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Little Wing - Gitlo Blues Band

Gitlo Lee was born on a turpentine farm among nine brothers and three sisters in Menola -- that's a town on the skirts of the Okefenokee Swamp in lower Georgia, where the South couldn't get any deeper. Gitlo…

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Born Blind - Blue Ray & The Players

Born in 1966, Chris “Blue Ray” Noll was into Blues and Rockabilly music from his early teen years, when he first got in touch with the great Elvis Presley (Sun Records) and later with the deep Muddy Waters'…

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Wicked Blues - Steve Hooker

Steve has the scars to remember The Heat (punk rock 'n' roll 1977), The Shakers (rhythm 'n' blues from hell 1982 - 1987), Boz and The Bozmen (glam rockabilly 1988) and Rumble (raw rockabilly 1994 - 1997 by.…

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WANG DANG DOODLE - MS. SILKY SO L

WHO IS “MS. SILKY SOL” If you love Etta James, Tina Turner, Chaka Kahn, Jill Scott, Aretha Franklin and Koko Taylor, “You’ve got to experience” Ms. Silky Sol the RED AFRO QUEEN After serving as a PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND…

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Noble "Thin Man" Watts

Noble "Thin Man" Watts (February 17, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was an American blues, jump blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist. He primarily played tenor saxophone. Allmusic journalist Bill Dahl considered Watts "one of the most incendiary…

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Tossin' and Turnin' - Bobby Lewis

Bobby Lewis (born February 17, 1933 or 1925, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an African American rock and roll and R&B singer. Lewis learned to play the piano by age six. Adopted at age twelve, he moved to a home…

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I'm in the Highway,man - Calvin Frazier

Calvin H. Frazier (February 16, 1915 – September 23, 1972) was an American Detroit blues and country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Despite leaving a fragmented recording history, both as a singer and guitarist, Frazier was an associate…

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Honky Tonk - Bill Doggett

Bill Doggett (February 16, 1916 – November 13, 1996) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist. He is best known for his compositions "Honky Tonk" and "Hippy Dippy", and variously working with The Ink…

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