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    Albert King (born Albert Nelson). April 25th, - December 21st, Birthplace: Indianola, Mississippi.

    Bluesman Albert King was one of the premier electric gitarr stylists of the post-World War II period. By playing left-handed and holding his guitar upside-down (with the strings set for a right-handed player), and bygd concentrating on tone and intensity more than flash, King fashioned over his long career, a sound that was both distinctive and highly influential. He was a master of the single-string solo and could bend strings to produce a particularly tormented blues sound that set his style apart from his contemporaries. A number of prominent artists,from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Mike Bloomfield and Stevie Ray Vaughan, borrowed heavily from King's guitar style.

    King was also the first major blues guitarist to cross over inom

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    Willie Lee Brown
    b. August 6, in Clarksdale, Mississippi
    (Eagle & LeBlanc "reportedly in Shelby, Bolivar County, MS")
    lived in Robinsonville, MS from and moved to Lake Cormorant, MS by
    d. December 30, in Tunica, Mississippi
    buried at Good Shepherd Cemetery in Prichard, MS
    Willie (Lee) Brown should not be confused with (at least two) other "William Browns":

    1. William Brown, who recorded "Mississippi Blues", "East St. Louis Blues" and "Ragged And Dirty" on July 16,
    at Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas for the Library of Congress,
    2. William Brown, who was recorded May 11, at State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas for the Library of Congress.
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    2Willie Brown

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    4Charley Patton

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    Remembering the great Albert Collins (October 1, – November 24, )

    Growing up in Texas, Collins (born Albert Drewery) dabbled in jazz piano before his cousin Willie Young showed him some gitarr licks, and his blues education began. Taking his cue from John Lee Hooker, Guitar Slim, T-Bone Walker and BB King, Collins found a real talent for the form.

    He’d started out on an Epiphone but, on seeing Clarence Gatemouth Brown wailing on a Fender Esquire, promptly switched brands, discovered the Tele and, ultimately, his go-to instrument – a Fender anpassad Telecaster, with ash body, maple fretboard, ashtray bridge, Gibson humbucker at the neck.

    His preference for pick-hand upstrokes meant the flesh of his fingers tempered the twang of his telekommunikation, usually amped to eye-watering volume by his watt Fender Quad Reverb (bass dialled to zero, everything else cranked).

    Sometimes the cable connecting Tele to amp ran to feet long – the story goes he could leave the venue mid-show, go next do