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  Chicago
  Chicago (ⁱ/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County.
  Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008^[update], the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
  
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  Chicago, Illinois
  Chicago (ⁱ/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County.
  Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008^[update], the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
  
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• Hines, Illinois
  Hines is an unincorporated community in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
  The Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, is located at 5000 South Fifth Avenue in Hines.
  The United States Postal Service operates the Hines Office at 220 Scott Drive.
  Coordinates: 41°51′13″N 87°50′22″W / 41.85361°N 87.83944°W / 41.85361; -87.83944
  
  
  
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  Parkin, Arkansas
  Parkin is a city in Cross County, Arkansas, in the United States, along the St. Francis River. The population was 1,602 at the 2000 census.
  Parkin is located at 35°15′55″N 90°33′18″W / 35.26528°N 90.555°W / 35.26528; -90.555 (35.265392, -90.554880).
  According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km²), all land.
  As of the census of 2000, there were 1,602 people, 603 households, and 404 families residing in the city. The population density was 627.2 people per square mile (242.6/km²). There were 657 housing units at an average density of 257.2/sq mi (99.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 10.40% White, 88.54% Black or African American, 0.44% Native American, 0.06% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.19% from other races, and 0.31% from two or more races. 0.69% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
  There were 603 households out of which 30.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.6% were married couples living together, 22.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.0% were non-families. 30.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.66 and the average family size was 3.30.
  
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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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• Bihari brothers
  The Bihari brothers, Lester, Jules, Saul and Joe, were American businessmen. They were the founders of Modern Records in Los Angeles and its subsidiaries such as Meteor Records based in Memphis.
  The brothers were of Hungarian Jewish descent. Their father, Edward Bihari (1882-1930), was born in Budapest and migrated to the United States. Their mother, Esther "Esti" Taub (1886-1950), was born in Homonna, Hungary (now Humenné, Slovakia). The pair were married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States in 1911. There were also four sisters in the family.
  The brothers were :
  After living for a period in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Bihari family moved to Los Angeles in 1941. Jules got a job servicing and operating jukeboxes in the Watts district, and found difficulty in locating and stocking the blues records his customers wanted to hear.
  With his younger brothers Saul and Joe, he decided to set up a new label, Modern Records, in 1945. The brothers built Modern into a major blues and R&B label, their first success coming with "Swingin' the Boogie" by Hadda Brooks. They bought a pressing plant, and divided tasks among them equally, with Jules responsible for talent spotting and recording, Saul for manufacturing, and Lester for distribution. Joe worked with Ike Turner as a talent scout in the Memphis area, discovering Johnny "Guitar" Watson among others.
  
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  Bill Wyman
  Bill Wyman (born William George Perks; 24 October 1936) is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. He has worked producing both records and film, and has scored music for film in movies and television.
  Wyman has kept a journal since he was a child after World War II. It has been useful to him as an author who has written seven books, selling two million copies. Wyman's love of art has additionally led to his proficiency in photography and his photographs have hung in galleries around the world. Wyman's lack of funds in his early years led him to create and build his own fretless bass guitar. He became an amateur archaeologist and enjoys relic hunting; The Times published a letter about his hobby (Friday 2 March 2007). He designed and markets a patented Bill Wyman signature metal detector, which he has used to find relics in the English countryside dating back to the era of the Roman Empire. As a businessman, he owns several establishments including the famous Sticky Fingers Café, a rock & roll-themed bistro serving American cuisine first opened in 1989 in the Kensington area of London and later, two additional locations in Cambridge and Manchester, England.
  
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• Blind Blake
  "Blind" Blake (born Arthur Blake; 1896, Newport News, Virginia – December 1, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.
  Blind Blake recorded about 80 tracks for Paramount Records from 1926 to 1932. He was one of the most accomplished guitarists of his genre with a surprisingly diverse range of material. He is best known for his distinct guitar sound that was comparable in sound and style to a ragtime piano.
  Little is known about his life. His birthplace was listed as Jacksonville, Florida, by Paramount Records but that is not firmly established. On one recording he slipped into a Geechee dialect, prompting speculation that he was from the Georgia coastal region. Nothing is definitely known of his death and even his name is not certain. According to one source, his real name was Arthur Phelps, although concrete evidence for this claim is lacking. The "Phelps" name theory was entirely based on a response given by Blind Willie McTell in an interview conducted in 1955 in Atlanta, where Blake has never been reported; nor did McTell ever reside in Chicago. Recent research has discovered that many of Blind Blake's recordings were copyrighted under the name 'Arthur Blake', and in his two-part recording with Papa Charlie Jackson, "Papa Charlie and Blind Blake Talk About It", the following dialogue is heard:
  
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  Bo Diddley
  Ellas Otha Bates (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter (usually as Ellas McDaniel), and rock and roll pioneer. He was also known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock & roll, influencing a host of acts, including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton,The Beatles, and George Michael, among others. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged electric guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs, along with African rhythms and a signature beat (a simple, five-accent rhythm) that remains a cornerstone of rock and pop. Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was known in particular for his technical innovations, including his trademark rectangular guitar.
  
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  Bob Margolin
  Bob Margolin (born May 9, 1949, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States) is an American electric blues guitarist. His nickname is "Steady Rollin'".
  Bob Margolin was born and raised in Brookline. He started playing guitar in 1964, and his first appearance on record was with Boston psychedelic band Freeborne, and their 1967 album Peak Impressions.
  Margolin was a backing musician for Muddy Waters from 1973 to 1980, performing with Waters and The Band in The Last Waltz. As a solo recording artist, he has recorded albums for Alligator Records, Blind Pig, Telarc and his own Steady Rollin' record label.
  In 1979 he made a guest appearance, along with Pinetop Perkins, on The Nighthawks album, Jacks & Kings.
  In 1994, he appeared with Jerry Portnoy as guest musicians on the album, Ice Cream Man by John Brim. It received a W. C. Handy Award nomination as the best 'Traditional Blues Album of the Year'.
  Margolin is a columnist for the Blues Revue magazine.
  
