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  2. List of blues musicians - Wikipedia

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    Chicago blues [331] Lester Williams: 1920 1990 Texas Texas blues [332] Sonny Boy Williamson II: 1909* 1965 Mississippi Chicago blues [333] Alan Wilson: 1943 1970 Massachusetts Electric blues [334] U.P. Wilson: 1934 2004 Louisiana Texas blues [237] Johnny Winter: 1944 2014 Texas Electric blues [335] Jimmy Witherspoon: 1920 1997 Arkansas Jump ...

  3. Ed Andrews (blues musician) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Classic female blues - Wikipedia

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    Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues . Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded.

  5. List of classic female blues singers - Wikipedia

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    All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.

  6. The Revelers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Henry Thomas (blues musician) - Wikipedia

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    Henry Thomas (1874 – 1930) was an American country blues singer, songster and musician. Although his recording career, in the late 1920s, was brief, Thomas influenced performers including Bob Dylan, Taj Mahal, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Grateful Dead, and Canned Heat.

  8. Timeline of music in the United States (1920–1949) - Wikipedia

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    Chicago becomes a "center for blues performance" in the city's large African-American community, [355] while a kind of piano-based blues called boogie-woogie becomes the most popular form of the blues. [10] The Golden Gate Quartet becomes one of the most popular recording artists in the country, beginning the era of greatest popularity for ...

  9. Memphis Jug Band - Wikipedia

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    The Memphis Jug Band was an American musical group active from the mid-1920s to the late-1950s. [1] The band featured harmonica, kazoo, fiddle and mandolin or banjolin, backed by guitar, piano, washboard, washtub bass and jug. They played slow blues, pop songs, humorous songs and upbeat dance numbers with jazz and string band flavors.