Born on a cotton plantation in Jamaica, Eddie Kirkland got his start in the music business at the age of 12 as part of the Sugar Girl’s Medicine Show. After a short stint with the show, Eddie landed ...

Eddie Kirkland is a roadrunner, baby. The 81-year-old blues man lives much of his life behind the wheel, crisscrossing the nation in a 1978 Ford Country Squire station wagon he affectionately ...

Eddie Kirkland’s It’s the Blues Man! returns on Craft Bluesville AAA vinyl with raw 1962 blues, QRP pressing, and road worn edge. Craft Recordings’ Bluesville series continues to make the case that ...

Craft Recordings and Bluesville reissue Albert King and Eddie Kirkland on AAA vinyl. Two blues classics that still hit harder than most new releases. Blues doesn’t always get the same glossy reissue ...

Another blues veteran, 70-year-old Eddie Kirkland, surrounds himself with hot young sidemen on Lonely Street (Telarc 83424; 48:03). He gives it up to Sonny Landreth’s incredible slide guitar playing ...

Belatedly, the news is spreading that bluesman Eddie Kirkland, 87, died in a Tampa, Fla., hospital late last month following injuries sustained in a car crash en route to a gig. His Detroit connection ...

Singer-guitarist Eddie Kirkland, a key performer on the ’50s Detroit blues scene and John Lee Hooker’s longtime bandmate, died Sunday, Feb. 27, in a car accident near Tampa, Fla. He was 88. Born in ...

According to the Associated Press, 88-year-old blues legend known as the “Gypsy of the Blues” was killed in Florida when his car turned into the path of a Greyhound bus. Eddie Kirkland was traveling ...

Sam Phillips of Sun Records fame had an ear for musicians who stood out. He liked artists who were different, and he recognized the earth-shaking potential of John Lee Hooker's “Boogie Chillen,'" an ...

The 88-year-old musician flipped his vehicle when he tried to make a U-turn in front of a bus in Florida on Sunday. March 1, 2011 AceShowbiz - Blues singer Eddie Kirkland has died after his car ...