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Howard" Louie Bluie" Armstrong (4 de marzo de 1909 – 30 de julio de 2003) fue un músico estadounidense de country blues. Cantante e instrumentista, tocaba el violín, la mandolina y la guitarra. También fue un notable artista visual y narrador. Biografía.
Years active. 1920s–1990s. Howard " Louie Bluie " Armstrong (March 4, 1909 – July 30, 2003) was an American string band and country blues musician, who played fiddle, mandolin, and guitar and sang. He was also a notable visual artist and raconteur.
Nonpareil string instrumentalist and singer Howard Armstrong performed under the name “Louie Bluie” as part of a 1930s African American string band. He left music to work in the factories during World War II and did not return to his musical roots as Louie Bluie until the 1970s. In 1985 he starred …
10 de oct. de 1985 · Louie Bluie: Directed by Terry Zwigoff. With Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Yank Rachell, Ikey Robinson. About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.
5 de ago. de 2003 · Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, musician, artist and storyteller who was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a national treasure, died July 30 in Boston of complications...
San Francisco filmmaker Terry Zwigoff’s first cinematic effort, the 1985 Louie Bluie, is a wry, ribald, and magical portrait of the country-blues string band player and irrepressible raconteur Howard Armstrong (a.k.a. Louie Bluie). This catchy, …
The Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival is named in honor of Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong (1909 - 2003) who grew up in Campbell County, influenced by the many genres of music common to the area, and became one of the nation's finest black string-‐band musicians, a recipient of NEA’s National Heritage Fellowship, and the Tennessee ...
