• Autobiography in Blues is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in 1959 and released on the Tradition label the following year. AllMusic...
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    Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated...
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  • Lady Sings the Blues (1956) is an autobiography by jazz singer Billie Holiday, which was co-authored by William Dufty. The book formed the basis of the...
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    Buddy Guy (category American blues guitarists)
    alive". In 1999, Guy wrote the book Damn Right I've Got the Blues, with Donald Wilcock. His autobiography, When I Left Home: My Story, was published in 2012...
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  • Country Blues is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in 1959 and released on the Tradition label. AllMusic reviewer Cub Koda stated:...
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    northern Alabama's Marshall County. Handy wrote in his 1941 autobiography Father of the Blues that he was born in a log cabin built by his grandfather William...
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  • In 2008, his autobiography The Blues Man: 40 Years with the Blues Legends was published. In 1992, the Bay Area Blues Society and the South Bay Blues Awards...
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    Lightnin' Hopkins (category American blues guitarists)
    1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked...
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  • Lady Sings the Blues was taken from sessions taped during 1954 and 1956. It was released simultaneously with her ghostwritten autobiography of the same name...
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  • Blues is the sixth studio Chicago blues album released in 1970 by the well-known bluesman Willie Dixon. It is also the title of Dixon's autobiography...
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    "The Saint Louis Blues" (or "St. Louis Blues") is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It...
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    return in his 1986 autobiography Der Blues in mir (The Blues Within Me). From 1982 onward, EL Loko lived and worked as a freelance artist, first in Duisburg...
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  • Blues (book), a 1956 autobiography by Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (film), a 1972 film about Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (soundtrack), the...
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    George Melly (category Deaths from lung cancer in England)
    George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer, and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973, he was a film and...
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    B. B. King (redirect from Blues Boy King)
    1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated...
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    Red carpet blues ([Ny utg.] ed.). Malmö: Bra böcker. ISBN 9789170024375. Andersson, Ulla. Red Carpet Blues. Jones, Quincy. Q: The Autobiography of Quincy...
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    Eric Clapton (category British blues rock musicians)
    English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music. Clapton...
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    Mamie Smith (category Classic female blues singers)
    performed in multiple styles, including jazz and blues. In 1920, she entered blues history as the first African-American artist to make vocal blues recordings...
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    Etta James (category American blues singers)
    "I'd Rather Go Blind", which became a blues classic and has been recorded by many other artists. In her autobiography, Rage to Survive, she wrote that she...
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  • Blues Breakers, colloquially known as The Beano Album, is the debut studio album by the English blues rock band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, originally...
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    "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Wonderful Tonight". In August 2007, Boyd published her autobiography Wonderful Today (titled Wonderful Tonight in the United States)...
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    "Bell Bottom Blues" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Bobby Whitlock, and performed by Derek and the Dominos. It dealt with Clapton's unrequited love...
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    John Popper (category Blues Traveler members)
    rock band Blues Traveler. Popper was born on March 29, 1967, in Cleveland, Ohio. His father was a Hungarian immigrant who left Budapest in 1948. Popper...
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    influential as an incubator for British rock and blues musicians. Many of the best known bands to come out of Britain in the 1960s and 1970s had members that came...
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  • Hopkins & The Blues Summit) is an album by the blues musicians Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams and Sonny Terry, recorded in 1960 and released...
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    In 2010 the Historic New Orleans Collection published his autobiography Unfinished Blues. Battiste died on June 19, 2015, aged 83, after a period of...
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  • 1956 autobiography that, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song. It is produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures. Diana Ross, in her feature...
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    "Folsom Prison Blues", one of his signature songs. His other signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire", "Get Rhythm", and "Man in Black". He...
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    Mance Lipscomb (category American blues guitarists)
    American blues singer, guitarist and songster. Lipscomb was born April 9, 1895, near Navasota, Texas. His father had been born into slavery in Alabama;...
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    Sam & Dave (category American rhythm and blues musical groups)
    According to Wexler's autobiography Rhythms & Blues, "Their live act was filled with animation, harmony and seeming goodwill. I put Sam in the sweet tradition...
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