by Rick Hart | Feb 13, 2019 | Music History
It takes more than just creating and playing great music before you become a well-known blues star. That music has to get to the people before anything really happens. That means they have to hear it on the radio, or go to a local concert hall or club to see it. The...
by Rick Hart | Feb 5, 2019 | Music History
If you love a good mystery I’ve got one for you. And if you love a good story about finding a valuable guitar in the closet you’ll really love this one. This is also a great story about how a vintage guitar is authenticated. The Concert: Newport 65...
by Rick Hart | Feb 3, 2019 | Music History
If you talk to any great blues guitarist, I bet most would say early urban blues greats like B.B. King and Buddy Guy were big influences on them in the beginning of their blues education. But as they matured and learned more about blues guitar I bet you might hear...
by Rick Hart | Jan 28, 2019 | Music History
Ever since Muddy Waters said, “The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll,” we’ve been arguing about when that baby was born—and what was its name. Many people say Rocket “88” by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, who were...
by Rick Hart | Jan 23, 2019 | Music History
The Blues was clearly created by Negros. No one disputes that. Whether you believe it started with W.C. Handy or Charley Patton, or by some unknown cotton picker in Mississippi playing a Sears acoustic guitar, there’s no question that black men and women...
by Rick Hart | Jan 20, 2019 | For Muisicans Only, Music History
So here’s this sharecropper in Mississippi working for not a lot of money. There are no guitar stores in Clarkdale in 1920. So just where did Robert Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters, and Charley Patton get their guitars? From a Sears catalog, that’s where....
