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Earl Caruthers

Saxophonist Earl Caruthers was from the Kansas Town jazz picture for his whole profession, and recorded most prolifically as an associate from the Jimmie Lunceford music group. He attended senior high school in Kansas Town, Kansas, then researched at close by Fisk College or university. In 1928, still an adolescent, …

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Tammy Faye Bakker

Created in Minnesota, she was a tent revival preacher with her previous hubby, Jim Bakker. They caused the 700 Membership and founded the PTL Membership in 1978. She’s had silver albums in Southern-gospel/inspirational settings.

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Chris Janson

Nation singer and songwriter Chris Janson was created and raised in Missouri but moved to Nashville to pursue music the summertime after finishing senior high school. A guitarist and a stellar harmonica participant, Janson 1st made his tag like a songwriter, penning Tim McGraw’s 2012 strike “Pickup truck Yeah,” and …

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Never Shout Never

Under no circumstances Shout Under no circumstances began like a one-man band featuring Christofer Drew, a Missouri native whose songs straddle the boundary between emo and acoustic singer/songwriter fare. Something from the digital age group, Drew originally constructed a group of fans by publishing his shiny, soul-baring music to the …

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Arkie The Arkansas Woodchopper

b. Luther William Ossenbrink, 2 March 1906, Knob Noster, Missouri, USA, d. 23 June 1981, Marshall, Missouri, USA. Ossenbrink performed acoustic guitar and fiddle and acted as the caller at regional square dances like a boy prior to making his radio debut on KMBC, Kansas Town, in 1928. The nickname …

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Ace Wallace

b. Herman Wallace, 18 June 1925, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, d. 28 Feb 1996, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Among the unregarded mainstays from the St. Louis blues picture, Wallace spent the 50s and 60s as an associate of influential regional rings led by trumpeter and disk jockey Gabriel and ‘Big’ …

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Ernest Truex

b. 19 Sept 1889, Kansas Town, Missouri, USA, d. 26 June 1973, Fallbrook, California, USA. On stage from early years as a child, Truex remained little in stature, which helped gain him happy-go-lucky assisting roles. He is at the Broadway musical comedies Girlies (1910), Dr. Deluxe (1911) and performed the …

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Wingie Carpenter

b. Theodore Carpenter, 15 Apr 1898, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, d. day unfamiliar. While still an adolescent, Carpenter dropped an arm pursuing a major accident (John Chilton information that the doctor undertaking the amputation was the uncle of trumpeter Doc Cheatham). Carpenter later on started playing trumpet, employed in numerous …

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Juice Wilson

b. Robert Edward Wilson, 21 January 1904, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Elevated in Chicago, Wilson performed drums within a young boys’ music group, then used the violin. He performed in various rings in night clubs in Chicago and in addition on pleasure ships. In the 20s he was mainly in …

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