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Bukka White

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Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White (November 12, 1906 or 1909February 26, 1977) was an African-American Delta blues guitarist and singer. [1]

68 relations: Aberdeen, Mississippi, African Americans, All Music Guide to the Blues, Arhoolie Records, B.B. King, Bentonia School, Biograph Records, Blind Blake, Blind Willie Johnson, Bloodline (Recoil album), Blue Horizon, Blues Beacon Records, Blues Hall of Fame, Bob Dylan, Booker T. Washington, Charley Patton, Columbia Records, Country blues, Custard Pie, Delta blues, Depeche Mode, Document Records, E minor, ED Denson, Electronic music, Eric Bibb, Fiddle, Fixin' to Die Blues, Furry Lewis, Gospel music, Grammy Hall of Fame, Guitar tunings, Hats Off to (Roy) Harper, Houston, Mississippi, Jeff Buckley, John Fahey (musician), John Lomax, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin III, Lonnie Johnson (musician), Memphis, Tennessee, Miller Freeman, Inc., Mississippi Blues Trail, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mississippi State Penitentiary, National String Instrument Corporation, Okeh Records, Parchman Farm (song), Phonemic orthography, Physical Graffiti, ..., Poor Boy Blues, R. L. Burnside, Recoil (band), Record producer, Resonator guitar, Roots revival, Sampling (music), Shake 'Em On Down, Skip James, Slide guitar, Square dance, Takoma Records, Telarc International Corporation, The Recording Academy, University of Arkansas Press, Victor Talking Machine Company, Vocalion Records, Wade Walton. Expand index (18 more) »

Aberdeen, Mississippi

Aberdeen is the county seat of Monroe County, Mississippi, United States.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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All Music Guide to the Blues

All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues is a non-fiction, encyclopedic referencing of blues music compiled under the direction of All Media Guide.

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Arhoolie Records

Arhoolie Records, which is based in El Cerrito, California, United States, is an American small independent record label run by Chris Strachwitz.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Bentonia School

Bentonia School, a style of guitar-playing sometimes attributed to blues players from Bentonia, Mississippi, features a shared repertoire of songs, guitar tunings and chord-voicings with a distinctively minor tonality not found in other styles of blues music.

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Biograph Records

Biograph Records is a record label founded in 1967 by Arnold S. Caplin that specialized in early American ragtime, jazz, and blues music.

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Blind Blake

Arthur "Blind" Blake (1896 – December 1, 1934) was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.

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Blind Willie Johnson

Blind Willie Johnson (January 25, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was an American gospel blues singer and guitarist and evangelist.

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Bloodline (Recoil album)

Bloodline is the third EP by Recoil, released April 14, 1992.

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Blue Horizon

Blue Horizon Records was a British blues independent record label, founded by Mike Vernon and Neil Slaven in 1965, as an adjunct to their fanzine, R&B Monthly,Mike Vernon, The Blue Horizon story 1965-1970 vol.1, notes of the booklet of the Box Set (60 pages) and was the foremost label at the time of the British blues boom in the mid to late 1960s.

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Blues Beacon Records

Blues Beacon is a German independent record label, founded in the early 1970s in Munich by Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber to record blues artists while touring Europe, e.g. Robert Pete Williams, Little Brother Montgomery, Bukka White, Thomas Shaw.

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Blues Hall of Fame

The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum located in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington (– November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States.

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Charley Patton

Charley Patton (died April 28, 1934), also known as Charlie Patton, was an American Delta blues musician.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Country blues

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues, that mixes blues elements with characteristics of country and folk.

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Custard Pie

"Custard Pie" is the opening track on the English rock band Led Zeppelin's sixth album, Physical Graffiti, released in 1975.

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Delta blues

Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues music.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Document Records

Document Records is an independent record label in Scotland that specializes in reissuing vintage blues and jazz.

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E minor

E minor is a minor scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, sharp, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has one sharp.

