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I would like to dive into the depths of the blues...
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06 - MO
BOB STROGER 💎 (Hayti, 27-12-1930)
Americ. sing. 🎤 & bass. 🎻
Years active: 1960s-2010s
{Pemiscot C., Missouri/electric blues}

"Blind man"
youtu.be/2LGE7JHn_5U?fe
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November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
044 - MS
"BIG" JACK JOHNSON ♦️
(Lambert, 30-07-1939 or 40/Memphis, TN, 14-03-2011)
Jack N. Johnson
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. 🎤 guit., bass. 🎻 & mandol.
Years active: 1960s-2011
{Quitman C., Miss./Delta & country blues, electric blues}

"Catfish blues"
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November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
124 - ARK
BLUE SMITTY ♦️
(Marianna, 6-11-1924/Joliet, Il., 5-12-2007)
Claude Smith
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing., guit. & pian.
🎙️🎸 🎹
Blue Smitty & His String Men
4 songs: "Sad story", "Crying", "Date bait" & "Elgin movements"
youtu.be/IwvrUcCqywk?...
{Lee C., ARK/Ark. & Chicago blues}
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
BONNIE RAITT 👠
(Burban, 8-11-1949)
Bonnie Lynn Raitt
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Years active: 1970s-pres.
{Los Angeles County, CA/ blues, rock, country, folk}

"Love me like a man"
youtu.be/QXLP8_2B2sw?...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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CHRIS SMITHER ♦️ (Miami, 11-11-1944)
William Christopher Smither
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Y. A.: 1967-pres.
{Miami-Dade County, Florida/folk blues, country blues, americana, rock}

"Link of chain"
youtu.be/N1f8bh0PYXs?...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
265 - TX
"PAPOOSE" FRITZ ♦️ (Houston, 13-11-1924/Houston, TX, 12-06-1983)
Joe Fritz
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & sax. 🎙️🎷
Rel. Art.: Bobby "Blue" Bland, Junior Parker, Andrew "Smokey" Hogg
Y. A.: 1940s-1960s
{TX/Texas blues, R&B}

"I'm not suspicious, but"
youtu.be/vzYTtBAGB9U?...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
264 - TX
NAT DOVE♦️
(Mumford, 1939)
Nathaniel Dove
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & pian.
🎙️🎹
Rel. Art.: Pee Wee Crayton, Big Mama Thornton, Little Johnny Taylor, Sam Cooke, Robert Cray, Lowell Fulsom
Y. A.: 60s-pres.
{Robertson C., TX/Texas blues, boogie w.}

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November 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
JOHNNY TUCKER ♦️ (Fresno, 17-10-1945)
John Franklin Tucker
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & drum.
🎙️🥁
Rel. Art.: Philip Walker, Johnny Otis, Floyd Dixon, Robert Cray & solo
Discogr.: 2006-pres.
Y. A.: 60s-pres.
{Fresno C., California/blues}

"Lawdy miss clawdy"
youtu.be/1RAC4yb3diY?si… 💣‼️
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
JOHN HENRY BARBEE ♦️
(Henning, 14-11-1905/Chicago, Il., 3-11-1964)
William George Tucker
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Rel. Art.: Willie Bee James, Homesick James, Washboard Sam, Evans Spencer, Big Joe Williams, Sunnyland Slim
Y. A.: 30s-60s
{Lauderdale C., Tennessee/blues}
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
JACK McVEA ♦️ (Los Angeles, 5-11-1914/Los Angeles, CA, 27-12-2000)
John Vivian McVea
Americ. 🇱🇷 bandl., clarinet. & sax. & sing.
Y. A.: 1930s-1992
{California/swing, dixieland, jump blues, R&B}

"Inflation blues"
youtu.be/CHBqcU0ym4I?si… ♥️
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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BERNIE PEARL ♦️ (Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, 17-10-1939)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Bernie Pearl Blues Band
Y. A.: 1950s-present
{California/blues & jazz}

"61 high blues"
youtu.be/Cp1TFr9k15M?si… 💣‼️
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
Once upon a time, a magical night...
November 15, 2025. Room 1 Razzmatazz Barcelona...
Rebecca and Megan Lovell. Larkin Poe...
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
043 - MS
"BIG" IKE DARBY ♦️ (Philadelphia, 1933-1988)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. 🎤
He managed (and married) soul-blues singer Lynn White
{Neshoba County, Mississippi/blues}

