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  Bowie County, Texas
  Bowie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas - Texarkana, Arkansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 92,565. Its legal county seat is Boston, though its courthouse is located in New Boston. Bowie is named for James Bowie, the legendary knife fighter who died at the Battle of the Alamo.
  Bowie County is one of 46 prohibition or entirely dry counties in the state of Texas. However, the community of Texarkana straddles the state line with Arkansas, and the Arkansas side is in Miller County which is wet, except for Sundays. State Line Avenue runs directly north and south through Texarkana, literally riding on the state line; thus there are numerous liquor stores on the Arkansas (east) side of the avenue, and none on the Texas (west) side.
  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 923 square miles (2,390.6 km²), of which 888 square miles (2,299.9 km²) is land and 35 square miles (90.6 km²) (3.78%) is water.
  
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  California
  California (pronounced ⁱ/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
  California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
  
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  Dallas, Texas
  Dallas ( /ˈdæləs/) is the third-largest city in the state of Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Divided between Collin, Dallas, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties, the city had a population of 1,197,816 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau.
  The city is the largest economic center of the 12-county Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area (the DFW MSA) that according to the March 2010 U.S. Census Bureau release, had a population of 6,371,773. The metroplex economy is the sixth largest in the United States, with a 2010 gross metropolitan product of $374 billion.
  Dallas was founded in 1841 and was formally incorporated as a city in February 1856. The city's economy is primarily based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, computer technology, energy, healthcare and medical research, transportation and logistics. The city is home to the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Located in North Texas and a major city in the American South, Dallas is the main core of the largest inland metropolitan area in the United States that lacks any navigable link to the sea.
  
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  France
  France (English ⁱ/ˈfræns/ FRANSS or /ˈfrɑːns/ FRAHNSS; French: [fʁɑ̃s] ( listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory. It is the largest western European country and it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 km² (4,260,000 sq mi), just behind that of the United States (11,351,000 km² / 4,383,000 sq mi).
  Over the past 500 years, France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military and political influence in Europe and around the world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonised great parts of North America and Southeast Asia; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second largest colonial empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.
  
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  Harlem
  Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem was annexed to New York City in 1873.
  Harlem has been defined by a series of boom-and-bust cycles, with significant ethnic shifts accompanying each cycle. Black residents began to arrive en masse in 1904, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, the neighborhood was the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic and professional works without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly.
  New York's revival in the late 20th century has led to renewal in Harlem as well. By 1995, Harlem was experiencing social and economic gentrification. Though the percentage of residents who are black peaked in 1950, the area remains predominantly black.
  
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  Harvard University
  Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country. Harvard's history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
  Harvard was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard. Although never formally affiliated with a church, the college primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Harvard's curriculum and students became secular throughout the 18th century and by the 19th century had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's forty year tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a centralized research university, and Harvard became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900.James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College. Drew Gilpin Faust was elected the 28th president in 2007 and is the first woman to lead the university. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $32 billion as of September 2011.
  
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  Houston, Texas
  Houston ( /ˈhjuːstən/) (Alibamu: Yosti ) is the largest city in the state of Texas, and the fourth-largest city in the United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of 656.3 square miles (1,700 km²). Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown, which is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 6.08 million people as of July 1st, 2011.
  Houston was founded in 1836 on land near the banks of Buffalo Bayou. It was incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837, and named after then-President of the Republic of Texas—former General Sam Houston—who had commanded at the Battle of San Jacinto, which took place 25 miles (40 km) east of where the city was established. The burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the city's population. In the mid-twentieth century, Houston became the home of the Texas Medical Center—the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions—and NASA's Johnson Space Center, where the Mission Control Center is located.
  
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  Library of Congress
  The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States of America, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in four buildings in Washington, D.C., as well as the Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia, it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and number of books. The head of the Library is the Librarian of Congress, currently James H. Billington.
  The Library of Congress was instituted for Congress in 1800, and was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century. After much of the original collection had been destroyed during the War of 1812, Thomas Jefferson sold 6,487 books, his entire personal collection, to the library in 1815. After a period of decline during the mid-19th century the Library of Congress began to grow rapidly in both size and importance after the American Civil War, culminating in the construction of a separate library building and the transference of all copyright deposit holdings to the Library. During the rapid expansion of the 20th century the Library of Congress assumed a preeminent public role, becoming a "library of last resort" and expanding its mission for the benefit of scholars and the American people.
  
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  Louisiana
  Louisiana (ⁱ/luːˌiːziˈænə/ or ⁱ/ˌluːziˈænə/; French: État de Louisiane, [lwizjan] ( listen); Louisiana Creole: Léta de la Lwizyàn) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Louisiana is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties. The largest parish by population is East Baton Rouge Parish, and the largest by land area is Cameron Parish.
  Much of the state was formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp. These contain a rich southern biota; typical examples include birds such as ibis and egrets. There are also many species of tree frogs, and fish such as sturgeon and paddlefish. In more elevated areas, fire is a natural process in the landscape, and has produced extensive areas of longleaf pine forest and wet savannas. These support an exceptionally large number of plant species including many species of orchids and carnivorus plants.
  
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  Manhattan
  Manhattan (/mænˈhætən/) is the most densely populated and the oldest of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the U.S. state of New York. The borough and county consist of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island,Mill Rock, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a very small area on the mainland bordering the Bronx. The original city of New York began at the southern end of Manhattan, expanded northward, and then between 1874 and 1898, annexed land from surrounding counties.
  The New York County is the most densely populated county in the United States, and one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a 2010 population of 1,585,873 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.5 km²), or 69,464 residents per square mile (26,924/km²), more dense than any individual American city. It is also one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, with a 2005 per capita income above $100,000. Manhattan is the third-largest of New York's five boroughs in population, and its smallest borough in land area.
  
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  Minneapolis
  Minneapolis (pronunciation: ⁱ/ˌmɪniːˈæpəlɪs/), nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City", is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States. Its name is attributed to the city's first schoolteacher, who combined mni, the Dakota word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city.
  As of the 2010 Census, the population of the city of Minneapolis is 382,578. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital. Known as the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-Saint Paul is the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with approximately 3.3 million residents. The city is abundantly rich in water, with over twenty lakes and wetlands, the Mississippi river, creeks and waterfalls, many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway. Among cities of similar densities, Minneapolis has the most dedicated parkland. It was once the world's flour milling capital and a hub for timber, and today is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper containing the fifth highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. It has cultural organizations that draw creative people and audiences to the city for theater, visual art, writing, and music. The community's diverse population has a long tradition of charitable support through progressive public social programs and VOLAGs, as well as private and corporate philanthropy.
  
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  Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania (ⁱ/ˌpɛnsɨlˈveɪnjə/), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a US state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, and the Great Lakes Region. The state borders Delaware to the southeast, Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, Ontario, Canada to the northwest, New York to the north, and New Jersey to the east.
  Pennsylvania is the 33rd most extensive, the 6th most populous, and the 9th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's four most populous cities are Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, and Erie. The state capital is Harrisburg. Pennsylvania has 51 miles (82 km) of shoreline along Lake Erie and 57 miles (92 km) of shoreline along the Delaware Estuary.
  Pennsylvania is 170 miles (274 km) north to south and 283 miles (455 km) east to west. Of a total 46,055 square miles (119,282 km²), 44,817 square miles (116,075 km²) are land, 490 square miles (1,269 km²) are inland waters, and 749 square miles (1,940 km²) are waters in Lake Erie. It is the 33rd largest state in the United States. Pennsylvania has 51 miles (82 km) of coastline along Lake Erie and 57 miles (92 km) of shoreline along the Delaware Estuary.
  
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  Sugar Land, Texas
  Sugar Land is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area and Fort Bend County. Sugar Land is one of the most affluent and fastest-growing cities in Texas, having grown more than 158 percent in the last decade. In the time period of 2000–2007, Sugar Land also enjoyed a 46.24% job growth.^{[citation needed]} As of the 2010 census, its population was 78,817. In 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that the city's population was 84,511, with a median family income of $113,261 and a median home price of $369,600.
  Founded as a sugar plantation in the early mid-20th century and incorporated in 1959, Sugar Land is the largest city and economic center of Fort Bend County. The city is the third-largest in population and second-largest in economic activities of the Houston area.
  Sugar Land is home to the headquarters of Imperial Sugar and the company's main sugar refinery and distribution center was once located in this city. Recognizing this heritage, the Imperial Sugar crown logo can be seen in the city seal and logo.
  
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  United States
  The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
  At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
  
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  University of Texas
  The University of Texas at Austin (informally Texas, University of Texas, UT Austin, or simply UT) is a state research university in Downtown Austin, Texas, USA. It is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is approximately 0.25 miles (400 m) from the Texas State Capitol in Austin. The institution has the fifth-largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of fall 2010 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997 to 2003), with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff. It currently holds the largest enrollment of any college in Texas.
  The University of Texas at Austin was named one of the original eight Public Ivy institutions and was inducted into the American Association of Universities in 1929. The university is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures exceeding $640 million for the 2009–2010 school year. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Campus and the McDonald Observatory. Among university faculty are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science, as well as many other awards.
  
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  Wilton, Connecticut
  Wilton is a town nestled in the Norwalk River Valley in southwestern Connecticut in the United States. It is located in Fairfield County. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 18,062. In 2007, it was voted as one of CNN Money's "Best Places to Live" in the United States.
  Located along Connecticut's Gold Coast, it is one of the most affluent communities in the United States. According to CNNMoney, Wilton has a median family income of $194,362 and an average home price of $1,006,017, making it one of the most expensive places to live in the country.
  Wilton was officially recognized as a parish in 1726. The original 40 families of the parish began their own Congregational church and were allowed by Norwalk to hire a minister (Robert Sturgeon, who also became the town's first schoolmaster), open schools and build roads. During the Revolutionary War, in 1777 the British used Wilton as an escape route after their successful raid on Danbury. Several homes were burned, but the town remained intact. In 1802, Wilton was granted a Town Charter by the Connecticut General Assembly and became a political entity independent from Norwalk. With a strong anti-slavery sentiment by its residents, Wilton served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.^{[citation needed]}
  
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  Adolf Hitler
  Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust.
  A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
  
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  African-American
  African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States that have ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.
  African Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States. Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States. However, some immigrants from African, Caribbean, Central American or South American nations, or their descendants, may be identified or self-identify with the term.
  African-American history starts in the 16th century with African slaves who quickly rose up against the Spanish explorer Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón and progresses to the present day, with Barack Obama as the 44th and current President of the United States. Between those landmarks there have been events and issues, both resolved and ongoing, including slavery, racism, Reconstruction, development of the African-American community, participation in the great military conflicts of the United States, racial segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement.
  