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• Charley Patton
  Charlie Patton (between April 1887 and 1891 – April 28, 1934), better known as Charley Patton, was an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of the Delta Blues", and is credited with creating an enduring body of American music and personally inspiring just about every Delta blues man (Palmer, 1995). Musicologist Robert Palmer considers him among the most important musicians that America produced in the twentieth century. Many sources, including musical releases and his gravestone, spell his name “Charley” even though the musician himself spelled his name "Charlie."
  Patton was born in Hinds County, Mississippi near the town of Edwards, and lived most of his life in Sunflower County in the Mississippi Delta. Most sources say he was born in 1891, but there is some debate about this, and the years 1887 and 1894 have also been suggested.
  Patton's parentage and race have been the subject of debate. Although born to Bill and Annie Patton, locally he was regarded as having been fathered by former slave Henderson Chatmon, many of whose other children also became popular Delta musicians both as solo acts and as members of groups such as the Mississippi Sheiks. Biographer John Fahey describes Patton as having "light skin and Caucasian features." Though Patton was considered African-American, because of his light complexion there have been rumors that he was Mexican, or possibly a full-blood Cherokee, a theory endorsed by Howlin' Wolf. In actuality, Patton was a mix of white, black, and Cherokee (one of his grandmothers was a full-blooded Cherokee). Patton himself sang in "Down the Dirt Road Blues" of having gone to "the Nation" and "the Territo'"—meaning the Cherokee Nation portion of the Indian Territory (which became part of the state of Oklahoma in 1907), where a number of Black Indians tried unsuccessfully to claim a place on the tribal rolls and thereby obtain land.
  
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• Charlie Patton
  Charlie Patton (between April 1887 and 1891 – April 28, 1934), better known as Charley Patton, was an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of the Delta Blues", and is credited with creating an enduring body of American music and personally inspiring just about every Delta blues man (Palmer, 1995). Musicologist Robert Palmer considers him among the most important musicians that America produced in the twentieth century. Many sources, including musical releases and his gravestone, spell his name “Charley” even though the musician himself spelled his name "Charlie."
  Patton was born in Hinds County, Mississippi near the town of Edwards, and lived most of his life in Sunflower County in the Mississippi Delta. Most sources say he was born in 1891, but there is some debate about this, and the years 1887 and 1894 have also been suggested.
  Patton's parentage and race have been the subject of debate. Although born to Bill and Annie Patton, locally he was regarded as having been fathered by former slave Henderson Chatmon, many of whose other children also became popular Delta musicians both as solo acts and as members of groups such as the Mississippi Sheiks. Biographer John Fahey describes Patton as having "light skin and Caucasian features." Though Patton was considered African-American, because of his light complexion there have been rumors that he was Mexican, or possibly a full-blood Cherokee, a theory endorsed by Howlin' Wolf. In actuality, Patton was a mix of white, black, and Cherokee (one of his grandmothers was a full-blooded Cherokee). Patton himself sang in "Down the Dirt Road Blues" of having gone to "the Nation" and "the Territo'"—meaning the Cherokee Nation portion of the Indian Territory (which became part of the state of Oklahoma in 1907), where a number of Black Indians tried unsuccessfully to claim a place on the tribal rolls and thereby obtain land.
  
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  Charlie Watts
  Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts (born 2 June 1941) is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder.
  Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts was born to Charles Watts, a lorry driver for a precursor of British Rail and his wife Lilian (née Eaves) at University College Hospital, London, and raised (along with his sister Linda) in Islington and then Kingsbury. He attended Tylers Croft Secondary Modern School from 1952 to 1956; as a schoolboy, he displayed a talent for art, cricket and football.
  Watts' parents gave him his first drum kit in 1955; he was interested in jazz, and would practice drumming along with jazz records he collected. After completing secondary school, he enrolled at Harrow Art School (now the University of Westminster), which he attended until 1960. After leaving school, Watts worked as a graphic designer for an advertising company called Charlie Daniels Studios, and also played drums occasionally with local bands in coffee shops and clubs. In 1961 he met Alexis Korner, who invited him to join his band, Blues Incorporated. At that time Watts was on his way to a sojourn working as a graphic designer in Denmark, but he accepted Korner's offer when he returned to London in February 1962.
  
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• Cub Koda
  Michael "Cub" Koda (October 1, 1948 - July 1, 2000) was an American rock and roll singer, guitarist, songwriter, disc jockey, music critic, and record compiler. Rolling Stone magazine felt that Koda was best known for writing the song "Smokin' in the Boys' Room", which reached #3 on the 1974 Billboard charts as performed by Brownsville Station, and was later covered by Mötley Crüe. He co-wrote and edited the All Music Guide to the Blues, and Blues for Dummies, and put together the CD of blues classics accompanying the latter title, personally selecting versions of each song that appeared on it. He also contributed liner notes for the Trashmen, Jimmy Reed, J. B. Hutto, The Kingsmen, and the Miller Sisters, among others.
  Koda was a native of Detroit, Michigan, and a graduate of Manchester High School, Manchester, Michigan. He became interested in music as a young boy, learning drums by the age of 5, and by the time he was in high school he had formed his own group, the Del-Tinos. Using the style of rockabilly, rock & roll, and blues music, the band released their first single, "Go Go Go" (a version of a Roy Orbison recording), in the fall of 1963. They released two more singles, but eventually broke up in 1966, when Koda wanted to pursue other options.
  
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  Eric Clapton
  Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
  In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand". Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.
  
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• Floyd Jones
  Floyd Jones (July 21, 1917 – December 19, 1989) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter, who is significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after World War II. A number of Jones' recordings are regarded as classics of the Chicago blues idiom, and his song "On The Road Again" was a top ten hit for Canned Heat in 1968. Notably for a blues artist of his era, several of his songs have economic or social themes, such as "Stockyard Blues" (which refers to a strike at the Union Stockyards), "Hard Times" or "Schooldays".
  Jones was born in Marianna, Arkansas. He started playing guitar seriously after being given a guitar by Howlin' Wolf, and worked as an itinerant musician in the Arkansas and Mississippi area in the 1930s and early 1940s, before settling in Chicago in 1945.
  In Chicago, Jones took up the electric guitar, and was one of a number of musicians playing on Maxwell Street and in non-union venues in the late 1940s who played an important role in the development of the post-war Chicago Blues sound. This group included Little Walter and Jimmy Rogers, both of who went on to become mainstays of the Muddy Waters band, and also Snooky Pryor, Floyd's cousin Moody Jones and mandolin player Johnny Young. His first recording session in 1947, with Snooky on harmonica and Moody on guitar, produced the sides "Stockyard Blues" and "Keep What You Got", which formed one of the two records released by the Marvel Label, and was one of the first examples of the new style on record. A second session in 1949 resulted in a release on the similarly short-lived Tempo-Tone label. During the 1950s Jones also had records released on JOB, Chess and Vee-Jay, and in 1966 he recorded for the Testament label's Masters of Modern Blues series.
  
