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The U Street Corridor was the location of many jazz clubs and theatres during the early years of the jazz age.. Washington, D.C., has been home to many prominent musicians and is particularly known for the musical genres of Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, bluegrass, punk rock and its locally-developed descendants hardcore and emo, and a local funk genre called go-go.
Rock music groups from Washington, D.C. (3 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Musical groups from Washington, D.C." The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total.
Elizabeth " Libba " Cotten ( née Nevills; January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) [ 1][ 2][ 3] was an influential American folk and blues musician. She was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. [ 4] This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers ...
The Cellar Door. Coordinates: 38°54′18.5″N 77°4′4.1″W. The Cellar Door was a 163-seat music club located at 34th & M Street NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. from 1964 [ 1] through January 7, 1982. It occupied the location of a former music club called The Shadows.
All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.
Jonny Lang. Jon Gordon Langseth Jr. (born January 29, 1981), known as Jonny Lang, is an American blues, gospel, rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. [ 1] He has recorded five albums that have charted on the top 50 of the Billboard 200 chart and won a Grammy Award for Turn Around. [ 2]
Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues. [ 3][ 4] It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and drums, sometimes with keyboards and harmonica).
Bobby "Blue" Bland. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, 1999. Paul Butterfield at Woodstock Reunion, 1979. Eric Clapton, 2006. Eddie Clearwater in Montreux, 1978. Albert Collins at Long Beach Blues Festival, 1990. Willie Dixon at Monterey Jazz Festival, 1981. Lowell Fulson in Paris, 1980. Buddy Guy, 2008.