• 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    "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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    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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    John Popper (category Blues Traveler members)
    frontman of the rock band Blues Traveler. John Popper was born in Chardon, Ohio. His father was a Hungarian immigrant who left Budapest in 1948. Through him,...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Elkie Brooks (category British rhythm and blues boom musicians)
    rock, blues and jazz singer. She was a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later became a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the...
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    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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    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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    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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    "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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  • 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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    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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    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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    resolved with Faithfull listed as co-author). In her autobiography, Faithfull said Jagger and Richards released it in their own names so that her agent did not...
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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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  • 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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    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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