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  Honeyboy Edwards
  David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was a Delta blues guitarist and singer from the American South. Edwards was the last of the original Delta bluesmen^{[citation needed]}before his 2011 death.
  Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi. Edwards was 14 years old when he left home to travel with blues man Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician which he led throughout the 1930s and 1940s. He performed with famed blues musician Robert Johnson with whom he developed a close friendship. Honeyboy was present on the night Johnson drank poisoned whiskey which killed him, and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's demise. After Johnson's passing, Edwards knew and played with many of the leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, which included Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines.
  He described the itinerant bluesman's life:
  Folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Edwards in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1942 for the Library of Congress. Edwards recorded 15 album sides of music. The songs included "Wind Howlin' Blues" and "The Army Blues". He did not record again commercially until 1951, when he recorded "Who May Be Your Regular Be" for Arc under the name of Mr Honey. Edwards claims to have written several well-known blues songs including "Long Tall Woman Blues" and "Just Like Jesse James". His discography for the 1950s and 1960s amounts to nine songs from seven sessions. From 1974 to 1977, he recorded material for a full length LP, I've Been Around, released in 1978 on the independent Trix Records label by producer/ethnomusicologist Peter B. Lowry.
  
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  Horst Lippmann
  Horst Lippmann (March 17, 1927 in Eisenach, Germany – May 18, 1997 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German jazz musician, concert promoter, writer and television director, best known as promoter of the influential American Folk Blues Festival tours of Europe during and after the 1960s.
  The son of a hotelier, Lippmann played drums in the illegal Frankfurter Hot Club in the 1940s, and wrote for one of the first German jazz magazines, Mitteilungen für Freunde der modernen Tanzmusik (Messages for Friends of Modern Dance Music). After the war he played in the combos of the Hot Club with Günter Boaz. Together with Olaf Hudtwalcker, he was involved in the founding of the German Jazz Federation, and organized and participated in concert tours by the West German jazz clubs. In 1953 he founded the German Jazz Festival at Frankfurt.
  In the mid-1950s he formed the Lippmann + Rau concert agency with Fritz Rau, and began bringing jazz, blues and rock and roll stars to Germany for the first time. Between 1962 and 1982 he organized the American Folk Blues Festival, initially by contacting Chicago blues musician and songwriter Willie Dixon. The festivals were arranged almost annually during the 1960s, performing in England and France as well as Germany and being recorded for television programmes, and brought such musicians as Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, Lonnie Johnson, Big Joe Williams, John Lee Hooker, Skip James, Little Walter, Buddy Guy, and Memphis Slim before European audiences for the first time. Attendees of early festivals included such influential musicians as Mick Jagger, Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, and Steve Winwood.
  
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  Hubert Sumlin
  Hubert Sumlin (November 16, 1931 – December 4, 2011) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He was best known for his celebrated work, from 1955, as guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band. His singular playing was characterized by "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions". Sumlin was listed as number 43 in the Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
  Sumlin favored a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop guitar and a Louis Electric Model HS M12 amplifier.^{[citation needed]}
  Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States, Sumlin was raised in Hughes, Arkansas. He got his first guitar when he was eight years old. As a boy, Sumlin first met Howlin' Wolf by sneaking into a performance. When Wolf relocated from Memphis to Chicago in 1953, his long-time guitarist Willie Johnson chose not to join him. Upon his arrival in Chicago, Wolf first hired Chicago guitarist Jody Williams, and in 1954 Wolf invited Sumlin to relocate to Chicago to play second guitar in his Chicago-based band. Williams left the band in 1955, leaving Sumlin as the primary guitarist, a position he held almost continuously (except for a brief spell playing with Muddy Waters around 1956) for the remainder of Wolf's career. According to Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf sent Sumlin to a classical guitar instructor at the Chicago Conservatory of Music for awhile to learn the keyboards and scales. Sumlin played on the album Howlin' Wolf, also called The Rockin' Chair Album, which was named the third greatest guitar album of all time by Mojo magazine in 2004.
  
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  Ike Turner
  Ike Wister Turner (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. In a career that lasted more than half a century, his repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk. He is most popularly known for his 1960s work with his then wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner revue. Growing up in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he began playing piano and guitar when he was eight, forming his group, the Kings of Rhythm as a teenager at high school. He employed the group as his backing band for the rest of his life. His first recording, "Rocket 88" with the Kings of Rhythm credited as "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats", in 1951, is considered a possible contender for "first rock and roll song". Relocating to St. Louis, Missouri in 1954, he built the Kings into one of the most renowned acts on the local club circuit. It was there he met singer Anna Mae Bullock, whom he married and renamed Tina Turner, forming the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, which over the course of the sixties became a soul/rock crossover success.
  
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  Jimmy Rogers
  Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s.
  Jimmy Rogers was born James A. Lane in Ruleville, Mississippi on June 3, 1924 and was raised in Atlanta and Memphis. He adapted the professional surname 'Rogers' from his stepfather's last name. Rogers learned the harmonica alongside his childhood friend Snooky Pryor, and as a teenager took up the guitar and played professionally in East St. Louis, Illinois, where he played with Robert Lockwood, Jr. among others, before moving to Chicago in the mid 1940s.^{[citation needed]} By 1946 he had recorded as a harmonica player and singer for the Harlem record label run by J. Mayo Williams. Rogers' name did not appear on the record, which was mislabeled as the work of "Memphis Slim and his Houserockers."
  In 1947, Rogers, Muddy Waters and Little Walter began playing together as Muddy Waters' first band in Chicago (sometimes referred to as "The Headcutters" or "The Headhunters" due to their practice of stealing jobs from other local bands), while the band members each recorded and released music credited to each of them as solo artists. The first Muddy Waters band defined the sound of the nascent "Chicago Blues" style (more specifically "South Side" Chicago Blues). Rogers made several more sides of his own with small labels in Chicago, but none were released at the time. He began to enjoy success as a solo artist with Chess Records in 1950, scoring a hit with "That's All Right", but he stayed with Muddy Waters until 1954. In the mid 1950s he had several successful releases on the Chess label, most featuring either Little Walter Jacobs or Big Walter Horton on harmonica, most notably "Walking By Myself", but as the 1950s drew to a close and interest in the blues waned, he gradually withdrew from the music industry.
  
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• Johnny Shines
  Johnny Shines (April 26, 1915 – April 20, 1992) was an American blues singer and guitarist. According to the music journalist Tony Russell, "Shines was that rare being, a blues artist who overcame age and rustiness to make music that stood up beside the work of his youth. When Shines came back to the blues in 1965 he was 50, yet his voice had the leonine power of a dozen years before, when he made records his reputation was based on".
  He was born John Ned Shines in Frayser, Memphis, United States. He spent most of his childhood in Memphis, Tennessee playing slide guitar at an early age in local “jukes” and for tips on the streets. He was "inspired by the likes of Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, and the young Howlin' Wolf", but he was taught to play the guitar by his mother. Shines moved to Hughes, Arkansas in 1932 and worked on farms for three years putting his musical career on hold. It was a chance meeting with Robert Johnson, his greatest influence, that gave him the inspiration to return to music. In 1935, Shines began traveling with Johnson, touring the south and heading as far north as Ontario where they appeared on a local radio program. The two went their separate ways in 1937, one year before Johnson's death.
  
