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Electric blues
Electric blues is a type of blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar, bass guitar, drums, and often the harmonica. Pioneered in the 1930s, it emerged as a genre in Chicago in the 1940s. It was taken up in many areas of America leading to the development of regional subgenres...
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John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an African-American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to...
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- Aug 22, 1917
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- Jun 21, 2001 (age 83 years)
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John Mayall
John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is a pioneering English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. His musical career spans over fifty years, but the most notable episode in it occurred during the late '60s. He was the founder of...
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- Nov 29, 1933 (age 76 years)
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Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Booker T. & the M.G.'s are an instrumental R&B; band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern Soul and Memphis Soul. In the 1960s, as members of the house band of Stax Records, they played on hundreds of recordings by artists such as...
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- 1962
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Howlin' Wolf
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.
With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among...
Date of birth:
- Jun 10, 1910
Date of death:
- Jan 10, 1976 (age 65 years)
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan (born Stephen Ray Vaughan; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Eighteen albums of Vaughan's work have been released. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Stevie Ray Vaughan #7 in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1954
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- Aug 27, 1990 (age 35 years)
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Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield (17 December 1942 – 4 May 1987) was an American blues vocalist and harmonica player who gained international recognition as a trailblazing white bluesman, and who performed at the original Woodstock Festival. Butterfield formed the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1942
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- May 4, 1987 (age 44 years)
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Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones (born November 12, 1944) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known for fronting the band Booker T. and the MGs. He has also worked in the studios with some of the highest regarded artists of our...
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- Nov 12, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Rory Gallagher
Rory Gallagher born William Rory Gallagher (2 March, 1948 - 14 June, 1995 pronounced /ˈrɔri ˈɡæləhər/) was an Irish blues-rock musician who rose to fame as a talented songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1948
Date of death:
- Jun 14, 1995 (age 47 years)
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Johnny Winter
John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III (born 23 February 1944) is an American blues guitarist, singer and producer.
Johnny and Edgar Winter were nurtured at an early age by their parents in their musical pursuits. Johnny Winter is known for his southern...
Date of birth:
- Feb 23, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Buddy Guy
George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American blues guitarist and singer. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many other guitarists, Guy is considered an...
Date of birth:
- Jul 30, 1936 (age 73 years)
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Steve Cropper
Steve "The Colonel" Cropper (born October 21, 1941) is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. As part of the Stax Records house band Booker T. & The MG's, he played on hundreds of recordings by Stax artists such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave,...
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- Oct 21, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Albert King
Albert King (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992) was an American blues guitarist and singer.
One of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with B. B. King and Freddie King), Albert King stood 6' 4" (192 cm) and weighed 250 lbs (118 kg) and was...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1923
Date of death:
- Dec 21, 1992 (age 69 years)
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Otis Rush
Otis Rush (born April 29, 1935 in Philadelphia, Mississippi) is a blues musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound and long bent notes. With similar qualities to Magic Sam and Buddy Guy, his sound...
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- Apr 29, 1935 (age 74 years)
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T-Model Ford
James Lewis Carter Ford (born c1920 Forest, Mississippi) is an American blues musician better known by his stage name, T-Model Ford. Unable to remember his exact date of birth, he began his musical career in his early seventies and has continuously...
Date of birth:
- 1920 (age 90 years)
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Popa Chubby
Ted Horowitz (born March 31, 1960 in the Bronx, New York City), better known by his stage name Popa Chubby (a play on the slang idiom "pop a chubby", meaning to get an erection), is an American electric blues singer and guitarist.
Born the son of a...
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- Mar 31, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Lonnie Brooks
Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr., December 18, 1933) is an American blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Dubuisson, Louisiana. Rolling Stone says, “His music is witty, soulful and ferociously energetic, brimming with novel harmonic...
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- Dec 18, 1933 (age 76 years)
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Robert Cray
Robert Cray (born August 1, 1953) is an American blues guitarist and vocalist. According to the book Guinness Rockopedia, "the 1980s 'blues revival' revolved around Cray. His blend of soul vocals and blues guitar work won approval from the 'old...
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- Aug 1, 1953 (age 56 years)
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Carey Bell
Carey Bell (November 14, 1936 - May 6, 2007) was an American blues musician, who played the harmonica in the Chicago blues style. Bell played harmonica (harp) and bass for other blues musicians during the late 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s before...
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- Nov 14, 1936
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- May 6, 2007 (age 70 years)
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James Blood Ulmer
James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 2, 1942 in St. Matthews, South Carolina) is an American jazz and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer's distinctive guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging." His singing has been called "raggedly...
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- Feb 2, 1942 (age 67 years)
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Robert Lockwood Jr.
Robert Lockwood, Jr., also known as Robert Junior Lockwood, (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American blues guitarist who recorded for Chess Records among other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as a longtime...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1915
Date of death:
- Nov 21, 2006 (age 91 years)
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Eddy Clearwater
Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater is the stage name of Edward Harrington (born January 10, 1935), an American Chicago blues musician. Blues Revue said Eddy plays “joyous rave-ups…he testifies with stunning soul fervor and powerful guitar. One of the blues...
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- Jan 10, 1935 (age 75 years)
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Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Johnny "Guitar" Watson (February 3, 1935 - May 17, 1996) was an American blues and funk guitarist/singer.
John Watson, Jr. was born in Houston, Texas. His father John Sr. was a pianist, and taught his son the instrument. But young Watson was...
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- Feb 3, 1935
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- May 17, 1996 (age 61 years)
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Tinsley Ellis
Tinsley Ellis (born June 4, 1957, Atlanta, Georgia) is an American blues/rock musician who grew up in southern Florida.
His love for electric blues grew by listening to British Invasion bands such as The Yardbirds, The Animals, Cream, and The...
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- 1957 (age 53 years)
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Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues". He is also the actual father of blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud...
Date of birth:
- Apr 4, 1915
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1983 (age 68 years)
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B.B. King
Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter acclaimed for his expressive singing and guitar playing.
Critical acclaim and widespread popularity have cemented his...
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- Sep 16, 1925 (age 84 years)
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Robin Davey
Robin Davey (born 29 December 1975, St Austell, Cornwall, England) is an English musician, record producer, musical director and photographer.
Davey was a founding member of the British blues band, The Hoax, who were signed to East West Records in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 29, 1975 (age 34 years)
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Blackmailers
The Blackmailers Blues Band(русс.) — the wedding and funeral orchestra.
The band was created in 1997 by Aleksey Baryshev, a well-known Russian guitar player. At first it was a classical “guitar hero” blues band with an undiluted blues-rock...