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  Big Bill Broonzy
  Big Bill Broonzy (June 26, 1903 – August 15, 1958) was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences. In the 1950s a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. His long and varied career marks him as one of the key figures in the development of blues music in the 20th century.
  Broonzy copyrighted more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including both adaptations of traditional folk songs and original blues songs. As a blues composer, he was unique in that his compositions reflected the many vantage points of his rural-to-urban experiences.
  Born Lee Conley Bradley, "Big Bill" was one of Frank Broonzy (Bradley) and Mittie Belcher's 17 children. His birth site and date are disputed. While he claimed birth in Bolivar County, Mississippi, an entire body of emerging research suggests that Broonzy was actually born in Jefferson County, Arkansas. Broonzy claimed he was born in 1893 and many sources report that year, but after his death, family records suggested that the year was actually 1903. Soon after his birth the family moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where Bill spent his youth. He began playing music at an early age. At the age of 10 he made himself a fiddle from a cigar box and learned how to play spirituals and folk songs from his uncle, Jerry Belcher. He and a friend named Louis Carter, who played a homemade guitar, began performing at social and church functions. These early performances included playing at "two-stages": picnics where whites danced on one side of the stage and blacks on the other.
  
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  Bill Frisell
  William Richard "Bill" Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American guitarist, composer and arranger.
  One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more. He is known for using an array of effects to create unique sounds from his instrument.
  Frisell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but spent most of his youth in the Denver, Colorado area. He studied clarinet with Richard Joiner of the Denver Symphony Orchestra as a youth, graduated from Denver East High School, and went to the University of Northern Colorado to study music.
  His original guitar teacher in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area was Dale Bruning, with whom Frisell released the 2000 duo album Reunion. After graduating from Northern Colorado, where he studied with Johnny Smith, Frisell went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied with Jon Damian and Jim Hall.
  Frisell's major break came when guitarist Pat Metheny was unable to make a recording session, and recommended Frisell to Paul Motian who was recording Psalm (1982) for ECM Records. Frisell became ECM's in-house guitar player, and worked on several albums, most notably Jan Garbarek's 1981 Paths, Prints. Frisell's first solo release was In Line featured solo guitar and duets with bassist Arild Andersen.
  
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  Billy Childish
  Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English artist, painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. He is known for his explicit and prolific work – he has detailed his love life and childhood sexual abuse, notably in his early poetry and the novels My Fault (1996), Notebooks of a Naked Youth (1997), Sex Crimes of the Futcher (2004) – The Idiocy of Idears (2007), and in several of his songs, notably in the instrumental "Paedophile" (1992) (featuring a photograph of the man who sexually abused him on the front cover) and "Every Bit of Me" (1993). From 1981 till 1985 Childish had a relationship with artist Tracey Emin and has also been associated with another British artist Stella Vine.
  He is a consistent advocate for amateurism and free emotional expression and was a co-founder of the Stuckism art movement with Charles Thomson in 1999, which he left in 2001. Since then a new evaluation of Childish's standing in the art world has been under way, culminating with the publication of a critical study of Childish's working practice by the artist and writer Neal Brown, with an introduction by Peter Doig, which describes Childish as "one of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures on the British art scene".
  
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  Black people
  The term black people is used in some socially-based systems of racial classification for humans of a dark-skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups represented in a particular social context. Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class and socio-economic status also play a role, so that relatively dark-skinned people can be classified as white if they fulfill other social criteria of "whiteness" and relatively light-skinned people can be classified as black if they fulfill the social criteria for "blackness" in a particular setting.
  As a biological phenotype being "black" is often associated with the very dark skin colors of some people who are classified as "black". But, particularly in the United States, the racial or ethnic classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry, or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being "African-American". As a result, in the United States the term "black people" is not an indicator of skin color but of socially based racial classification.
  
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  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan ( /ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
  Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie,Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
  
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  British Sea Power
  British Sea Power are an indie rock band based in Brighton, England, although three of the band members originally come from Kendal in Cumbria. The wide-ranging nature of their material has led critics to liken their sound to a variety of groups, from The Cure and Joy Division to the Pixies and Arcade Fire. The band are famed for their live performances, the unusual lyrical content of their songs and the adventurous choice of locations for some of their shows. British Sea Power's members are Yan (Scott Wilkinson; vocals, guitar), Noble (Martin Noble; guitar), Hamilton (Neil Hamilton Wilkinson; bass guitar, vocals, guitar), Wood (Matthew Wood; drums), Phil Sumner (cornet, keyboards) and Abi Fry (viola).
  British Sea Power's Yan and Hamilton are brothers and were school friends with Wood in Kendal. They were in a number of bands together while at school, but after finishing his exams Yan moved to study at the University of Reading, where he met guitarist Noble, who was originally from Bury, Greater Manchester. A few years later, Hamilton and Wood joined them and formed a band.
  
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  Brownie McGhee
  Walter Brown ("Brownie") McGhee (November 30, 1915 - February 16, 1996) was a Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.
  Brownie McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. As a child he had polio, which incapacitated his leg. His brother Granville "Sticks" or "Stick" McGhee was nicknamed for pushing young Brownie around in a cart. His father, George McGhee, was a factory worker known around University Avenue for playing guitar and singing. Brownie's uncle made him a guitar from a tin marshmallow box and a piece of board. McGhee spent much of his youth immersed in music, singing with local harmony group the Golden Voices Gospel Quartet and teaching himself to play guitar. A March of Dimes-funded leg operation enabled McGhee to walk.
  At age 22, Brownie McGhee became a traveling musician, working in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and befriending Blind Boy Fuller, whose guitar playing influenced him greatly. After Fuller's death in 1941, J. B. Long of Columbia Records had McGhee adopt his mentor's name, branding him "Blind Boy Fuller No. 2." By that time, McGhee was recording for Columbia's subsidiary Okeh Records in Chicago, but his real success came after he moved to New York in 1942, when he teamed up with Sonny Terry, whom he had known since 1939 when Sonny was Blind Boy Fuller's harmonica player. The pairing was an overnight success; as well as recording, they toured together until around 1980. As a duo, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee did most of their work from 1958 until 1980, spending 11 months of each year touring, and recording dozens of albums.
  
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  Dr John
  Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. (born November 21, 1940), better known by the stage name Dr. John (also Dr. John Creaux, or Dr. John the Night Tripper), is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.
  Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider prominence in the early 1970s with a wildly theatrical stage show inspired by medicine shows, Mardi Gras costumes and voodoo ceremonies. Rebennack has recorded over 20 albums and in 1973 scored a top-20 hit with the jaunty funk-flavored "Right Place Wrong Time", still perhaps his best-known song.
  The winner of five Grammy Awards, Rebennack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by singer John Legend on Monday, March 14, 2011.
  Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, Dr. John's Acadian ancestry traces back to the imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine. He claims that his lineage took root in New Orleans sometime in the early 1800s. Growing up in the Third Ward, Dr. John found early musical inspiration in the minstrel tunes sung by his grandfather and a number of aunts, uncles, and cousins who played piano. He did not take music lessons before his teens, he only endured a short stint in choir before getting kicked out. His father, the owner of an appliance store and record shop, exposed him as a young boy to prominent jazz musicians like King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. Throughout his adolescence his father's connections enabled him access to the recording rooms of burgeoning rock artists such as Little Richard and Guitar Slim. From these exposures he advanced into clubs and onto the stage with varying local artists, most notably, Professor Longhair.
  
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  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
  Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was the most important popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial. In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender.
  
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  Ernest Tubb
  Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons. Tubb recorded duets with the then up-and-coming Loretta Lynn in the early 1960s, including their hit "Sweet Thang". Tubb is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
  Tubb was born on a cotton farm near Crisp, in Ellis County, Texas (now a ghost town). His father was a sharecropper, so Tubb spent his youth working on farms throughout the state. He was inspired by Jimmie Rodgers and spent his spare time learning to sing, yodel, and play the guitar. At age 19 he took a job as a singer on San Antonio radio station KONO-AM. The pay was low so Tubb also dug ditches for the Works Progress Administration and then clerked at a drug store. In 1939 he moved to San Angelo, Texas and was hired to do a 15-minute afternoon live show on radio station KGKL-AM. He drove a beer delivery truck in order to support himself during this time, and during World War II he wrote and recorded a song titled "Beautiful San Angelo".
  
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  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra,  /sɨˈnɑːtrə/, (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and film actor.
  Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.
  He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 (finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".
  
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  Harry Belafonte
  Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. (born March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing "The Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O". Throughout his career he has been an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes and was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush Administration.
  Born Harold George Bellanfanti, Jr., at Lying-in Hospital, Harlem, New York, Belafonte was the son of Melvine (née Love) – a housekeeper of Jamaican descent – and Harold George Bellanfanti, Sr., a Martiniquan who worked as a chef in the National Guard. From 1932 to 1940, he lived with his grandmother in her native country of Jamaica. When he returned to New York City, he attended George Washington High School after which he joined the Navy and served during World War II. In the 1940s, he was working as a janitor's assistant in NYC when a tenant gave him, as a gratuity, two tickets to see the American Negro Theater. He fell in love with the art form and also met Sidney Poitier. The financially struggling pair regularly purchased a single seat to local plays, trading places in between acts, after informing the other about the progression of the play. At the end of the 1940s, he took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Bea Arthur and Sidney Poitier, while performing with the American Negro Theatre. He subsequently received a Tony Award for his participation in the Broadway revue John Murray Anderson's Almanac.
  
