“Valleys Of Neptune” is a 40 year old song that Jimi Hendrix performed during his last recording sessions for the posthumously finished album First Rays Of The Rising Sun. The painting used in this video is one of 110 watercolor paintings Jimi created when he was in school. His father kept these paintings and his [...]
‘Electric Purgatory’ is an independent film directed by Raymond Gayle about the artistic struggles of Black rock artists. It is well known that Amos Milburn, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Ike Turner, Bo Diddley, Little Richard and many other Black folks pioneered rock and roll and it got co-opted to the point that people like Mick [...]
Johnnie Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas but spent most of his time in Memphis. By the time he was ten years old his family had moved to Kansas City. As a teenager Taylor performed with a gospel group The Melody Kings which opened for Sam Cooke’s Soul Stirrers. In 1953 he moved to Chicago [...]
Chicago, IL—June 9, 2009— Gibson Guitar, the world’s premier musical instrument manufacturer and leader in music technology announced its sponsorship of the 2009 Chicago Blues Festival. The Chicago Blues Festival is the largest free blues festival in the world and remains the largest of Chicago’s music festivals. During three days on six stages, more than [...]
Lou Rawls grew-up on the south side of Chicago where he joined his church’s choir by the age of seven. He went to the same highschool as Sam Cooke who he later sang with in the Teenage Kings Of Harmony and The Pilgrim Travelers. After touring the south and making his first recording with The [...]