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• Junior Parker
  Junior Parker (May 27, 1932 – November 18, 1971) was an American Memphis blues singer and musician. He is best remembered for his unique voice which has been described as "honeyed," and "velvet-smooth". He was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001.
  One music journalist noted, "For years Junior Parker deserted downhome harmonica blues for uptown blues-soul music".
  Junior Parker was born in either Clarksdale, Mississippi, or West Memphis, Arkansas.
  He sang in gospel groups as a child, and played on the various blues circuits beginning in his teenage years. His biggest influence as a harmonica player was Sonny Boy Williamson, with whom he worked before moving on to work for Howlin' Wolf in 1949. Around 1950 he was a member of Memphis's ad hoc group, the Beale Streeters, with Bobby 'Blue' Bland and B.B. King.
  In 1951 he formed his own band, the Blue Flames, with the guitarist Pat Hare. Parker was discovered in 1952 by Ike Turner, who signed him to Modern Records. He put out one single on this record label, "You're My Angel." This brought him to the attention of Sam Phillips, and he and his band signed onto Sun Records in 1953. There they produced three successful songs: "Feelin' Good" (which reached # 5 on the US Billboard R&B chart), "Love My Baby," and "Mystery Train", later covered by Elvis Presley. For Presley's version of "Mystery Train", Scotty Moore borrowed the guitar riff from Parker's "Love My Baby".
  
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  Koko Taylor
  Koko Taylor sometimes spelled KoKo Taylor (September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American Chicago blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She was known primarily for her rough, powerful vocals and traditional blues stylings.
  Born Cora Walton in Shelby County, Tennessee, Taylor was the daughter of a sharecropper. She left Memphis for Chicago, Illinois in 1952 with her husband, truck driver Robert "Pops" Taylor. In the late 1950s she began singing in Chicago blues clubs. She was spotted by Willie Dixon in 1962, and this led to wider performances and her first recording contract. In 1965, Taylor was signed by Chess Records where she recorded "Wang Dang Doodle," a song written by Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf five years earlier. The song became a hit, reaching number four on the R&B charts in 1966, and selling a million copies. Taylor recorded several versions of "Wang Dang Doodle" over the years, including a live version at the 1967 American Folk Blues Festival with harmonica player Little Walter and guitarist Hound Dog Taylor. Taylor subsequently recorded more material, both original and covers, but never repeated that initial chart success.
  
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• Leroy Carr
  Leroy Carr (March 27, 1905 – April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues" on Vocalion Records in 1928.
  Carr was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Although his recording career was cut short by an early death, Carr left behind a large body of work. He had a long-time partnership with guitarist Scrapper Blackwell. His light bluesy piano combined with Blackwell's melodic jazz guitar to attract a sophisticated black audience. Carr's vocal style moved blues singing toward an urban sophistication, influencing such singers as T-Bone Walker, Charles Brown, Amos Milburn, Jimmy Witherspoon, Ray Charles among others.
  Count Basie and Jimmy Rushing used some of Carr's songs and Basie's band shows the influence of Carr's piano style.
  His music has been covered by notable artists such as Robert Johnson, Ray Charles, Big Bill Broonzy, Moon Mullican, Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Donegan and Memphis Slim.
  
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• Little Walter
  Little Walter, born Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), was an American blues harmonica player, whose revolutionary approach to his instrument has earned him comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix, for innovation and impact on succeeding generations. His virtuosity and musical innovations fundamentally altered many listeners' expectations of what was possible on blues harmonica. Little Walter was inducted to the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 in the "sideman" category making him the first and only artist ever to be inducted specifically for his work as a harmonica player.
  Jacobs was born in Marksville, Louisiana and raised in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, where he first learned to play the harmonica. After quitting school by the age of 12, Jacobs left rural Louisiana and travelled around working odd jobs and busking on the streets of New Orleans, Memphis, Helena, Arkansas and St. Louis. He honed his musical skills on harmonica and guitar with Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sunnyland Slim, Honeyboy Edwards and others.
  
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  Lonnie Johnson
  Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos. Johnson was not only one of the few black blues musicians invited to be 'guest featured' on a number of jazz recording sessions, he was also one of the only classic 1920's blues artists to have a revived a high-charting career after WWII.
  Johnson was born in Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in a family of musicians. He studied violin, piano and guitar as a child, and learned to play various other instruments including the mandolin, but concentrated on the guitar throughout his professional career. "There was music all around us," he recalled, "and in my family you'd better play something, even if you just banged on a tin can."
  By his late teens, he played guitar and violin in his father's family band at banquets and weddings, alongside his brother James "Steady Roll" Johnson. He also worked with jazz trumpeter Punch Miller in the city's Storyville district.
  
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  Muddy Waters
  McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues". He was a major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s, and was ranked No. 17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
  Although in his later years Muddy usually said that he was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, in 1915, he was actually born at Jug's Corner in neighboring Issaquena County, Mississippi, in 1913. Recent research has uncovered documentation showing that in the 1930s and 1940s he reported his birth year as 1913 on both his marriage license and musicians' union card. A 1955 interview in the Chicago Defender is the earliest claim of 1915 as his year of birth, which he continued to use in interviews from that point onward. The 1920 census lists him as five years old as of March 6, 1920, suggesting that his birth year may have been 1914. The Social Security Death Index, relying on the Social Security card application submitted after his move to Chicago in the mid 1940s, lists him as being born April 4, 1915. Muddy's gravestone lists his birth year as 1915.
  
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• Pat Hare
  Auburn "Pat" Hare (December 20, 1930 - September 26, 1980) was an American Memphis blues guitarist and singer.
  He was born in Cherry Valley, Arkansas. He recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, serving as a sideman for Howlin' Wolf, James Cotton, Muddy Waters, Bobby Bland and other artists. He was one of the first guitarists to purposely use the effects of distortion in his playing. Reported to have been an unassuming man in private (once married to Dorothy Mae Good, with whom he had three children — a son and two daughters); however, he had serious, and ultimately fatal, drinking problems.
  He recorded a version of the early 1940s Doctor Clayton song "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby" on May 14, 1954, which has since been released on the 1990 Rhino Records compilation album, Blue Flames: A Sun Blues Collection. According to the album liner notes, "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby", "is doubly morbid because he did just that in 1962 and spent the last 16 years of his life in prison", before succumbing to lung cancer in 1980. He also murdered a policeman sent to investigate.
  
