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BLIND WILLIE McTELL
Born in Thopson, Ga. in 1901, McTell learned guitar from his mother c. 1914 and made his recording debut in 1927 after working as a street singer and medicine show minstrel. Over the next nine years he recorded 48 sides for four companies under four different names. He become the only survivor of his era to make Library of Congress field recordings and Postwar records for the R&B market as well. He died in 1959.
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MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT
Hurt was born in 1894 at Teac. Miss. and raised in nearby Avalon. After learning guitar in 1903 he deloped the unique three finger picking style that made him a folk favorite sixty years later. Never a professional musician. Hurt rarely traveled before or after recording 12 titles for Okeh in 1928. His belated rediscovery helped launch a blues revival and earned him wide acclaim before his death in 1967.
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BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON
The legendary Jefferson's successful debut in 1926 launched the voque for the country blues. Before his mysterious death in 1929 he recorded 85 sides and astablished himself as the most popular blues guitarist of his era. A native of Wortham, Texas, he worked as a street singer and visited several states in the course of his travels. An off-beat guitarist know his free phrasing patterns, he was one of the most inspired singers found in blues.
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CHARLEY PATTON
One of the most influental Mississippi bluesmen, Charley Patton was born in the 1890s and raised in the Delta town of Dockery. By 1910 he was already an established blues singer, know for such songs as Pony Blues. A prolific performer, he recorded more titels (42) within a singel year than any blues singer of his decade after his debut in 1929. His blend of comedy effects and hard blues gave him a unique indentity. He died in 1934.
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SON HOUSE
The prossessor of one of the blues most powerful voices. Eddie James (Son) House abandoned preaching for music around 1927 while living in his native Lyon. Miss. His friend Charley Patton arranged for his 1930 recording debut, which resulted in nine titels. later he worked with Willie Brown and recorded for the Libary of Congress before moving to Rochester, N.Y. in 1943. Despite the brevity of his career he influenced such famed bluesmen as Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
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ROOSEVELT SYKES
The Honeydripper was born in 1906 and learned piano around 1918 while living in Helena Ark. His main influence was Lee Green, from whom he derived his 1929 hit, 44 Blues . He began his recording career while living in St. Louis and producted nearly 125 sides between 1929 and 1942, continuing as a postwar attraction.
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MEMPHIS MINNIE
Born Lizzie Douglas, "Memphis Minnie" learned guitar around 1908, at the age eleven. She lived and played in the Mississippi Delta before moving to Memphis in the late 1920s and forming a partnership with Kansas Joe McCoy, who become her husband. Between 1929 - 1941 she was one of the most prolific blues recording artists, producting over 150 sides, and garnishing best- sellers like Bumble Bee Blues . She died in 1973
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SKIP JAMES
Nehemiah (Skip) James was born in 1902 and raised in Bentonia, Miss. He learned guiter in his late teens from a local player, Henry Stuckey, and began piano soon afterwards under the tutleage of an older Arkansas performer, Will Crabtree. A professional bluesman from 1924 onwards, James recorded 17 sides for Paramount in 1931, and entered the clergy the same year. His I'm So Glad become a rock hit shortly before his death in 1969.
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