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Time Date Line 1900 to 2000
Gospel has influenced all subsequent Black music as sung by Mahalla Jackson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. JUMP MUSIC, a small-group variant on the big-band ...
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Henry Roeland Byrd
Henry Roeland Byrd is born in Bogaluga, Louisiana, on 19 December 1918. He enjoys his first taste of show business in 1926, when he joins the C.J.K. ...
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Robert Lee McCollum.
In 1932 now using the name Robert Lee McCoy, McCollum travels in the South. Five years on together with Big Joe Williams, McCoy backs Sonny Boy Williamson I ...
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Arthur Crudup
Arthur Crudup is born in Forest, Mississippi on 24 August 1905, he moves with his ... Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup dies in Nassawadox, Virginia on 28 March 1974. ...
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Bukka White
Bukka White is born 12 November 1906 in Houston, Mississippi. His father gives him his first guiter for his ninth birthday. ...
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Eric Clapton, Britains greatest blues guitarist, musician, superstar.
Eric Clapton is born in Ripley Surrey, on 30 March 1945. ( Eric Clapton. ... In January 1963, Eric joined his first band, the Roosters, which included Tom ...
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Furry Lewis & Frank Stokes.
Having been rediscovered by Sam Charters in 1959, Furry has his first album released "Furry Lewis". In 1963 he appears at folk festivals with fellow ...
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Chester Arthur Burnett
Chester Arthur Burnett is born on 10th June 1910 in West Point, south of Tupelo, Mississippi. When he was 13 his family moved westwards across the state to ...
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Chester Arthur Burnett
Chester Arthur Burnett is born on 10th June 1910 in West Point, south of Tupelo, Mississippi. When he was 13 his family moved westwards across the state to ...
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James A. Lane
James A. Lane is born in Ruleville, Mississippi, on 3 June 1924. He will later take the surname of his stepfather of Rogers. ...
