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Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
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Luke "Long Gone" Miles
Luke "Long Gone" Miles
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Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
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Bobby Bland
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Joe "Guitar" Hughes
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Mel Brown
Mel Brown
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Gary B.B. Coleman
Gary B.B. Coleman
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Frankie Lee Sims
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Johnny Winter
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Grady Gaines
Grady Gaines
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James Cotton
James Cotton
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Roy Gaines
Roy Gaines
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Alger "Texas" Alexander
Alger "Texas" Alexander
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Rosco Gordon
Rosco Gordon
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R. L. Burnside
R. L. Burnside
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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
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Lavelle White
Lavelle White
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Cedric Burnside
Cedric Burnside
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Arthur "Big Boy" Spires
Arthur "Big Boy" Spires
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James "Thunderbird" Davis
James "Thunderbird" Davis
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Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson
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Andrew Odom
Andrew Odom
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Charles Brown
Charles Brown
American recording artist; songwriter, blues singer and pianist
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Kenny Brown
Kenny Brown
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Larry Davis
Larry Davis
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Rufus Thomas
Rufus Thomas
American singer (1917-2001)
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Moses "Whispering" Smith
Moses "Whispering" Smith
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Sir Douglas Quintet
Sir Douglas Quintet
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Rocky Hill
Rocky Hill
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Doug Quattlebaum
Doug Quattlebaum
musical artist
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Little Freddie King
Little Freddie King
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Johnny Rawls
Johnny Rawls
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Jimmy Dotson
Jimmy Dotson
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Al Hibbler
Al Hibbler
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Texas Johnny Brown
American blues guitarist and songwriter

Texas Johnny Brown

Intro
American blues guitarist and songwriter
Genres
Music

Texas Johnny Brown (February 22, 1928 – July 1, 2013) was an American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer, best known for his composition "Two Steps from the Blues". In a lengthy career, he worked with Joe Hinton, Amos Milburn, Ruth Brown, Bobby Bland, Lavelle White, Buddy Ace and Junior Parker. He was born in Mississippi, but his long association with Houston, Texas, gave him his stage name.

Before his death, Allmusic noted that Brown "remains one of the more immovable veterans dotting the inexplicably low-key Houston blues landscape". His jazzy guitar style of playing the blues has been attributed to the influence of Charlie Christian early in Brown's career.