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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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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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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W. C. Handy (redirect from The Father of the Blues)
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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"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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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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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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Lightnin' Hopkins (category American blues guitarists)
reissued as The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins Country Blues (Tradition, 1959) Autobiography in Blues (Tradition, 1960) Down South Summit Meetin' (World Pacific...
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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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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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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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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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1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song. It was produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures. Diana Ross, in her...
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Johnny Cash (redirect from Smokey Factory Blues)
"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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"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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263. Wexler and Ritz (1993). Rhythm and the Blues, p. 253. Clapton, Eric (2007). Clapton - The Autobiography, Broadway, ISBN 978-0-385-51851-2, p. 113....
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Myles Goodwyn (redirect from Myles Goodwyn and Friends of the Blues)
Goodwyn and Friends Of The Blues 2 in 2019, which also earned the same ECMA award for "Blues Recording of the Year" in 2020. In 2022, Goodwyn received the...
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Jazz (redirect from Diversity in jazz)
Blues People: Negro Music in White America. Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0688184742. Davis, Miles & Troupe, Quincy (1990). Miles: The Autobiography. Simon...
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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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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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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers (redirect from John Mayall & the Blues Breakers)
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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Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. They represent the best...
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Blues dancing is a family of historical dances that developed alongside and were danced to blues music, or the contemporary dances that are danced in...
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Robert-temple.com. Retrieved 23 April 2017. "Professor Simon Shorvon – Professor in Clinical Neurology and Consultant Neurologist". Shorvon.edu. Retrieved 23...
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Eric Clapton (category British blues rock musicians)
Bruce, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop". After four successful albums, Cream broke up in November...
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peaked at No. 50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 41 in Canada. "Roadhouse Blues" charted in its own right on the Cash Box Top 100, peaking at No. 76...
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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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