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A rockabilly singer who reportedly taught Elvis Presley how exactly to play your guitar, Lee Denson is among rock’s little-known pioneers. Energetic between 1956-1965, Denson, who also documented beneath the name Jesse Adam, is normally best-remembered for the stellar ensemble of music artists and vocalists that he highlighted on his …

Deep spirit singer Jesse James was created in 1943 in El Dorado, AR, using the handle James McClelland. He relocated to the Bay Region while still a kid, and arrived up through the early ’60s performing in nightclubs (where his name was transformed by an MC who couldn’t pronounce his …