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Sonny Burgess is among the wildest rockers to record for the renowned Sunlight label in Memphis. He and his music group the Pacers arrived of Newport, AR, using a hard-rocking design that, unlike that of all rockabillies, owed small to nothing in the form of a stylistic debts to nation …

Dave Bartholomew has often been quoted to the result that Smiley Lewis was a “misfortune singer,” because he never sold a lot more than 100,000 copies of his Imperial singles. In retrospect, Lewis was a lucky guy in lots of respects — he liked stellar support from New Orleans’ ace …

Multi-talented Zephire “Andre” Williams provides worn many musical hats during his lengthy career: recording artist, songwriter, producer, road manager, etc. THE DADDY of Rap was created November 1, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in a casing task by his mom, who passed away when Williams was six yrs …

Not to end up being confused using the “Tremble, Rattle, & Move” vocalist, Big Joe Turner was a bassist with B.B. Ruler and transferred to fronting his very own Memphis Blues Caravan.