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For an interval in the past due 1920’s, George E. Lee’s Orchestra was a close rival of Bennie Moten’s in Kansas Town. The older sibling of singer-pianist Julia Lee, George E. Lee used an Army music group in 1917, sang having a vocal quartet and in 1920 created a combo. …

Vocalist and self-taught guitarist Victor Sirker was created in New Orleans, LA, an ideal setting for the blues or jazz performers. He was raised there, encircled by the neighborhood music and the countless gifted artists who influence him over time. In the past due ’70s, Sirker was operating like a …

A member from the San Francisco-based spirit/R&B music group, the Dynatones, in the mid-1980s, Larry Dunn has continued to be among the Bay Area’s busiest music artists. Regarding his music group, the Tempo Sheiks, he’s continuing to perform frequently in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA area, and provides toured Europe …

Beginning at about age 14, Abe Bolar was playing bass in a number of local combos around Guthrie, OK. Within a couple of years he had eliminated totally professional and relocated to Oklahoma Town, having a music picture that was doubly energetic and fives instances as rowdy. In the first …

Zero blues shouter embodied the rollicking memories that he sang of that can compare with raucous shouter Wynonie Harris. “Mr. Blues,” as he was not-so-humbly known, joyously related risque stories of sex, booze, and countless celebrations in his brand raspy tone of voice over a number of the jumpingest horn-powered …

Harry Crafton was among the better — and, ultimately, unfairly neglected — guitarists to emerge from the postwar period. He carved a little but special market for himself in Philadelphia starting soon after Globe War II, reducing for the string of indepedent brands with a electric guitar audio that was …

Ray Smith was a rockabilly and nation singer who all recorded for the legendary Sunlight Information label, and is most beneficial remembered for his 1958 strike “Rockin’ Small Angel.” Smith was created on Oct 31, 1938 in Melber, KY, where his dad supported his family members being a sharecropper and …

He was created Rudolph Spencer Greene and it is often listed incorrectly on liner records seeing that Rudy Greene. Although neither a prolific nor well-known blues artist, he’s an artist who’s often shown on liner records, period. These albums are often compilations of specific types of blues, early rock and …

Scott Joplin was “the Ruler of Ragtime Authors,” a composer who elevated “banjo piano taking part in,” a lowly entertainment connected with saloons and brothels, into an American talent loved by hundreds of thousands. Born in Tx in either 1867 or 1868, Joplin grew up in Texarkana, the child of …

His plaintive baritone equally conversant with R&B and nation phrasing, Joe Simon married both styles with startling achievement through the late ’60s, adapting Nashville materials to the spirit audio and repeatedly approaching successful. Simon began saving in the Bay Region, but a change in saving sites (1st to Muscle mass …