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Rob Cooper
Rob Cooper
musical artist
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Joe Pullum
Joe Pullum
American Texas blues singer and songwriter
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"Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
"Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
American blues musician
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Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson
American blues singer and musician
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John T. Smith
John T. Smith
American guitarist (1890-1940)
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Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw
American blues and boogie-woogie pianist
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Robert Lockwood Jr.
Robert Lockwood Jr.
American Delta blues guitarist
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Sippie Wallace
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
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Moon Mullican
Moon Mullican
American recording artist; country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist
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Roosevelt Sykes
Roosevelt Sykes
American blues musician
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Whistlin' Alex Moore
Whistlin' Alex Moore
American blues pianist, singer and whistler
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T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
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Leroy Foster
Leroy Foster
American blues singer, drummer and guitarist
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Big Walter Horton
Big Walter Horton
American blues harmonica player
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Oscar Woods
Oscar Woods
American Texas blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
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Henry Thomas
Henry Thomas
American recording artist; country blues singer, songster and musician.
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Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
American vocal group in the 1940s and 1950s
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Lead Belly
Lead Belly
American folk and blues musician
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Ivory Joe Hunter
Ivory Joe Hunter
American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist
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Bernice Edwards
Bernice Edwards
American musician and singer
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Buster Pickens
Buster Pickens
American blues pianist
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Bumble Bee Slim
Bumble Bee Slim
American Piedmont blues musician
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Freddie King
Freddie King
American blues guitarist and singer
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Jay McShann
Jay McShann
American blues, jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer
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Sunnyland Slim
Sunnyland Slim
American blues pianist
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Kid Prince Moore
Kid Prince Moore
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Carolina Slim
Carolina Slim
American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
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Snooks Eaglin
Snooks Eaglin
American musician
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Little Willie Littlefield
Little Willie Littlefield
American R&B pianist and singer
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Estelle Yancey
Estelle Yancey
American blues singer
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Peetie Wheatstraw
Peetie Wheatstraw
American country blues musician
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Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
American country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Travis Leonard Blaylock
Travis Leonard Blaylock
blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter
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Little Johnny Jones
Little Johnny Jones
American Chicago blues pianist and singer
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Memphis Slim
Memphis Slim
American recording artist; blues pianist, singer, and composer
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L.C. Green
L.C. Green
American Blues musician
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Blind Boy Fuller
Blind Boy Fuller
American blues guitarist and singer
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Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
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John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Bessie Tucker
Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
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Leroy Carr
Leroy Carr
American blues singer, songwriter and pianist
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Gladys Bentley
Gladys Bentley
American blues singer
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Odetta
Odetta
American recording artist, singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and civil and human rights activist (1930-2008)
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Johnny Ace
Johnny Ace
American singer
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The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
American band
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Gary Clark, Jr.
Gary Clark, Jr.
American guitarist and actor
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Bull City Red
Bull City Red
American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
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Mike Vernon
Mike Vernon
English music executive studio owner and record producer
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Amédé Ardoin
Amédé Ardoin
American Louisiana Creole musician
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Teddy Wilson
Teddy Wilson
American pianist (1912-1986)
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Peg Leg Sam
Peg Leg Sam
American country blues harmonica player, singer and comedian
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Gene Autry
Gene Autry
American actor and singer
Black Boy Shine
American singer

Black Boy Shine

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American singer
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Black Boy Shine (c. September 12, 1908 – March 28, 1952) was an American Texas blues pianist, singer and songwriter. Little is known of his life outside of his recording career. He was part of the 'Santa Fe Group', a loose ensemble of black blues pianists who played in the many juke joints abutting the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Black Boy Shine recorded almost twenty tracks between 1936 and 1937 for Vocalion and Melotone Records. Two of his tracks, "Hobo Blues" and "Ice Pick and Pistol Woman Blues", depicted the more lurid and potentially violent lives of Shine and his listeners.

Robert Shaw remembered Shine as "a smooth underworld figure and rated him the best of the Texas pianists."