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• Henrietta Yurchenko
  Henrietta Yurchenco (born Henrietta Weiss in New Haven, Connecticut, March 22, 1916; d. Manhattan, New York, December 10, 2007) was an American ethnomusicologist, folklorist, radio producer, and radio host.
  She studied piano at Yale School of Music. She recorded traditional music in Guatemala, Mexico, the United States, and Morocco. She also worked at WNYC and taught at the City College of New York.
  She married the painter Basil Yurchenco and knew Alan Lomax and Pete Seeger.
  She lived in Manhattan, New York. She died there, from lung failure, at the age of 91.
  Yurchenco was interviewed by Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead and is featured in his book Songcatcher, published by National Geographic.
  Obituary in The Guardian (UK) by Ken Hunt, published 11 February 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/feb/11/folk.mainsection
  http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/henrietta-yurchenco-1916-2007/
  
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  Howard Hughes
  Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained prominence from the late 1920s as a maverick film producer, making big-budget and often controversial films like The Racket (1928), Hell's Angels (1930), Scarface (1932), and The Outlaw (1943). Hughes was one of the most influential aviators in history; he set multiple world air-speed records, built the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 "Hercules" (better known to history as the "Spruce Goose" aircraft), and acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines which would later on merge with American Airlines. Hughes is also remembered for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle in later life, caused in part by a worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder and chronic pain. His legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
  Hughes' birthplace is recorded as either Humble or Houston, Texas. The date is also uncertain, though Hughes claimed his birthday was Christmas Eve. A 1941 affidavit birth certificate of Hughes signed by his aunt Annette Gano Lummis and Estelle Boughton Sharp states he was born on December 24, 1905, in Harris County, Texas. However, his baptismal record of October 7, 1906, in the parish register of St. John's Episcopal Church, in Keokuk, Iowa, has his birth listed as September 24, 1905, without reference to the place of birth.
  
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  Hugh Laurie
  James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959), known as Hugh Laurie (/ˈhjuː ˈlɒri/), is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director. He first became known as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster from 1987 to 1999.
  From 2004 to 2012, he played Dr Gregory House, the protagonist of House, for which he received two Golden Globe awards, two Screen Actors Guild awards, and six Emmy nominations. As of August 2010, Laurie is the highest paid actor in a drama series on US television. He has been listed in the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid actor ever in a TV Drama—earning US$ 700,000 per episode in House—and for being the most watched leading man on television.
  Laurie was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. The youngest of four children, Laurie has an older brother named Charles and two older sisters named Susan and Janet. He had a somewhat strained relationship with his mother, Patricia (née Laidlaw). His father, Ran Laurie, was a medical doctor who also won an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs (rowing) at the 1948 London Games.
  
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  Jack Johnson (boxer)
  John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” was an American boxer. At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). In a documentary about his life, Ken Burns notes, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African-American on Earth." He is considered a boxing legend and was the first person ever to knock down James J. Jeffries in a professional boxing bout. Their fight is to this day considered a seminal moment in boxing history.
  Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas, the second child and first son of Henry and Tina "Tiny" Johnson, former slaves who worked at blue-collar jobs to raise six children and taught them how to read and write. Henry Johnson traced his ancestry back to the Coromantees who came from modern-day Ghana. Johnson dropped out of school after just five or six years of education to get a job as a dock worker in Galveston.
  
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  Jean Harlow
  Jean Harlow (March 3, 1911 - June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde" (owing to her platinum blonde hair), Harlow was ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time by the American Film Institute. Harlow starred in several films, mainly designed to showcase her magnetic sex appeal and strong screen presence, before making the transition to more developed roles and achieving massive fame under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Harlow's enormous popularity and "laughing vamp" image were in distinct contrast to her personal life, which was marred by disappointment, tragedy, and ultimately her sudden death from renal failure at the age of 26.
  Harlow was born Harlean Harlow Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri. The name is sometimes incorrectly spelled Carpentier, which came from later studio press releases in an attempt to sound more aristocratic, and the inaccuracy has been frequently repeated. Her father, Mont Clair Carpenter (1877–1974), was a dentist who came from a working-class background and attended dental college in Kansas City. Her mother, Jean Poe Carpenter (née Harlow), was the daughter of a wealthy real estate broker, Skip Harlow, and his wife Ella Harlow (née Williams). The marriage was arranged by Skip Harlow in 1908 and Jean, an intelligent and strong-willed woman, was resentful and became very unhappy in the marriage. The couple lived in Kansas City in a house owned by Skip Harlow.
  
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  John Lomax
  John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 - January 26, 1948) was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs. He was father to Alan Lomax, also a distinguished collector of folk music.
  The Lomax family originally came from England in the 18th century when William Lomax settled in a colony in North Carolina. John Lomax was born in Goodman, Mississippi to James Avery Lomax and Susan Frances Cooper. In December 1869, the Lomax family traveled by ox cart from Mississippi to Texas. John Lomax grew up in central Texas, just north of Meridian in rural Bosque County. His father raised horses and cattle and grew cotton and corn on the 183 acres (0.74 km²) of bottomland he had purchased near the Bosque River. The cowboy songs he was exposed to during his childhood influenced him in such a way that his future choice of career already seemed confirmed. About 1876, the nine-year-old Lomax met and became close friends with Nat Blythe, a former slave who had just been hired as a farmhand by James Lomax. The friendship, "which perhaps gave my life its bent," lasted three years, and was crucial to Lomax's early development. Lomax, whose own schooling was sporadic because of the heavy farmwork he was forced to do, taught Blythe to read and write, and Blythe taught Lomax songs like "Big Yam Potatoes on a Sandy Land" and dance steps like "Juba." When Blyth was twenty-one, he took his savings and left. Lomax never saw him again and heard rumors that he had been murdered. For years afterward, he always looked for Nat when he traveled around the South.
  
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  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
  Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice; for the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his rebelliousness, coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; for providing free concerts inside prison walls; and for his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally started his concerts by saying, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom Prison Blues".
  
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  Josh White
  Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969), better known as Josh White, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. He also recorded under the names "Pinewood Tom" and "Tippy Barton" in the 1930s.
  White grew up in the Jim Crow South. During the 1920s and 1930s, he became a prominent race records artist, with a prolific output of recordings in genres including Piedmont blues, country blues, gospel, and social protest songs. In 1931, White moved to New York, and within a decade his fame had spread widely; his repertoire expanded to include urban blues, jazz, traditional folk songs, and political protest songs. He soon was in demand as an actor on radio, Broadway, and film.
  White also became the closest African-American friend and confidant to president Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, White's anti-segregationist and international human rights political stance presented in many of his recordings and in his speeches at rallies resulted in the right-wing McCarthyites assuming him a Communist. Accordingly, from 1947 through the mid 1960s, White became caught up in the anti-Communist Red Scare, and combined with the resulting attempt to clear his name, his career was damaged.
  
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  Lead Belly
  Huddie William Ledbetter (January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949) was an iconic American folk and blues musician, and multi-instrumentalist, notable for his strong vocals, his virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the songbook of folk standards he introduced.
  He is best known as Lead Belly. Though many releases list him as "Leadbelly", he himself spelled it "Lead Belly". This is also the usage on his tombstone, as well as of the Lead Belly Foundation. In 1994 the Lead Belly Foundation contacted an authority on the history of popular music, Colin Larkin, editor of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, to ask if the name "Leadbelly" could be altered to "Lead Belly" in the hope that other authors would follow suit and use the artist's correct appellation.
  Although Lead Belly most commonly played the twelve-string, he could also play the piano, mandolin, harmonica, violin, and accordion. In some of his recordings, such as in one of his versions of the folk ballad "John Hardy", he performs on the accordion instead of the guitar. In other recordings he just sings while clapping his hands or stomping his foot.
  
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• Lonnie Donegan
  Anthony James "Lonnie" Donegan MBE (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002) was a skiffle musician, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name. He is known as the "King of Skiffle" and is often cited as a large influence on the generation of British musicians who became famous in the 1960s. The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums states Donegan was "Britain's most successful and influential recording artist before The Beatles. He chalked up 24 successive Top 30 hits, and was the first UK male to score two U.S. Top 10s".
  Born as Anthony James Donegan in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland, the son of a professional violinist who had played with the Scottish National Orchestra, he moved with his family in 1933 to East Ham, Essex (now in Greater London).
  Donegan was evacuated to Cheshire to escape the Blitz in World War II, and he attended St Ambrose College, initially at the school's original site in Dunham Road, Altrincham.
  In the early 1940s he mostly listened to swing jazz and vocal acts, and became interested in the guitar.Country & western and blues records, particularly by Frank Crumit and Josh White, attracted his interest and he bought his first guitar at the age of fourteen in 1945. From listening to BBC radio broadcasts in the following years he began learning songs such as "Frankie and Johnny", "Puttin' On the Style", and "The House of the Rising Sun". By the end of the 1940s he was playing guitar around London and visiting small jazz clubs.
  
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  Lou Gehrig
  Henry Louis "Lou" or "Buster"Gehrig (June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941) was an American baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939). Gehrig set several major league records, including most career grand slams (23) and most consecutive games played (2,130). Gehrig is chiefly remembered for his prowess as a hitter and his durability, a trait which earned him his nickname "The Iron Horse", as well as the pathos of his farewell from baseball at age 36, when he was stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Gehrig was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. In 1969 he was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association, and was the leading vote-getter on the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, chosen by fans in 1999.
  A native of New York City, he played for the Yankees until his career was cut short by ALS, a disorder now commonly known in the United States and Canada as Lou Gehrig's disease. Over a 15-season span from 1925 through 1939, he played in 2,130 consecutive games. This streak ended only when Gehrig became disabled by the fatal neuromuscular disease that claimed his life two years later. His streak, long considered one of baseball's few unbreakable records, stood for 56 years, until finally broken by Cal Ripken, Jr., of the Baltimore Orioles on September 6, 1995.
  
