Faster access than browser!
43 relations: AllMusic, Bass guitar, Big Walter Horton, Blues, Canned Heat, Chess Records, Chicago, Chicago blues, Chicago Tribune, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Earwig Music Company, Electric blues, Electric guitar, Guitar, Guitarist, Harmonica, Hit record, Howlin' Wolf, Human voice, Illinois, J.O.B. Records, Jimmy Rogers, Johnny "Man" Young, Kansas City Red, Little Walter, Mandolin, Marianna, Arkansas, Maxwell Street, Mississippi, Moody Jones, Muddy Waters, On the Road Again (Canned Heat song), Singing, Snooky Pryor, Songwriter, Sound recording and reproduction, Sunnyland Slim, Testament Records (United States), Union Stock Yards, United States, Vee-Jay Records, Willow Springs, Illinois, World War II.
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.
New!!: Floyd Jones and AllMusic · See more »
Bass guitar
The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Bass guitar · See more »
Big Walter Horton
Walter Horton, better known as Big Walter (Horton) or Walter "Shakey" Horton (April 6, 1921 – December 8, 1981) was an American blues harmonica player.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Big Walter Horton · See more »
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Blues · See more »
Canned Heat
Canned Heat is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Canned Heat · See more »
Chess Records
Chess Records was an American record company, founded in 1950 in Chicago and specializing in blues and rhythm and blues.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Chess Records · See more »
Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Chicago · See more »
Chicago blues
The Chicago blues is a form of blues music indigenous to Chicago, Illinois.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Chicago blues · See more »
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Chicago Tribune · See more »
David "Honeyboy" Edwards
David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was a Delta blues guitarist and singer from Mississippi.
New!!: Floyd Jones and David "Honeyboy" Edwards · See more »
Earwig Music Company
Earwig Music Company is an American blues and jazz independent record label, founded by Michael Frank in October 1978 in Chicago.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Earwig Music Company · See more »
Electric blues
Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Electric blues · See more »
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Electric guitar · See more »
Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Guitar · See more »
Guitarist
A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Guitarist · See more »
Harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Harmonica · See more »
Hit record
A hit record is an audio recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" (appeared on) one of the popular chart listings.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Hit record · See more »
Howlin' Wolf
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Howlin' Wolf · See more »
Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Human voice · See more »
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Illinois · See more »
J.O.B. Records
J.O.B. Records was an American, Chicago based independent record label, founded by businessman Joe Brown and bluesman St. Louis Jimmy Oden in 1949.
New!!: Floyd Jones and J.O.B. Records · See more »
Jimmy Rogers
Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 1950s.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Jimmy Rogers · See more »
Johnny "Man" Young
Johnny Young (January 1, 1918 – April 18, 1974)Harris, S. (1981).
New!!: Floyd Jones and Johnny "Man" Young · See more »
Kansas City Red
Arthur Lee Stevenson (May 7, 1926 – May 7, 1991), known as Kansas City Red, was an American blues drummer and vocalist who played a major role in the development of urban blues.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Kansas City Red · See more »
Little Walter
Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica and impact on succeeding generations earned comparisons for him to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Little Walter · See more »
Mandolin
A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".
New!!: Floyd Jones and Mandolin · See more »
Marianna, Arkansas
Marianna is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Arkansas, United States.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Marianna, Arkansas · See more »
Maxwell Street
Maxwell Street is an east-west street in Chicago, Illinois that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Maxwell Street · See more »
Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Mississippi · See more »
Moody Jones
Moody Jones (April 8, 1908 – March 23, 1988) was an American blues guitarist, bass player, and singer who contributed to the development of the postwar Chicago blues sound in the late 1940s.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Moody Jones · See more »
Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
New!!: Floyd Jones and Muddy Waters · See more »
On the Road Again (Canned Heat song)
"On the Road Again" is a song recorded by the American blues-rock group Canned Heat in 1967.
New!!: Floyd Jones and On the Road Again (Canned Heat song) · See more »
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Singing · See more »
Snooky Pryor
James Edward "Snooky" Pryor (September 15, 1919 or 1921 – October 18, 2006) was an American Chicago blues harmonica player.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Snooky Pryor · See more »
Songwriter
A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Songwriter · See more »
Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Sound recording and reproduction · See more »
Sunnyland Slim
Albert Luandrew (September 5, 1906 – March 17, 1995), "Blues pianist and singer Sunnyland Slim was born Albert Luandrew in Vance, Mississippi, September 5, 1906 (most sources say 1907, but the Social Security Death Index and 1920 census data give the date as 1906)." known as Sunnyland Slim, was an American blues pianist who was born in the Mississippi Delta and moved to Chicago, helping to make that city a center of postwar blues.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Sunnyland Slim · See more »
Testament Records (United States)
Testament Records was an American independent record label based in Philadelphia, later Chicago, then Pasadena.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Testament Records (United States) · See more »
Union Stock Yards
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Union Stock Yards · See more »
United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
New!!: Floyd Jones and United States · See more »
Vee-Jay Records
Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Vee-Jay Records · See more »
Willow Springs, Illinois
Willow Springs is a village in Cook and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.
New!!: Floyd Jones and Willow Springs, Illinois · See more »
World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
New!!: Floyd Jones and World War II · See more »
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Jones
