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Lefty Dizz
Lefty Dizz (April 29, 1937 – September 7, 1993) was an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer whose recorded work was released on eight albums. As well as fronting his own band, he worked with Junior Wells, J. B. Lenoir and Hound Dog Taylor. One commentator noted that "for wild-ass showmen in blues history ... one would certainly have to go a far piece to beat Lefty Dizz". He favoured a right-handed Fender Stratocaster, which he played left-handed, hence the first part of his stage name. The derivation of the second part of his stage name is uncertain. According to one source, the name came from his playing the trumpet in the style of Dizzy Gillespie; another source says that Ted Harvey, the drummer for Hound Dog Taylor & the HouseRockers, gave him the nickname in reference to his "playing jazz in the alley". He was reputedly the brother of blues musician Johnny Dollar. Biography He was born Walter Williams in Osceola, Arkansas. He learned the rudiments of guitar playin ...
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Osceola, Arkansas
Osceola is a city in, and a dual county seat of, Mississippi County, Arkansas, Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. Located along the Mississippi River within the Arkansas Delta, the settlement was founded in 1837 and incorporated in 1853. Occupying an important location on the river, the city's economy grew as steamboat traffic increased. Timber and cotton harvesting would develop, and the city experienced rapid growth and development throughout the early 20th century. The city's economy has since diversified to include a robust industrial sector. The population was 6,976 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 7,757 in 2010. History Prehistory During the Prehistory, prehistoric period, Osceola and Mississippi County were largely swampland, with dense forest cover. The area was inhabited by Native American tribes. Europeans arrived around the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Louisiana Purchase through Statehood Initial white visitors to the area ...
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Kingston Mines (blues Club)
Kingston Mines is a blues nightclub in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. The club derived its name from the Kingston Mines Theatre Company founded by June Pyskacek in 1969 at 2356 N. Lincoln Avenue and named after Kingston Mines, Illinois, where the father of one of its actors, Jack Wallace, worked. Pyskacek allowed Harry Hoch and a partner open a café and performance space in the front of the building. Called the Kingston Mines Company Store, it was acquired circa 1972 by Lenin "Doc" Pellegrino, M.D., and renamed the Kingston Mines Café. Although the original production of '' Grease'' was written and first premiered at the Kingston Mines Theatre in 1971 before moving to Broadway a year later, the theatre company expired in 1973, while the Café survived as a blues club. It moved to its current location at 2548 N. Halsted in 1982. Kingston Mines showcases a variety of blues by two separate bands, every night, on two stages, 365 days a year; from delta blues to Chicago blues. Thei ...
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The Penguin Guide To Blues Recordings
''The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings'' is an encyclopedia of blues music albums released on CD. Content The book was released on 31 October 2006 and was written by Tony Russell and Chris Smith with contributions by Neil Slaven, Ricky Russell and Joe Faulkner. Russell in particular is known as a musical historian, working closely with programs presented on BBC Radio, as well as documentaries on the blues. In the book, artists are set up alphabetically and include short (usually one paragraph) biographies before showing a complete listing of their discography. Each album includes title, a rating out of four stars, label, musicians on the album, month and year of recording, and finally a review of varying length. See also * ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which were (at the time of publication) currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine edi ...
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List Of Musicians Who Play Left-handed
This is a list of notable left-handed musicians who play their instruments naturally. This does not include left-handed people who play (or played) right-handed, such as Joe Perry, Mark Knopfler, and Gary Moore. Guitarists and bassists Left-handed people play guitar or electric bass in one of the following ways: (1) play the instrument truly right-handed, (2) play the instrument truly left-handed, (3) altering a right-handed instrument to play left-handed, or (4) turning a right-handed instrument upside down to pick with the left hand, but not altering the strings – leaving them reversed from the normal order. (The fingering is the same for methods 2 and 3.) Any style of picking with the left hand (flatpicking or fingerstyle guitar) is considered playing left-handed. Guitarists File:Iommi sg guitar.jpg, Tony Iommi's guitar, a custom-made Gibson SG File:Gibson Les Paul 54 Custom.jpg, Jimi Hendrix's Les Paul Custom – a right-handed guitar with the strings reversed for pl ...
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List Of Chicago Blues Musicians
Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone. The best-known Chicago blues musicians include singer-songwriters and bandleaders Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Willie Dixon; guitar players such as Elmore James, Luther Allison, and Buddy Guy; and harp (blues slang for harmonica) players such as Little Walter, Paul Butterfield, and Charlie Musselwhite. Since the 1960s, the Chicago blues style and sound has spread around the US, the UK and beyond. A * Alberta Adams (July 26, 1917 – December 25, 2014). In 1952, she signed a recording contract with Chess Records and recorded with Red Saunders for the label. She toured with Duke Ellington, Eddie Vinson, Louis Jordan, Lionel Hampton, and T-Bone Walker, among othe ...
