#Legends of the Blues Portraits

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FIRST LADIES OF BLUES & JAZZ MUSIC -- MOSTLY SINGERS & SONGWRITERS INSTEAD OF MUSOS.

NOTE: ^These ladies had to have been around musical instruments for their entire careers, so, why neither of them ever decided to give one a go is beyond me. They're all singers exclusively, every one.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the various ladies of blues & jazz music, from oldest to youngest, and all illustrated by William Stout for his extensive (and definitive) "Legends of the Blues" portraits series.

Gertrude "MA" RAINEY (born Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939)

LUCILLE BOGAN (born Lucile Anderson; April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948)

ETHEL WATERS (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977), 2x

VICTORIA Regina SPIVEY (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976)

Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972), known professionally as "BIG MAYBELLE"

Sources: www.motherjones.com/media/2016/04/cartoon-portraits-of-blues-legends, Buds Art Books, Pinterest, various, etc...

[kult-of-tol-in-gaurhoth]

THE FIRST PERSON TO PLAY BLUES ON AN ELECTRIC GUITAR -- THE FIRST GUITAR HERO IN THE HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (1910 – 1975) American blues musician, pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds. Artwork by William Stout for his "Legends of the Blues" portraits series.

LEGACY & OVERVIEW: ""How significant was T-Bone Walker to the evolution of the blues?" he repeats the question. “Well,” he says after a long pause. “You look back at everyone who’s ever stood in front of a band playing the guitar and it all traces back to one man. T-Bone Walker was the first person to ever play blues on an electric guitar: How significant is that?”

But Vaughan knows Walker’s contributions go deeper than having access to new technology. Leaving it at that is like lauding a brilliant author for being the first to write a book using a word processor.

“T-Bone created a whole new language for the guitar,” says Vaughan, whose concise leads and impeccable sense of swing and rhythm show that his guitar speaks T-Bone fluently. He reaches for his 1951 Gibson hollow-body electric on the couch in his manager’s office on South Lamar; axe in hands he seems more comfortable talking about Walker, whose work in the 1940s was as major a musical influence as Texas has produced. Vaughan starts playing riffs you’ve heard on records by the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton and Vaughan’s former Fabulous Thunderbirds and the conversation comes alive.

"You’ve heard this one a hundred times before,” he says, playing the driving intro to “The Crawl,” a T-Bird mainstay. “That’s a T-Bone lick. Here’s another,” he says, strumming the harmonic chords that open Walker’s most enduring composition, “Call It Stormy Monday.” Vaughan then hits a note and sustains it with a finger wiggle a la B.B. King, performs a jazz-billy run like the ones Scotty Moore used to play with Elvis Presley, executes the bent-note double stops identified with Chuck Berry, then apes the choppy rhythms of nascent funk guitarist Jimmy Nolen of James Brown’s band. These licks all started with Walker, who was born in Linden and raised in Dallas. The electric guitar has been the defining instrument of the past 50 years and T-Bone Walker was the first guitar hero.

“You know how everyone was blown away when they first heard Jimi Hendrix?” Vaughan asks. “Well, imagine what it must’ve been like to hear T-Bone for the first time, when those riffs were brand new.” Hendrix had contemporaries who were doing amazing things — Clapton, Jeff Beck, Link Wray, Buddy Guy — but T-Bone was on an island. He was the template for so many great guitarists who would follow. In Texas, a Mecca of electric blues guitarists, you had Rockdale’s Pee Wee Crayton, Orange’s Gatemouth Brown, Beaumont’s Johnny Winter. Dallas gave us Freddie King and the Vaughan brothers and Houston could boast Albert Collins, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Johnny Copeland and Billy Gibbons, all carrying T-Bone’s torch."

-- MICHAEL CORCORAN, "T-Bone Walker and the Language of Electric Blues," c. April 2020 (Texas Music History)

Sources: www.michaelcorcoran.net/t-bone-walker-and-the-language-of-electric-blues and www.budsartbooks.com/product/more-legends-of-the-blues-card-set-by-william-stout.

[joshuamj]

Been artblocked lately, so i decided to sorta reset by trying out other styles, so here's EoW!Zelda in my style and 3 others!

+ some style/process notes

[heatherfield]

@giftober 2024 | Day 27: blue

[Ichabod] was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. —The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Ichabod Crane in Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story [x]

Bonus:

[spookysazart]

Shameless Jinx apologist

[bluewonderlandart]

A Zelda piece I’d been working on for a while, totk anniversary inspired me to finish it.

[selitoxicmoon]

[CM] Lunace's Library

Commission for CaptinCrane332 Full portrait of an OC named Lunace from Destiny Intertwined, she's reading a healing book of how red crystals healing works. I liked this commission for different light play and learning of reflections and the horns with crystal shapes. The background actually liked so much to play with the books and it's designs, the background cover isn't made by me.

Lunace belongs to CaptinCrane332

[kimchi-paints]

Big Jinx in the house 💃

Anyone else gassed for arcane season 2? It's almost here!

[darkitsunex]

I have concluded with a fanart consisting Snow Moon Ahri paired with Blood Moon Yasuo under the form of a double-faced portrait with and without glowing aura. I hope you like and enjoy it! :))

[kefalion]

Did something as self indulgent as draw an idealised self portrait as a Jedi

[rachelfaye-art]

All of the drawings I'm working on right now are taking forever. I really want to upload more often though, so I thought I'd try to do some quicker sketches. Not worried about getting everything right, not worried about shading. Just cute little sketches.

Here's my first one, Riju! I'd like to do a lot more Zelda characters. Urbosa, Sidon, and Mipha are characters I definitely will draw soon.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"...I TRIED TO CAPTURE HIS WILD ONSTAGE PERSONA, THE SCARY-BUT-FUNNY GUY WHO AROSE FROM A COFFIN..."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on legendary screamer, shouter, and all around rocker "Screamin'" Jay Hawkins, illustrated by his old pal William Stout for his 2013 "Legends of the Blues" portrait series.

"Jay Hawkins was a friend of mine. We met on the set of "American Hot Wax." We saw each other socially and exchanged correspondence when he was out of town. He was a huge guy with an geodetic memory for 1950s rhythm and blues. I could play him any R&B record from the '50s. With one listen he could tell me who each player was on the record. Amazing!

In my portrait of Jay I tried to capture his wild onstage persona, the scary-but-funny guy who arose from a coffin to sing his signature tune "I Put a Spell On You" or his classic "Constipation Blues." I miss this surprisingly kind and gentle man."

-- WILLIAM STOUT, American fantasy artist/painter/illustrator of 2013's "Legends of the Blues"

Source: www.nuncalosabre.com/legends-of-blues-by-william-stout.

[vande14y]

It’s Fab Five Friday y’all! Zelda and some others in blue for today

[ki-ana-mae-wong]

Anna May Wong

in Tod Browning's DRIFTING (1923)

[phildekem]

RIP TINA TURNER

[noxtivagus]

..this is the new adventurer plate i made that i was talking abt a while ago hehe ><