American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
Billy Boy Arnold
Arnold in 2007
Background information
Birth name
William Arnold
Born
(1935-09-16) September 16, 1935 (age 88) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres
Chicago blues
rhythm and blues
Occupation(s)
Musician
songwriter
Instrument(s)
Harmonica
vocals
guitar
Years active
1952–present
Relatives
Jerome Arnold (brother)
Musical artist
William "Billy Boy" Arnold (born September 16, 1935)[1] is an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. Arnold is a self-taught harmonica player and has worked with blues legends such as Bo Diddley, Johnny Shines, Otis Rush, Earl Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and others.[2]
^"Billy Boy Arnold Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
^Harris, Sheldon (1991). Blues who's who : a biographical dictionary of blues singers. New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 0306801558.
William "BillyBoy" Arnold (born September 16, 1935) is an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. Arnold is a self-taught harmonica player...
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cover); Big Boss Man (Jimmy Reed cover); Don't Stay Out All Night (BillyBoyArnold cover); Happy Home (Elmore James cover). The line-up was: Mick, Keith...
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Pinetop Perkins, Melvin Taylor, Sugar Blue, Phil Guy, Ronnie Earl, BillyBoyArnold, Ronnie Baker Brooks, John Primer, Lurrie Bell, Jerry Portnoy, Larry...
Alright", the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things" and their rendition of BillyBoyArnold's "I Wish You Would", the Easybeats' "Friday on My Mind", the Merseys'...
songs composed by artists other than Bo Diddley: "I Wish You Would" by BillyBoyArnold (1955) "Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly (1957) "Cannonball" by Duane...
In addition, Holmstrom has played and recorded with Jimmy Rogers, BillyBoyArnold, Booker T. Jones, Jody Williams, and R. L. Burnside. One critic observed...
out as a BillyBoyArnold composition, which Leonard Chess, owner of Chess Records (Checkers was a subsidiary label of Chess), had heard Arnold play and...
Heat) Big Mama Thornton Big Walter Horton Bill Dicey Billy Bizor BillyBoyArnoldBilly Branch Billy Gibson Blind Mississippi Morris Bob Corritore Bonny...
and Rev. Billy C. Wirtz Delbert McClinton Kenny Neal and Billy Branch Phillip Walker with the Texas Horns Mark Hummel with BillyBoyArnold and Lee Oskar...
Too Long Lonesome Sundown 4717 Johnny Jones with BillyBoyArnold Johnny Jones and BillyBoyArnold 4718 Crawfish Fiesta Professor Longhair 4719 Frostbite...
2015) Butler also recorded harmonica with several other musicians: BillyBoyArnold – "Shake Your Hips", which appears on the album, Back Where I Belong...
Perkins and Big Daddy Kinsey 1994: All-star Chess Records Tribute with BillyBoyArnold, Bo Diddley, Lowell Fulson, Johnnie Johnson, Sam Lay, Dave Myers, Jimmy...
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