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Spark Plug Smith

People who want to explore blues information made through the initial half from the 20th hundred years are usually seeing that captivated with the colorful holders utilized by certain players because they are with the music itself. Types of innovative nicknaming consist of Peetie Wheatstraw, Small Hat Jones, Daddy Stovepipe, …

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George James

This percussionist recorded with bluesman Mighty Mo Rodgers in the late ’90s. He shouldn’t be confused using the jazz reedman from the same name, or the record manufacturer from Woodstock.

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Dan Sane

Most widely known for his function in cooperation with electric guitar partner Frank Stokes, Dan Sane was created in Michigan, Mississippi on January 24, 1904. Upon relocating to Memphis through the 1920s, he performed in the string music group led by violinist Will Batts; there Sane first started using Stokes, …

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Dink Johnson

Dink Johnson was nothing at all if not versatile, as you can judge from your three devices that he played. Johnson began employed in New Orleans like a pianist in Storyville. He traveled to LA where he was a drummer for Expenses Johnson’s Creole Music group in 1913. Johnson freelanced, …

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Jeanne Carroll

b. 15 January 1931, Ruleville, Mississippi, USA. Carroll sang from infancy in the neighborhood cathedral and by her past due teens was executing in Chicago night clubs. Through the 50s she distributed stages and occasionally performed with observed blues and jazz performers of the time. Performing the blues, she also …

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J. Karjalainen

J. Karjalainen can be a Finnish vocalist/songwriter whose recognition spans decades, from the 1980s. Created Jukka Tapio Karjalainen on Apr 1, 1957, in Helsinki, he produced his recording debut in 1981 with J. Karjalainen ja Mustat Lasit. Follow-up albums had been released pretty much annually through the entire 1980s and …

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J.T. Adams

b. John Tyler Adams, 17 Feb 1911, Morganfield, Kentucky, USA. Adams discovered blues electric guitar from his dad; shifting to Indianapolis in the 40s, he dropped along with Francis Hillman ‘Scrapper’ Blackwell, and Mississippian Shirley Griffith, a fellow Chrysler worker who became his closest musical associate. Each followed the additional, …

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Leothus Lee Green

Leothus Lee Green, also called Pork Chops, was an early on contemporary of Small Sibling Montgomery and a mentor to Roosevelt Sykes. Blessed in Mississippi around 1900, Green proved helpful as a clothing presser in Vicksburg while perfecting his piano technique. Shortly Leothus was vacationing through the entire Lower Mississippi …

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Driftin’ Slim

Elmon “Driftin’ Thin” Mickle was a harmonica participant from Keo, AR, a stone’s dispose of from Little Rock and roll. He got his early harmonica teaching when he noticed John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson and Yank Rachell perform and contacted Sonny Boy to instruct him the rudiments from the instrument. …

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Nap Hayes

In Feb of 1928, guitarist Napoleon “Nap” Hayes and mandolinist Matthew Prater, two dark musicians from Vicksburg, MSi, documented 4 instrumental tunes in Memphis. The music — “Somethin’ Doin’,” “Easy Champion,” “Nothin’ Doin’,” and “Prater Blues” — display the clean musicianship of both players, with Hayes’ electric guitar providing a …

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