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Luther Tucker

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For the publisher see The Genesee Farmer Luther Tucker (January 20, 1936 – June 18, 1993) was an American blues guitarist. [1]

65 relations: Abu Talib (musician), AllMusic, Antone's Record Label, Austin, Texas, B.B. King, Big Bill Broonzy, Blues, Boogie-woogie, Cab Calloway, California, Chicago blues, Classical music, Clifford Antone, Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Taylor, Elmore James, Elvin Bishop, Fenton Robinson, Fillmore East, Fillmore West, Francis Clay, Freddie King, Gospel music, Greenbrae, California, Guitar, Guitarist, Howlin' Wolf, James Cotton, Jay McShann, Jazz, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Rogers, Jody Williams (blues musician), John Lee Hooker, L. C. Robinson, Little Walter, Mel Brown (guitarist), Memphis, Tennessee, Muddy Waters, Musician, Myocardial infarction, Otis Rush, Pat Hare, Paul Butterfield, Restvale Cemetery, Rhythm guitar, Robben Ford, Robert Johnson, Robert Lockwood Jr., Rock music, ..., San Anselmo, California, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Blues Festival, Session musician, Singing, Slide guitar, Snooky Pryor, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Soul music, Tennessee, Terry Hanck, The Genesee Farmer, United States, West Coast blues, Whitehall, Michigan. Expand index (15 more) »

Abu Talib (musician)

Abu Talib (born Fred Leroy Robinson and also known as Freddie or Freddy Robinson; February 24, 1939 – October 8, 2009) was an African-American blues and jazz guitarist.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Antone's Record Label

Antone's was a record label based in Austin, Texas.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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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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Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley, June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African-American communities in the 1870s.

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Cab Calloway

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Chicago blues

The Chicago blues is a form of blues music indigenous to Chicago, Illinois.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Clifford Antone

Clifford Antone (October 27, 1949 – May 22, 2006) was the founder of the eponymous Austin blues club and independent record label, as well as a mentor to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, Kim Wilson, Gary Clark, Jr. and numerous other musicians.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Eddie Taylor

Eddie Taylor (January 29, 1923 – December 25, 1985) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.

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Elmore James

Elmore James (January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader.

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Elvin Bishop

Elvin Richard Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock music singer, guitarist, bandleader, and songwriter.

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Fenton Robinson

Fenton Lee Robinson (September 23, 1935 – November 25, 1997) was an American blues singer and exponent of the Chicago blues guitar.

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Fillmore East

Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the (at the time) Lower East Side neighborhood, now called the East Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan of New York City.

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Fillmore West

Fillmore West was a historic rock and roll music venue in San Francisco, California which became famous under the direction of concert promoter Bill Graham from 1968-1971.

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Francis Clay

Francis Clay (November 16, 1923 – January 21, 2008), was a jazz and blues drummer, best known for his work behind Muddy Waters in the 1950s and 1960s and as an original member of the James Cotton band.

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Freddie King

Freddie King (September 3, 1934 – December 28, 1976) was an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Greenbrae, California

Greenbrae is a small unincorporated community in Marin County, California.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guitarist

A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.

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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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James Cotton

James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time and with his own band.

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Jay McShann

James Columbus "Jay" McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006) was a jazz pianist and bandleader.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jimmy Reed

Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter.

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Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 1950s.

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Jody Williams (blues musician)

Joseph Leon Williams (born February 3, 1935), better known as Jody Williams, is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917; retrieved August 22, 2017. – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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L. C. Robinson

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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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Mel Brown (guitarist)

Mel Brown (October 7, 1939March 20, 2009) was an American-born blues guitarist and singer.

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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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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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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Otis Rush

Otis Rush (born April 29, 1934) is a blues guitarist and singer.

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Pat Hare

Auburn "Pat" Hare (December 20, 1930 – September 26, 1980) was an American Memphis electric blues guitarist and singer.

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Paul Butterfield

Paul Vaughn Butterfield (December 17, 1942May 4, 1987) was an American blues harmonica player and singer.

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Restvale Cemetery

Restvale Cemetery is located at 11700 S. Laramie Ave.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Robben Ford

Robben Ford (born December 16, 1951) is an American blues, jazz, and rock guitarist.

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Robert Johnson

Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician.

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Robert Lockwood Jr.

Robert Lockwood Jr. (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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San Anselmo, California

San Anselmo is an incorporated town in Marin County, California, United States.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco Blues Festival

Debuting in 1973, the San Francisco Blues Festival is the longest running blues festival in the United States.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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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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Snooky Pryor

James Edward "Snooky" Pryor (September 15, 1919 or 1921 – October 18, 2006) was an American Chicago blues harmonica player.

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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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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Terry Hanck

Terry Hanck (born 1944) is an American electric blues saxophonist, singer, songwriter and record producer, who won a Blues Music Award in 2016 in the 'Instrumentalist - Horn' category.

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The Genesee Farmer

The Genesee Farmer or Genesee Farmer was a very early periodical founded by Luther Tucker in 1831 in Rochester, New York.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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West Coast blues

The West Coast blues is a type of blues influenced by jazz and jump blues, with strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated from Texas blues players who relocated to California in the 1940s.

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Whitehall, Michigan

Whitehall is a city in Muskegon County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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References

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

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