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      • Maxwell Street Robert Nighthawk
        05/24/08
        Robert Lee McCollum (30 November 1909 – 5 November 1967) was an American bluesman who played and recorded under the names Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk.



        Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician, and after a period wandering th

      • Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (1963)
        05/24/08
        Big Joe Williams (born Joseph Lee Williams, October 16, 1903 - December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues musician and songwriter, known for his characteristic style of guitar-playing, his nine-string guitar, and his bizarre, cantankerous personality.
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      • Muddy Waters- Train Fare Home Blues, 1968
        05/12/08




      • Muddy Waters feat. Otis Spann- Cold Feeling Blues, 1968
        05/12/08


        Otis Spann (March 21, 1930 – April 24, 1970 [1]) was an American blues musician. Many aficionados considered him then, and now, as Chicago's leading postwar blues pianist.[2]
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        Born in Jackson, Mississippi[3], Spann became known for his disti

      • Roosevelt Sykes - Sweet Home Chicago
        05/12/08


        Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906 in Elmar, Arkansas – July 17, 1983 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American blues musician also known as "Honeydripper".

        He was a successful and prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player who influenced blues piano playing with his

      • Chester Arthur Burnett
        05/06/08


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      • Have You See My Rooster....Memphis Minnie
        05/02/08
        Have You See My Rooster....Memphis Minnie



        Memphis Minnie McCoy (born Lizzie Douglas, June 3, 1897 in Algiers, Louisiana; died August 6, 1973 in Memphis, Tennessee) was an American Blues guitarist, vocalist, and composer.

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        Born Lizz

      • Foldin' Bed - Whistler & His Jug Band ca. 1930
        05/02/08
        Foldin' Bed - Whistler & His Jug Band ca. 1930



        Whistler & His Jug Band was a long-lasting and popular group that recorded for several labels from the mid-'20s through the early '30s, and influenced many of the jug bands that followed. The group was forme

      • Sonny Boy Williamson II - Nine Below Zero (1963)
        05/02/08
        Sonny Boy Williamson II - Nine Below Zero (1963)



        Aleck "Rice" Miller (December 5, 1899 or March 11, 1908 – May 25, 1965), a.k.a. Sonny Boy Williamson II, Willie Williamson, Willie Miller, "Little Boy Blue", "The Goat" and "Footsie," was

      • Lowell Fulsom - You'll miss me when i'm gone
        05/02/08
        Lowell Fulsom - You'll miss me when i'm gone



        Lowell Fulsom

        Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921 – March 7, 1999[1]) was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. Fulson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for busine

      • Elmore James - Got to Move
        05/02/08
        Elmore James - Got to Move



        Elmore James (January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues guitarist, singer, song writer and band leader. He was known as The King of the Slide Guitar and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring

      • Howlin' Wolf - Meet Me In The Bottom
        05/02/08
        Howlin' Wolf - Meet Me In The Bottom



        Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known as Howlin' Wolf or sometimes, The Howlin' Wolf, was an influential blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.

        With a booming voice and loom