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  Meat Loaf
  Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947), better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, is an American hard rock musician and actor. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose. Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies. After more than 30 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best selling albums of all time.
  Although he enjoyed success with Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and earned a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo for the song "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" on the latter album, Meat Loaf experienced some initial difficulty establishing a steady career within his native US. However, he has retained iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the UK, where he ranks 23rd for the number of weeks overall spent on the charts. He ranked 96th on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".
  
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  Michelle Shocked
  Michelle Shocked (born Michelle Karen Johnston, February 24, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter.
  In 1984, Johnston starting using the name "Michelle Shocked", a contraction of "Miss Shell Shocked". She told Green Left Weekly: "The term 'Miss Shell Shocked' is a direct reference to the 1000 yard-stare which was a term that they first used to describe the victims of shell-shock in World War One. These people from outward appearances had survived the war quite well when in fact inside their minds were blown. I first used that name in 1984 at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco where I was arrested for protesting and demonstrating against corporations who contribute money to both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party campaigns."
  Shocked received her first international exposure in Europe, particularly the United Kingdom, with her debut album The Texas Campfire Tapes (1986).
  Her first US success came with the release of her 1988 album Short Sharp Shocked on college radio rotations around the country, which was met with strong acclaim from listeners. On the crest of this independent momentum, her 1989 album Captain Swing on Mercury Records was released.
  
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• Moe Asch
  Moses ("Moe") Asch (December 2, 1905, Warsaw – October 19, 1986, New York City) was the founder of Folkways Records. Asch ran the label from 1948 until his death. Folkways was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American cultural mainstream.
  Moses Asch was the son of Yiddish language novelist and dramatist Sholem Asch, and the younger brother of novelist Nathan Asch.
  Asch recorded and published LP records by such famous folk and blues singers as Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger. Cisco Houston and Ella Jenkins. In 1952, Asch's label issued the Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled by Harry Smith, which brought a wider awareness of traditional American folk and blues to a new generation.
  Asch had a significant recording relationship with James P. Johnson, the so-called Father of Stride Piano. Johnson made a significant series of recordings for several labels controlled by Asch, including Asch, Stinson, Disc, and Folkways. On the Stinson album, New York Jazz, Johnson recorded 5 numbers which he stated could be heard in New York in the 1910s, in addition to the first recorded piano solo of Scott Joplin's, Euphonic Sounds. This established the link between the stride piano of Johnson, and the ragtime of Joplin, from which stride is descended.
  
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• Moses Asch
  Moses ("Moe") Asch (December 2, 1905, Warsaw – October 19, 1986, New York City) was the founder of Folkways Records. Asch ran the label from 1948 until his death. Folkways was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American cultural mainstream.
  Moses Asch was the son of Yiddish language novelist and dramatist Sholem Asch, and the younger brother of novelist Nathan Asch.
  Asch recorded and published LP records by such famous folk and blues singers as Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger. Cisco Houston and Ella Jenkins. In 1952, Asch's label issued the Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled by Harry Smith, which brought a wider awareness of traditional American folk and blues to a new generation.
  Asch had a significant recording relationship with James P. Johnson, the so-called Father of Stride Piano. Johnson made a significant series of recordings for several labels controlled by Asch, including Asch, Stinson, Disc, and Folkways. On the Stinson album, New York Jazz, Johnson recorded 5 numbers which he stated could be heard in New York in the 1910s, in addition to the first recorded piano solo of Scott Joplin's, Euphonic Sounds. This established the link between the stride piano of Johnson, and the ragtime of Joplin, from which stride is descended.
  
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• Nicholas Ray
  Nicholas Ray (August 7, 1911 - June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause.
  Ray is also appreciated by a smaller audience of cinephiles for a large number of narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and In a Lonely Place, as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer. Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well-regarded. Ray was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "cinema is Nicholas Ray."
  He was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in Galesville, Wisconsin. In his early years, he went to school and did a brief stint at the University of Chicago: here he was exposed to the media world through radio. Here he also met two men who inspired his move to films: Frank Lloyd Wright and dramatist Thornton Wilder, then a professor. Ray received a Taliesin Fellowship from Wright to study under him as an apprentice.
  
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  Odetta
  Odetta Holmes, (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008) known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to^[who?] as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she was influential to many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin. Time included her song "Take This Hammer" on its list of the All-Time 100 Songs, stating that "Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music."
  Odetta was born in Birmingham, Alabama, grew up in Los Angeles, California, attended Belmont High School, and studied music at Los Angeles City College while employed as a domestic worker. She had operatic training from the age of 13. Her mother hoped she would follow Marian Anderson, but Odetta doubted a large black girl would ever perform at the Metropolitan Opera. Her first professional experience was in musical theater in 1944, as an ensemble member for four years with the Hollywood Turnabout Puppet Theatre, working alongside Elsa Lanchester; she later joined the national touring company of the musical Finian's Rainbow in 1949.
  
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  Oscar K. Allen
  Oscar Kelly Allen, Sr. (August 8, 1882 – January 28, 1936), also known as O. K. Allen, was the 42nd Governor of Louisiana from 1932 to 1936. He was a key lieutenant in the political machine of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., that dominated the state during the first half of the 1930s. Allen succeeded Alvin Olin King, who served briefly in the state's highest office after Long left the governorship to take a seat in the United States Senate.
  Allen was born in a log cabin in Winn Parish to Asa Levi Allen and the former Sophronia Perkins. He attended Winn Parish schools, the Springfield Normal School and Business College in Springfield, Missouri, and Trinity University, a private institution then in Waxahachie, Texas, south of Dallas in Ellis County. (Trinity is now in San Antonio.)
  Allen taught school in Winn Parish in 1898 and later in Mineral Springs, Texas, and Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish. In 1908, he was an assistant registrar at Trinity. Thereafter, he worked at times in farming, railroads, the mercantile business, and in oil drilling.
  
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  Pat M. Neff
  Pat Morris Neff (26 November 1871 – 20 January 1952) was the 28th Governor of Texas from 1921 to 1925 and 9th President of Baylor University from 1932 to 1947.
  Born on his family ranch in Coryell County near McGregor, Texas, Neff attended McGregor High School. He received his bachelor's degree from Baylor University in Waco before spending two years teaching at Southwestern Academy in Magnolia, Arkansas. While in Magnolia, Neff taught Harvey C. Couch, who would later become a successful entrepreneur in Arkansas. Upon returning to Texas, he received his law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. While studying at the University of Texas Law School, Neff was a close friend of future U. S. Senators Tom Connally and Morris Sheppard. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1899 to 1905, including a term as Speaker. After returning to his law practice in Waco, he served as assistant county attorney and county attorney for McLennan County for six years.
  
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  Pat Morris Neff
  Pat Morris Neff (26 November 1871 – 20 January 1952) was the 28th Governor of Texas from 1921 to 1925 and 9th President of Baylor University from 1932 to 1947.
  Born on his family ranch in Coryell County near McGregor, Texas, Neff attended McGregor High School. He received his bachelor's degree from Baylor University in Waco before spending two years teaching at Southwestern Academy in Magnolia, Arkansas. While in Magnolia, Neff taught Harvey C. Couch, who would later become a successful entrepreneur in Arkansas. Upon returning to Texas, he received his law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. While studying at the University of Texas Law School, Neff was a close friend of future U. S. Senators Tom Connally and Morris Sheppard. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1899 to 1905, including a term as Speaker. After returning to his law practice in Waco, he served as assistant county attorney and county attorney for McLennan County for six years.
  
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  Pete Seeger
  Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-20th-century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and environmental causes.
  As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)", (composed with Lee Hays of The Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962); Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964, and The Seekers in 1966. Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. In the PBS "American Masters" episode Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, Seeger states it was he who changed the lyric from the traditional "We will overcome" to the more singable "We shall overcome".
  
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  Raffi (musician)
  Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC (born July 8, 1948), better known by his stage name Raffi, is an Armenian-Canadian singer-songwriter, author, essayist and lecturer. He has developed his career as a "global troubadour", to become a music producer, author, entrepreneur, and founder of the Centre for Child Honouring, a vision for global restoration.
  Born in Cairo, Egypt, to Armenian parents, he spent his early years in Egypt before emigrating with his family to Canada in 1958, eventually settling in Toronto, Ontario. His mother named him after the Armenian poet Raffi. His father Arto Cavoukian was a well-known portrait photographer with a studio on Bloor Street in Toronto. His older brother Onnig Cavoukian, known as "Cavouk," is also a famous portrait photographer. His younger sister is Ann Cavoukian, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner.
  In the early 1970s, Raffi frequented a guitar store near Yonge and Wellesley called Millwheel, where he met other developing Canadian musicians such as David Wilcox and John Lacey. Raffi ran a coffee house at the University of Toronto up until 1980. He befriended John Lacey, a folk guitarist from Oakville, Ontario, who helped Raffi improve his finger picking (John went on to become a steel guitar player). Raffi continued playing folk guitar in various coffee houses in Toronto and Montreal before hitchhiking to Vancouver in 1972 to find "fame and fortune." He returned to Toronto after a few years and was invited to sing for a Toronto public school. Despite his own hesitations about singing for kids, he was an immediate success and thus began his career entertaining children.
  
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  Rod Stewart
  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter, born and raised in North London, England, and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry.
  With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album). His work with The Jeff Beck Group and Faces influenced heavy metal genres.
  With his career in its fifth decade, Stewart has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best selling artists of all time. In the UK, he has had six consecutive number one albums, and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position. He has had 16 top ten singles in the U.S, with four of these reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists". He was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and was inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in April 2012.
  
