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Tier 2 · legacy legend
Alvin Youngblood Hart
Person · male · United States · Oakland · born 1963 · recording since 1996
American musician
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Also known as Alvin "Youngblood" Hart · Alvin Youngblood Heart · Alvin' Youngblodd' Hart · Gregory Edward Hart · アルヴィン・ヤングブラッド・ハート
Timeline
7 events▣ Album 5◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1960s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Big Mama's Door
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2000s
Biography
English biography176 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371651275
Biography
Alvin Youngblood Hart (born Gregory Edward Hart; March 2, 1963) is an American musician.
Career
Hart was born in Oakland, California, and spent some time in Carroll County, Mississippi, in his youth, where he was influenced by the Mississippi country blues performed by his relatives.
Hart is known as one of the world's foremost practitioners of country blues. He is also known as a faithful torchbearer for 1960s and 1970s guitar rock, as well as western swing and traditional country. His style has been compared to Lead Belly and Spade Cooley. Bluesman Taj Mahal once said about Hart: "The boy has got thunder in his hands." Hart himself said, "I guess my big break came when I opened for Taj Mahal for four nights at Yoshi's."
His debut album, Big Mama's Door
Big Mama's DoorSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 14 tracks1Big Mama's Door3:522Joe Friday2:423Them Fair Weather Friends5:094France Blues3:215Gallows Pole4:456Pony Blues3:327Amazed 'n' Amused2:158Things 'Bout Comin' My Way4:439When I Was A Cowboy (Western Plains)3:1410Rest Your Saddle2:4211If Blues Was Money3:3812Hillbilly Willie's Blues3:3113Livin' In A Strain3:5114That Kate Adams Jive1:34, was released in 1996 on Okeh Records. In 2003, Hart's album Down in the Alley
Down in the AlleySpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1Judge Bouche4:082How Long Before I Change My Clothes3:353Deep Blue Sea2:214Jinx Blues3:245Bootlegger's Blues2:486Alberta5:417Broke and Hungry3:288Devil Got My Woman3:089Chilly Winds4:4010Tom Rushen Blues3:4111Please Baby3:0112Motherless Child3:12 was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.
Albums
Big Mama's Door (1996)
Territory (1998)
Start with the Soul (2000)
Down In The Alley (2002)
Motivational Speaker (2005)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 5 | 78.9th |
| Studio albums | 5 | 84.6th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 9 | 24.5th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (5 release groups · 5 studio albums)
Albums · 5
1996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 48:49
1Big Mama's Door3:522Joe Friday2:423Them Fair Weather Friends5:094France Blues3:215Gallows Pole4:456Pony Blues3:327Amazed 'n' Amused2:158Things 'Bout Comin' My Way4:439When I Was A Cowboy (Western Plains)3:1410Rest Your Saddle2:4211If Blues Was Money3:3812Hillbilly Willie's Blues3:3113Livin' In A Strain3:5114That Kate Adams Jive1:341998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 46:39
1Tallacatcha3:062Illinois Blues4:193Ouachita Run2:394Sallie, Queen of the Pines3:455Countrycide7:176Ice Rose4:027Dancing With Tears in My Eyes2:468Mama Don’t Allow5:349John Hardy4:3010Just About to Go4:0511Underway at Seven4:362000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 46:38
1Fightin' Hard2:552Nanos Arriba3:323Treat Her Like a Lady4:024Once Again2:115Porch Monkeys' Theme4:466Electric Eel5:147Back to Memphis3:078Cowboy Boots3:019A Prophet's Mission3:5410Cryin' Shame3:2711The Hustler2:0812Maxwell Street Jimmy3:3613Will I Ever Get Back Home4:452002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 43:07
1Judge Bouche4:082How Long Before I Change My Clothes3:353Deep Blue Sea2:214Jinx Blues3:245Bootlegger's Blues2:486Alberta5:417Broke and Hungry3:288Devil Got My Woman3:089Chilly Winds4:4010Tom Rushen Blues3:4111Please Baby3:0112Motherless Child3:122005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 57:30
1Big Mama's Door (Might Return)5:502Motivational Speaker3:563Stomp Dance4:134In My Time of Dying6:415Lawd I'm Just a Country Boy in This Great Big Freaky City3:086My World Is Round3:237Nobody's Fault But Mine2:348Shoot Me a Grin4:149The Worm4:1010Necessary Roughness (A Power Move)3:2211The Meanest Jukebox in Town3:5512How Long Before I Change My Clothes5:5613Shootout on I-556:08
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Alvin Youngblood Hart head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 5 | 78.9th |
| Studio albums | 5 | 84.6th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 9 | 24.5th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Memphis String Band(band) | — | present | |
| Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Muscle Theory(band) | — | present | |
| New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers(band) | — | present | |
| Ian Siegal & The Mississippi Mudbloods(band) | — | present |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alvin-youngblood-hart.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/209311f4-f9c2-4e44-95c4-f7708f9cc10fdiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/209311f4-f9c2-4e44-95c4-f7708f9cc10fcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449290genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449290seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Youngblood_Hartbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Youngblood_Hart
Why this artist is in the database
- List of blues musicians — rank #46
| 1963 | | California | Acoustic blues* |
Tier rule: genre canon: blues
Image: Hreinn Gudlaugsson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q449290 · MusicBrainz: 209311f4-f9c2-4e44-95c4-f7708f9cc10f
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