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Walter Horton Jamming with Johnny Shines and Honeyboy Edwards
Walter Horton, better known as Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton, (April 6, 1917 – December 8, 1981) was an American blues harmonica player. A quiet, unassuming and essentially shy man, Horton is remembered as one of…
Continue Reading »Hollywood Fats with The James Harman Band
Hollywood Fats (May 17, 1954 – December 8, 1986) was an American blues guitarist, active in Los Angeles, California. Hollywood Fats was born Michael Leonard Mann in Los Angeles, and started playing guitar at the age of 10.…
Continue Reading »Recording of Wild Child - Jim Morrison and the Doors
James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer-songwriter and poet, best remembered as the lead singer of Los Angeles rock band The Doors. Following The Doors' explosive rise to fame in…
Continue Reading »Boogie, Baby - Henry "Rufe" Johnson
Henry Johnson (* 8th December, 1908 in the union county (South Carolina); †February, 1974 in union (South Carolina)) was an US-American Bluesmusiker (guitar, oral accordion, piano, song). Johnson learned early guitar; in 1933 he also turned to…
Continue Reading »The Stuff Is Here - Cleo Brown
Cleo Brown, later Cleo Patra Brown (December 8, 1909 – April 15, 1995) was an American blues and jazz vocalist and pianist. Brown was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and sang in church as a child. In 1919 her…
Continue Reading »Come And Go Blues - Gregg Allman
Gregory LeNoir "Gregg" Allman (born December 8, 1947 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into…
Continue Reading »State Street Blues - Sam Theard
Lovin' Sam Theard served most of his lengthy professional existence as an actor and a comedian in theaters, movies, and television. Those who study and specialize in old-time hokum, dirty blues, and novelty swing records associate his name…
Continue Reading »Doorsteps To Sorrow - Rudolph Taylor , Tommy Cogbill
Thomas Clark Cogbill, (b. April 8, 1932 - December 7, 1982) and known as Tommy Cogbill was an American bassist, guitarist and record producer. Tommy Cogbill was born in Johnson Grove, Tennessee. He was a highly sought-after session…
Continue Reading »Hey Little Girl - Dee Clark
Dee Clark (November 7, 1938 – December 7, 1990) was an African-American soul singer best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the ballad "Raindrops," which became a…
Continue Reading »CUT IT OUT, YOU'RE ALWAYS RUNNING YOUR MOUTH - Bobby Hebb
Bobby Hebb (July 26, 1938 – August 3, 2010) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his writing and recording of "Sunny". He was born Robert Von Hebb in Nashville, Tennessee. Hebb's parents, William and Ovalla…
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