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Tampa Red

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Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician. [1]

55 relations: African-American music, American folk music revival, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Maceo Merriweather, Billboard (magazine), Black Angel Blues, Blind John Davis, Bluebird Records, Blues, Bluesville Records, Chicago, Chicago blues, Corrine, Corrina, Document Records, Don't You Lie to Me, Early in the Morning (Sonny Boy Williamson I song), Elmore James, Frankie Jaxon, Guitarist, Hokum, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, How Long, How Long Blues, Illinois, It Hurts Me Too, Kazoo, Legacy Recordings, Ma Rainey, Memphis Minnie, Mississippi Delta, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, National String Instrument Corporation, Okeh Records, P-Vine Records, Piano, RCA Records, Resonator guitar, Rhythm and blues, Robert Nighthawk, Seattle, Session musician, Skip James, Slide guitar, Smithville, Georgia, Son House, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Sugar Mama (song), Tampa, Florida, The Duck's Yas-Yas-Yas, Thomas A. Dorsey, ..., Victor Talking Machine Company, Victoria Spivey, Vocalion Records, Yazoo Records, You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling. Expand index (5 more) »

African-American music

African-American music is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of musics and musical genres largely developed by African Americans.

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American folk music revival

The American folk-music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

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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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Big Maceo Merriweather

Major Merriweather (March 31, 1905 – February 23, 1953), better known as Big Maceo Merriweather, was an American pianist and singer.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Black Angel Blues

"Black Angel Blues", also known as "Sweet Black Angel" or "Sweet Little Angel", is a blues standard that has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists.

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Blind John Davis

Blind John Davis (December 7, 1913 – October 12, 1985) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer.

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Bluebird Records

Bluebird Records was a record label known for its low-cost releases, primarily of blues and jazz in the 1930s and 1940s.

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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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Bluesville Records

Bluesville Records was a subsidiary of Prestige Records, launched in 1959 or 1960, with the primary purpose of documenting the work of the older classic bluesmen passed over by the changing audience.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago blues

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

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Corrine, Corrina

"Corrine, Corrina" (sometimes "Corrina, Corrina") is a 12-bar country blues song in the AAB form.

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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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Don't You Lie to Me

"Don't You Lie to Me" (sometimes called "I Get Evil") is a blues song recorded by Tampa Red in 1940.

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Early in the Morning (Sonny Boy Williamson I song)

"Early in the Morning" (sometimes called "'Bout the Break of Day") is a blues song that was recorded by Sonny Boy Williamson I in 1937.

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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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Frankie Jaxon

Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, born Frank Devera Jackson (March 3, 1896 or 1897 – May 15, 1953),Legal name and birth/death dates from headstone application as a military veteran, reproduced in Brian Berger,, Hilobrow, 2013-02-03.

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Guitarist

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

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Hokum

Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a humorous song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make sexual innuendos.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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How Long, How Long Blues

"How Long, How Long Blues" (also known as "How Long Blues" or "How Long How Long") is a blues song recorded by the American blues duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell in 1928.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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It Hurts Me Too

"It Hurts Me Too" is a blues standard that is "one of the most interpreted blues ". First recorded in 1940 by American blues musician Tampa Red, the song is a mid-tempo eight-bar blues that features slide guitar.

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Kazoo

The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it.

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Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music.

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Ma Rainey

"Ma" Rainey (born Gertrude Pridgett, September 1882 or April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was one of the earliest African-American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record.

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Memphis Minnie

Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Mississippi Delta

The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and small portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers.

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Mose Allison

Mose John Allison Jr. (November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016) was an American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter.

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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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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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P-Vine Records

P-Vine Records is an independent record label, started by Blues Interactions, a firm in Tokyo, Japan established in 1975 by Yasufumi Higurashi and Akira Kochi.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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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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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Robert Nighthawk

Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967) was an American blues musician who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of 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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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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Smithville, Georgia

Smithville is a city in Lee County, Georgia, United States.

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Son House

Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902His date of birth is a matter of some debate. House alleged that he was middle-aged during World War I and that he was 79 in 1965, which would make his date of birth around 1886. However, all legal records give his date of birth as March 21, 1902. – October 19, 1988) was an American delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.

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Sonny Boy Williamson I

John Lee Curtis "Sonny Boy" Williamson (March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Sugar Mama (song)

"Sugar Mama" or "Sugar Mama Blues" is a song that is a standard of the blues.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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The Duck's Yas-Yas-Yas

"The Duck's Yas-Yas-Yas" or "The Duck's Yas Yas Yas" is a hokum jazz-blues song, originally recorded by James "Stump" Johnson, but the most well known version was recorded by Oliver Cobb and his Rhythm Kings.

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Thomas A. Dorsey

Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993) was known as "the father of black gospel music" and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in the new style were sometimes known as "dorseys".

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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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Victoria Spivey

Victoria Regina Spivey (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976), sometimes known as Queen Victoria, was an American blues singer and songwriter.

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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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Yazoo Records

Yazoo Records was an American record label founded in the late 1960s by Nick Perls.

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You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling

"You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling", or "Love with a Feeling" as it was originally titled, is a blues song first recorded by Tampa Red in 1938.

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"Tampa Red" Whittaker, Hudson Whittaker, Hudson Woodbridge.

References

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

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