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  Ron Sexsmith
  Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith (born 8 January 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985. Some of the same artists who inspired Sexsmith—Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Ray Davies and John Hiatt—are now people whose praise he has won.
  Sexsmith is the subject of a 2010 documentary, Love Shines.
  Sexsmith was seventeen when he started playing at a bar, the Lion's Tavern, in his hometown. He would gain a reputation as "The One-Man Jukebox" for his aptitude for playing requests. However, four to five years of this led him to play original songs and more obscure music his audience did not favour. He decided to start writing songs after the birth of his first child, Christopher, in 1985. He moved to Toronto, formed a band called The Uncool, and released a cassette, Out of the Duff. A year later, he released There’s a Way. Next came the birth of his second child, Evelyne, in 1989. Meanwhile, he worked as a courier, and befriended Bob Wiseman whom he met at an open stage. They became friends, Wiseman produced and arranged Grand Opera Lane which was released in 1991 utilizing Ron's band consisting of Don Kerr and Steve Charles along with Wiseman regulars Sarah McElcheran (horn arrangements) and Kim Ratcliffe on electric guitar . Every Canadian label who Wiseman took it to rejected it but one year later, Todd Sullivan at Geffen Records recommended Wiseman speak with Ronnie Vance in the publishing department. Eventually on the strength of this album, and the attention garnered by the song "Speaking with the Angels", Sexsmith earned a contract which led to his self-titled album in 1995. The album received wider attention when it was praised by Elvis Costello, for whom Sexsmith later opened.
  
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  Rory Gallagher
  William Rory Gallagher,  /ˈrɔriː ˈɡæləhər/ GAL-ə-hər; 2 March 1948  – 14 June 1995, was an Irish blues-rock multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, and raised in Cork, Gallagher recorded solo albums throughout the 1970s and 1980s, after forming the band Taste during the late 1960s. A talented guitarist known for his charismatic performances and dedication to his craft, Gallagher's albums have sold in excess of 30 million copies worldwide. Gallagher received a liver transplant in 1995, but died of complications later that year in London, England at the age of 47.
  Gallagher was born in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal; his father, Daniel, was employed by the Irish Electricity Supply Board, who were constructing a hydro-electric power plant on the Erne River above the town. The family moved, first to Derry City, where his younger brother Dónal was born in 1949, and then to Cork, where the two brothers were raised, and where Rory attended the North Monastery School. Their father had played the accordion and sang with the Tir Chonaill Ceile Band whilst in Donegal; their mother Monica was a singer and acted with the Abbey Players in Ballyshannon. The Theatre in Ballyshannon where Monica once acted is now called the Rory Gallagher Theatre.
  
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  Ry Cooder
  Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.
  His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing folk, blues, Tex-Mex, soul, gospel, rock, and much else. He has collaborated with many musicians, including Larry Blackmon, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Randy Newman, Earl Hines, Little Feat, Captain Beefheart, The Chieftains, John Lee Hooker, Pops and Mavis Staples, Flaco Jiménez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Freddy Fender, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Ali Farka Touré. He formed the band Little Village with Nick Lowe, John Hiatt, and Jim Keltner.
  Ry Cooder produced the Buena Vista Social Club album (1997), which became a worldwide hit. Wim Wenders directed the documentary film of the same name (1999), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.
  He was ranked eighth on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". A 2010 ranking by Gibson placed him at number 32.
  
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• Scott H. Biram
  Scott H. Biram, aka Scott Biram, SHB, Hiram Biram, or The Dirty Old One Man Band (born April 4, 1974) is an award winning American blues, punk, country, heavy metal musician, and record producer based in Austin, Texas. He is primarily known as one of the prominent musicians of the One Man Band musical genre.
  Biram was born in Lockhart, Texas, United States, and raised in Prairie Lea and San Marcos, Texas. He graduated from San Marcos High School in 1992 and then from Southwest Texas State University (now called Texas State University) in 1997 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Prior to becoming a one-man band, he was a member of a punk band (The Thangs) and two bluegrass bands (Scott Biram & the Salt Peter Boys and Bluegrass Drive-By).
  Biram first released five albums under his own record label, KnuckleSandwich Records. His first album was This is Kingsbury?, released in 2000. This was followed by a second release, Preachin' & Hollerin in 2002. In February 2003 he released his third album, Lo-fi Mojo, recorded live on the radio in Austin, Texas. In April of 2003, while recovering from a major head-on collision with a big-rig semi truck he recorded and released the "Rehabilitation Blues E.P." The recording was made at his parent's home while he was still bedridden from his crash. In 2004, he released The Dirty Old One Man Band. Subsequently, it was re-released (with a few changes) in 2005 when Biram signed with Bloodshot Records from Chicago, Illinois. After signing with Bloodshot, Biram released Graveyard Shift (2006), and Something's Wrong / Lost Forever (2009). Something's Wrong/Lost Forever reached #5 on the Billboard Blues Chart. His fourth record on the Bloodshot label, Bad Ingredients, was released on October 11, 2011. The Album reached #35 on the iTunes Rock Chart on the day of release. A week after the release of Bad Ingredients he appeared on the cover of the Austin, TX weekly magazine, The Austin Chronicle.
  
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  Smog (band)
  Bill Callahan (born June 3, 1966), is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today.
  Though he was born in Maryland, Callahan's family spent a total of eight years living in Knaresborough in England's West Riding of Yorkshire, with a four year return to Maryland from 1969 to 1973. His parents worked as language analysts for the National Security Agency.
  Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, using substandard instruments and recording equipment. His early songs often nearly lacked melodic structure and were clumsily played on poorly tuned guitars (possibly influenced by Jandek, whom Callahan admired), resulting in the dissonant sounds on his self-released cassettes and debut album Sewn to the Sky. Much of his early output was instrumental, a stark contrast to the lyrical focus of his later work. Apparently, he used lo-fi techniques not primarily because of an aesthetic preference but because he didn't have any other possibility to make music. Once he signed a contract with Drag City, he also started to use recording studios and a greater variety of instruments for his records.
  
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  Sonny Terry
  Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911 - 11 March 1986) was a blind American Piedmont blues musician. He was widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts.
  Terry was born in Greensboro, Georgia. His father, a farmer, taught him to play basic blues harp as a youth. He sustained injuries to his eyes and lost his sight by the time he was 16, which prevented him from doing farm work himself. In order to earn a living Terry was forced to play music. He began playing in Shelby, North Carolina. After his father died he began playing in the trio of Piedmont blues-style guitarist Blind Boy Fuller. When Fuller died in 1941, he established a long-standing musical relationship with Brownie McGhee, and the pair recorded numerous songs together. The duo became well-known among white audiences, as they joined the growing folk movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This included collaborations with Styve Homnick, Woody Guthrie and Moses Asch, producing Folkways Records (now Smithsonian/Folkways) classic recordings.
  
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  Studs Terkel
  Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
  Terkel was born to Samuel Terkel, a Russian Jewish tailor and his wife, Anna Finkelin in New York City, New York. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent most of his life. He had two brothers, Ben (1907–1965) and Meyer (1905–1958).
  From 1926 to 1936, his parents ran a rooming house that also served as a meeting place for people from all walks of life. Terkel credited his understanding of humanity and social interaction to the tenants and visitors who gathered in the lobby there, and the people who congregated in nearby Bughouse Square. By 1939, he had grown to adulthood, marrying Ida Goldberg (1912–1999) that year, and the couple produced one son, Dan. Although he received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1934, he decided instead of practicing law, he wanted to be a concierge at a hotel, and he soon joined a theater group.
  
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  Tom Petty
  Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury.
  He has recorded a number of hit singles with the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist, many of which remain heavily played on adult contemporary and classic rock radio. His music, and notably his hits, have become popular among younger generations as he continues to host sold-out shows. Throughout his career, Petty and his collaborators have sold 60 million albums.
  Tom Petty was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, and attended Gainesville High School. His interest in rock and roll music began at age 10 when he met Elvis Presley. In the summer of 1961, his uncle was working on the set of Presley's film Follow That Dream in nearby Ocala, Florida and invited Petty to come down and watch the shoot. He instantly became an Elvis Presley fan and soon traded his Wham-O slingshot for a box of Elvis 45s. In a 2006 interview on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air, Petty said that he knew he wanted to be in a band the moment he saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. One of his first guitar teachers was Don Felder, a fellow Gainesville resident, who would later join the Eagles. As a young man, Petty worked briefly on the grounds crew for the University of Florida, but never attended as a student. An Ogeechee lime tree that he planted while employed at the University is now called the Tom Petty tree.
  
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  Tom Russell
  Thomas George "Tom" Russell (born March 5, 1947/1948^{[dubious – discuss]}) is an American singer-songwriter. Although most strongly identified with the Texas Country music tradition, his music also incorporates elements of folk, Tex-Mex, and the cowboy music of the American West. Many of his songs have been recorded by other artists, including Johnny Cash, k. d. lang, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Nanci Griffith, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Iris Dement, Dave Alvin, and Suzy Bogguss. Tom has also done collaborative work with renowned cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski. They have worked together on a few songs which have appeared in Tom's works over the years.
  In addition to his music, Russell also paints folk art, and has published a book of songwriting quotes (co-edited with Sylvia Tyson), a detective novel (in Scandinavia),and a book of letters with Charles Bukowski (Tough Company; Mystery Island Press).
  Russell was born in Los Angeles in the late 1940s. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a master's degree in Sociology of Law (criminology). In 1969, he spent a year teaching in Ibadan, Nigeria during the Biafran War. He has also lived in Spain, Norway, and played music at a circus in Puerto Rico. He began his musical career in earnest in the early 1970s in Vancouver playing strip bars, then later relocated to Texas and formed a band with singer-pianist Patricia Hardin. In 1977, they moved to San Francisco, performing regularly in clubs there as Hardin & Russell, during which time they recorded the second of their two studio albums. They eventually split in 1979, at which point Russell drifted out of the music industry for a while.
  
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  Tom Waits
  Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.
  Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' '55", performed by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  
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  Van Morrison
  Van Morrison, OBE (born George Ivan Morrison; 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely viewed as among the greatest ever made.
  Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands covering the popular hits of the day. He rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria". His solo career began under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl" in 1967. After Berns' death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks in 1968. Even though this album would gradually garner high praise, it was initially poorly received; however, the next one, Moondance, established Morrison as a major artist, and throughout the 1970s he built on his reputation with a series of critically acclaimed albums and live performances. Morrison continues to record and tour, producing albums and live performances that sell well and are generally warmly received, sometimes collaborating with other artists, such as Georgie Fame and The Chieftains. In 2008 he performed Astral Weeks live for the first time since 1968.
  
