Sonny Boy Williamson & the Yardbirds is a live album by Chicago blues veteran Sonny Boy Williamson II backed by English rock band the Yardbirds. It was...
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by the Authentics (see American Folk Blues Festival), recording with the Yardbirds (for the album Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds) and the Animals...
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about ailing Yardbirds legend Chris Dreja". Something Else!. 9 May 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2018. "Topham Replaces Dreja in Yardbirds". Vintage Guitar...
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p. 241. "Sonny Boy Williamson & the Yardbirds – Album Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 August 2017. Koda & Russo 2001. "Five Live Yardbirds – Album Review"...
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arranged for the Yardbirds to serve as backing musicians for a British tour by American bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson II. Recordings during the 1963–1964...
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The Real Folk Blues is an album by blues musician Sonny Boy Williamson II compiling songs recorded in Chicago between 1957 and 1964. Released by Chess...
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Bye Bye Bird (category Sonny Boy Williamson II songs)
Williamson from December 8, 1963, at the Crawdaddy Club, in Richmond, England, accompanied by the Yardbirds, is included on Sonny Boy Williamson and the...
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American Folk Blues Festival (category Blues festivals in the United Kingdom)
Europe, including the UK, to leading blues performers of the day such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson, most of whom...
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Live Yardbirds is the live debut album by the English rock band the Yardbirds. It features the group's interpretations of ten American blues and rhythm...
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unreleased songs. Sonny Boy Williamson II's albums Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds (1966), The Real Folk Blues (1966) and other albums and singles were...
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John, I'm Only Dancing (category The Polecats songs)
Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds; the guitar riff was taken from the saxophone intro of Alvin Cash's "Keep On Dancing" (1968); and the final G chord...
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It Easy Baby", a song written by Sonny Boy Williamson II on the 1963 recording Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds Take It Easy Baby, a 1976 Taste album...
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Good Morning, School Girl (category Sonny Boy Williamson I songs)
an influential part of the blues canon. Pre-war Chicago blues vocalist and harmonica pioneer John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson first recorded it in 1937...
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Led Zeppelin (redirect from The New Yardbirds)
the music industry, particularly in the development of album-oriented rock and stadium rock. Led Zeppelin evolved from a previous band, the Yardbirds...
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Charly Records (category Rhythm and blues record labels)
Smith The Sex Beatles The Staple Singers Gene Summers Sylvia Striplin Showaddywaddy Toots & the Maytals Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds 13th Floor...
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Don't Start Me Talkin' (category Sonny Boy Williamson II songs)
written and performed by Sonny Boy Williamson II. It was Williamson's first single recorded for Checker Records, and reached number three in the US Billboard...
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"Sonny Boy" Williamson, shortly before the latter's death. Arnold made his recording debut in 1952 with "Hello Stranger" on the small Cool label, the record...
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For Your Love (album) (category The Yardbirds albums)
released singles. The album features some of the earliest recordings by guitarists Eric Clapton and his replacement Jeff Beck. The Yardbirds' manager, Giorgio...
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artists. The last two served as backing musicians for Sonny Boy Williamson II and made their first recordings with him when he toured England in 1963 and 1964...
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Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival, 2000, p. 66. ISBN 0-9676449-0-9. Koda, Cub. "Sonny Boy Williamson". AllMusic. Retrieved December 12,...
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Ultimate! (category The Yardbirds compilation albums)
on the 1975 bootlegs Golden Eggs and More Golden Eggs. Live recordings, such as those found on Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds, Live Yardbirds: Featuring...
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Crawdaddy Club (category History of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames)
Crawdaddy would visit and play. It hosted a lot of American R&B artists who would jam with them, including Sonny Boy Williamson. The Animals would also visit...
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of 'Thou shalt not play the blues unless you know who played second acoustic guitar behind Sonny Boy Williamson the first on the B-side of whatever.' That...
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Brian Auger (category Brian Auger and the Trinity members)
Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Sonny Boy Williamson, Eric Burdon, and CAB. He has incorporated jazz, early British pop, R&B, soul music, and rock into his sound...
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player, best known for his work with The Yardbirds, Nine Below Zero, Little Axe, and his own bands, The Barcodes and The Incredible Blues Puppies. Glen started...
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Train Kept A-Rollin' (redirect from The Train Kept a Rollin')
states that Sonny Boy Williamson II's use of blues harp to imitate train sounds during his 1963 UK tour with the Yardbirds also inspired the band's adaptation...
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Eric Clapton (redirect from Eric Clapton and his Band)
took over the Rolling Stones' residency at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, London. They toured England with American bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson II; a joint...
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Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) and Big Walter Horton were among the best-known harmonica (called "blues harp" by blues musicians) players of the early...
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– Chuck Higgins (1955) "Brown Eyes" – The Blue Sky Boys (1940) "Eyesight to the Blind" – Sonny Boy Williamson II (1951) "Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong"...
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Louis Cennamo (category British rock and roll musicians)
the Bluesbreakers), and they further galvanized their place in rock and roll history with performances on Granada TV (with Sonny Boy Williamson and Sister...
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