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Phil Guy
Phil Guy (April 28, 1940 – August 20, 2008) was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of blues guitarist Buddy Guy. Phil and Buddy Guy were frequent collaborators and contribute both guitar and vocal performances on many of each other's albums. Biography Guy was born in Lettsworth, Louisiana. He played with the harmonica player Raful Neal for ten years in the Baton Rouge area. He then relocated to Chicago in 1969, where he joined his brother's band, at the time when his brother was becoming known as an innovator in blues guitar. The brothers collaborated extensively with Junior Wells in the 1970s. Guy recorded a number of albums under his own name in the 1980s and 1990s, branching out into soul and funk. He can be seen in his self-described hippie phase in the film '' Festival Express'', in which the Guy band tours southern Canada by train in 1970 with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and the Band. Guy worked with Maurice John Vaughn in 1979, notably conver ...
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Bad Luck Boy
''Bad Luck Boy'' is the second album by blues musician Phil Guy, recorded in March 1982 and released on JSP Records in 1983. Background and recordings "Bad Luck Boy" was recorded at the same session, like Phil Guy’s previous album ''The Red Hot Blues of Phil Guy'', but it was released a year later. The album’s last two tracks was recorded in December 1981, also in the Soto Sound Studio, when they recorded ''DJ Play My Blues'' for Buddy Guy. Release “Bad Luck Boy” released only on vinyl in 1983. Tracks 1-4 were released on Phil Guy’s '' All Star Chicago Blues Session'' compilation CD in 1994 by JSP, while tracks 5-6 were released on Buddy Guy’s ''DJ Play My Blues'' CD. Track listing Note *“Bad Luck Boy” is a rework of "Born Under a Bad Sign", written by Booker T. Jones and William Bell. Although "Cold Feeling" credited to Phil Guy and Eddie Lusk, originally written by Jesse Mae Robinson. '' Personnel * Phil Guy – guitar, vocals * Buddy Guy George "Bud ...
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The Red Hot Blues Of Phil Guy
''The Red Hot Blues of Phil Guy'' is the first album by blues musician Phil Guy, recorded in March 1982 and released on JSP Records in that same year. Background and recordings Three months after they recorded ''DJ Play My Blues'' album for Buddy Guy, they entered the Soto Sound Studio in Chicago again to record a new session, but this time led by Phil Guy. They recorded a bunch of songs, which released on two different albums. The first one was released in 1982, and the next a year later, both on JSP. There was some changes in the line-up, Professor Eddie Lusk connected on keyboards, J.W. Williams returned on the bass, Maurice John Vaughn played some saxes. Releases The “Red Hot Blues of Phil Guy” released only on vinyl in 1982, but most of the tracks released on Phil Guy’s ''All Star Chicago Blues Session'' compilation CD in 1994 by JSP. Track listing Note *"Red Dress" is a rework of the blues standard "Hi-Heel Sneakers", written by Tommy Tucker. Personnel * Phil Gu ...
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Lettsworth, Louisiana
Lettsworth is an unincorporated community located in the extreme northern tip of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the east bank of the Atchafalaya River near its intersection with the Mississippi and Red rivers at the Old River Control Structure. As of 2005, the population is 202. The town's zip code is 70753. Blues musician Buddy Guy was born in Lettsworth in 1936. The father of journalist Howard K. Smith was originally from Lettsworth. On the northern end of Lettsworth, bordering the Atchafalaya River, is White Hall Plantation House, an 1840s antebellum Antebellum, Latin for "before war", may refer to: United States history * Antebellum South, the pre-American Civil War period in the Southern United States ** Antebellum Georgia ** Antebellum South Carolina ** Antebellum Virginia * Antebellum ... structure designed by architect Henry Howard, and once the home of state senator Bennet Barton Simmes (1811-1888), founder of the river town of Simme ...
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Encyclopedia Of Popular Music
''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin. It is the "modern man's" equivalent of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music'', which Larkin describes in less than flattering terms.''The Times'', ''The Knowledge'', Christmas edition, 22 December 2007- 4 January 2008. It was described by ''The Times'' as "the standard against which all others must be judged". History of the encyclopedia Larkin believed that rock music and popular music were at least as significant historically as classical music, and as such, should be given definitive treatment and properly documented. ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' is the result. In 1989, Larkin sold his half of the publishing company Scorpion Books to finance his ambition to publish an encyclopedia of popular music. Aided by a team of initially 70 contributors, he set about compiling the data in a pre-internet age, "relying instead on information gleaned from music magazines, individual experti ...
