Tom Hall - "The First St. Louis Blues Festival 1986"

Tom Hall is a superb finger picking, ragtime, and blues guitarist. His style is routed in the influence of ‘Blind Black’ and Mississippi John Hurt, among others. Ths mini collection of six songs is taken from a rescued archive recording made live at the very first St. Louis Blues Festival in 1986.

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Tommy Bankhead & The Blues Eldoradoes

The late Tommy Bankhead was a key member of the St. Louis Blues community for more than 50 years. Born in Lake Comorant, Mississippi in 1931, in his professional career, he worked alongside the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin’ Wolf and on the streets of Memphis before moving to St. Louis in 1949. Known primarily as a guitarist, he was also adept at the harmonica, drums and bass. Although he didn’t record much during his lifetime, Tommy played with virtually everybody of recognition in the St. Louis Blues community, including Ike Turner, Oliver Sain, Albert King, Little Milton and Henry TownsendThis historic recording of Tommy playing with the Blues Eldoradoes was made at the first St Louis Blues festival in 1986.