Did Sleepy John inspire Marc Bolan?

Did Sleepy John inspire Marc Bolan?

UPDATED: 4 March 2019. Did 1930s bluesman Sleepy John Estes influence Tyrannosaurus Rex? Before the electric guitar-boogie pop of Marc Bolan’s T-Rex – the group who started Britain’s early 1970s glam-rock era – some might remember we had the hip underground folk-rock of Bolan’s T-Rex’s forerunner: Tyrannosaurus Rex. Tyrannosaurus Rex was an early hippy-style band whose most interesting…

Hey, cats! When did blues first appear in the paper? ‘Cats’, too, come to that?

Hey, cats! When did blues first appear in the paper? ‘Cats’, too, come to that?

USA’s first illustrated black paper, The Indianapolis Freeman Any idea when the word “blues” first appeared in print as a description for African-American music? It wasn’t until as late as 1910, would you believe, according to the American academics, Lyn Abbott and Doug Seroff, who discovered the term in The Indianapolis Freeman of 10 April…