Jazz musician Sonny Boy Williamson II's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.

Randy Newman has released the second single from his upcoming album Dark Matter, which is his first studio LP of new material since 2008’s Harps and Angels.

Tom Petty's unreleased cover of Sonny Boy Williamson II's 'Help Me' previewed an expanded version of the 'Mojo' LP in October 2023.

Sonny Boy Williamson was a blues harmonica player born in Jackson in 1914 and murdered in Chicago in 1948. But he was much more than that.

The one that stuck was Sonny Boy Williamson, a name he'd borrowed without permission from the popular Chicago blues recording artist John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson.

Watch Blues legend Buddy Guy performs "Nine Below Zero" as part of his 'Austin City Limits' performance.

The one most important to Helena was Sonny Boy Williamson II (aka Aleck "Rice" Miller). According to legend, he was given the name to capitalize on the fame of Sonny Boy Williamson I.

Junior Wells was considered the direct musical descendant of modern blues harmonica legends John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, "Sonny Boy" Williamson II (Rice Miller) and Little Walter Jacobs. An ...

On this day in 1965 legendary bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson died, and in 1997 Elvis Presley topped the bestselling entertainer's list.

James Cotton, a Grammy Award-winning blues harmonica master whose full-throated sound backed such blues legends as Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Howlin’ Wolf, has died at age 81.

Three years after Sonny Boy Williamson II issued 'Bring It On Home' as a single, Led Zeppelin paid tribute to the track's influence on the band with this cut from 'Led Zeppelin II,' which is No ...

Williamson, who borrowed the last name and nickname of bluesman John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, became famous through live radio in the ’40s and began recording in 1951.