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Lightnin' Slim

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Otis Verries Hicks, known as Lightnin' Slim (March 13, 1913 – July 27, 1974), was an African-American Louisiana blues musician, who recorded for Excello Records and played in a style similar to its other Louisiana artists. [1]

30 relations: Ace Records (United Kingdom), Ace Records (United States), African Americans, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Captain Beefheart, Detroit, ED Denson, Excello Records, Flyright Records, Good Pine, Louisiana, Hip-O Records, Howlin' Wolf, J. D. "Jay" Miller, Lazy Lester, List of Louisiana blues musicians, List of swamp blues musicians, Little Walter, Louisiana blues, Montreux Jazz Festival, Moses "Whispering" Smith, Muddy Waters, Pontiac, Michigan, Selective Service System, Slim Harpo, Sonet Records, Sonny Boy Williamson II, St. Louis, Stateside Records, Swamp blues, University of Chicago.

Ace Records (United Kingdom)

Ace Records Ltd. was started in 1978.

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Ace Records (United States)

Ace Records was a record label that was started in August 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi by Johnny Vincent, with Teem Records as its budget subsidiary.

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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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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city.

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Captain Beefheart

Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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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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Excello Records

Excello Records was an American blues independent record label, started by Ernie Young in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, in 1953 as a subsidiary of Nashboro, a gospel label.

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Flyright Records

Flyright Records is a British record label incorporated in 1970 by Mike Leadbitter, Simon Napier, and Bruce Bastin.

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Good Pine, Louisiana

Good Pine is an unincorporated community in La Salle Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Hip-O Records

Hip-O Records is a record label that specializes in reissues and compilations.

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Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi.

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J. D. "Jay" Miller

Joseph Denton "Jay" Miller (May 5, 1922 – March 23, 1996) was an American record producer, musician and songwriter from Crowley, Louisiana, whose Cajun, swamp blues, and swamp pop recordings influenced American popular culture.

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Lazy Lester

Lazy Lester (born Leslie Carswell Johnson, June 20, 1933) is an American blues musician who sings and plays the harmonica and guitar.

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List of Louisiana blues musicians

The following is a list of Louisiana blues musicians.

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List of swamp blues musicians

The following is a list of swamp blues musicians.

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Little Walter

Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica and impact on succeeding generations earned comparisons for him to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix.

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Louisiana blues

Louisiana blues is a genre of blues music that developed in the period after World War II in the state of Louisiana.

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Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline.

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Moses "Whispering" Smith

Moses "Whispering" Smith (January 25, 1932 – April 28, 1984) was an American blues harmonicist and singer.

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Pontiac, Michigan

Pontiac is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, located in Metro Detroit.

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Selective Service System

The Selective Service System is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription.

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Slim Harpo

James Isaac Moore (January 11, 1924 – January 31, 1970), better known by his stage name Slim Harpo, was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and "one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day".

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Sonet Records

Sonet Records is a jazz/pop record label operating as an imprint of Universal Music Sweden.

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Sonny Boy Williamson II

Alex or Aleck Miller (né Ford, possibly December 5, 1912 – May 24, 1965), known later in his career as Sonny Boy Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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St. Louis

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Stateside Records

Stateside ($tateside) Records is a British record label which initially released licensed American recordings and is now a reissue label.

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Swamp blues

Swamp blues, sometimes the Excello sound, is a subgenre of blues music and a variation of Louisiana blues that developed around Baton Rouge in the 1950s and which reached a peak of popularity in the 1960s.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightnin'_Slim

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