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While attending Pershing High School, he achieved local hits in 1963 and 1964: "Out of This World" and "Gino Is a Coward". [2] To his credit, he was the first artist signed to Ric-Tic Records. [3] In 1964 he was drafted into the U.S. Army, serving in Japan and South Vietnam; upon return his music career stalled. He hosted his own variety ...
Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime - vaudeville , Delta and country blues , and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast . [ 2 ]
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (born January 19, 1999) is an American blues guitarist and singer from Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, who became a well-known performer as a teenager. His debut album, Kingfish , was released in May 2019. [ 3 ]
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Gary Lee Clark Jr. [1] (born February 15, 1984) is an American guitarist and singer who fuses blues, rock and soul music with elements of hip hop. [2] In 2011, Clark signed with Warner Bros Records and released The Bright Lights EP. [3] It was followed by the albums Blak and Blu (2012) and The Story of Sonny Boy Slim (2015).
Following his brief recording session, Black Ivory King moved on again eventually settling in Los Angeles. [2] Little is known of his existence thereafter, although in February 1942 his draft card showed him as being 5'6 foot, and weighing 147 pounds. After the war he worked as a musician in the Tip Top Bar Room in Los Angeles. [2]
In the early 1970s, he worked with English blues bandleader John Mayall, playing on the album Jazz Blues Fusion, and recorded LPs with trumpeter Blue Mitchell. He also recorded two albums in his own name - At The Drive In and Off The Cuff , on which he was supported by Joe Sample and Wilton Felder of The Crusaders - for Enterprise, a subsidiary ...
Dominique Flemons (born August 30, 1982) is an American old-time music, Piedmont blues, and neotraditional country multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. He is a proficient player of the banjo, fife, guitar, harmonica, percussion, quills, and rhythm bones. [2]