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RE-POST BLUES SYNDICATE Nº 7

BLUES SYNDICATE Nº 7 1- Sintonia Mr. Hurricane Band 2- Crossroads – Elmore James 02.58 3- The t

King of the Swing Guitar

He began playing as a teen, under the names “Cleanhead” and “Joe Willie James”, alongside mu

Top 5 Unknown Blues Artists You Should Definitely Know About

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Homesick James (30 April 1910[1] - 13 December 2006) was a black American blues musician. He is be

Biography Elmore James

Elmore James (January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues guitarist, singer, song writer and band leader.He was known as The King of the Slide Guitar and had a unique guitar style and stirring voice. Biography James was born Elmore Brooks in the old Richland community in Holmes County, Mississippi, (not to be confused with two other locations of the same name in Mississippi, one in Humphreys Co. & the other in Rankin Co. ). He was the illegitimate son of 15-year-old Leola Brooks, a field hand. His father was probably Joe Willie "Frost" James, who moved in with Leola and so Elmore took this as his name. His parents adopted an orphaned boy at some point - Robert Holston. Elmore began making music at the age of 12 using a simple one-string instrument ('diddley bow' or 'jitterbug') strung up on a shack wall. As a teen he was playing at local dances under the names Cle