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  Wendell Willkie
  Wendell Lewis Willkie (/ˈwɛndl[unsupported input] ˈl[unsupported input]ɨs ˈwɪlki/; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for the president in 1940. A member of the liberal wing of the GOP, he crusaded against those domestic policies of the New Deal that he thought were inefficient and anti-business. Willkie, an internationalist, needed the votes of the large isolationist element, so he waffled on the bitterly debated issue of America's role in World War II, losing support from both sides. His opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1940 election with 55% of the popular vote and 85% of the electoral vote.
  Afterward, Roosevelt found Willkie to be compatible politically with his plans and brought him aboard as an informal ambassador-at-large. Willkie criss-crossed the globe on the former army bomber The Gulliver, bringing home a vision of "One World" freed from imperialism and colonialism. "One World" was Willkie's travelogue of his travels and meetings of the then-Allies heads of state, as well as ordinary citizens and soldiers in regions such as Russia and Iran. His liberalism lost him supporters in the GOP and he dropped out of the 1944 race, then died of a heart attack. He never held political office.
  
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  Woody Guthrie
  Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land." Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg and Tom Paxton have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence.
  Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned traditional folk and blues songs. Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression, earning him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour." Throughout his life Guthrie was associated with United States communist groups, though he was seemingly not a member of any.
  
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• Blind Lemon Blues
• Mister Tom Hughes' Town
• Shreveport Jail
• Don't You Love Me No More
• Henry Ford Blues
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Angola Blues (So Doggone Soon)
• Dallas & Fort Worth Blues
• Mary Don't You Weep
• Easy Mr. Tom
• I Ain't Bothered a Bit
• Boll Weevil
• The Titanic
• Red Cross Sto'
• Fo' Day Worry Blues
• Hesitation Blues
• Take Me Back
• Tight Like That
• Sail On Little Girl

• The Bourgeois Blues
• Midnight Special
• Irene Goodnight
• Frankie and Albert (Part One)
• Frankie and Albert (Part Two)
• Blind Lemon (My Friend Blind Lemon)
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• Fannin' Street
• Gallis Pole
• Rock Island Line
• How Long Blues
• Easy Rider/C.C. Rider
• Backwater Blues
• It's Tight Like That
• Death Letter Blues (Part One)
• Death Letter Blues (Part Two)
• In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
• Matchbox Blues
• Packin' Trunk Blues
• Good Morning Blues
• Alberta
• Leaving Blues

• Midnight Special
• John Hardy
• Where Did You Sleep Last Night
• T.B. Blues
• Easy Rider
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• Alanama Bound
• You Cant Lose-A Me Cholly
• New York City
• Roberta
• Leaving Blues
• When the Boys Were Out in the Western Plain
• I'm on My Last Go Round
• Mothers Blues
• Pretty Flowers in My Back Garden
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• Sail on Little Girl
• Fannin Steet
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• The Bourgeious Blues
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• The Boll Weevil
• Shorty George
• Goodnight Irene

• De Kalb Blues
• Looky, Looky Yonder / Black Betty / On A Monday
• Bourgeois Blues
• Poor Howard / Green Corn
• Gallows Pole
• How Long
• Goodnight Irene
• No Good Rider
• Big Fat Woman
• Bottle Up and Go
• John Hardy (Version 1 - Accordion)
• Bring Me Lil' Water Sylvie
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Linin' Track
• Whoa Back Buck
• Roberta
• Black Gal (Where Did You Sleep Last Night?)
• Yellow Gal
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• Pretty Flowers in My Back Yard
• In New Orleans
• John Hardy (version 2)
• I've a Pretty Flower (Pretty Flowers version 2)

• Noted Rider / Big Fat Woman / Borrow Love and Go
• Meeting at the Building / Talking Preaching / We Shall Walk Through the Val
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• Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
• Cow Cow Yicky Yea / Out on the Western Plains
• When the Boys Were Out on the Western Plains
• Bill Brady
• Yellow Gal
• Pretty Flowers in Your Backyard
• Bring Me Lil Water Silvy / Julia Ann Johnson / Line 'em / Whoa Back Buck
• John Hardy
• Red River / Black Girl (In the Pines) / Don'y Miss Your Water Blues
• Little Sally Walker / Ha Ha Thisaway / Red Bird
• In New Orleans
• John Hardy
• How Do You Know? / Don't Mind the Whether
• Mother's Blues (Little Children Blues)
• (What Are) Little Boys (Mad of) Let Me Hold Your Hand (All for You)
• I've a Pretty Flower
• Outskirts of Town
• Don't Lie Buddy
• Skip to My Lou / Christmas Day / It's Almost Day
• Mo' Yet / (Little Boy) How Old Are You? / Then There's a Limb on the Tree
• Blind Lemon (Memorial Record)
• Leadbelly's Dance

• Western Cowboy
• Blind Lemon Blues
• Midnight Special
• Irene
• C.C. Rider
• Governor O.K. Allen
• Julie Ann Johnson
• I'm Sorry Mama
• Take a Whiff on Me
• Boll Weevil
• The Titanic
• Green Corn
• Po' Howard
• De Kalb Blues
• Frankie and Albert
• Queen Mary
• The Hindenburg Disaster, Part 1
• The Hindenburg Disaster, Part 2
• Leaving on the Morning Train Blues
• The Bourgeois Blues

• Frankie and Albert (completion)
• Poor Howard / Green Corn
• Looky Look Yonder / Black Betty / Yallow Women's Door Bells
• The Bourgeois Blues
• Frankie and Albert (first half)
• The Boll Weevil
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• The Gallis Pole
• Fannin Street
• Roberta
• Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No More
• De Kalb Blues
• Alabama Bound
• Good Morning Blues
• I'm on My Last Go Round
• Red Cross Store Blues
• T.B. Blues
• Midnight Special
• Sail on, Little Girl, Sail On
• Leaving Blues
• Alberta

• The Bourgeois Blues
• Look, Looky Yonder / Black Betty / Yellow Women's Doorbells
• Poor Howard / Green Corn
• The Gallis Pole
• Noted Rider
• Big Fat Woman
• Burrow, Love and Go
• Bring Me Li'l Water Silvy
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Line 'Em
• Whoe Back Buck
• John Hardy
• In New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun)
• Goodnight Irene
• Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
• How Long Blues
• Yellow Gal
• On a Monday
• Blue Tail Fly
• The Boll Weevil

• Goodnight Irene
• The Boll Weevil
• Dekalb Blues
• Fannin Street
• Poor Howard / Green Corn
• John Hardy
• Frankie and Albert, Part One
• Frankie and Albert, Part Two
• Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No More / Go Down Ol' Hannah
• Looky Looky Yonder / Black Betty / Yallow Women's Doorbells

• Can't You Line 'em
• Fannin' Street
• Rock Island Line
• C.C. Rider
• New York City
• Goodnight Irene
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• TB Blues
• Good Morning Blues
• Alberta
• Midnight Special
• Take This Hammer
• Bourgeois Blues
• Salty Dog
• Matchbox Blues
• Tell Me Baby
• Black Gal
• Somebody's Diggin' My Potatoes
• Tight Like That
• Leaving Blues

• Black Betty
• Packin' Truck
• Becky Dream, She Was a Gamblin
• Honey, I'm All Out and Down
• Four Day Worry Blues
• Roberta, Part 1
• Roberta, Part 2
• Death Letter Blues, Part 1
• Death Letter Blues, Part 2
• Kansas City Papa
• Fort Worth and Dallas Blues
• You Don't Know My Mind
• Ox Drivin' Blues
• Daddy I'm Coming Back to You
• Shorty George
• Yellow Jacket
• TB Woman Blues
• Pig Meat Papa
• My Baby Quit Me
• C.C. Rider
• You Can't Lose Me, Charlie
• Black Snake Moan
• Alberta
• Baby Don't You Love Me No More
• Red River
• Blind Lemon

• Good Morning Blues
• Packin' Trunk
• Death Letter Blues (Part 1)
• Death Letters Blues (Part 2)
• Roberta Part 1
• My Baby Quit Me
• You Don't Know My Mind
• C.C. Rider
• Matchbox Blues
• Leavin' Blues
• Rock Island Line
• Easy Rider
• Alberta
• I'm On My Last Go Round
• The Bourgeois Blues
• Gallis Pole
• Can't You Line 'Em
• Alabama Bound
• Midnight Special
• Goodnight Irene

• Packin' Truck
• Death Letter Blues
• The Bourgeois Blues
• Easy Rider
• T.B. Blues
• I'm On My Last Go Round
• Good Morning Blues
• How Long Blues
• Roberta
• Backwater Blues
• Grasshopper In My Pillow
• The National Defense Blues
• Beeky Deem, She Was a Gamblin' Girl
• The Gallis Pole
• Frankie And Albert
• Rock Island Line
• Midnight Special
• Take This Hammer
• Goodnight Irene
• John Henry
• John Hardy
• Black Gal (Where Did You Sleep Last Night?)
• In New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun)
• Stewball

• Good Morning Blues
• Whoa Back Buck
• Midnight Special
• Irene
• Alberta
• Roberta
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• Grey Goose
• Red Cross Store Blues
• Easy Rider
• C. C. Rider
• Eagle Rock Rag
• Rock Island Line
• Leaving Blues
• Little Sally Walker
• Alabama Bound

• Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
• The Bourgeois Blues
• Poor Howard / Green Corn
• The Gallis Pole
• Noted Rider
• Big Fat Woman
• Borrow Love and Goe
• Bring Me Li'l Water Silvy
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Line 'Em
• Whoa Back, Buck
• John Hardy
• In New Orleans
• Goodnight Irene
• Looky Looky Yonder / Black Betty / Yellow Women's Doorbells
• How Long Blues
• Yellow Gal
• On a Monday (I'm Almost Done)
• Pretty Flowers In My Backyard
• The Boll Weevil
• Cow Cow Yicky Yea / Out on the Western Plain
• Pretty Flowers In My Backyard
• De Kalb Blues
• Roberta
• Blue Tail Fly

