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Freddie Spruell (December 28, 1893 – June 19, 1956) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer, [1] [2] variously billed as Papa Freddie or Mr. Freddie.He is generally regarded as the first Delta bluesman to be recorded ("Milk Cow Blues", 1926), although Mamie Smith (1920), Ed Andrews (1923) and Blind Lemon Jefferson (1925) predated him in recording the first blues records. [1]
Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. Navigation ... Charles "Papa Charlie" McCoy (May 26, 1909 – July 26, 1950) [1] was an American Delta blues musician and ...
Country blues and Delta blues guitarist and singer, collaborator with Mose Vinson; started recording late in his career, beginning in the 1990s. Charley Booker (September 3, 1925, Sunflower County, Mississippi – September 20, 1989). Singer and guitarist, mostly active around Leland and Greenville, Mississippi, in the 1940s and early 1950s. [6]
The result was the album Natchez Trace, released on Vault Records in 1969, which brought Lightfoot briefly to the forefront of the blues revival. [1] Rural Blues Vol. 2 followed on Liberty Records later that same year. [4] However, his comeback was cut short by his death in November 1971 of respiratory failure in Natchez, Mississippi. [3] [5]
Main menu. Main menu. ... 1905 – January 28, 1950) [2] was an American Delta blues singer, musician ... he was the older brother of the blues accompanist Papa ...
Delta Blind Billy, or Blind Billy, was an American Delta blues artist and outlaw. [1] As a traveling bluesman in Mississippi, he performed with his contemporaries Arthur Big Boy Crudup and Papa Charlie McCoy . [ 2 ]
In the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), a character named Tommy Johnson, played by Chris Thomas King, describes selling his soul to the devil to play guitar.The Tommy Johnson character in the film plays a number of songs originally recorded by the blues musician Skip James and accompanies the Soggy Bottom Boys, a band consisting of the film's three main protagonists plus Johnson, on ...
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