Biography: Henry Thomas, Henry Townsend, Henry Truvillion, Henry White, Henry White, Herald Goodman, Herb Abramson, Herbert Hardesty, Herbert Samuel Berliner, Herman "Junior" Denby,

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Henry Thomas Biography, Photos, Pictures

Texas songster Henry Thomas remains a relative stranger who made some great recordings, then returned to obscurity Evidence suggests he was an itinerant street musician, a musical hobo who rode the rails across Texas and possibly to the World Fairs in St

Henry Townsend Biography, Photos, Pictures

Influenced by Roosevelt Sykes and Lonnie Johnson, Henry Townsend was a commanding musician, adept on both piano and guitar During the ’20s and ’30s, Townsend was one of the musicians that helped make St

Henry Truvillion Biography, Photos, Pictures

Henry Truvillion recorded some 60 songs, calls, and chants for John Lomax in the mid- to late ’30s as part of the Archive of American Folk Song project instituted by the Library of Congress

Henry White and Bruce Gardner are credited with the superb artwork on Now You Can Talk About Me, a 1998 collection of tracks by blues maestro George ‘Harmonica’ Smith

Henry White played classic jazz guitar in the ’40s with trumpeter Muggsy Spanier, among others He is sometimes confused with Hy White and is also not the flugelhorn player from decades later whose name seems to have been Harry White

Herald Goodman Biography, Photos, Pictures

Herald Goodman was one of three ministers’ sons who made up the membership of the stunningly successful vocal harmony trio the Vagabonds, then fronted his own Tennessee Valley Boys, also with a string of 78 releases and Grand Old Opry appearances

Herb Abramson Biography, Photos, Pictures

Herb Abramson was the first president of pioneering jazz/R&B/pop label Atlantic Records Born November 16, 1920, in Brooklyn, NY, Abramson, who was a blues, jazz and gospel music enthusiast, began collecting records in his teens

Herbert Hardesty Biography, Photos, Pictures

Best known for his decades-long collaboration with Fats Domino, tenor saxophonist Herbert Hardesty was a crucial component of the classic Dave Bartholomew-produced sessions that helped shape both New Orleans R&B and rock & roll as a whole, contributing lyrical, energetic solos to such landmark records as “I’m Walkin’,” “My Blue Heaven,” and “Ain’t That a Shame

Herbert Samuel Berliner Biography, Photos, Pictures

The appeal of the recording studio as a place of employment might be proved once and for all by a study of the children of great inventors, were there enough of them to form a proper control group

Herman "Junior" Denby Biography, Photos, Pictures

The soulful vocals of Herman “Junior” Denby were one key to the success of early-’50s R&B vocal group the Swallows The composer of such tunes as “Will You Be Mine,” “Dearest,” “Wishing for You,” “You Left Me,” “Roll, Roll, Pretty Baby,” “Tell Me Why,” “Beside You,” and “You Walked In,” Denby sang lead on more than a dozen of the group’s recordings, including their biggest hit, “Beside You