• Carolina Blues is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and written by Joseph Hoffman, Al Martin and Jack Henley. The film stars Kay Kyser...
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  • Carolina Blues Man, subtitled Pink Anderson Volume I, is an album by blues musician Pink Anderson recorded in 1961 and released on the Bluesville label...
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    Blues Traveler is an American rock band that formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. They are known for their extensive use of segues in live performances...
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    as a schoolteacher in South Carolina, instructing both slaves and freedmen, and wrote that she "came home with the blues" because she felt lonesome and...
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  • "Top Singles - November 4, 1996". RPM. Retrieved September 19, 2021. "Carolina Blues": "Top Singles - September 1, 1997". RPM. Retrieved September 19, 2021...
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    Band is an American rock band from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Noted for incorporating blues, country and jazz into an eclectic sound, the Marshall...
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    southern rock/blues band from South Carolina formed in 2013. The band is led by guitarist Marcus King. Raised in Greenville, South Carolina, King was brought...
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  • Pink Anderson (category American blues guitarists)
    1900 – October 12, 1974) was an American blues singer and guitarist. Anderson was born in Laurens, South Carolina, and raised in nearby Greenville and Spartanburg...
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    country and classic blues, early jazz and "hot music", string band numbers, African and Caribbean songs, and spoken word pieces. The Carolina Chocolate Drops'...
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    Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar...
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  • Floyd Council (category American blues mandolinists)
    after moving to Sanford, North Carolina. He was buried at White Oak AME Zion Cemetery in Sanford. In 2014, the Killer Blues Headstone Project placed a headstone...
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  • Marcus King (category American blues singers)
    born in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. His father, Marvin King, was a well-known blues guitarist in South Carolina who also played with gospel...
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  • Cultural organizations in North Carolina have supported the preservation of the Piedmont blues. The Greensboro-based Piedmont Blues Preservation Society has...
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    Piedmont Blues Preservation Society, most Piedmont blues musicians came from Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. During the Great Migration, African...
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  • Harris (August 22, 1923 – October 22, 1953), known as Carolina Slim, was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer. His best-known records are "Black...
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  • Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. They come from different eras and include...
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    Etta Baker (category American blues guitarists)
    American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina. She was born Etta Lucille Reid in Caldwell County, North Carolina, of African-American...
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  • Blind Boy Fuller (category Piedmont blues musicians)
    North Carolina. As a boy he learned to play the guitar and also learned from older singers the field hollers, country rags, traditional songs and blues popular...
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    (1943), Hey, Rookie (1943), Sailor's Holiday (1944), Jam Session (1944), Carolina Blues (1945), Eadie Was a Lady (1945), and Eve Knew Her Apples (1945), a musical...
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  • 1927) and "North Carolina Blues" (Roy Martin, 1930) — both essentially the same song as "Midnight Special" — place it in North Carolina. Most of the early...
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    Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s...
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    Jani Hakanpää (category Espoo Blues players)
    St. Louis Blues in the fourth round (104th overall) of the 2010 NHL entry draft. Hakanpää played in his native Finland for the Espoo Blues of the SM-liiga...
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    Reverend Gary Davis (category American blues guitarists)
    Gary Davis, was a blues and gospel singer who was also proficient on the banjo, guitar and harmonica. Born in Laurens, South Carolina and blind since infancy...
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  • Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues. It is mostly an electric...
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    South Carolina is one of the Southern United States and has produced a number of renowned performers of jazz, rock, blues, R&B, country, bluegrass and...
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  • Elizabeth Cotten (category American blues guitarists)
    Nevills; January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was an influential American folk and blues musician. She was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar...
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  • House of Blues Entertainment, LLC. is an American chain of live music concert halls and restaurants. It was founded by Isaac Tigrett, the co-founder of...
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  • Drink Small (redirect from The Blues Doctor)
    Daniels Memorial Blues Festival in Denmark, South Carolina, in October 2010. In 2009, Small was the closing act of the first Pee Dee Blues Bash, held in...
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    (1944) - Hazel Whittaker Dancing in Manhattan (1944) - Julie Connors Carolina Blues (1944) - Charlotte Barton Eadie Was a Lady (1945) - Pamela 'Pepper'...
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  • Chris Bouchillon (category American blues singers)
    American country music and blues musician from South Carolina, who is often credited with being the originator of the talking blues musical style. Bouchillon...
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