"Our love ain't nothing"
youtu.be/gMmqslyZSCM?fe
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November 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
05 - MO
"BIG" JOE TURNER ♦️ (Kansas City, 18-05-1911/Inglewood, CA, 24-11-1985)
Joseph Vernon Turner Jr.
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. 🎤
Years active: 1930s-1970s
{Jackson County, Missouri/jump blues, swing, R&B, R&R}

"Shake, rattle & roll"
youtu.be/YhELpSeeipg?fe
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November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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ERIN HARPE 👠
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit 🎙️🎸
Y. A.: 2010-pres.
{Maryland/country blues, electric blues}

"All night long"
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November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
04 - MO
"BIG DADDY" MARQUISE KNOX 💎 (1991)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Years active: 2000s-present
{St. Louis, Missouri/blues rock, St. Louis blues}

"Are you ready for the blues?"
youtu.be/5Zko4VSyVa8?fe 💣‼️
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
TYLER BRYAN & THE SHAKEDOWN ♦️
Americ. 🇱🇷 band
Tyler Bryant (lead, guit.& sing. 🎙️🎸), Graham Whitford (guit. 🎸), Diego Navaira (bass. 🎸), Caleb Crosby (drum. 🥁)
Disc.: 6 studio albums
Y. A.: 2009-pres.
{Nashville, Davidson C., TN/hard rock, blues rock, Southern rock}
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
Bluesmen born in Missouri...
November 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
042 - MS
JOHNNY "GEECHIE" TEMPLE ♦️(Canton, 18-10-1906/Jackson, MS, 22-11-1968)
Americ.🇱🇷 sing. & guit.🎙️🎸
Rel. Art.: Joe McCoy, Joshua Altheimer, Odell Rand, Harlem Hamfats
Y. A.: 30s-40s
{Madison C., Miss./Chic. & delta blues}

"Olds 98 blues"
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October 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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MARKUS JAMES ♦️
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Rel. Art.: Solo Sidibé, Hamma Sankare, Hassi Sare
Y. A.: 1990s-pres.
{Washington D. C., Virginia/rock, R&B, folk, trad. African, blues}

"Goin' down South"
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October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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LADY BIANCA 👠 (Kansas City, 8-08-1953)
Bianca Thornton
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & keyb.
🎙️🎹
Rel. Art.: H. Oden, Sly, F. Zappa, V. Morrison, J.L. Hooker, W. Dixon & solo
Y. A.: 1970-pres.
{Missouri/electric blues}

"Trouble in mind"
youtu.be/gheJRIx38iU?...
October 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
041 - MS
WILL HATCHER ♦️(Clarksdale, 28-10-1909/?)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing.🎙️& mandol.
Rel. Art.: George Smith, One-Legged Sam, Speck. Red, S. B.Williamson, Robert Nighthawk
Y.A.: 1930s-?
{Miss./Arkansas blues, St. Louis blues, gospel}

"Garbage man blues"
youtu.be/7TgQbk4iG8o?...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
040 - MS
"BIG" GEORGE BROCK ♦️(1) (Grenada, 16-05-1932/St. Louis, MO, 10-04-2020)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. 🎤 & harm.
Rel. art.: M. Waters, H. Wolf, J. Reed & Albert King
Y. A.: 40s-00s
{Grenada, Grenada C., Miss./blues}
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
039 - MS
"BIG EDDIE" C. CAMPBELL ♦️(Duncan, 6-05-1939/Oak Park, Il., 20-11-2018)
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸
Rel. Art.: H. Wolf, Little Walter, M. Waters, J. Reed
Y. A.: 1950s-2013
{Bolivar C., Miss./Chicago blues, soul, R&B}

"Weary blues"
youtu.be/_30w3snyP-o?... 💣‼️
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
hakkiles34.bsky.social
038 - MS
"BIG DADDY" KINSEY ♦️ (18-03-1927/3-04-2001)
Lester J. Kinsey Jr.
Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. 🎤 guit. 🎻 & harmonicist
Y.A.: 1950s-1990s
{near Pleasant Grove, Panola County, Mississippi/Chicago blues}

youtu.be/IXRUR_eb_ZE?fe… 💣
October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM