@hakkiles34.bsky.social
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I would like to dive into the depths of the blues...
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hakkiles34.bsky.social
036 - MS
EARL "LITTLE JOE" AYERS ♦️
(Lamar, Miss., 28-11-1944)
🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Rel. Art.: R. L. Burnside, Jr. Kimbrough, Trenton Ayers (son)
Band: Soul Blues Boys
Y. A.: 1959-pres.
{Benton County, Miss./North Miss. Hill country}

"I cried"
youtu.be/tM6Fj-wzE1w?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
A server, with the leader, singer and guitarist and with the harmonica player (who, by the way, also sings).
hakkiles34.bsky.social
Day 1.
October 4, 2025.
Place: Carpa Xarau (Cerdanyola)
Tòfol Martínez Blues Band.
I didn't know the band leader, Tòfol, and I wanted to see the harmonica player, who I saw perform +20 years ago. Joan Pau Cumellas, a crack. The rest of the band is no exception.
hakkiles34.bsky.social
Day 1.
October 4, 2025.
Location: Hoom (Cerdanyola)
The Wax & Boogie, led by singer Ester Wax and pianist David "Boogie" Giorcelli, accompanied by bass and drums and with the presence of saxophonist and singer Drew Davis...
hakkiles34.bsky.social
FREEMAN VINES ♦️ (25-09-1942/Fountain, North Carolina, 13-93-2025)
Americ. 🇱🇷 guit. 🎸& luthier
Years active: 1960s-2020s
{Green County, North Carolina/Piedmont blues}

youtu.be/gKxiJtV8eP0?si… 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
263 - TX
PIANO SLIM ♦️
"Whammy in the gizzmo"
youtu.be/NlgMx1YqEOY?si… 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
263 - TX
PIANO SLIM ♦️ (La Grange, 1-08-1928/30-12-2011)
Robert T. Smith
🇱🇷 sing. & music. (pian., sax. & drum.)
🎙️🎹🎷🥁
Rel. Art.: Lightnin' Hopkins, Billy Gayles, Ike Turner, Albert King, Little Milton
{Fayette C., TX/Texas blues}
Not to be confused with Willard Burton
hakkiles34.bsky.social
262 - TX
JAMES "WEE WILLIE" WAYNE ♦️ (Houston, 3-03-1920 or 17-04-1924/Los Angeles, CA, 31-03-1978)
James Douglas Wayne
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing.🎙️
Y. A.: 1950s-1960s
{Texas/Texas blues, New Orleans R&B}

"I'm a real gypsy fellow (gypsy blues)"
youtu.be/HH7vuJcCUGQ?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
STER WAX 👠 (1984)
Esther Ibáñez
Catalan singer 🎙️
Rel. Art.: David Giorcelli 🎹 Drew Davies 🎷 D. Nel·lo 🎷
Bands: The Sparkles, Distopia Band, Ster & The Waxers, Wax & Boogie
Years active: 2008-present
{Ripollet/soul, boogie woogie, blues, swing, R&B}

"Honey rum"
youtu.be/QB1FSoxEIeM?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON 👠 (4-10-1942/Washington D.C., 16-07-2024)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. 🎙️
Bands: The Freedom Singers, Sweet Honey in the Rock
Y. A.: 1960s-2000s
{Dougherty C., Georgia/gospel}

"Will the circle be unbroken"
youtu.be/GccfFkbzjrc?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
PEARL DICKSON 👠 (Somerville, 5-10-1903/Memphis, TN, 24-10-1977)
Pearl Dixon
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing.🎙️
Discography (4 songs): "High yellow blues", "20 pound daddy"
youtu.be/G1fsKzGk8I4?... 💣‼️
"Little rock blues", "Guitar rag"
Y. A.: 1920s
{Fayette C., TN/Memphis blues, country blues}
hakkiles34.bsky.social
I was at the Cerdanyola Blues Festival. I'll tell you about it soon...

