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Jesse “Wild Bill” Austin

b. 1930, Rochelle, NY, USA, d. 22 March 1996. A larger-than-life bluesman, Austin by no means lived to attain the acknowledgement he deserved. A precociously talented kid, Austin was trained musical theory in Chicago, but created his ‘hog phoning’ vocal design on his grandfather’s plantation. He was mainly affected by …

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