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  Robert Jr. Lockwood
  Robert Lockwood, Jr., also known as Robert Junior Lockwood, (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records among other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as a longtime collaborator with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter.
  Robert Lockwood was born in Turkey Scratch, a hamlet west of Helena, Arkansas. He started playing the organ in his father's church at the age of 8. The famous bluesman Robert Johnson lived with Lockwood's mother for 10 years off and on after his parents' divorce. Lockwood learned from Johnson not only how to play guitar, but timing and stage presence as well. Because of his personal and professional association with the music of Robert Johnson, he became known as "Robert Junior" Lockwood, a nickname by which he was known among fellow musicians for the rest of his life, although he later frequently professed his dislike for this appellation.
  By age 15, Lockwood was playing professionally at parties in the Helena area. He often played with his quasi-stepfather figure, Robert Johnson, also occasionally with Sonny Boy Williamson or Johnny Shines. Lockwood played at fish fries, juke joints, and street corners throughout the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s. An anecdote from Lockwood's website claims on one occasion Robert Johnson played on one side of the Sunflower River, while Lockwood played on the other, with the people of Clarksdale, Mississippi milling about the bridge, supposedly unable to tell which guitarist was the real Robert Johnson.
  
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• Sam Phillips
  Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003), better known as Sam Phillips, was an American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s. He was a producer, label owner, and talent scout throughout the '40s and '50s. He most notably founded Sun Studios and Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Through Sun, Phillips discovered such recording talent as Howlin' Wolf, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. The height of his success culminated in his launching of Elvis Presley's career in 1954. He is also associated with several other noteworthy rhythm and blues and rock and roll stars of the period. Phillips sold Sun in 1969. He was an early investor in the Holiday Inn chain of hotels.
  Phillips was the youngest of eight children, born on a farm near Florence, Alabama to poor tenant farmers. As a child he picked cotton in the fields with his parents alongside black laborers. The experience of the workers singing in the fields left a big impression on the young Phillips. Travelling through Memphis with his family in 1939 on the way to see a preacher in Dallas, he slipped off to look at Beale Street, at the time the heart of the city's music scene. "I just fell totally in love," he later recalled.
  
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  Son House
  Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902 (?) – October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music. House did not learn guitar until he was in his early twenties, as he had been "churchified", and was determined to become a Baptist preacher. He associated himself with Delta blues musicians Charlie Patton and Willie Brown, often acting as a sideman. In 1930, House made his first recordings for Paramount Records during a session for Charlie Patton. However, these did not sell well due to the Great Depression, and he drifted into obscurity. He was recorded by John and Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941 and '42. Afterwards, he moved north to Rochester, New York, where he remained until his rediscovery in 1964, spurred by the American folk blues revival. Over the next few years, House recorded several studio albums and went on various tours until his death in 1988. His influence has extended over a wide area of musicians, including Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Alan Wilson (of Canned Heat), Bonnie Raitt, The White Stripes, and John Mooney.
  
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  Steve Winwood
  Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English songwriter and musician whose genres include blue-eyed soul, R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz. A multi-instrumentalist, he plays the electric organ, synthesizers, bass, drums, guitar, mandolin, violin and other strings. A star performer for nearly 50 years, he has also done notable work as a producer.
  In addition to his solo career, Winwood was a key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004.
  In 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his "enduring influence on generations of music makers." In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Winwood #33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Winwood has won numerous Grammy Awards in the United States.
  Stephen Lawrence Winwood was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. His father, Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Young Winwood became interested in swing and Dixieland jazz as a boy and began playing drums, guitar, and piano. He first performed with his father and older brother Muff in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight. Winwood was a choirboy at St John's Church Perry Barr and later admitted to having "sneaked a few plays" of the organ there. While he was still young the family moved from Handsworth to the semi-rural suburb of Kingstanding at the northern edge of the city.
  
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• Tampa Red
  Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician.
  Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who had a unique single-string slide style. His songwriting and his silky, polished "bottleneck" technique influenced other leading Chicago blues guitarists, such as Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk, as well as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mose Allison and many others. In a career spanning over 30 years he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum records. His best known recordings include the "classic compositions 'Anna Lou Blues', 'Black Angel Blues', 'Crying Won't Help You', 'It Hurts Me Too', and 'Love Her with a Feeling'".
  He was born Hudson Woodbridge in Smithville, Georgia, United States. His parents died when he was a child, and he moved to Tampa, Florida, where he was raised by his aunt and grandmother and adopted their surname, Whittaker. He emulated his older brother, Eddie, who played guitar, and he was especially inspired by an old street musician called Piccolo Pete, who first taught him to play blues licks on a guitar.
  
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  Willie Dixon
  William James "Willie" Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the upright bass and the guitar and as a vocalist, Dixon is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time. He is recognized as one of the founders of the Chicago blues sound. Dixon's songs have been recorded by countless musicians in many genres as well as by various ensembles in which he participated. A short list of the man's most famous compositions includes "Little Red Rooster", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Evil", "Spoonful", "Back Door Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I Ain't Superstitious", "My Babe", "Wang Dang Doodle", and "Bring It On Home". These tunes were written during the peak of Chess Records, 1950–1965, and performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter, influencing a worldwide generation of musicians.
  Next to Muddy Waters, he was the most influential person in shaping the post World War II sound of the Chicago blues. He also was an important link between the blues and rock and roll, working with Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley in the late 1950s. His songs were covered by some of the biggest artists of more recent times, including Styx, Bob Dylan, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Foghat, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Megadeth, The Doors, The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead, and a posthumous duet with Colin James.
  
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• Smokestack Lightnin'
• Spoonful
• The Wolf Is at Your Door
• Evil (Is Going on)
• I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
• Poor Boy
• Moanin' for My Baby
• I Have a Little Girl
• I Better Go Now
• My Baby Stole Off
• No Place to Go
• My Life
• I Didn't Know
• I've Been Abused
• Baby How Long?

• Spoonfull
• Tail Dragger
• Smokestack Lightning
• Moanin' at Midnight
• Built for Comfort
• The Red Rooster
• Evil
• Down in the Bottom
• Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
• Back Door Man

• All in the Mood (Everybody's in the Mood)
• Bluebird
• California Blues
• California Boogie
• Chocolate Drop
• Color and Kind
• Come Back Home
• Decoration Day
• Dorothy Mae
• Dorothy Mae (alternate take)
• Drinkin' C.V. Wine
• I Got a Woman
• In the Groove
• Look a Here
• Mr. Highway Man
• My Baby Walked Off
• Smile at Me
• Well That's Alright

• Killing Floor
• Ain't Superstitious
• Dust My Broom
• Little Red Rooster
• Shake It for Me
• Goin' Down Slow
• Highway 49
• Poor Boy
• Wang Dang Doodle
• Built for Comfort
• My Mind Is Ramblin'
• Rockin' the Blues
• Walked From Dallas
• Howlin' for My Darling
• Louise

• Moanin' at Midnight
• How Many More Years
• Evil (Is Going On)
• Forty-Four
• Smokestack Lightnin'
• I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
• Who's Been Talking?
• Sitting on Top of the World
• Howlin' for My Darlin'
• Wang Dang Doodle
• Back Door Man
• Spoonful
• Shake for Me
• The Red Rooster
• I Ain't Superstitious
• Goin' Down Slow
• Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
• Hidden Charms
• Built for Comfort
• Killing Floor

