Gustavus "Gus" Cannon (September 12, 1883 or 1884 – October 15, 1979) was an American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s. There is uncertainty about his birth year; his tombstone gives the date as 1874.
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Noah Lewis
American jug band and country blues musician
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Memphis Jug Band
band
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Frank Stokes
American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel
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Memphis Willie B.
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African American Memphis blues musician
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Mississippi Sheiks
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Jim Kweskin
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Albert King
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Charlie Burse
American musician
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Big Walter Horton
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Big Jack Johnson
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Charlie Musselwhite
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Willie Brown
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Arnold Moore
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Jimbo Mathus
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Walter Vinson
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Ike Turner
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Papa Charlie Jackson
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Cedric Burnside
American electric blues drummer, singer and songwriter
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Jazz Gillum
American blues harmonica player
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Bo Carter
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Sunnyland Slim
American blues pianist
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American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger
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Otis Spann
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John Lee Hooker
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Al Jackson Jr.
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Mack Rice
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Robert Lockwood Jr.
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Roosevelt Sykes
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