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Buddy Guy
male - George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues and rock guitarist and singer. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton...
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Bob Koester
male - Robert Gregg Koester (born October 30, 1932) is the founder and owner of Delmark Records, the oldest independent record label in the United States...
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Magic Sam
male, deceased - Sam "Magic Sam" Maghett was a blues guitarist and singer. Magic Sam was born in Grenada, Mississippi. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1950,...
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Kahil El'Zabar
male - Kahil El'Zabar (born November 11, 1953, Chicago, Illinois) is a jazz multi-instrumen
talist (mainly a percussionist) and composer. He regularly...
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Bruce Iglauer
male (Chicago, il, United States) - Bruce Iglauer (b. July 10, 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is the founder and head of the independent blues record label Alligator Records in Chicago....
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Arthur Crudup
male, deceased - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (also known as "Pop" Crudup) (August 24, 1905 - March 28, 1976) was a delta blues singer and guitarist. He is best known...
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Pete Welding
male, deceased - Peter J. Welding (November 15, 1935 - November 17, 1995) was an American blues historian, archivist and record producer. Born in Philadelphia, he...
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Sammy Blue
- Sammy Blue returned to Atlanta and met Muddy Waters the following year. Muddy also "took a liking" to Sammy and invited him to go to Chicago with...








