• Big Blues may refer to: Big Blues (Jimmy Witherspoon album), 1981 Big Blues (Art Farmer album), 1978 This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • The Big Blues is a compilation album by Albert King, released by King Records in 1962. It is his first album and the only one before he signed with Stax...
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    2021 for the first time since 1968. Bluefield State athletic teams are the Big Blue. There are 21 intercollegiate varsity sports and many intramural sports...
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  • Concord Records. At the 40th Blues Music Awards, the album was named as 'Blues Rock Album of the Year'. The Big Bad Blues received generally positive reviews...
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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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  • Big City Blues may refer to: Big City Blues (1932 film), a 1932 drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy Big City Blues (1997 film), a 1997 film starring Burt...
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  • Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984), was an American singer and songwriter of the blues and R&B. The Encyclopedia of Pop...
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    Climax Blues Band (originally known as The Climax Chicago Blues Band) are a British blues rock band. They have released at least 19 albums. "Couldn't Get...
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    Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter...
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  • Dirty blues (also known as bawdy blues) is a form of blues music that deals with socially taboo and obscene subjects, often referring to sexual acts and...
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    American expressive culture, it is an amalgam of jump blues, big band swing, gospel, boogie, and blues that was initially developed during a thirty-year period...
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  • The Blues Brothers are a fictitious American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who met and began collaborating...
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  • Big Road Blues is an album by blues musician K. C. Douglas recorded in 1961 and released on the Bluesville label. "Big Road Blues" (Tommy Johnson) – 3:25...
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    Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley; June 26, 1893 or 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His career...
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  • Big City Blues is a 1997 Cineville film about a collection of characters who threaten to cross paths, unknowingly, during a night in the big city. The...
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  • Lucille Bogan (category Classic female blues singers)
    was one of "the big three of the blues", along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Many of Bogan's songs have been recorded by later blues and jazz musicians...
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  • Big House Blues is a 1947 Flippy short film. Big House Blues (1947) at IMDB Big House Blues[dead link] at the Big Cartoon Database v t e...
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  • blues and rock and roll. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part of the swing revival. Jump blues evolved from the music of big bands...
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  • Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues, but is performed...
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    Albert King (category Electric blues musicians)
    the Billboard R&B chart. The song was included on his first album The Big Blues in 1962. King left Bobbin in late 1962 and recorded one session for King...
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  • Big Blues is an album by American flugelhornist Art Farmer and guitarist Jim Hall, featuring performances recorded in 1978 and released on the CTI label...
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    his own age who played acoustic blues guitar. His name was Lynwood Perry, the nephew of the famous bluesman Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup. In high school Henry...
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  • "Ev'ry Day I Have the Blues" is a version of the Memphis Slim song. Taj Mahal sang and played harmonica on the cover of "Bright Lights Big City". Jagger, on...
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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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  • William "Big Boy" Crudup (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known, outside blues circles...
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    The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band is a three-piece American country blues band from Brown County, Indiana. They have played up to 250 dates per year...
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  • Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. They come from different eras and include...
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    perhaps as an afterthought, was the bluesman Big Joe Williams (not to be confused with the jazz and rhythm and blues singer Joe Williams who sang with Count...
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  • (also "Ball 'n' Chain" or "Ball & Chain") is a blues song written and recorded by American blues artist Big Mama Thornton. Although her recording did not...
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  • from piano to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western music, and gospel. While standard blues traditionally expresses a variety of emotions...
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