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Blind Blake |
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"Blind" Blake (born Arthur Blake, circa 1893, Jacksonville, Florida; died: circa 1933) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. He is often called "The King Of Ragtime Guitar". |
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Blind Lemon Jefferson |
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Blind Lemon Jefferson (October 26, 1894 ? – 12 December 1929 ?). One of the earliest and most influential performers of a country blues, a founder of the Texas blues sound. |
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Blind Boy Fuller |
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Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen) (July 10, 1907 - February 13, 1941) was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. |
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Amadou and Mariam |
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The duo produces music that mixes traditional Mali sound with rock guitars, Syrian violins, Cuban trumpets, Egyptian ney, Colombian trombones, Indian tablas and Dogon percussion. All these have been referred to as "Afro-blues". |
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Reverend Gary Davis |
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Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, (April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972) was a blues and gospel singer and guitarist. |
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Blind Willie Johnson |
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Blind Willie Johnson (1897 - 1945) was an American singer and guitarist whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals. |
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Blind Willie McTell |
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Blind Willie McTell (May 5, 1898 (sometimes reported as 1901 or even 1903) – August 19, 1959), was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. |
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Blind Joe Reynolds |
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"Blind Joe" Reynolds was a blues singer-songwriter thought to have been born in Tallulah, Louisiana in 1904, although his death certificate states his birthplace as Arkansas in 1900. |
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Blind Teddy Darby |
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Theodore Roosevelt Darby, better known as Blind Teddy Darby (March 2, 1906 – December 1975), was an American blues singer and guitarist. |
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Edward Forehand |
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Edward "Little Buster" Forehand (September 28, 1942 – May 11, 2006) was an American soul and blues musician. |
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Roosevelt Graves |
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Roosevelt Graves (December 9, 1909, Meridian, Mississippi – December 30, 1962, Gulfport, Mississippi) was an American blues guitarist and singer, who recorded both sacred and secular music in the 1920s and 1930s. |
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