & The Untouchables Biography, Photos, Pictures

Based in Columbia, SC, Elliott and the Untouchables are one of the most popular blues bands in the southeastern US, specializing in jump and jump-influenced blues Guitarist, singer/songwriter, and frontman Elliott New, a former blues radio show host, has played with Guitar Shorty, Mike Morgan and the Crawl, Bob Margolin, and the late Robert Covington

Until the arrival of Ellis Hooks on the 21st century blues and soul scenes with his now-signature meld of R&B, blues and Southern gospel, it seemed that the great stories surrounding these musics had already been told and passed into antiquity with the great names assigned to them — Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, James Carr, and Sam Cooke, to name a few

Elmer Alexander Biography, Photos, Pictures

Replacing the dynamic Gene Krupa in the band of the oppressively demanding Benny Goodman could not have been easy, especially for a fellow dimunitive enough to have wound up with the nickname “Mousie

Earl Thomas had never picked up a microphone in his life until he was nearly killed after losing his footing at the edge of a 50-foot ravine and slid all the way down, landing unconscious on a pile of broken glass and debris

Elmo Williams & Early, Hezekiah Biography, Photos, Pictures

Elmo Williams (born February 6, 1933) and Hezekiah Early (born October 7, 1934) both grew up in the area of Natchez, MS Williams spent time in the army and worked as a baker, a truck driver, and on a road crew, all the while playing music on the side, picking up guitar himself after his father refused to give him lessons on the instrument

Elmore James Biography, Photos, Pictures

No two ways about it, the most influential slide guitarist of the postwar period was Elmore James, hands down Although his early demise from heart failure kept him from enjoying the fruits of the ’60s blues revival as his contemporaries Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf did, James left a wide influential trail behind him

Earl Van Dyke Biography, Photos, Pictures

Nicknamed the “Chunk of Funk,” Earl Van Dyke was the keyboardist/bandleader for the Motown studio band of the ’60s affectionately dubbed the Funk Brothers The band can be heard on 22 number one pop hits, 48 number one R&B hits, generating sales of over 300 million records

The sister of flutist Hubert, saxophonist Ronnie, and vocalist Debra, Eloise Laws was born in 1949, in Houston, TX She began recording for Holland-Dozier-Holland’s Music Merchant label and had a couple singles released in 1972-1973: “Tighten Him Up” and “Love Factory

Elton Island Spivey Biography, Photos, Pictures

Elton Spivey, better known under the stage name of the Za Zu Girl, was one of two lesser-known sisters of the classic blues diva Victoria Spivey Nicknames or elaborate stagenames seemed to be in the blood of this family: the latter artist was known as “Queen Victoria” and Addie Spivey recorded and performed as Sweet Pease