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American Blues Musicians

Musiciens du blues américains

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Sunny Ozell
Sunny Ozell is an American singer-songwriter. Wikipedia
Lee Morse (1896 - 1954)
Lee Morse (November 30, 1897 — December 16, 1954) was an US jazz and blues singer and songwriter whose most popular years were in the 1920s and early 1930s, although her career began around 1917 a...
Mississippi John Hurt (1892 - 1966)
John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1893[1][nb 1] – November 2, 1966), better known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer and guitarist.[3] Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught hi...
Bill Withers (1938 - 2020)
Harrison "Bill" Withers, Jr. (born July 4, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are "Lean on Me", "Ain't No ...
William Christopher Handy (1873 - 1958)
was born in Florence, Alabama, the son of Elizabeth Brewer and Charles Barnard Handy. His father was the pastor of a small church in Guntersville, a small town in northeast central Alabama. Handy wrote...