• If I Were a Bird
• I Smell a Rat
• Miss James
• Message to the Young
• She's Looking Good
• Just as Long
• Romance without Finance
• Turn Me On

• Smokestack Lightnin'
• You Can't Be Beat
• I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
• So Glad
• Going Back Home
• My Life
• Somebody in My Home
• Nature
• Sitting on Top of the World
• Poor Boy
• Moanin' for My Baby
• I Didn't Know
• I'm Leavin' You
• Change My Way
• Howlin' Blues
• I Better Go Now
• I've Been Abused
• Mr. Airplane Man
• The Natchez Burnin'
• You Gonna Wreck My Life
• Who's Been Talking
• Tell Me
• Howlin' for My Darlin'
• Spoonful

• Smokestack Lightnin'
• Shake For Me
• Love Me Darlin'
• I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
• I Didn't Mean To Hurt Your Feelings
• Rockin' The Blues
• All My Life
• Going Down Slow
• Howlin' For My Baby
• Forty Four
• Highway 49
• Little Red Rooster
• Wang Dang Doodle
• Built For Comfort
• Killing Floor
• Poor Boy
• Worried About You
• Smile At Me

• Moanin' at Midnight
• How Many More Years
• Riding in the Moonlight
• Crying at Daybreak
• Passing by Blues
• My Baby Stole Off
• I Want Your Picture
• The Wolf Is at Your Door
• Howling Wolf Boogie
• Getting Old and Grey
• Mr Highway Mann
• Saddle My Pony
• Worried All the Time
• Oh! Red
• My Last Affair
• All Night Boogie
• No Place to Go
• Rockin' Daddy
• Baby How Long
• Evil (Is Going on)

• Riding in the Moonlight
• Worried About My Baby
• Crying at Daybreak a.k.a. Crying at Daylight a.k.a. Smokestack Lightning
• Brown Skin Woman a.k.a. Chocolate Drop
• Twisting and Turning
• House Rockin' Boogie
• Keep What You Got
• Dog Me Around a.k.a. How Many More Years
• Morning at Midnight a.k.a. Moanin' at Midnight
• Backslide Boogie
• Riding in the Moonlight (demo acetate #1)
• Driving This Highway
• I'm the Wolf
• My Friends a.k.a. Stealing My Clothes
• The Sun Is Rising
• Chocolate Drop (alternate version)
• Passing by Blues
• My Baby Stole Off
• I Want Your Picture
• Riding in the Moonlight (demo acetate #2)

• Mr. Airplane Man
• Love Me Darlin'
• Change My Way
• I Walked From Dallas
• I Better Go Now
• New Crawlin' King Snake
• Just Like I Treat You
• I've Been Abused
• Don't Laugh at Me
• I Didn't Know
• I Ain't Superstitious
• Howlin' Blues
• My Mind Is Ramblin'
• Do the Do
• Hidden Charms

• Moanin' at Midnight
• How Many More Years
• The Wolf Is at Your Door
• California Blues
• California Boogie
• Look-A-Here Baby
• Howlin' Wolf Boogie
• Smile at Me
• Getting Old and Gray
• Mr. Highway Man
• Mr Baby Walked Off
• Drinkin' C.V. Wine
• My Troubles and Me
• Chocolate Drop
• Everybody's in the Mood
• Color and Kind
• Bluebird
• Saddle My Pony
• Dorothy Mae (take I)
• Worried All the Time
• Sweet Woman
• Well That's Alright
• Decoration Day
• Oh! Red
• Stay Here Till My Baby Comes Back

• Shake It for Me
• Love Me
• Dust My Broom
• I Didn't Mean to Hurt Your Feelings
• Rockin' the Blues
• All My Life
• Going Down Slow
• Howlin' for My Darlin'
• Forty Four

• Baby Ride With Me
• How Many More Years
• California Boogie
• Look a Here Baby
• Smile at Me
• My Baby Walked Off
• My Troubles and Me
• Mr. Highway Man
• Chocolate Drop
• Everybody's in the Mood
• Colour and Kind
• Bluebird
• Dorothy Mae
• Sweet Woman (I Got a Woman)
• Well That's All Right
• Decoration Day
• Oh Red
• Drinkin' C.V. Wine

• Shake It for Me
• Love Me
• Dust My Broom
• I Didn't Mean to Hurt Your Feelings
• Rockin' the Blues
• All My Life
• Goin' Down Slow
• Howlin' for My Darlin'
• Fourty Four
• Little Red Rooster
• Evil
• Blind Love
• My Baby Walked Off
• Bluebird

• Look-A-Here Baby
• California Blues # 1
• Worried All the Time
• Everybody's in the Mood
• Color and Kind
• Dorothy Mae
• Sweet Woman
• Decoration Day
• Oh Red
• I'm Not Joking
• Highway My Friend
• Hold Your Money
• California Blues # 2
• Stay Here Til My Baby Comes Back
• Come to Me Baby
• So Glad
• Bluebird
• My Life
• You Ought to Know
• Nature (alternative take)
• Walk to Camp Hall
• Poor Boy (alternative take)

• Baby Ride With Me
• How Many More Years
• Moanin' at Midnight
• Howlin' Wolf Boogie
• The Wolf Is at Your Door
• Mr. Highway Man
• Getting Old and Grey
• Worried All the Time
• Saddle My Pony
• Oh, Red!
• My Last Affair
• Come Back Home (take 2)
• Dorothy Mae
• Oh Red (take 2)
• Come Back Home (take 3)
• How Many More Years
• How Many More Years
• Baby Ride With Me
• Baby Ride With Me

• Oh Red (take 1)
• My Last Affair (take 1)
• Come Back Home (take 1)
• California Boogie
• California Blues
• Look-A-Here Baby
• Smile at Me
• My Baby Walked Off
• Drinkin' CV Wine (CV Wine Blues)
• My Troubles and Me
• Chocolate Drop
• Mr. Highway Man (Cadillac Daddy)
• Bluebird Blues
• Color and Kind
• (Everybody's) In the Mood
• Dorothy Mae (Number 2)
• I Got a Woman/Sweet Woman
• Decoration Day Blues
• (Well) That's All Right
• How Many More Years
• Baby Ride With Me (Ridin' in the Moonlight)

• Shake It for Me
• Love Me
• Dust My Broom
• I Didn't Mean to Hurt Your Feelings
• Rockin' the Blues
• All My Life
• Goin' Down Slow
• Howlin' for My Darlin'
• Forty Four

• Ain't Superstitious
• Goin' Down Slow
• I Walked From Dallas
• Hold On To Your Monkey
• Cause of it All
• Killing Floor
• Red Rooster
• Built for Comfort
• Highway 49
• Wang Dang Doodle

