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Saxophonist and bandleader Paul Williams scored one of the first big hits of the R&B era in 1949 with “The Hucklebuck,” an adaption of Charlie Parker’s “Now’s The Time
Paul “Lil’ Buck” Sinegal is a true Louisiana guitarist in that he’s played in several styles He may be best known as a zydeco guitarist, having played and recorded with Clifton Chenier, Rockin’ Dopsie, and Buckwheat Zydeco; he played on Paul Simon’s Graceland
Like Big Jack Johnson, Sam Carr and his other labelmates at Fat Possum/Capricorn, guitarist, singer and songwriter Paul “Wine” Jones grew up with blues all around him
I was born in Denver in 1968 I have lived most of my life in the Denver metro/Boulder corridor My early love of music was shaped by my parents small, but varied record collection
This singer first began his interest in music after being introduced to The Beatles at an impressionable age Growing up in a French Catholic family, Baloche learned how to play guitar during his junior high school years
Guitarist Paul Banks, winner of the Danish music award for best folk songwriter of 2001, is actually a Colorado boy He has been living in Denmark since 1961, and began issuing recordings in that country’s small and heavily taxed recording industry in the late ’70s
Back in the ’20s, Paul Banks was a bluesman associated with the early days of the Kansas City scene While the odor of cow manure was undoubtedly stronger in the air back then than in the Kansas City of today, this scent stands no comparison with his piano playing or songwriting craftsmanship, either in artistic merit or access to the general public’s noses, so to speak
Paul Beasley joined the Mighty Clouds of Joy in the ’70s, and was featured on several LPs before leaving for his own deal with Word in the early ’80s A former member of the Gospel Keynotes, the animated vocalist’s solo LPs thus far haven’t been as successful as anticipated
Paul Butterfield was the first white harmonica player to develop a style original and powerful enough to place him in the pantheon of true blues greats It’s impossible to overestimate the importance of the doors Butterfield opened: before he came to prominence, white American musicians treated the blues with cautious respect, afraid of coming off as inauthentic
For originality in contemporary blues with a capital “o,” one need look no further than West Coast harmonica stylist, singer, and songwriter Paul deLay DeLay is the freshest songwriting voice to come onto the West Coast blues scene since Robert Cray rose to prominence in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1980s