Roosevelt Sykes information

Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906 – July 17, 1983) was an American blues musician, also known as "the Honeydripper". Sykes was born the son of a musician...

The Return of Roosevelt Sykes is an album by blues musician Roosevelt Sykes recorded in 1960 and released on the Bluesville label. AllMusic reviewer Bill...

included a songwriting credit for Roosevelt Sykes, who recorded the song as "Sweet Old Chicago" in 1955. Neither Sykes nor Parker included a reference to...

Alexander (1950), Elmore James (1951–1959), Baby Boy Warren (1954), Roosevelt Sykes (1955), Junior Parker (1958), and Forest City Joe (1959). Pearson and...

on their debut album The Animals, released in 1964. Blues pianist Roosevelt Sykes (listed as "the Honey Dripper") recorded "Night Time Is the Right Time"...

with the surname Dobby Bragg, a pseudonym of American blues musician Roosevelt Sykes (1906–1983) Bragg Institute, former name of the Australian Centre for...

"makeshift" cover band, and Plant gave the band its name, inspired by Roosevelt Sykes, an American blues singer known as "Honeydripper". Jean-Michael Guesdon...

such artists as Tab Smith, Jimmy Forrest, Gene Ammons, Memphis Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, the Four Blazes, the Moroccos, Robert Anderson, and the Staple Singers...

"I'm a Ram" (Green, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges) – 3:53 "Driving Wheel" (Roosevelt Sykes) – 3:04 "Light My Fire" (Robbie Krieger, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek...

to cut costs. The band included musicians such as Big Bill Broonzy, Roosevelt Sykes, Washboard Sam, and Sonny Boy Williamson. Many blues musicians were...

renditions were hits on the record charts. Roosevelt Sykes' "Driving Wheel Blues" is a solo twelve-bar blues, with Sykes providing piano accompaniment to his...

classic bluesmen passed over by the changing audience. Such bluesmen as Roosevelt Sykes, Lightnin' Hopkins, Rev. Gary Davis, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee...

Festival, together with Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Roosevelt Sykes and others. McDowell's 1969 album I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll, recorded...

"sweet" guy, and had already been adopted as a nickname by blues pianist Roosevelt Sykes. Liggins tried to persuade his next bandleader, Sammy Franklin, to...

(1962, P.1964 Spivey LP 1004) with Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Johnson, Roosevelt Sykes, Bob Dylan Stavin' Chain Blues (1966), with J.D. Short Hell Bound and...

Dirty Double Mother is an album by blues musician Roosevelt Sykes recorded in 1973 and released by the BluesWay label. On the cover, the title is "Dirty...

recorded earlier that same year (1937) called "She Squeezed My Lemon", by Roosevelt Sykes. English rock band Led Zeppelin's version of this song was produced...