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Big Maceo Merriweather

The thundering 88s of Big Maceo Merriweather helped pave just how for the fantastic Chicago blues pianists from the 1950s — men like Johnny Jones, Otis Spann, and Henry Gray. Regrettably, Merriweather wouldn’t become around to take pleasure from their improvements — he passed away a couple of years after …

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