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Atlanta blues refers to the local blues scene in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, which had its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s.According to AllMusic,"The Atlanta blues scene of the 1920s was among the most fertile in all the South, with a steady stream of rural musicians converging on the city hoping to gain exposure playing the local club circuit, with any luck rising to perform at Decatur ...
Acoustic blues [9] Barbecue Bob: 1902 1931 Georgia Acoustic blues [10] Ed Bell: 1905 1960s Alabama Piedmont blues [11] Gladys Bentley: 1907 1960 Pennsylvania Vaudeville blues [12] Black Ace: 1905 1972 Texas Country blues [13] Scrapper Blackwell: 1903 1962 North Carolina Urban blues [14] Blind Blake: 1896 1934 Florida Piedmont blues [15] Lucille ...
A 1962 plane crash in Paris took the lives of more than 100 leading Atlanta art patrons, who were commemorated with the construction of the Memorial Arts Center (later the Robert W. Woodruff Memorial Arts Center). [14] Early venues for opera in Atlanta were DeGive's Opera House, built 1870, then DeGive's larger Grand Opera House, built 1893.
Guitarist who released his only album, Blues of Baby Tate: See What You Done Done, in 1962, and twelve months later appeared in Samuel Charters's documentary film The Blues. [70] Sonny Terry (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986). Piedmont blues and folk harmonica player. [71] Too Tight Henry (1899 – August 16, 1971).
born in Atlanta in 1920 Ciara: singer Clairo, real name Claire Elizabeth Cottrill singer-songwriter born in Atlanta Freddy Cole: jazz singer and pianist born in Chicago in 1931, resided in Atlanta for over 50 years until his death in 2020 Roscoe Dash, real name Jeffery Lee Johnson Jr. rapper from Atlanta Davido: singer, songwriter, and record ...
Feb. 6—HUGHESVILLE — The 34th Annual Billtown Blues Festival officially begins Friday, June 21 at 6:00 p.m. The music continues starting noon on Saturday, June 22, offering world class blues ...
Ed Andrews (fl. 1920s) was an American blues singer and guitarist, who made what are considered to be the first commercially released country blues recordings, in 1924, some three years before such releases became commonplace.
The Revelers in 1925 (l-r): Ed Smalle, Franklyn Baur, Elliot Shaw, Lewis James, Wilfred Glenn The Shannon Four in 1918. The Revelers were an American quintet (four close harmony singers and a pianist) popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s.