Sonny Boy Williamson was killed at 34.  He played this "mouth organ" like nobody did before
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Little Walter - Wikipedia  Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930  February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an ... He honed his musical skills on harmonica and guitar performing with older ... as Sonny Boy Williamson I and Snooky Pryor, who like many other harmonica ... His guitar playing was also featured occasionally on early Chess sessions...
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Sonny Boy Williamson on Apple Music  Songs by Sonny Boy Williamson start at $0.69. ... John Lee Williamson almost single-handedly made the humble mouth organ a worthy lead ... and rambled with Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell before settling in Chicago in 1934. ... He died at the age of 34, while at the zenith of his popularity (his romping "Shake That...
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1 - Dirty-South Blues Harp Forum: For blues harmonica players ...  What does it take to be great? ... Most may have heard of Sonny Boy Williams but I'm sure they ... To me Charlie has acquired greatness because he was the first. But then there are guys like Little Walter vs Kim Wilson... the both make .... These are people who are doing something nobody has done before.
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Sonny Boy Williamson was killed at 34. He played this mouth organ ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... Sonny Boy Williamson was killed at 34. He played this mouth organ like nobody # Quiz # Question. video. 0:28 0 likes, 0 dislikes. No views.
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The BluesHarp Page:Legends:Sonnyboy Williamson I  Already a harp virtuoso in his teens, the first Sonny Boy (Rice Miller would adopt the ... rambled with Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell before settling in Chicago in 1934. ... and Big Joe Williams, who in turn played on some of Williamson's sides). ... He died at the age of 34, while at the zenith of his popularity (his romping...
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Smart went from 'dead or in jail' to Oklahoma State's selfless general  Jan 22, 2013 ... Rage burned inside him after seeing cancer overtake one older ... One night near his home in Lancaster began like so many others, .... "He plays with a chip on his shoulder, not like a prima donna." .... Marcus then put his hands in the air, saying, "Todd is just like a .... He was too young to live through that.".
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Supernatural.tv: Inside the legend: Crossroad Blues  You have your guitar and be playing a piece there by yourself ... All that is known of him for certain is that he recorded 29 songs; he died ... So, Robert Johnson sells his soul at the crossroads, records a bunch of killer songs about it, and the ... His death came on August 16, 1938, at the approximate age of 27 at a little...
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RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Martin Widule Genealogy  Aug 30, 2002 ... Nobody did more for Richard Wagner. ... When Liszt died from pneumonia on July 31, 1886 in Bayreuth, Anton Bruckner played the organ at his...
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Portrait of harmonica musician Larry Adler | The Guardian | guardian ...  The harmonica may be the laughing stock of musical instruments, but it has taken Larry Adler far - from working with Fred Astaire and George Gershwin, to an affair ... By the 40s Adler was writing for the movies, playing with anyone who was .... "She said, 'No one will believe me when I tell them I held Larry Adler's organ.
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Deaths that shocked Japan - Telegraph  Aug 21, 2010 ... In 1975 Band Mitsugor VIII, a Japanese kabuki actor, died of severe poisoning when he ate four fugu livers (also known as pufferfish). ... The Japanese delicacy, better known in the western world as blowfish or pufferfish,...
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Larry Adler, Political Exile Who Brought the Harmonica to Concert ...  Aug 8, 2001 ... Larry Adler, harmonica player whose artistry helped elevate instrument ... elevate the instrument to concert status, died yesterday at a London hospital. ... composers, among them Darius Milhaud, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William ... be able to perform the music that was being written for him, music that he'd...
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Jimi Hendrix  Jimi Hendrix treated his guitar like an inseparable part of his body. ... fluent, that I'm really left wondering whether he was born with a guitar in his hand. .... You also get a couple generic, but convincing, blues tunes, like the fascinating 'Red House', .... Experienced? was such a perfect recording in the first place that there was...
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THE DOCTOR'S WORLD - Defending Tough Decisions In a Case ...  Aug 15, 1995 ... Did the doctors waste a scarce organ that could have extended ... Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, the transplant pioneer from the University of ... did a special test; they inserted a tube to examine the bile duct. ... be the only chance he has because you do not know if or when you will .... Go to Your Recommendations
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Instruments - The Worried Men  Behold the splendour of this 1963 Fender Stratocaster! ... You'd best believe that I've played an awful lot of guitars in my time, but this is the ... I'd dreamt of owning one of these since I was at school and believe me, this exceeded my hopes! ... was Miller Anderson playing a battered Les Paul Jr. If you freeze frame the tape (!
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Robert Johnson At 100, Still Dispelling Myths : NPR  May 6, 2011 ... Despite hardy rumors that the bluesman sold his soul to the devil, Johnson's ... Although he recorded just 29 songs, the bluesman had a huge influence on ... Johnson died a year later at age 27, under mysterious circumstances. ... He says there were pre-war blues musicians who played guitar better than...
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Flashback: How Waylon Jennings Survived the Day the Music Died ...  Feb 3, 2015 ... Waylon Jennings sidestepped death when the plane he was supposed to be on crashed on this day in 1959, killing Buddy Holly and three others. ... Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on the plane that crashed on February 3rd, 1959, ... Holly, J.P. Richardson (a.k.a. the Big Bopper) and Ritchie Valens,...
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Van Gogh: Photographer creates incredible life-like picture of ...  Jan 11, 2013 ... Mr Cerniauskas came up with idea on a whim after seeing his friend ... He went there soon after 'the ear incident' when, following a raging argument ... It is generally accepted to have been self-inflicted, although no gun .... actually JEOPARDIZED his singing voice and led to his surgery ..... Drinking for two!
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Accordions return from obscurity The Main Squeeze - tribunedigital ...  Apr 8, 1995 ... A bayou burial and Lawrence Welk. ... with it, also Tom Waits, Paul Simon, Bruce Hornsby, Weird Al Yankovic, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel.
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British rock star Robert Palmer dies at 54 - SFGate  Sep 27, 2003 ... Robert Palmer, the British rock singer best known for his 1986 No. 1 hit, "Addicted to Love," died Friday in Paris of an apparent heart attack. ... he and several other members of that group formed Vinegar Joe, which recorded...