• Moving
• Coon on the Moon
• Speak Now Woman
• Trying to Forget You
• Stop Using Me
• Leave Here Walking
• The Back Door Wolf
• You Turn Slick on Me
• Watergate Blues
• Can't Stay Here
• Speak Now Woman (alternate)

• Wang Dang Doodle
• Back Door Man
• Spoonful
• Little Baby
• Down in the Bottom
• Shake for Me
• The Red Rooster
• You'll Be Mine
• I Ain't Superstitious
• Goin' Down Slow
• Do the Do
• Tail Dragger
• Long Green Stuff
• 300 Pounds of Joy
• Built for Comfort
• Killing Floor
• What a Woman
• Who's Been Talkin'
• Poor Boy
• Rockin' Daddy

• Howlin' for My Darling
• Decoration Day
• Dorothy Mae
• Oh! Red
• Smokestack Lightning
• Sittin' on the Top of the World
• Wang Dang Doodle
• Back Door Man
• Spoonful
• Built for Comfort
• Killing Floor
• The Red Rooster
• I Ain't Superstitious
• You'll Be Mine
• Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
• Down in the Bottom
• How Many More Years
• Do the Do
• Evil
• Rocking Daddy

• I Ain't Superstitious
• Sittin' on Top of the World
• Built for Comfort
• Little Red Rooster
• Highway 49
• Cause of It All
• Killing Floor
• Brown Skin Woman
• Sun Is Rising
• I'm the Wolf
• House Rockin' Boogie
• Dog Me Around
• Keep What You Got
• My Baby Stole Off
• Crying at Daybreak
• Passing by Blues
• Poor Boy
• Commit a Crime
• Wang Dang Doodle
• Do the Do
• Worried About My Baby
• Rockin' Daddy

• Who Will Be Next
• I Have a Little Girl
• Come to Me Baby
• Don't Mess with Me Baby
• Smokestack Lightnin'
• You Can't Be Beat
• I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
• So Glad
• Break of Day
• Natchez Burning
• Going Back Home
• Bluebird
• My Life
• You Ought to Know
• Who's Been Talkin'
• Tell Me
• Somebody in My Home
• Nature
• Walk to Camp Hall
• Poor Boy
• My Baby Told Me
• Sittin' on Top of the World
• Howlin' Blues
• I Better Go Now

• Shake for Me
• Red Rooster
• You'll Be Mine
• Who's Been Talkin'
• Wang Dang Doodle
• Little Baby
• Spoonful
• Goin' Down Slow
• Down on the Bottom
• Back Door Man
• Howlin' for My Baby
• Tell Me
• My Baby Walked Off
• Killing Floor
• Country Sugar Mama
• My Life
• Goin' Back Home
• Louise
• Highway 49
• Hold on to Your Money
• Built for Comfort
• Ain't Superstitious
• My Last Affair
• Dorothy Mae
• Commit a Crime
• Moanin' at Midnight

• Down in the Bottom
• Little Baby
• The Red Rooster
• Shake for Me
• Going Down Slow
• I Ain't Superstitious
• Just Like I Treat You
• You'll Be Mine
• Do the Do
• Tail Dragger
• Built for Comfort
• Hidden Charms
• Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
• Louise
• My Country Sugar Mama
• Love Me Darling
• Killing Floor
• Don't Laugh at Me
• I Walked from Dallas
• Tell Me What I've Done
• Oooh Baby (Hold Me)

• Howlin' Wolf Boogie
• The Wolf Is at Your Door
• Mr. Highway Man
• Saddle My Pony
• (Well) That's All Right
• My Last Affair
• Mama Died and Left Me
• Crazy About You Baby
• Streamline Woman
• Don't Mess With My Baby
• My Life
• You Ought to Know
• My Baby Told Me
• Change My Way
• I'm Leavin' You
• Howlin' for My Darlin'
• I've Been Abused
• Mr. Airplane Man
• You Gonna Wreck My Life
• Back Door Man
• Spoonful
• Wang Dang Doodle

• Spoonful
• Who's Been Talking
• Howlin' for My Darling
• Back Door Man
• Red Rooster
• Goin' Down Slow
• Highway 49
• Ain't Superstitious
• Do the Do
• Dorothy Mae
• You'll Be Mine
• Poor Boy
• Worried About You
• Commit a Crime

• How Many More Years
• Moanin' at Midnight
• I Love My Baby
• Neighbors
• I'm the Wolf
• Rockin' Daddy
• Just My Kind
• I've Got a Woman
• Work for Your Money
• All Night Boogie
• Baby How Long
• No Place to Go
• Evil
• Fourty Four
• I'll Be Around
• Who Will Be Next?
• I Have a Little Girl
• I Asked for Water
• Smokestack Lightnin'
• Natchez Burning

• Who Will Be Next?
• I Have A Little Girl
• Come To Me Baby
• Don't Mess With Me Baby
• Smokestack Lightnin'
• You Can't Be Beat
• I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
• So Glad
• Break Of Day
• The Natchez Burnin'
• Goin' Back Home
• Bluebird
• My Life
• You Ought To Know
• Who's Been Talking
• Tell Me
• Somebody In My Home
• Nature

• Crying at Daybreak
• House Rockin' Boogie
• Riding in the Moonlight
• Dog Me Around
• Keep What You Got
• My Baby Stole Off
• Passing By Blues
• Brownskin Woman
• The Sun Is Rising
• Blue Bird
• You Can't Be Beat
• Nature
• Somebody in My Home
• Tell Me
• Who's Been Talking?
• Walk to Camp Hall
• Poor Boy
• Sittin' on Top of the World
• Howlin' Blues (I'm Going Away)
• I Didn't Know
• Moanin' for My Baby

• I've Got a Woman
• Just My Kind
• Work for Your Money
• All Night Boogie
• I Love My Baby
• No Place to Go ( You Gonna Wreck My Life )
• Neighbors
• I'm the Wolf
• Rocking Daddy
• Baby How Long
• I'll Be Around
• Who Will Be Next
• I Have a Little Girl
• You Can't Be Beat
• Goin' Back Home
• My Life
• You Ought to Know
• Tell Me
• Somebody in My Home
• Nature
• Poor Boy
• My Baby Told Me
• Little Baby
• I Ain't Superstitious

• Moanin' at Midnight
• How Many More Years
• Howlin' Wolf Boogie
• The Wolf Is at Your Door
• Mr. Highway Man
• Howlin' Wolf Talks #1
• Bluebird
• Saddle My Pony
• (Well) That's All Right
• My Last Affair
• Just My Kind
• Work for Your Money
• Mama Died and Left Me
• All Night Boogie (All Night Long)
• Streamline Woman
• Crazy About You, Baby
• You Gonna Wreck My Life (No Place to Go) (alternate take)
• Neighbors
• Howlin' Wolf Talks #2
• I'm the Wolf
• Rockin' Daddy
• Baby, How Long
• Evil (Is Going On)
• I'll Be Around
• Forty Four
• Who Will Be Next

