Jazz Articles about Arbee Stidham

Arbee Stidham: Tired of Wondering

by Derek Taylor
October 1, 2001

Ask your average casual blues fan about Arbee Stidham and a blank stare will likely be your answer. He’s an archetypal example of the forgotten blues hero, one whose past laurels have completely withered with the passage of time. Not so in the post-War years of the late 1940s, when his single “My Heart Belongs to You” rocketed to the top of the Billboard ‘race’ music chart. Slinging a T-Bone Walker-influenced guitar style that favored cleanly articulated single notes over ...