| From then on, the young bluesman played his instrument with an unearthly style, his fingers dancing over the strings. |
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| Considered one of the last performers to come out of the string band tradition, Armstrong is a bluesman through and through. |
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| So often, when an old bluesman makes a new album, he's joined by a stellar cast of rock acolytes, paying their respects. |
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| Most amazingly, at 78, the veteran bluesman doesn't understand the concept of slowing down or resting on his laurels. |
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| The travelling bluesman was the poet and entertainer of an underclass within the underclass. |
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| Yet, in the case of both the bluesman and the crooner, there is, at least ostensibly, a reason for the sorrow. |
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| A seasoned bluesman who unquestionably has total mastery of his art, this harmonica player also toys with other musical styles. |
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| Also living in Toronto, running a nightspot in Yorkville was legendary bluesman, Lonnie Johnson. |
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| High cover charges keep the less affluent out even at B. B. King's, which is part-owned by the renowned black bluesman. |
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| In the space of this album's ten tracks, the bluesman brushes the zenith of his genre. |
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| His new album, set for release on 15 May, was produced in collaboration with the guitarist Thomas Dutronc and French bluesman Paul Personne. |
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| They have a more up-beat feel to them, I guess. But I don't think they move away from my work as a bluesman. |
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| Before I used to simply try and play the bluesman, but these days I'm really trying to be open to more positive elements. |
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| In this interview, the Malian bluesman talks to RFI Musique about his music, his inspiration, his values and the void left by the death of his uncle, Ali Farka Touré, in March this year. |
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| Osborne, from New Orleans, is a gutbucket bluesman and guitar slinger who doubles as a singer-songwriter. |
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| Kicking it off in the living room of a 90-year-old, knife-wielding Delta bluesman was the perfect way to begin this journey. |
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| Crawford became widely influential while leading his own combos and recording soul-jazz albums, and he continued to arrange for himself and others, including bluesman B. B. King and singer Etta James. |
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| Drama House HUGH Laurie recently started a new, slightly unlikely career as a grizzled bluesman. |
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| He is a bluesman at heart and loves playing the blues. |
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| It could be said that bluesman Harry Manx is the 'vital link' between the music of the East and the West, marrying blues tradition with classical Indian raga. |
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| Tomas Homuta is a Czech native and a bluesman through and through. |
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| Deep down Bird was a bluesman, though he was equally at ease in the delicate exercise of the ballad, where his deep, heart-rending sound expressed emotion with force and poignancy. |
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| A portrait of notorious Belgian bluesman Arno, ex-TC matics leader, rythmed with humour and extracts of his work, but also an evocation of the Blues's spirit. |
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| When the black bluesman Leadbelly was toured around by his sponsor, John A Lomax, for an audience of white liberals between the wars, he was made to wear prison stripes and stick to miserabilist heritage blues. |
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| Chick Willis is a veteran bluesman who has visited the Midlands intermittently over the years. |
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| The journey is not quite the same as it was a few decades ago, when Robert Johnson travelled down the highway in his quest to become a better bluesman. |
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| There's a plaintive wail in bluesman Andy O'Brien's voice when he sings, a spark of melancholy that cracks in between verses. |
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| Mr Myers is a throwback, a black, blind, chain-smoking bluesman who walks painstakingly to the stage but belts out lyrics with a remarkably stirring voice. |
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| The tragic image of the blues that originated in the Mississippi Delta ignores the competitive and entrepreneurial spirit of the bluesman himself. |
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| According to Christie's, the collection includes a 1958 Gibson Flying V, once owned by bluesman Albert King, that is tipped to go for up to 90,000 dollars. |
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