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Billy Davenport

Drummer Billy Davenport was created Apr 23, 1931, in Chicago. His parents had been sharecroppers from rural Alabama who migrated to Chicago in 1928. He started learning drums at age six, after acquiring an old couple of drumsticks within an alley behind the Twin Door Lounge in the southside of …

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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

With a method honed within the gritty blues bars of Chicago’s south side, the Butterfield Blues Band was instrumental in bringing the sound of authentic Chicago blues to a white audience within the mid-’60s, and even though the band wasn’t an especially huge commercial success, its influence continues to be …

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