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ED Denson

Eugene "ED" Denson (the capitalization of both letters in his "first name" is his own spelling that evolved from constantly using his initials) is an American music group manager, producer, record label owner, and, later, lawyer, who has made notable contributions to folk, blues, and early San Francisco rock.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Eric Bibb

Eric Charles Bibb (born August 16, 1951) is an American-born blues singer and songwriter.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Fixin' to Die Blues

"Fixin’ to Die Blues" is song by American blues musician Bukka White.

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Furry Lewis

Walter E. "Furry" Lewis (March 6, 1893 or 1899 – September 14, 1981) was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Grammy Hall of Fame

The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

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Guitar tunings

Guitar tunings assign pitches to the open strings of guitars, including acoustic guitars, electric guitars and classical guitars, among others.

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Hats Off to (Roy) Harper

"Hats Off to (Roy) Harper" is a song played by English rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Houston, Mississippi

Houston is a city in and one of two county seats of Chickasaw County, in northern Mississippi.

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Jeff Buckley

Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scott Moorhead,Browne (2001), p. 58 was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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John Fahey (musician)

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.

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John Lomax

John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 – January 26, 1948) was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist, and a folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk music.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin III is the eponymous third studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 5 October 1970 by Atlantic Records in the United States and on 23 October 1970 in the United Kingdom.

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Lonnie Johnson (musician)

Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Miller Freeman, Inc.

Miller Freeman, Inc., was a San Francisco-based publisher of trade books and business magazines, as well as a manager of trade and industry expositions.

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Mississippi Blues Trail

The Mississippi Blues Trail was created by the Mississippi Blues Commission in 2006 to place interpretive markers at the most notable historical sites related to the birth, growth, and influence of the blues throughout (and in some cases beyond) the state of Mississippi.

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Mississippi Fred McDowell

Fred McDowell (January 12, 1906 – July 3, 1972), known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American hill country blues singer and guitar player.

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Mississippi State Penitentiary

Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a prison farm, the oldest prison, and the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi.

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National String Instrument Corporation

The National String Instrument Corporation was a guitar company that formed to manufacture the first resonator guitars.

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Okeh Records

Okeh Records is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918.

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Parchman Farm (song)

"Parchman Farm" or "Parchman Farm Blues" is a blues song first recorded by American Delta blues musician Bukka White in 1940.

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Phonemic orthography

In linguistics, a phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond to the phonemes (significant spoken sounds) of the language.

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Physical Graffiti

Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released as a double album on 24 February 1975 by their newly founded imprint label Swan Song Records.

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Poor Boy Blues

"Poor Boy Blues" or "Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home" is a traditional blues song of unknown origin.

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R. L. Burnside

Robert Lee Burnside, known as R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 – September 1, 2005) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Recoil (band)

Recoil is a musical project created by English musician and former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Resonator guitar

A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (resonators), instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top).

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Roots revival

A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Shake 'Em On Down

"Shake 'Em On Down" is a Delta blues song by American musician Bukka White.

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Skip James

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter.

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Slide guitar

Slide guitar is a particular technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues-style music.

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Square dance

A square dance is a dance for four couples (eight dancers in total) arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square.

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Takoma Records

Takoma Records was a small but influential record label founded by guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s.

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Telarc International Corporation

Telarc International Corporation is an American audiophile independent record label founded in 1977 by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods.

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The Recording Academy

The Recording Academy (formerly the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or NARAS) is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other recording professionals.

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University of Arkansas Press

The University of Arkansas Press is a scholarly press that is part of the University of Arkansas and the American Association of University Presses.

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Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American record company and phonograph manufacturer headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

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Vocalion Records

For Decca's Vocalion label, see Disques Vogue Vocalion Records is an American record company and label active for many years in the U.S. and the U.K.

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Wade Walton

Wade Walton (October 10, 1923 – January 10, 2000) was an American blues musician and local civil rights leader from Mississippi.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White

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