Biography: Erma Franklin, Ernestina, Ernestine Allen, Ernestine Washington, Ernie Durawa, Ernie Fields Jr., Ernie Freeman, Ernie Hawkins, Ernie Hayes, Ernie Isley,

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Erma Franklin Biography, Photos, Pictures

Erma Franklin’s musical accomplishments will forever be overshadowed by those of her younger sister Aretha, especially since she recorded very sporadically through the ’60s

Ernestina was the credit used by Ernestine Hassel Abbott for both her songwriting and performing activities in the ’50s Perhaps wise to drop the full name, which sounds like a brief description of a conflict inside a monastery, Ernestina was nonetheless a minor league rhythm and blues entity, briefly tied to the better-known vocalist Dean Barlow of the Crickets for an efficiently organized recording session in which they traded off lead vocal activities

Ernestine Allen Biography, Photos, Pictures

Born as Ernestine Allen, this jazz-tinged blues singer began recording in 1945 and went on to record such songs as “Miss Allen’s Blues” and “Love for Sale” as Annisteen Allen

Ernestine Washington Biography, Photos, Pictures

Born in Arkansas, Sister Ernestine B Washington grew up on the sanctified gospel of the ’20s, singing primarily for her husband’s church and denomination, Washington Temple C

Ernie Durawa Biography, Photos, Pictures

In an eerie, surrealistic dream about this drummer, he is laid out on an autopsy slab and sliced open by a medical examiner Music pours out of his insides instead of gruesome guts

Ernie Fields Jr. Biography, Photos, Pictures

Ernie Fields Jr should not be confused with just plain Ernie Fields Put them together, however, not such a stretch considering that they are father and son, and a kind of history of black music in America spreads out like a highway

Ernie Freeman Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of so many interesting behind-the-scenes figures of early rock & roll, pianist and arranger Ernie Freeman played on numerous early rock and R&B sessions in the ’50s

Ernie Hawkins Biography, Photos, Pictures

Guitarist Ernie Hawkins was Pittsburgh’s best-kept blues secret until the late ’90s when he resumed his solo career as a Piedmont blues player Like his contemporaries Stefan Grossman, Roy Book Binder, and Jorma Kaukonen, Hawkins studied with Reverend Gary Davis in the ’60s and boasts a revivalist repertoire that runs the gamut of Delta blues, country blues, ragtime, and gospel

This keyboardist was already well established as a session player by the early ’40s, backing up singers and vocal groups in styles that would eventually become established with almighty genre terms such as R&B, funk, and soul

Guitarist/drummer/singer/songwriter Ernie Isley infused the Isley Brothers with a Jimi Hendrix-like virtuosity that took the veteran R&B group into a more rockin’ direction, earning 11 gold and five platinum albums

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