• Grasshopper in My Pillow
• Tight Like That
• C.C. Rider
• Well You Know I Had to Do It
• Alberta
• Sweet Mary Blues
• New Orleans
• New York City
• Baby, Don't You Love Me No More?
• Thirty Days in the Work House
• You Cain' Loose-A-Me Cholly
• Midnight Special
• I'm Leavin' on the Midnight Train
• Fannin' Street
• Goodnight Irene
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• Black Girl
• Turn Yo' Radio On
• Children's Blues
• John Henry
• Corn Bread Rough
• Can't You Line 'em
• Ella Speed
• Tell Me Baby
• Go Down, Old Hannah

• Irene (Goodnight Irene)
• Grasshoppers in My Pillow
• The Eagle Rocks
• Rock Island Line
• Ella Speed
• Backwater Blues
• Take This Hammer
• Tell Me, Baby
• Eagle Rock Rag
• Western Plain (When I Was a Cowboy)
• Sweet Mary Blues (Governor Pat Neff)
• On a Christmas Day (It's Almost Day)

• C.C. Rider
• New Orleans
• Sukey Jump
• Whoa Back Buck
• It Was Early One Morning
• Matchbox Blues
• How Long
• Laura
• If It Wasn't for Dicky
• Baby, Don't You Love Me No More?
• Cow Cow Yicky / Out on the Western Plains
• Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (Black Girl)
• Worried Blues
• Alabama Bound
• Frankie and Albert
• Sweet Mary
• Corn Bread Rough
• Alberta

• Nobody in the World Is Better Than Us
• Story
• Jim Crow
• Tuning: Introduction to the Gallis Pole
• Samuel Hall
• Jean Harlow
• I Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No More
• Mississippi River
• Fannin Street
• Dicky
• Old Black Crow
• Pig Latin Song
• Hawaiian Song
• John Henry
• Goodnight Irene
• The Grey Goose
• Ain't It a Shame
• Tuning: Talk About Stewball / Stewball
• Bourgeois Blues
• Talk About Governor and Writing the Song / Governor Pat Neff
• Talk About Louisiana and Governor Allen / Governor O.K. Allen
• A Lesson in History
• Lake Superior
• Mississippi River (no. 2)
• Down in Louisiana
• Goodnight Irene

• Green Corn ("This Is Jazz" broadcast)
• John Henry ("This Is Jazz" broadcast)
• Tell Me Baby What Was Wrong With You
• Noted Rider
• Take a Whiff on Me
• Ox Driving Moan
• John Henry
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• Go Down, Old Hannah
• Ain't Going Down to the Well No More
• Shout On (Honey I'm All Out and Down)
• It Was Soon One Morning
• Whoa Back Buck
• Birmingham Jail (Down in the Valley)
• Take This Hammer
• It Was Early One Mornin' (Jail House Blues)
• Goin' Back to Mary (If I Had You Governor / Governor Pat Neff)
• Come and Sit Down Beside Me
• Ha, Ha This a Way
• You Can't Lose a Me, Charlie
• Rooster Crows at Midnight (Christmas Day)
• Skip to My Lou
• Parting Song (When You Smile-o)
• Good Morning Blues (WNYC Jazz-Festival)
• Ain't Gonna Let You Worry My Life No More (WNYC Jazz-Festival)
• Pretty Papa (WNYC Jazz-Festival)
• Old Ship of Zion (live)
• I Will Be So Glad When I Get Home (live)

• Introduction
• Good Morning Blues
• When the Saints
• Tiger Rag
• Panama
• Ain't Misbehavin'
• Ja Da
• Reprise
• Muskrat Ramble
• Someday Sweetheart
• Sister Kate
• Baby, Please Come Home
• Reprise
• Basin Street Blues
• Royal Garden Blues
• Yellow Gal
• Bottle Up and Go
• Jazz Me Blues
• After You're Gone
• Finale

• More Yet
• Boll Weevil
• Little Boy, How Old Are You?
• Skip to My Lou
• Red Bird
• Sally Walker
• Ha Ha This A-Way
• Grey Goose
• Christmas Is A-Coming
• Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmie, Crack Corn)
• Polly Wee (The Frog Song)
• Pig Latin Song
• When a Man's a Long Way from Home
• Good Morning Blues
• By and By When the Morning Comes
• Every Time I Feel the Spirit / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / They Hung Him on the Cross
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• Rock Island Line
• Cotton Fields
• Old Man
• John Henry
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Whoa Back Buck
• You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
• Midnight Special
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• Take This Hammer
• We're in the Same Boat, Brother

• Yellow Gal
• You Can't Lose Me Cholly
• Laura
• Good Morning Blues
• Leaving Blues
• Big Fat Woman
• Gray Goose
• Pick A Bale Of Cotton
• Take This Hammer
• Bring Me a Little Water Silvy (Sylvie)
• Moaning
• Meeting at the Building
• We Shall Walk Through the Valley
• Irene, Good Night
• Cotton Song
• Ha Ha This Way
• Sukey Jump (Win'jammer)
• Black Girl
• Rock Island Line
• Blind Lemon (Song)
• Borrow Love and Go
• On a Monday (I'm Almost Done)
• Shorty George
• Duncan (And Brady)
• Old Riley
• Leavin' Blues (Leavin' in the Morning)
• Pigmeat
• If It Wasn't for Dicky
• Black Betty / Old Man / On a Monday
• Turn Yo' Radio On
• No Good Rider
• Howard Hughes
• New York City
• The Gallis Pole
• I'm Leavin' on the Morning Train
• Jean Harlow
• Good Mornin' Blues
• Eagle Rock Rag (Live)

• Fannin Street
• Bourgeois Blues
• Easy Rider
• Alabama Bound
• Don't You Love Your Daddy No More?
• Gallis Pole
• Leavin' Blues
• Midnight Special
• T.B. Blues
• Linin' Track
• Julie Ann Johnson
• John Henry
• Jim Crow Blues
• Jim Crow #2
• Good Morning Blues #2
• Abraham Lincoln
• Army Life
• Hitler Song
• Careless Love
• Haul Away Joe
• How Do You Know? / Don't Mind the Weather
• Skip to My Lou
• Red Bird
• Out on the Western Plains
• Cowboy Song
• You Can't Mistreat Me
• Diggin' My Potatoes
• John Hardy

• Looky Looky Yonder / Black Betty / Yellow Women's Door Bells
• Poor Howard / Green Corn
• De Kalb Blues
• Gallis Pole
• Bourgeois Blues
• Noted Rider
• Big Fat Woman
• Bottle Up and Go
• Bring Me L'il Water, Silvy
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Line 'em
• Whoa Back Buck (Back Band)
• John Hardy

• Good Morning Blues
• Midnight Special
• You Don't Know My Mind
• The Bourgeois Blues
• C.C. Rider
• Matchbox Blues
• Leavin' Blues
• My Baby Quit Me
• Easy Rider
• Alberta
• Packin' Trunk
• Death Letter Blues
• Roberta, Part 1
• The Gallis Pole

• New Orleans
• Goodnight, Irene
• Where Did You Sleep Last Night
• How Long
• John Hardy
• When I Was a Cowboy
• Pretty Flower in Your Back Yard
• Roberta
• Pretty Flower in Your Back Yard
• Yellow Gal

• Good Night Irene
• T.B. Blues
• Man Going Around Taking Names
• Rock Island Line
• How Long
• Good Morning Blues
• John Henry
• Pig Meat
• On a Monday
• Ain't You Glad
• Old Riley
• See See Rider
• Meeting at the Building
• Talking, Preaching
• We Shall Walk Through the Valley
• Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea
• Out in the Western Plains
• Fiddler's Dream
• Yellow Girl
• Green Corn
• Noted Rider
• Big Fat Woman
• Borrow Love and Go
• Bring Me Little Water, Silvy
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Line 'em
• Whoe Back, Buck
• John Hardy

• On a Monday
• Defense Blues
• Keep Your Hands Off Her
• Jim Crow
• Down in the Valley
• Skin to My Lou
• Pigmeat
• Blue Tail Fly
• Boll Weevil Blues
• Midnight Special
• Sylvie
• Matchbox Blues
• You Must Have That True Religion, Halleloo
• Fannin' Street
• Green Corn
• Bourgeois Blues

• Easy Rider
• New York City
• Worried Blues
• Don't You Love Your Daddy No More
• You Can't Lose-a Me Cholly
• Grey Goose
• Stew Ball
• Take This Hammer
• Can't You Line 'em
• Ham An' Eggs
• Ha Ha Thisaway
• Little Sally Walker
• Redbird
• Christmas Song
• Skip to My Lou
• You Can't Lose Me Cholly
• Take This Hammer
• Haul Me Away, Joe
• Rock Island Line
• Ol' Riley
• Corn Bread Rough
• Old Man
• On a Monday
• John Henry
• How Long
• (Good Night) Irene (take 1)
• (Good Night) Irene
• Ain't You Glad
• Good Morning Blues

• Daddy I'm Coming Back to You (take 3)
• Shorty George (take 2)
• Fannin Street
• Frankie and Albert - First Half
• Frankie and Albert - Completion
• De Kalb Blues
• Looky Looky Yonder / Black Betty / Yellow Women's Door Bells (On a Monday)
• The Bourgeois Blues
• Poor Howard / Green Corn
• The Boll Weevil
• The Gallis Pole
• Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No Mo' / Go Down Old Hannah
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• Whoa Back, Buck
• Midnight Special
• Alabama Bound
• Rock Island Line
• Good Morning Blues
• Leaving Blues
• T.B. Blues
• Red Cross Store Blues
• Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
• Roberta
• Alberta
• I'm on My Last Go-Round

• Sweet Mary Blues
• Grasshoppers in My Pillow
• Irene, Goodnight
• John Henry
• Boll Weevil
• When a Man's a Long Way From Home
• Good Morning Blues
• By and by When the Morning Comes
• Medley: a) Everytime I Feel the Spirit / b) Swing Low Sweet Chariot / c) They Hung Him on the Cross
• Swing Low Sweet Chariot
• Rock Island Line
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Haul Away Joe
• Christmas Is Coming
• We're in the Same Boat Brother
• Diggin' My Potatoes
• Defense Blues
• Easy Rider
• Pigmeat
• John Henry
• Alabama Bound
• Ham and Eggs
• Yellow Gal
• Stew Ball
• Gray Goose
• Midnight Special
• Green Corn
• Fiddler's Dram

