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2 days ago · In the early to mid-1920s Ammons worked as a cab driver for the Silver Taxicab Company. In 1924 he met up with his boyhood friend Meade Lux Lewis, who was also then a taxi driver. Soon the two players began working as a team, performing at club parties.
2 days ago · For a time he, Albert Ammons, and Meade Lux Lewis lived in the same rooming house. On December 29, 1928, he recorded his influential "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie", one of the first "boogie woogie" style recordings to make a hit, and which cemented the name for the style.
2 days ago · He took up the guitar, then at 14 began attending an art school in Manchester, where he taught himself to play boogie-woogie piano in the style of Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis.
3 days ago · He took up the guitar, then at 14 began attending an art school in Manchester, where he taught himself to play boogie-woogie piano in the style of Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. “When I started playing, it was strictly for my own satisfaction,” Mr. Mayall recalled in 1990.
2 days ago · ↳ Song: "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by "Meade "Lux" Lewis" Thanks for all the full-ins, Becky 7:07pm
2 days ago · His love of vibrant American music began when he was a young art student and heard records by American boogie-woogie piano giants Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons.
2 days ago · John Mayall, a musical luminary whose pioneering work in the rhythm and blues genre garnered him the moniker “The Godfather of British Blues,” has died at the age of 90. According to a ...
