Jimmy Murphy
Biography by Bruce Eder Jimmy Murphy is one of the more enigmatic figures to come out of the country/rockabilly scene of the early to mid-’50s. A virtuoso guitar player and a gifted and...
View ArticleCharline Arthur: That Hillbilly Bop Gal!
THAT KITTY THAT WANTED TO BE AN ORIGINAL Not many gals could have made such statement in the conservative country music world of the 50′s but Charline Arthur did it. That Texas gal was stylistically...
View Articlelate November 2010 fortnight’s favourites
Howdy, folks. Sometimes it is easy to assemble a « fortnight » feature, sometimes not. This time it has not been that easy, I don’t know why. I tried to vary tempos, origin, labels, and I am not sure I...
View Article« (Help me lose the) Boogie Woogie blues »: the short recording story of...
Billboard April 28, 1951 Very little is known about Bobby Soots, except what is contained in a Tampa newspaper snippet dated Nov. 2, 1950. He was born in Alabama during the ’20s, took up the...
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