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John Wesley Funchess (April 16, 1931 – February 1, 1994) [1] known professionally as John (or Johnny) Littlejohn, was an American electric blues slide guitarist. [2] He was active on the Chicago blues circuit from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his landmark 1936 and 1937 recordings have influenced later generations of musicians.
John Mayall, the influential British blues guitarist who shot to fame in the 1960s, has died at the age of 90.
John Adam Estes [1] (January 25, 1899 [2] or 1900 [3] – June 5, 1977), [4] known as Sleepy John Estes, was an American blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. His music influenced such artists as the Beatles , Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin .
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 [1] or 1917 [4] [5] – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper , he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit .
The album was released in November titled The Blues Alone. [6] A six-piece line-up—consisting of Mayall, Mick Taylor as lead guitarist, John McVie still on bass, Hughie Flint or Hartley on drums, and Rip Kant and Chris Mercer on saxophones—recorded the album Crusade on 11 and 12 July 1967. [6]
Fahey in studio with Recording King guitar, c. 1970 While Fahey lived in Berkeley, Takoma Records was reborn through a collaboration with Maryland friend ED Denson.Fahey decided to track down blues legend Bukka White by sending a postcard to Aberdeen, Mississippi; White had sung that Aberdeen was his hometown, and Mississippi John Hurt had been rediscovered using a similar method.