If you love R&B, blues guitar, poetry or just want to support indy media kindly click like, share, post...much appreciated... 12/27/14 Evan Ginzburg’s Legends TV co-hosted by poet Jon Winell with blues great Robert Ross and R&B singer Sheldon Price ustre.am/:3R0lf Robert Ross is an American blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and leader of the Robert Ross Band. Ross was nominated six times for a New York Music Award before winning for Best Blues Artist in 1989. He has also won several grants for integrating music into education programs. Ross original song, Sittin in the Jailhouse, was recorded in 1980 by Johnny Winter and appeared on Winters album, Raisin Cain and Winters compilation, A Rock n Roll Collection. As co-leader of the Dicey Ross Band with harmonica player Bill Dicey, Ross recorded with Big Joe Turner in 1976 for Spivey Records, a Brooklyn record label owned by Victoria Spivey and Lenny Kunstadt. Ross has also worked with John Lee Hooker, Lightnin Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Dr. John, Bobby Lewis, Pinetop Perkins, Cyril Neville, Big Mama Thornton, Louisiana Red, J.B. Hutto, Eddie Kirkland, Floyd Jones, and Homesick James. The Robert Ross Band tours frequently and has released two albums in Europe on Brambus Records. Ross diverse repertory includes boogie woogie, soul, blues, rock and roll and jazz.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:51:54 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015