My first blog post honoring the remaining living legends of the blues starting with Billy Boy Arnold. He is the last of the great harmonica players of the 50's and 60's. Arnold started his music career in 1952 releasing a song titled Hello Stranger on a small record label. After that he worked with Bo Diddley in the mid 50's for Checker records playing on the Diddley classic I'm a Man. His best known recordings were"I Wish You Would" and "I Ain’t Got You". Both of which would later be covered by the Yardbirds with the latter being their debut single. In the 60's he worked as a bus driver and, later parole officer when he couldn't find work. But by the 70s he was back making music. He toured Europe during that period as well. In the 90's he would release two albums with Alligator records and an album with Roomful of Blues guitarist Duke Robillard in 2001. His latest album The Blues Soul Of Billy Boy Arnold was released in 2014. I was lucky enough to see him in concert at a jazz club in Minneapolis for the the Blues Harmonica Blowout which featured Arnold and other harmonica greats Mark Hummel and Corky Siegel. Go see him if you get the chance. He is one of the important pieces in the puzzle of the creation of Rock 'n' Roll music.
My first blog post honoring the remaining living legends of the blues starting with Billy Boy Arnold. He is the last of the great harmonica players of the 50's and 60's. Arnold started his music career in 1952 releasing a song titled Hello Stranger on a small record label. After that he worked with Bo Diddley in the mid 50's for Checker records playing on the Diddley classic I'm a Man. His best known recordings were"I Wish You Would" and "I Ain’t Got You". Both of which would later be covered by the Yardbirds with the latter being their debut single. In the 60's he worked as a bus driver and, later parole officer when he couldn't find work. But by the 70s he was back making music. He toured Europe during that period as well. In the 90's he would release two albums with Alligator records and an album with Roomful of Blues guitarist Duke Robillard in 2001. His latest album The Blues Soul Of Billy Boy Arnold was released in 2014. I was lucky enough to see him in concert at a jazz club in Minneapolis for the the Blues Harmonica Blowout which featured Arnold and other harmonica greats Mark Hummel and Corky Siegel. Go see him if you get the chance. He is one of the important pieces in the puzzle of the creation of Rock 'n' Roll music. 
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