• Atlanta blues refers to the local blues scene in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, which had its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. According to AllMusic,"The...
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    Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". In 2005, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ranked "Statesboro Blues" number 57 on its list of "100 Songs of the South"...
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  • "Preachin' the Blues" by Bessie Smith "Atlanta, G.A.", pop/big band song written by Sunny Skylar and Artie Shaftel 1945 "Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet...
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    Jasmine Guy (category Actresses from Atlanta)
    Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky. Directed by Andrea Frye, the show was a last minute addition to the company's season and opened May 4 in Atlanta. Blues came...
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    subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. World...
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    Billy Wright (musician) (category Singers from Atlanta)
    performer, he was known as the "Prince of the Blues" throughout his career. He was a key figure in Atlanta blues after World War II and had a major influence...
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  • 'Don't Start Me to Talkin'' as if he's been living with the blues his whole life." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution praised Rogers's "deceptively casual...
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    Blind Willie McTell (category American blues guitarists)
    hotel room in Atlanta. These recordings document McTell's distinctive musical style, which bridges the gap between the raw country blues of the early part...
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  • The Atlanta Thrashers were a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta. Atlanta was granted a franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL) on June...
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  • Coast of the United States from about Richmond, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia. Piedmont blues musicians come from this area, as well as Maryland, Delaware...
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  • Blind Willie McTell, Piedmont blues Though not a blues capital like Memphis or New Orleans, Atlanta has been home to a blues scene and a number of notable...
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    Peg Leg Howell (category American blues guitarists)
    the first recorded artists of the Atlanta blues scene during the pre-war period, and he was also one of the first blues musicians to ever make a race record...
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    Keith Tkachuk (category St. Louis Blues players)
    18-year career with the Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues and Atlanta Thrashers, retiring in 2010. He is one of five American-born players...
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    Sean Costello (category American blues guitarists)
    Philadelphia, Costello moved to Atlanta at the age of nine. Obsessive about the guitar from a young age, he got hooked on the blues after buying Howlin’ Wolf's...
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    the blues genre but was the one of the first to publish music in the blues form, thereby taking the blues from a regional music style (Delta blues) with...
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  • Atlanta by United States Army General William Sherman during the American Civil War. The Flames hired Cliff Fletcher, formerly of the St. Louis Blues...
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  • The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member...
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  • Barbecue Bob (category Musicians from Atlanta)
    after moving to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1924. He became one of the prominent performers of the newly developing Atlanta blues style. In Atlanta, Hicks worked...
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  • The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd...
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    Smith was born in Atlanta. Blues pianists from Georgia include Thomas A. Dorsey, born in Villa Rica, Big Maceo Merriweather, born in Atlanta, and Piano Red...
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  • Make Me a Pallet on the Floor (category Blues songs)
    Handy, who later modified it into a song known as "Atlanta Blues". He published "Atlanta Blues" in 1923, featuring lyrics credited to Dave Elman. The...
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  • Varsity Blues, Not Another Teen Movie, Good Burger, and the television series Popular. Lester's first acting role came when he went to Atlanta, Georgia...
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    Tinsley Ellis (category Musicians from Atlanta)
    Tinsley Ellis (born June 4, 1957) is an American blues and rock musician, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and grew up in South Florida...
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  • Atlanta International Pop Festival was a rock festival held at the Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia, twenty miles south of Atlanta,...
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  • Sandra Hall (category Singers from Atlanta)
    blues and soul blues singer and songwriter. She has been billed as Atlanta's "Empress of the Blues" Hall is an Honorary Member of the Atlanta Blues Society...
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  • credited with creating the "talking blues" form with the song "Talking Blues", recorded for Columbia Records in Atlanta in 1926, from which the style gets...
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  • Atlanta's Burning Down is the third studio album by Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers Band. It was recorded with his band Great Southern in late 1977...
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  • Doordarshan. Hyderabad Blues garnered the "Audience Award for best film" at the Peachtree International Film Festival in Atlanta, as well as the Rhode...
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  • (2020-2021) became G'ville Gol'Diggers Marietta Patriots (2018-2021) became Atlanta Blues Gwinnett Tides (2014-2019) became Gainesville Braves Norcross Astros...
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  • Lucille Bogan (category Classic female blues singers)
    Later that year she recorded "Pawn Shop Blues" in Atlanta, Georgia; this was the first time a black blues singer had been recorded outside New York...
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