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Holy blazes! Just how many Blazes have there been? This important vocal group documented as the Four Blazes, the Three Blazes, the Five Blazes, as well as the just basic Blazes on the bad counting day time in the studio room. The group was founded in 1940 as the Four …

Known for blues-drenched jazz and jazz-drenched blues, Floyd McDaniel was an integral part of the Chicago picture for some of his 80 years. The vocalist/guitarist was created in Athens, Alabama but spent a lot of his existence within the Windy Town, where he’d relocated to when he was 15, in …