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Ralph Gleason only lived to become 58, but he previously an extremely productive profession. After graduating from Columbia University or college in 1938, Gleason was the creator and editor of Jazz Info, among the 1st jazz publications. He was originally a partisan for Dixieland and New Orleans jazz but usually …

Among the last great rural blues stylists within the San Francisco/Oakland region, K.C. Douglas created a blues traditional when he documented “Mercury Boogie” in 1949. The tune, which paid homage towards the American car, was later on renamed “Mercury Blues” and included in Steve Miller and David Lindley. Nation superstar …