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L.V. Johnson

A mournful, frequently gripping singer and an excellent guitarist, Chicago performer L.V. Johnson in fact did better like a writer when compared to a business lead artist. His tunes “Are You Severe” and “REAL LOVE Is Difficult to find” had been big strikes for Tyrone Davis, while “Nation Love” did …

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Roy Hytower & Motif

Well-regarded being a blues guitarist and soulful singer about Chicago, Roy Hytower provides carved away an equally amazing niche as an actor in a variety of Windy Town musical productions. Among his starring assignments: portraying Muddy Waters and Otis Redding. After picking right up some experience performing around Cell, Hytower …

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Titus Turner

Although he recorded frequently through the 1950s and 1960s, R&B singer Titus Turner today remains to be best known like a composer, authoring such perennials as “Leave My Kitten Alone,” “All over the World,” and “Sticks and Stones.” Given birth to in Atlanta, GA, in 1933, Turner produced his documented …

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Mosley & Johnson

Sam Mosley and Robert A. Johnson are songwriters for Malaco, and in addition documented as the duo Mosley and Johnson for Muscle mass Shoals Audio, a subsidiary of Malaco. They produced two LPs for the label in the past due ’80s and early ’90s, but experienced no hits.

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Lucky Peterson

Child prodigy position is sometimes tough to overcome upon getting maturity. Not for Lucky Peterson; he grew larger (in more methods than one) over the modern blues circuit than he was on the precocious age group of six, when he have scored a nationwide R&B hit using the Willie Dixon-produced …

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Neville Brothers

Throughout their long careers as both solo performers so that as members of the group that bore their family name, the Neville Brothers proudly carried the torch of their native New Orleans’ rich R&B legacy. Even though the four siblings — Arthur, Charles, Aaron, and Cyril — didn’t officially unite …

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Wayne Bennett

b. 13 Dec 1931, Sulpher, Oklahoma, USA, d. 28 November 1992, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. A skilled blues guitarist, Bennett found prominence in the middle-50s as an associate of Otis Hurry’s Chicago-based music group. Following that he was selected by Joe Scott to become listed on the touring and saving …

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Delbert McClinton

The venerable Delbert McClinton is a star among Texas roots music aficionados, not merely for his amazing longevity, but also for his capability to combine country, blues, soul, and rock & roll as though there have been no distinctions between some of them in the very best time-honored Texas tradition. …

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John Ellison

The sky-high degree of soulful intensity John Ellison taken to his lead vocals using the Soul Brothers Six came straight from the church. No real surprise there, since he was raised in a spiritual household. However the method Ellison harnessed that sanctified enthusiasm for the group’s secular edges was not …

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Etta James

Few feminine R&B famous actors enjoyed the type of constant acclaim Etta Wayne received within a career that spanned 6 decades; the celebrated maker Jerry Wexler once known as her “the best of all contemporary blues performers,” and she documented several enduring strikes, including “FINALLY,” “Inform Mama,” “I’d Rather Move …

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