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<title>Lucille Bogan</title>
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<title>Memphis Jug Band</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With a revolving lineup of singers and musicians, Memphis Jug Band performed old-timey hokum/Dixie-styled classics in the Delta regions from the pre-war era until the 1960s. Incorporating a variety of string and wind instruments (including kazoos!), the band's music takes a whimsical, circus-like feel. The amazing thing about these songs is the light-hearted approach to such subjects as cocaine addiction and mental illness. These blues may appeal more to fans of Michigan J. Frog than Howlin' Wolf, but with their influence easily detected in the work of countless post-war Memphis bluesmen, Memphis Jug Band's place in history cannot be disputed.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Victoria Spivey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Blues singer Victoria Spivey began her career in Texas playing to tough crowds in nightclubs and bordellos around the state. Accompanying herself on piano and organ, she sang musically sophisticated songs that contained blunt, often sexually suggestive lyrics in the style of Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter. She recorded for most of the major blues record companies throughout the 1930s, but had all but left the business by the '50s. Spivey benefited from the blues revival of the '60s, and she started her own record label in the wake of re-kindled interest in the genre. She recorded and performed until her death in 1976.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Thomas Dorsey</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:04:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Ida Cox</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:46:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Ma Rainey</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ma Rainey was singing the blues long before the phonograph was invented. By the time her voice was recorded, she had already taught her art to a legion of acolytes, including the "Empress of the Blues" herself, Bessie Smith. Though she recorded with such early twentieth century rising talents as Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, Ma Rainey's popularity began to wane in the early '30s, forcing her to retire in 1933. She is considered an enormous figure in the development of the blues, R&B and rock 'n' roll.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Cannon's Jug Stompers</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Clara Smith</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:00:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Mamie Smith</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Frank Stokes</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An early American street artist, Stokes had success at the turn of the twentieth century performing both solo and with his partner Dan Sain in the Beale Street Sheiks. With songs that ranged from sweetly picked blues to comic, traditional songs of the nineteenth century, he attracted black and white audiences alike.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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