In 1936, Roebuck "Pops" Staples moved with his wife Oceola from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago , where he continued...

Jamo Thomas was born in the Bahamas. He came to Chicago in the early sixties and made his first recording...

Edward Lee Floyd was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1937. In 1955, in Detroit, where he grew up, he was...

Percy Tyrone Sledge was born in 1940 in Leighton, Alabama, not too far from the Shoals area. He worked for...

Individually, the Neville Brothers had been part of the New Orleans music scene for many years, before Art Neville set...