Browsing: Music – 1950s

For a fleeting moment in the late 1950s, Wee Willie Harris – born Charles William Harris in 1933 – was one of Britain’s hottest homegrown performers in a still-evolving rock ‘n’…

Willie Dixon, one of 14 children, was born on 1 July 1915 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After stints as a gospel singer and boxer, he settled…

Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma – an uproarious oil town – on 14 July 1912. His father Charley was a Democrat politico and…