Memphis Blues is the eleventh studio album by American singer Cyndi Lauper, containing cover versions of classic blues songs. Regarded as a continuation...
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Memphis blues is a music genre. Memphis blues may refer to: Memphis Blues (album), by Cyndi Lauper (2010) Memphis Blues (minor league), a minor league...
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Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), better known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted...
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as Memphis Slim, was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included...
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the Memphis Blues Again" (also listed as "Memphis Blues Again") is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his seventh studio album, Blonde...
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Southern Avenue (band) (redirect from Keep On (album))
six-member blues and soul blues band from Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Formed in 2015, they took their name from a street in Memphis running from...
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city Memphis may also refer to: Memphis, Alabama Memphis, Florida Memphis, Indiana Memphis, Michigan Memphis, Mississippi Memphis, Missouri Memphis, Nebraska...
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Beale Street (redirect from Beale Street (Memphis, Tennessee))
in the history of blues music. Today, the blues clubs and restaurants that line Beale Street are major tourist attractions in Memphis. Festivals and outdoor...
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Willie's Blues is Willie Dixon's debut album, released in 1959. Given almost equal credit on the album was his piano accompanist, Memphis Slim, who played...
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When the Levee Breaks (category Songs written by Memphis Minnie)
"When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences...
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B. B. King (redirect from Blues Boy King)
2006, King recorded a concert album and video entitled B.B. King: Live at his B.B. King Blues Clubs in Nashville and Memphis. The video of the four-night...
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W. C. Handy (redirect from Handy’s Memphis Blues Band)
2012). "WC Handy's Memphis Blues: The Song of 1912". BBC News – Magazine. Retrieved May 30, 2018. "W.C. Handy Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Chernow...
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Matt "Guitar" Murphy (redirect from Matt Murphy (blues guitarist))
American blues guitarist. He was associated with Memphis Slim, The Blues Brothers and Howlin' Wolf. In 2012, Murphy was elected to the Blues Hall of Fame...
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Bobby Bland (category Burials at Memorial Park Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee))
him as "second in stature only to B.B. King as a product of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Bland at number 163 on...
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Charlie Musselwhite (redirect from Memphis Charlie)
Musselwhite moved to Memphis, Tennessee. When he was a teenager, Memphis experienced the period when rockabilly, western swing, and electric blues were combining...
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Howlin' Wolf (redirect from Going Back Home (compilation album))
Heart Like Railroad Steel (Memphis & Chicago Blues 1951–57) (Blues Ball) 1979: Can't Put Me Out (Chicago 1956–72, Volume II) (Blues Ball) 1984: Muddy & the...
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Green Is Blues is the second studio album by American singer and songwriter Al Green. Released by Hi Records on April 15, 1969, two days after Green's...
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a trilogy that began with 2013's Memphis and continued with 2015's A Fool to Care. The album contains songs by blues musicians including Bobby "Blue"...
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Junior Wells (category Musicians from Memphis, Tennessee)
blues historian Gerard Herzhaft called him "one of the rare active survivors of the 'golden age of the blues'". Wells may have been born in Memphis,...
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"Mother Earth" is a blues song recorded by Memphis Slim in 1951. A slow twelve-bar blues, it is one of Slim's best-known songs and reached number seven...
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From Elvis in Memphis is the ninth studio album by American rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. It was released by RCA Records on June 2, 1969. It was...
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annually in Memphis, Tennessee, where the Blues Foundation is located, although the 2008 award ceremony was held in Tunica, Mississippi. The 39th Blues Music...
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blues, pop songs, humorous songs and upbeat dance numbers with jazz and string band flavors. The band made the first commercial recordings in Memphis...
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"Me and My Chauffeur Blues" is a song written and recorded by blues singer and guitarist Memphis Minnie in 1941. It was added to the U.S. National Recording...
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Furry Lewis (redirect from Walter Lewis (blues))
1981) was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of the earliest of the blues musicians active in the 1920s...
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similar to genres like Motown or Rhythm and Blues but is unique because of its tonality and origin. Memphis musicians Willie Mitchell and Al Green collaborated...
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The lively Memphis blues style, which developed in the 1920s and 1930s near Memphis, Tennessee, was influenced by jug bands such as the Memphis Jug Band...
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Memphis Underground is a 1969 album by jazz flutist Herbie Mann, that fuses the genres of jazz and rhythm and blues (R&B). While Mann and the other principal...
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The Wham of That Memphis Man is the first album by Lonnie Mack. It was recorded in several sessions beginning in March 1963 and was released by the small...
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Folk Blues is a compilation album by blues musician Howlin' Wolf, released by Chess Records in 1967. It includes songs that were recorded in Memphis and...
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