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Gus Cannon

An extraordinary musician (he could play five-string banjo and jug simultaneously), Gus Cannon bridged the difference between early blues as well as the minstrel and folk designs that preceded it. His music group from the ’20s and ’30s, Cannon’s Jug Stompers, represents the apogee from the jug music group style. …

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Jackie Brenston

Identifying the first actual rock and roll & move record is a impossible task. Nevertheless, you can’t proceed too far incorrect citing Jackie Brenston’s 1951 Chess waxing of “Rocket 88,” a seminal little bit of rock’s interesting history with all the current prerequisite elements strongly set up: virtually indecipherable lyrics …

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Tav Falco’s Panther Burns

The master of the raw and shambolic fusion of rockabilly, blues, and fractured noise, Tav Falco was, combined with the Cramps, among the earliest purveyors of what would become referred to as psychobilly (though his version from the sound lacked the campy horror movie ambience others taken to it), and …

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Gangsta Boo

A joint venture partner of 3 6 Mafia, Gangsta Boo debuted with Enquiring Thoughts in 1998. Both Worlds *69 implemented in 2001.

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