Wax & Boogie feat Drew Davis
Tòfol Martínez Blues Band (with Joan Pau Cumellas)
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers
The Sparkles
The Main Squeeze
Dani Roto
Mississippi Queen & The Wet Dogs
Shemekia Copeland...
hakkiles34.bsky.social
035 - MS
BIG BILL BROONZY ♦️
(Scott*, 26-06-1893/1903_ Chic., Il., 14-08-1958)
Lee Conley Bradley
🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎤🎸
Teacher: Papa Charlie Jackson
Y.A.: 20s-50s
{Bolivar C., Miss./Ark. blues, Chic. & country blues, jazz}

youtu.be/N-pShRISHnQ?...
w💣w‼️

*or Lake Dick, ARK
hakkiles34.bsky.social
JOHNNY "THE TAN CANARY" ADAMS ♦️
(New Orleans, 5-01-1932/Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 14-09-1998)
Laten John Adams Jr.
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing.🎙️
Years active: 1950-1998
{Louisiana/blues, jazz, R&B, gospel}

"One foot in the blues"
youtu.be/4WCA4hAWYj4?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
034 - MS
"BLIND" JIM BREWER ♦️ (Brookhaven, 3-10-1920/Chicago, Il., 3-06-1988)
James Brewer
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Studio albums: "Jim Brewer" (1974) & "Tough luck" (1983)
Y. A.: 60s-80s
{Lincoln County, Miss./blues}

"Liberty Bill blues"
youtu.be/19gon52fXWY?...
W💣w‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
DENNIS GRUENLING ♦️
Americ. 🇱🇷 harm.
Rel. Art.: Nick Moss, Sandy Mack, Richard Sleigh, Doug Deming
Years active: 1990-present
{New Jersey/electric blues}

"Split the difference"
youtu.be/2sZXe1mPL_8?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
NICK MOSS ♦️ (Chicago, 15-12-1969)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing.🎙️guit., bass. 🎸 & harm.
Rel. Art.: Dennis Gruenling
13 studio albums
Years active: 1990-present
{Illinois/Chicago blues, electric blues}
@Pericoblues

"Your red bag"
youtu.be/HcdYGKIwZr8?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
DAVID WYLIE "LITTLE DAVID"♦️
(Washington, 2-08-1926/Atlanta, Fulton C., Georgia 15-02-1985)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
{Wilkes County, Georgia/blues}

"Baby you don't mean me no good"
youtu.be/d-pt2kfWrek?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
JOHNNY LOWEBOW ♦️
John Lowe
American 🇱🇷 sing. 🎙️ oneman band (guit., lowebow guit., drum. & percuss. 🎸🥁) & guitar maker
{Memphis, Tennessee/blues}

"Crazy head"
youtu.be/BHQ86rbUJHU?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
Ummm! And do you know any blues musicians, around here, who are from Arkansas?
hakkiles34.bsky.social
"BIG" DAVE McLEAN ♦️ (23-08-1952)
Canadian 🇨🇦 sing. 🎙️guit. 🎸 & harm.
Years active: 1970s-present
{Yorkton, Saskatchewan/blues}

"Muddy Waters for president"
youtu.be/0gadAdD4yVQ?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
033 - MS
BEN WILEY PAYTON ♦️ (Coila, 5-01-1948/Illinois, 4-12-2020)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Years active: 1960s-2000s
{Carroll County, Mississippi/country blues, soul, R&B, jazz}

"Sharecropper blues"
youtu.be/jB44LwpUhX4?... 💣‼️
hakkiles34.bsky.social
NORMAN "BOOGIE CAT" SYLVESTER ♦️(Bonita, 16-09-1945)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Band: The Norman Sylvester Band
Years achive: 1985-present
{Morehouse Parish, Louisiana/blues}

"I believe"
youtu.be/HntcsjWxuog?... 💣‼️