• 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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  • 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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  • by 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...
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    became a residential university in 2021 for the first time since 1968. Bluefield State athletic teams are the Big Blue. There are 21 intercollegiate varsity...
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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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    Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated...
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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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  • 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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  • The Blues Brothers are an 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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  • 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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    amalgam of jump blues, big band swing, gospel, boogie, and blues that was initially developed during a thirty-year period that bridges the era of legally...
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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 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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  • 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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    The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in May 1964. The band initially consisted of drummer Graeme Edge, guitarist/vocalist Denny...
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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 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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  • 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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    Albert King (category Electric blues musicians)
    first hit; peaking at number 14 on the Billboard R&B chart. The song was included on his first album The Big Blues in 1962. King left Bobbin in late 1962...
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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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  • Waters, a colleague of Delta blues musicians Son House and Robert Johnson, migrated to Chicago in 1943, joining the established Big Bill Broonzy, where they...
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  • ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. In the last several decades, blues music has developed a less regional...
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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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    name Big Head Blues Club. The album 100 Years of Robert Johnson celebrates the songs of the late blues singer and musician Robert Johnson. The Big Head...
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  • "the premier blues shouter of the postwar era". Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, an unusual combination of blues shouter and bebop alto saxophone player. Big...
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    her the stage name 'Big Maybelle' because of her loud yet well-toned voice. Her first recording for Okeh, "Gabbin' Blues", was a number 3 hit on the Billboard...
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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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  • 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 the cover...
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    albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt...
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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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