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b. 2 August 1917, Gonzales, Tx, USA. Like a great many other aspects of culture today, the blues features personalities well-known for becoming popular. Big Walter Cost is one. Elevated from age three by his uncle, C.W. Hull, and aunt, he relocated with these to San Antonio in 1928. Throughout …

Phil Kraus was by far among the busiest & most prolific NEW YORK studio room percussionists from the postwar period, appearing on periods headlined by Percy Beliefs, Hugo Winterhalter, André Kostelanetz, and just about any other large of easy hearing and lounge music. Kraus was created in NY in 1918, …