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Carlos Johnson (blues Musician)
Carlos Johnson (born January 17, 1953) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is Left-handedness, left-handed, but plays a right-handed instrument upside-down like players such as Otis Rush, Albert King, and Jimi Hendrix. Johnson is known for his aggressive playing which has attracted audiences in Chicago blue scene since the 1970s. He has played on recordings of notable musicians including Billy Branch, Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues and Son Seals. Biography Johnson was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In 1989, he made his first tour to Japan with Valerie Wellington, and caught attention of the Japanese blues fans. He revisited the country in 2004 as a supporting guitarist for Otis Rush who became unable to play the guitar due to the stroke he suffered earlier that year.
These concerts helped him build a fan base in Japan. ...
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Louisiana Red
Iverson Minter (March 23, 1932 – February 25, 2012), known as Louisiana Red, was an American blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, who recorded more than 50 albums. He was best known for his song "Sweet Blood Call". Biography Born in Bessemer, Alabama, Minter lost his parents early in life; his mother died of pneumonia shortly after his birth, and his father was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and ... in 1937.Wynn, Ron. [ Louisiana Red: Biography]. Allmusic.com. He was brought up by a series of relatives in various towns and cities. Red recorded for Chess Records, Chess in 1949, before joining the United States Army, Army. He was trained as a parachutist with the 82nd Airborne and was sent to Korea in 1951. The 82nd Airborne was ...
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Walked All Night Long (album)
Walked All Night Long is an album recorded by blues artists Louisiana Red & Lefty Dizz in 1976, and released on CD in 1997. The CD contains 15 tracks, 10 of which are original tracks written or co-written by Louisiana Red. Red handles all the lead vocals, as well as guitar and harmonica. Dizz plays lead guitar. Kyril Bromley plays piano on tracks 7, 13 & 15. Track listing #"First Degree" – 3:20 - Louisiana Red & Kent Cooper #"Bring My Machine Gun" – 4:40 - Louisiana Red #"King Bee" – 2:33 - James Moore ( Slim Harpo) #"Stole From Me" – 2:53 - Kent Cooper #"Too Poor To Die" – 2:54 - Louisiana Red #"Walked All Night Long" – 2:35 - Louisiana Red #"Cold White Sheet" – 6:08 - Louisiana Red & Kent Cooper #"Pinetop" – 4:43 - Louisiana Red #"Going Train Blues" – 4:50 - Kent Cooper & Don Johnson #"I'll Pay The Price" – 3:11 - Kent Cooper #"Going Down Georgia" – 3:16 - Louisiana Red #"Ever Heard A Churchbell Sound" – 3:39 - Traditional #"Mary" – 4:57 - Louisiana Red ...
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Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker (June 27, 1927 November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and organist. He worked with many blues musicians, including Ike Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lowell Fulson, Choker Campbell, Elmore James, Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, Jimmy Dawkins and Son Seals. Walker was primarily a piano player but was also proficient on the electronic organ and the bass guitar (he played the bass guitar when backing Muddy Waters). He recorded solo albums and accompanied other musicians in concert and on recordings. Life and career John Mayon Walker was born in the unincorporated community of Stoneville, Mississippi, partly of Native American ancestry. He acquired his best-known stage name in his childhood in Greenville, Mississippi, derived from his long, flowing hair. He learned to play several instruments, including the church organ, guitar, vibraphone and tuba. He began his musical career as a pianist, in ...
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Esophageal Cancer
Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach. Symptoms often include difficulty in swallowing and weight loss. Other symptoms may include pain when swallowing, a hoarse voice, enlarged lymph nodes ("glands") around the collarbone, a dry cough, and possibly coughing up or vomiting blood. The two main sub-types of the disease are esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma (often abbreviated to ESCC), which is more common in the developing world, and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), which is more common in the developed world. A number of less common types also occur. Squamous-cell carcinoma arises from the epithelial cells that line the esophagus. Adenocarcinoma arises from glandular cells present in the lower third of the esophagus, often where they have already transformed to intestinal cell type (a condition known as Barrett's esophagus). Causes of the squamous-cell type include tobacco, alcohol, very hot drinks, ...
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Live At The Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981
''Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981'' is a concert video and live album by American blues musician Muddy Waters and members of the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was recorded on 22 November 1981 by David Hewitt on the Record Plant Black Truck, mixed by Bob Clearmountain, and released on 10 July 2012. The Checkerboard Lounge was a blues club in Bronzeville, on the South Side of Chicago, which was established in 1972 by Buddy Guy and L.C. Thurman.Parnell, Sean"The New Checkerboard Lounge" ''The Chicago Bar Project'' Track listing CD #Introductions – 1:44 #"You Don't Have to Go" – 5:43 #"Baby Please Don't Go" – 11:00 #"Hoochie Coochie Man" – 4:18 #"Long Distance Call" – 4:49 #"Mannish Boy" – 10:25 #"Got My Mojo Workin'" – 3:18 #"Next Time You See Me" – 11:00 #"One Eyed Woman" – 9:44 #"Clouds in My Heart" – 6:22 #"Champagne and Reefer" – 6:58 DVD #"Sweet Little Angel" #" Flip Flop And Fly" #Muddy Waters Introduction #"You Don†...
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