Biography: Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams, Henry "Son" Sims, Henry Bridges, Henry Brown, Henry Cooper, Henry Gray, Henry Lumpkin, Henry Mason, Henry Smith, Henry Stuckey,

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Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams Biography, Photos, Pictures

A jazz/blues singer and dancer who enjoyed middling success in the ’30s, Williams biggest claim to posterity had mostly to do with being in the right place at the right time: Miles Davis made his initial recordings on a Williams-led session

Henry "Son" Sims Biography, Photos, Pictures

Delta bluesman Henry “Son” Sims is best known as the fiddler who played with Charley Patton Born in Anguilla, Mississippi in 1890, Sims was taught to play the violin by his grandfather, a former slave named Warren Scott

Henry Bridges Biography, Photos, Pictures

Prior to fading into obscurity in the hinterlands of Los Angeles, Henry Bridges apparently held his own against the traffic of many legendary tenor sax players of the late ’30s and early ’40s

Henry Brown left Tennessee for St Louis, MO, at the age of 12 and took up the piano while still in school His playing style, an economical form of piano blues, was taught to him by a Deep Morgan Street blues player known to the public only as “Blackmouth

Henry Cooper Biography, Photos, Pictures

The blues bug bit Henry Cooper hard when he was 16 At the time, he was toiling as a busboy in an Oregon hotel Paul Butterfield’s “The Work Song” came on the radio, and that was it for the blues-struck teenager

Henry Gray was among the Chicago blues piano elite during the 1950s Unlike most of his contemporaries there, he was from Louisiana rather than Mississippi — and since 1968, he’s been living there once again, a stalwart on the swamp blues circuit

Henry Lumpkin Biography, Photos, Pictures

The early history of Motown Records is filled with promising newcomers who didn’t find immortality along the lines of the Supremes and the Temptations Henry Lumpkin is one example, a young singer and composer with one good song, “What Is a Man (Without a Woman),” under his belt; a high tenor with a gritty voice, he bore more than a passing resemblance to Chubby Checker physically and Ben E

Those who enjoy sorting musicians by eccentric categories should make note of Henry Mason, perhaps even heavily underscoring his name with the swing of an axe He belongs to two interesting groups of performers, those whose efforts were recorded while they were incarcerated and those who utilize common tools to make music

The name Henry Smith shows up on credits for gospel songs, but this is not the Henry “Buster” Smith who wrote arrangements and played saxophone in jazz bands ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide

Henry Stuckey Biography, Photos, Pictures

Henry Stuckey was the accidental founder of the so-called Bentonia tradition of country blues Born in 1897 in Bentonia, MS, Stuckey learned an open E minor guitar tuning from black Bahamian soldiers while serving in France during World War I, and upon returning home in 1919, incorporated the tuning into his playing, eventually teaching it to a younger guitar player, Skip James, around 1924

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