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Kenny Brown
Kenny Brown
American blues slide guitarist
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R. L. Burnside
R. L. Burnside
American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist
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Sam Chatmon
Sam Chatmon
American blues musician
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T-Model Ford
T-Model Ford
United StatesAmerican blues musician
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Junior Kimbrough
Junior Kimbrough
american musician
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Big Joe Williams
Big Joe Williams
American Delta blues guitarist, recording artist, singer and songwriter
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Fred McDowell
Fred McDowell
American Hill country blues singer and guitar player.
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George Mitchell
George Mitchell
American music historian
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Elmore James
Elmore James
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader
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Tommy Johnson
Tommy Johnson
American musician
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Pinetop Perkins
Pinetop Perkins
American blues pianist
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James Thomas
James Thomas
American Delta blues musician
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Johnny "Man" Young
Johnny "Man" Young
American blues singer, mandolin player and guitarist
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Memphis Minnie
Memphis Minnie
American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
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Carey Bell
Carey Bell
American blues musician
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Houston Stackhouse
Houston Stackhouse
American Delta blues guitarist and singer
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Paul "Wine" Jones
Paul "Wine" Jones
American contemporary blues guitarist and singer
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Lil' Dave Thompson
Lil' Dave Thompson
American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
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Son House
Son House
American blues singer and guitarist
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Joe Willie Wilkins
Joe Willie Wilkins
American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
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Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
American country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Calvin Jackson
Calvin Jackson
American musician (1961-2015)
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Charley Patton
Charley Patton
American Delta blues musician
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John Littlejohn
John Littlejohn
American electric blues slide guitarist
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Bukka White
Bukka White
American Delta blues guitarist and singer
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Smoky Babe
Smoky Babe
American acoustic blues guitarist and singer
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Willie Brown
Willie Brown
guitar player and vocalist
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David Edwards
David Edwards
American blues guitarist and singer
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Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson
American blues singer and musician
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Lonnie Pitchford
Lonnie Pitchford
American musician
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Black Ace
Black Ace
American Texas blues musician
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Otis Spann
Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
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Earl Hooker
Earl Hooker
American Chicago blues guitarist
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Little Freddie King
Little Freddie King
American Delta blues guitarist
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Asie Payton
Asie Payton
American blues musician
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Boogie Bill Webb
Boogie Bill Webb
American Louisiana blues and R&B guitarist, singer and songwriter
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Charlie Musselwhite
Charlie Musselwhite
American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader
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Big Joe Duskin
Big Joe Duskin
American blues and boogie-woogie pianist
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Kansas Joe McCoy
Kansas Joe McCoy
American Delta blues musician and songwriter
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Gus Cannon
Gus Cannon
American blues musician
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Bob Margolin
Bob Margolin
American electric blues guitarist
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Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
American blues singer and guitarist
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Papa Charlie McCoy
Papa Charlie McCoy
American delta blues musician and songwriter
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Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
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Skip James
Skip James
American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter
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Albert Collins
Albert Collins
American blues musician, recording artist, songwriter
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Jimmy Dawkins
Jimmy Dawkins
American blues musician
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Mike Vernon
Mike Vernon
English music executive studio owner and record producer
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Bob Log III
Bob Log III
American musician
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Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf
American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player
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Robert Belfour
Robert Belfour
American blues musician
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Robert Lockwood Jr.
Robert Lockwood Jr.
American Delta blues guitarist
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Juke Boy Bonner
Juke Boy Bonner
American blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist
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B. B. King
B. B. King
American blues musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1925-2015)
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Johnny Shines
Johnny Shines
American blues singer and guitarist
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John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Big Walter Horton
Big Walter Horton
American blues harmonica player
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Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
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Smokey Wilson
Smokey Wilson
American West Coast blues guitarist
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Richard "Hacksaw" Harney
Richard "Hacksaw" Harney
American musician
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Eddie Taylor
Eddie Taylor
American electric blues guitarist and singer
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Jimbo Mathus
Jimbo Mathus
American musician
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Smokin' Joe Kubek
Smokin' Joe Kubek
American electric blues guitarist.
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Mickey Baker
Mickey Baker
American jazz and rock guitarist
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Texas Johnny Brown
Texas Johnny Brown
American blues guitarist and songwriter
Mississippi Joe Callicott
United States Delta blues singer and guitarist

Mississippi Joe Callicott

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"Mississippi" Joe Callicott (October 10, 1899 – May 1969) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist.

Callicott was born in Nesbit, Mississippi, United States. In 1929 he played second guitar in Garfield Akers' duet recording, "Cottonfield Blues". His "Love Me Baby Blues" has been covered by various artists, e.g. (under the title of "France Chance") by Ry Cooder. Arhoolie Records recorded Callicott commercially in the mid-1960s. Some of his 1967 recordings (recorded by the music historian, George Mitchell) were re-released in 2003, on the Fat Possum record label. His best known recordings are "Great Long Ways From Home" and "Hoist Your Window and Let Your Curtain Down". Callicott also recorded, as noted by one music journalist, "his lilting "Fare Thee Well Blues.""

He served as a mentor to the guitarist Kenny Brown when Brown was ten years old.

Joe Callicott is buried in the Mount Olive Baptist Church Cemetery in Nesbit, Mississippi. On April 29, 1995, a memorial headstone was placed on his grave arranged by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund with the help of Kenny Brown and financed by Chris Strachwitz, Arhoolie Records and John Fogerty. Callicott's original marker, a simple paving stone which read simply "JOE", was subsequently donated by his family to the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. At the ceremony the Mount Zion Fund presented Callicott's wife Doll with a check from Arhoolie Records for royalties earned from a CD reissue of Callicott's work.