• In the Evenin' When the Sun Goes Down
• Easy Rider (See See Rider)
• We Shall Be Free
• Keep Your Hands Off Her
• There's a Man Going Round Taking Names
• Red Bird
• Line 'em
• T.B. Blues
• Jim Crow Blues
• Bourgeois Blues
• Army Life
• Mr. Hitler
• Juliana Johnson
• Jean Harlow
• Corn Bread Rough
• National Defense Blues
• Children's Blues (Little Children's Blues)
• The Blood Done Sign My Name (Ain't You Glad)
• Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea
• Ella Speed
• Rock Island Line
• Tell Me Baby
• Take This Hammer
• Irene
• Western Plain
• On a Christmas Day
• Backwater Blues
• Eagle Rock Rag
• The Eagle Rocks

• Cow Cow Yicky Yea / Out on the Western Plains
• Noted Rider / Big Fat Woman / Borrow Love and Go
• John Hardy
• Meeting at the Building / Talking Preaching / We Shall Walk Through the Valley
• Fiddler's Dream / Yallow Gal / Green Corn
• Bring Me Lil Water Silvy / Julia Ann Johnson / Line 'em / Whoa Back Buck
• Roberta
• Bill Brady
• Where Did You Sleep Last Night
• Yellow Gal
• When the Boys Were Out on the Western Plains
• Pretty Fowers in Your Back Yard
• In New Orleans
• John Hardy
• I've a Pretty Flowers
• Don't Lie Buddy
• How Do You Know / Don't Mind the Weather
• (What Are) Little Boys (Made Of) / Let Me Hold Your Hand (All for You) / Polly Wolly (Polly) Wee
• Skip to My Lou / Christmas Day (It's Almost Day)
• Little Sally Walker / Ha Ha Thisaway / Red Bird
• Outskirts of Town
• Red River / Black Girl (In the Pines) / Don't Miss Your Water Blues
• Blind Lemon (Memorial Record)
• Leadbelly's Dance
• Mother's Blues (Little Children Blues)
• Mo' Yet / (Little Boy) How Old Are You / There's a Limb on the Tree (Green Grass Grows All Around)

• The Bourgeois Blues
• Looky, Looky Yonder / Black Betty / Yellow Woman's Doorbells
• Poor Howard / Green Corn
• The Gallis Pole
• De Kalb Woman
• Noted Rider
• Big Fat Woman
• Burrow Love & Go
• Bring Me Li'l Water Silvy
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Line 'em
• Whoe Back Buck
• John Hardy

• Noted Rider
• Big Fat Woman
• Burrow Love & Go
• Bring Me Li'l Water Silvy
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Line 'em
• Whoe Back Buck
• John Hardy
• The Bourgeois Blues
• Looky, Looky Yonder
• Black Betty
• Yellow Woman's Doorbells
• Poor Howard
• Green Corn
• The Gallis Pole
• Dekalb Woman

• Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
• Yes, I'm Going Down to Louisiana
• I Ain't Going Down to the Well No More
• Dick Ligger's Holler
• Miss Lisa Jane
• Dog Latin Song
• Leaving Blues
• Go Down, Old Hannah
• Blue Tail Fly
• Nobody in This World Is Better Than Us
• We're in the Same Boat, Brother
• Looky, Looky Yonder
• Jolly o' the Ransom
• Old Ship of Zion
• Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
• Mistreatin' Momma
• Black Betty
• Ain't Goin Down to the Well No More
• I'm Going Back Down in Louisiana
• I Don't Know You, What Have I Done
• Rock Island Line
• Old Man, Will Your Dog Catch a Rabbit?
• Shorty George
• Stewball
• Bottle Up & Go
• You Know I Got to Do It
• Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishing on a Sunday
• I Ain't Gonna Drink Anymore
• Winsborro Cotton Mill Blues
• My Lindy Lou
• I'm Thinking of a Friend
• He Never Said a Mumbling Word
• I Don't Want No More of Army Life
• In the World
• I Want to Go Home

• Ho Day
• One Dollar Bill Baby
• Ain't Goin' Down to the Well Anymore
• Shorty George
• Ha-ha Thisaway
• Where de Sun Go Down
• Bring Me Water,Silvy
• Monkey Man
• Ain't Gonna Ring Dem Yellow Woman's Do' Bells
• Rock Island Line
• Billy the Weaver
• Ain't Gonna Drink No More
• New York City
• The Hindenburg Disaster,Part 1
• The Hindenburg Disaster,Part 2
• Git on Board
• Outshine the Sun
• Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
• Little John Henry

• T.B. Blues
• How Long?
• When the Train Comes Along
• Monologue on Square Dances or Sookey Jumps
• Monologue On The Blues
• Amazing Grace
• Old Time Religion
• Stand Your Test In Judgement
• Christmas (monologue)
• John Henry
• John Hardy
• Go Down Old Hannah
• Oh, Something On My Mind
• How Long?
• Swing Low Sweet Chariot
• Ain't Gonna Study War No More
• Join The Band
• Prayer

• Frankie & Albert, Part One
• Frankie & Albert, Part Two
• Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No Mo' / Goin' Down Old Hannah
• Looky Looky Yonder, Black Belly / Yella Woman's Doorbell
• Dekalb Blues
• The Boll Weevil
• Fannin Street
• Poor Howard / Green Corn
• Goodnight Irene
• John Hardy

• New York City
• Pick a Ball of Cotton
• Midnight Special
• Good Morning Blues
• The Red Cross Store Blues
• Rock Island Line
• Easy Rider
• Packin' Trunk
• Four Day Worry Blues
• Roberta
• Death Letter Blues, Part 1
• Fort Worth and Dallas Blues
• Ox Drivin' Blues
• TB Woman Blues
• My Baby Quit Me
• I'm on My Last Go Round
• The Borgeois Blues
• John Hardy
• Irene Goodnight
• I'm Sorry Mama

• Midnight Special
• Sylvie
• Matchbox Blues
• You Must Have That Pure Religion, Halleloo
• Fannin' Street
• Green Corn
• Bourgeois Blues
• When I Was a Cowboy
• Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea
• C.C. Rider
• Rock Island Line
• Governor O.K. Allen
• De Kalb Blues
• Leaving Blues
• Roberta
• Frankie and Albert
• Alberta
• Gray Goose
• Careless Love
• Goodnight Irene

• The House of the Rising Sun
• On a Monday
• Blue Tail Fly
• Goodnight Irene
• Where Did You Sleep Last Night
• How Long
• The Boll Weevil Song
• Medley: Look, Looky Yonder / Black Betty
• Big Fat Woman
• Whoa Back Buck
• John Hardy
• Tell Me Baby
• Yellow Gal
• Noted Rider

• C.C. Rider
• Governor Pat Neff
• Becky Dean
• Medicine Man
• Alberta
• Old Rattler
• If It Wasn't for Dicky
• Queen Mary
• Turn Yo' Radio On
• Mama, Did You Bring Any Silver?
• The Bourgeois Blues
• Po' Howard
• Dance Calls (includes "One Dollar Bill, Baby")
• Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil In
• Green Corn

• Keep Your Hands Off Her
• Stewball
• Lining Track
• Goodnight Irene
• Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yeah Out on the Western Plains
• The Blood Done Sign My Name
• The Gallis Pole
• Fiddler's Dream
• National Defence Blues
• Meeting at the Building
• We Shall Be Free
• Jean Harlow
• Outskirts of Town
• There's a Man Going Round Taking Names
• John Hardy
• Corn Bread Rough
• Bourgeois Blues
• Poor Howard
• Dekalb Blues
• On a Monday

• Good Morning Blues
• Good Night Irene
• There Is a Man Going Around Taking Names
• On a Monday
• The Gallis Pole
• Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy / Julie Ann Johnson / Line 'em Whoah Back, Buck
• Stewball
• We Shall Be Free
• T.B. Blues
• John Hardy
• Poor Howard / Green Corn
• Outskirts of Town
• The Blood Done Sign My Name
• The Boll Weevil
• Jean Harlow
• Little Children's Blues
• National Defense Blues
• Fiddler's Dram
• Keep Your Hands Off Her
• Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yeah / Out on the Western Plains

• Cotton Song
• Ha Ha This Way
• Sukey Jump
• Black Girl
• Rock Island Line
• Blind Lemon
• Bottle Love and Go
• On a Monday
• Shorty George
• Duncan and Brady
• Old Riley
• Leavin' Blues
• Pigmeat

• Midnight Special
• Irene Goodnight
• Rock Island Line
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• Grey Goose
• New York City
• My Baby Quit Me
• Fort Worth and Dallas Blues
• TB Woman Blues
• Death Letter Blues, Part 1
• I'm on My Last Go Round
• The Bourgeois Blues
• Easy Rider
• Good Morning Blues
• See See Rider
• Whoa Back Buck
• Black Snake Moan
• Alabama Bound

• Good Morning Blues
• Whoa Back Buck
• Leaving Blues
• Alberta
• Alabama Bound
• Bourgeois Blues
• The Red Cross Store Blues
• Easy Rider
• I'm On My Last Go Round
• New York City
• Irene
• On Monday
• Rock Island Line
• Eagle Rock Rag
• Corn Bread Rough
• Little Sally Walker
• I Got A Pretty Flower
• Take This Hammer
• In New Orleans
• How Long
• Irene Goodnight

• Somebody's Been Using That Thing
• Black Cat Rag
• Pig Meat Strut
• Guitar Rag
• Saturday Night Rub
• Eagle Riding Papa
• Papa's Getting Hot
• Nancy Jane
• That's the Way She Likes It
• House Rent Stomp
• Big Bill Blues
• My Texas Blues
• 3 Six Shooters Blues
• Pig Meat Blues
• Down in the Basement Blues
• Starvation Blues
• Grandma's Farm
• Skoodle Do Do

Born: 1885-01-29

Died: 1949-12-06