• Moanin' at Midnight
• How Many More Years
• Evil (Is Going on)
• Forty Four
• Smokestack Lightnin'
• I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
• The Natchez Burnin'
• Blue Bird
• Who's Been Talkin'
• Walk to Camp Hall
• Sittin' on Top of the World
• Howling for My Darling
• Wang Dang Doodle
• Back Door Man
• Spoonful
• Down in the Bottom
• Shake for Me
• The Red Rooster
• You'll Be Mine
• Goin' Down Slow
• Tail Dragger
• Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
• Built for Comfort
• Killing Floor

• I Didn't Know
• I Better Go Now
• My Mind Is Ramblin'
• Smokestack Lightnin'
• Down in the Bottom
• Forty-Four
• My Country Sugar Mama
• Spoonful
• Back Door Man
• Tell Me
• Wang-Dang Doodle
• Who's Been Talking
• Built for Comfort
• Ooh Baby, Hold Me
• Baby, How Long
• Three Hundred Bounds of Joy
• Moving
• Stop Using Me
• Leave Here Walking
• Can't Stay Here
• Worried About My Baby
• Who's Been Talking
• Do the Do
• Highway 49
• Rockin' Daddy

• Just My Kind
• I've Got a Woman
• Work for Your Money
• I'll Be Around
• You Can't Be Beat
• You Gonna Wreck My Life
• I Love My Baby
• Neighbors
• I'm the Wolf
• Rockin' Daddy
• Who Will Be Next?
• I Have a Little Girl

• Moanin' at Midnight
• How Many More Years
• Smokestack Lightnin'
• Baby, How Long
• No Place to Go
• All Night Boogie
• Evil
• I'm Leavin' You
• Moanin' for My Baby
• I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
• Forty-Four
• Somebody in My Home

• Shake for Me
• The Red Rooster
• You'll Be Mine
• Who's Been Talkin'
• Wang-Dang-Doodle
• Little Baby
• Spoonful
• Going Down Slow
• Down in the Bottom
• Back Door Man
• Howlin' For My Baby
• Tell Me

• Rinding in the Moonlight
• Worried About My Baby
• Twisting and Turning
• House Rockin Boogie
• Morning at Midnight
• Crying at Daylight
• Brown Skin Woman
• Keep What You Got
• Backside Boogie
• Dog Me Around

• My Mind Is Ramblin'
• Hold on to Your Money
• Killing Floor
• I Walked From Dallas
• Goin' Down Slow
• Ain't Superstitious
• Somebody Walkin' in My House
• Commit a Crime
• My Country Sugar Mama
• Louise
• Streamline Woman
• Cause of It All
• Red Rooster
• Built for Comfort

• Shake It for Me
• Love Me
• Dust My Broom
• I Didn't Mean to Hurt Your Feelings
• Rockin' the Blues
• Do the Do
• Ain't Superstitious
• My Country Sugar Mama
• Killing Floor
• Morning at Midnight
• Passing the Blues
• Cause of It All
• Commit a Crime
• Somebody Walkin' in My House
• Built for Comfort

• Baby Ride With Me
• How Many More Years
• California Boogie
• Look a Here Baby
• Smile at Me
• My Baby Walked Off
• My Troubles and Me
• Mr. Highway Man
• Everyboby's in the Mood
• Color and Kind
• Bluebird
• Dorothy Mae
• Sweet Woman (I Got a Woman)
• Well That's All Right
• Decoration Day
• Oh! Red
• Drinkin' C.V. Wine
• My Last Affair
• Come Back Home
• California Blues

• Ode to Billy Joe
• Stormy Monday
• Call My Job
• Little Red Rooster
• Goin' Down Slow
• Evil
• Blind Love
• Break Song
• Dust My Broom
• What's the Use
• Stoop Down Baby
• Harmony of Love
• Workout

• Spoonful
• Smokestack Lightning
• Back Door Man
• Tell Me
• Shake for Me
• Evil
• Who's Been Talking
• I'm Leavin' You
• Tell Me What I've Done
• Watergate Blues
• Forty Four
• I Asked for Water
• Louise
• Tail Dragger
• Down in the Bottom
• Natchez Burnin'
• No Place to Go
• Bluebird Blues
• Cadillac Daddy
• Decoration Day Blues
• Come Back Home
• I Got a Woman

• Little Red Rooster
• My Baby Walked Off
• Killing Floor
• My Country Sugar Mama
• My Life
• Going Back Home
• Louise
• Highway 49
• Hold On To Your Money
• Built For Comfort
• Ain't Superstitious
• My Last Affair
• Dorothy Mae
• Commit A Crime
• Moanin' At Midnight
• Wang Dang Doodle
• Ridin' In The Moonlight
• Everybody's In The Mood
• The Wolf Is At Your Door
• I Better Go Now

• Wang Dang Doodle
• Spoonful
• Smokestack Lightnin'
• Back Door Man
• The Little Red Rooster
• Do the Do
• I Ain't Superstitious
• Tail Dragger
• Built for Comfort
• Evil
• Sittin' on Top of the World
• I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
• The Natchez Burning
• Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
• Down in the Bottom
• How Many More Years
• Killing Floor
• Going Down Slow

• How Many More Years
• Smile at Me
• My Baby Walked Off
• My Troubles and Me
• Everybody's in the Mood
• Bluebird
• Well That's All Right
• Baby Ride With Me
• California Boogie
• Look a Here Baby
• Mr. Highway Man
• Chocolate Drop
• Color and Kind
• Dorothy Mae
• Decoration Day
• Oh Red
• Drinkin' C.V. Wine
• My Last Affair
• Come Back Home
• California Blues

• Moanin' at Midnight
• How Many More Years
• The Wolf Is at Your Door (Howlin for My Baby)
• California Blues
• California Boogie
• Color and Kind (Look-A-Here Baby)
• Smile at Me
• My Baby Walked Off
• Champagne Velvet Blues (VC Wine Blues)
• My Troubles and Me
• Chocolate Drop
• Cadillac Daddy (Mr. Highway Man)
• Everybody's in the Mood
• Bluebird Blues
• Dorothy Mae
• Sweet Woman
• Well That's All Right
• Decoration Day Blues
• Oh! Red
• My Last Affair
• Come Back Home
• All Night Long (All Night Boogie)

• Killing Floor
• Goin' Down Slow
• I Want to Have a Word With You
• Who's Been Talkin'
• Little Red Rooster
• Built for Comfort
• What a Woman
• Do the Do
• Highway 49
• Worried About My Baby
• Poor Boy
• Wang Dang Doodle

Born: 1910-06-10

Died: 1976-01-10