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Lurrie Bell
Lurrie Bell (born Lurrie C. Bell, December 13, 1958, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer. His father was renowned blues harmonica player Carey Bell. Career Bell started playing guitar at the age of six, and in his teens he polished his skills playing with the legends of Chicago blues scene including Eddy Clearwater, Big Walter Horton and Eddie Taylor. In the mid 1970s, he went on to join Koko Taylor's Blues Machine and he toured with the band for four years. He made his recording debut in 1977 appearing on his father's album ''Heartaches and Pain'' and also on Eddie C. Campbell's ''King of the Jungle''.
It was around that time that he formed The Sons of Blues with musicians including

All Star Chicago Blues Session
''All Star Chicago Blues Session'' is a compilation album by blues musician Phil Guy. It contains the full session that was recorded at the Soto Sound Studio in March 1982. Background and recordings Phil Guy and his brother Buddy Guy recorded a bunch of songs at the Soto Sound Studio in Chicago in March 1982. These tracks were separately released on Phil Guy’s albums, The Red Hot Blues of Phil Guy in 1982 and Bad Luck Boy in 1983. “All Star Chicago Blues Session” is a combination of these two vinyls. The original tracks are remixed. Track listing # "Breakin' Out On Top" – 7:26 # "Texas Flood" – 5:46 # "Blues With A Feeling" – 6:22 # "Red Dress" – 4:11 # "Ice Around My Heart" – 8:55 # "Bad Luck Boy" – 9:11 # "Wine Head Woman" – 3:53* # "Skin & Bones / Money" – 8:25 # "Love Is Like Quicksand" – 5:04 # "Garbage Man Blues” – 4:42 Note *Track 5 was titled “Cold Feeling”, track 7 titled "Winehead" on the original vinyl. Personnel * Phil Guy – g ...
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Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancerous tumor worldwide and is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality among men. The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system that surrounds the urethra just below the bladder. It is located in the hypogastric region of the abdomen. To give an idea of where it is located, the bladder is superior to the prostate gland as shown in the image The rectum is posterior in perspective to the prostate gland and the ischial tuberosity of the pelvic bone is inferior. Only those who have male reproductive organs are able to get prostate cancer. Most prostate cancers are slow growing. Cancerous cells may spread to other areas of the body, particularly the bones and lymph nodes. It may initially cause no symptoms. In later stages, symptoms include pain or difficulty urinating, blood in the urine, or pain in the pelvis or back. Benign prostatic hyperplasia may produce similar sym ...
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Maurice John Vaughn
Maurice John Vaughn (born May 10, 1952) is an American blues musician from Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is a guitarist, saxophonist, keyboardist and singer. Biography Vaughn began playing professionally in 1968 as a saxophonist in Chicago R&B groups. He recorded with the Chosen Few in 1976, and played and recorded with Phil Guy, went on tour in Canada in 1979. He played as a sideman with Luther Allison, Son Seals, Junior Wells, Valerie Wellington, and A.C. Reed. His debut solo record was 1984's ''Generic Blues Album'', released in plain white packaging on his own Reecy Records record label; Alligator Records reissued it in 1987. In the 1990s, Vaughn played with Detroit Junior, but spent much of his time working in A&R for Appaloosa Records, and produced albums by Shirley Johnson, Zoom, Maxine Carr, B.J. Emery, and Velvet McNair. Vaughn and his band backed up Detroit Junior on the latter's two releases on Blue Suit Records, ''Turn Up The Heat'' (1995) and ''Take ...
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Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and musician. One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and "electric" stage presence. In 1967, Joplin rose to fame following an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. She appeared at the Woodstock festival and on the '' Festival Express'' train tour. Five singles by Joplin reached the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, including a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song "Me and Bobby McGee", which reached number one in March 1971. Her most popular songs include her cover versions of "Piece of My Heart", " Cry Baby", " Down on Me ...
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The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, world music, and psychedelia; for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams that typically incorporated modal and tonal improvisation; and for its devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads". "Their music", writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists." These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world". The band was ranked 57th by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in its " The Greatest Artists of All Time" issue. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a recording of their May 8, 1977 performance at Cornell University's Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of t ...
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Festival Express
''Festival Express'' is a 2003 documentary film about the 1970 train tour of the same name across Canada taken by some of North America's most popular rock bands, including the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, Flying Burrito Bros, Ian & Sylvia's Great Speckled Bird, Mountain and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. The film combines footage of the 1970 concerts and on the train, interspersed with contemporary recollections of the tour by its participants. The film, released by THINKFilm, was produced by Gavin Poolman (son of the original 1970 film shoot's producer, Willem Poolman) together with John Trapman, and directed by double Grammy Award-winner Bob Smeaton, with music produced by Eddie Kramer and featuring original footage shot in 1970 by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Peter Biziou. The original 1970 footage was filmed by director Frank Cvitanovich. A DVD release followed the film's 2003 theatrical run. Concert tour ''Festival Express'' was staged in ...
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