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Bluesville Records

Index 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. [1]

31 relations: Alberta Hunter, Arbee Stidham, Baby Tate, Big Joe Williams, Blind Willie McTell, Brownie McGhee, Curtis Jones (pianist), Furry Lewis, Guitar Pete Franklin, Henry Townsend (musician), K. C. Douglas, Lightnin' Hopkins, List of record labels, Little Brother Montgomery, Lonnie Johnson (musician), Memphis Slim, Memphis Willie B., Mercy Dee Walton, Milestone Records, Prestige Records, Reverend Gary Davis, Robert Curtis Smith, Roosevelt Sykes, Scrapper Blackwell, Shirley Griffith, Sidney Maiden, Smoky Babe, Sonny Terry, Tampa Red, Wade Walton, Willie Dixon.

Alberta Hunter

Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) was an American jazz singer and songwriter who had a successful career from the early 1920s to the late 1950s, and then stopped performing.

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Arbee Stidham

Arbee Perkins Stidham (February 9, 1917 – April 26, 1988) was an American blues singer and multi-instrumentalist, active mostly in the late 1940s and 1950s.

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Baby Tate

Charles Henry Tate, known as Baby Tate (January 28, 1920 – August 17, 1972) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, who in a sporadic career spanning five decades worked with the guitarists Blind Boy Fuller and Pink Anderson and the harmonica player Peg Leg Sam.

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Big Joe Williams

Joseph Lee "Big Joe" Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar.

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Blind Willie McTell

Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was a Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.

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Brownie McGhee

Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an African-American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.

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Curtis Jones (pianist)

Curtis Jones (August 18, 1906 – September 11, 1971) was an American blues pianist.

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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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Guitar Pete Franklin

Guitar Pete Franklin (January 16, 1928 – July 31, 1975) was an African American blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter.

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Henry Townsend (musician)

Henry "Mule" Townsend (October 27, 1909 – September 24, 2006) was an American blues singer, guitarist and pianist.

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K. C. Douglas

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Lightnin' Hopkins

Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas.

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List of record labels

For lists of record labels, see.

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Little Brother Montgomery

Eurreal Wilford "Little Brother" Montgomery (April 18, 1906 – September 6, 1985) was an American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer.

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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 Slim

Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer.

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Memphis Willie B.

Memphis Willie B. (November 4, 1911 – October 5, 1993) was an American Memphis blues guitarist, harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Mercy Dee Walton

Mercy Dee Walton (born Mercy Davis Walton, August 3, 1915 – December 2, 1962) was an American jump blues pianist, singer and songwriter, whose compositions went from blues to R&B numbers.

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Milestone Records

Milestone Records is an American jazz record company and label founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City.

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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

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Reverend Gary Davis

Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis (born Gary D. Davis, April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972), was a blues and gospel singer who was also proficient on the banjo, guitar and harmonica.

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Robert Curtis Smith

Robert Curtis Smith (February 17, 1930 – November 10, 2010) was an African-American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Roosevelt Sykes

Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906 – July 17, 1983) was an American blues musician, also known as "The Honeydripper".

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Scrapper Blackwell

Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell (February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962) was an American blues guitarist and singer, best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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Shirley Griffith

Shirley Griffith (April 26, 1907 – June 18, 1974).

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Sidney Maiden

Sidney Maiden (April 1917 – c. 1987) was an American country blues musician.

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Smoky Babe

Robert Brown (July 31, 1927 – May 1973), who performed as Smoky Babe, was an American acoustic blues guitarist and singer, whose recording career was restricted to a couple of recording sessions in the early 1960s.

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Sonny Terry

Saunders Teddell, or Saunders Terrell (or other variants, sources differ) (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.

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Tampa Red

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

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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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Willie Dixon

William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.

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References

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

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