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Janice Brooks


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Post  Posted 21 Mar 2011 2:13 pm    
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Died in his sleep this morning March 21.
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Dave Mudgett


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Post  Posted 21 Mar 2011 9:50 pm    
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One of the very last of the great original Mississippi bluesmen - Story here.

I have been lucky enough to see him many times starting in about 1970 playing with Muddy and often later with his own band, played a show or two with him on the bill much later. He was the real deal. RIP.
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robert kramer

 

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Post  Posted 22 Mar 2011 5:11 am    
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New York Times Obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/arts/music/pinetop-perkins-delta-boogie-woogie-master-dies-at-97.html?_r=1&ref=music
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Glenn Suchan

 

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Post  Posted 25 Mar 2011 1:36 pm    
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Dave Mudgett wrote:
One of the very last of the great original Mississippi bluesmen...


Joe "Pinetop" Perkins: b 07 JUL 1913; d. 21 MAR 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJnqcQmPAMo

And quite possibly, the last of the great Chicago blue/boogie pianists. His peers that have passed on are:

Jimmy Yancey: b. 20 FEB 1898; d. 17 SEP 1951
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3BSIckiKyM

Big Maceo Merriweather: 31 MAR 1905; d. 23 FEB 1953
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vKHY0sxyZI (with Tampa Red - guitar)

Roosevelt "Honeydripper" Sykes: b. 31 JAN 1906; d. 17 JUL 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnduDyjkytY

Sunnyland Slim: b. 05 SEP 1907; d. 17 MAR 1995
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRHqjsJkOiU (with Willie Dixon - bass)

Eddie Boyd: b. 25 NOV 1914; d. 13 JUL 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLwqU-3CqLw (with Peter Green - guitar)

Memphis Slim: b. 03 SEP 1915; d. 24 FEB 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_H-1J4xWs (with Kansas Fields - drums)

Johnnie Johnson (Chuck Berry's piano man and inspiration for the classic rocker "Johnnie B Goode": b. 08 JUL 1924; d. 13 APR 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmd0-S8RG1s

Otis Spann: b. 21 MAR 1930; d. 24 APR 1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnAqQ1zXihQ (with Willie Dixon - bass; S. P. Leary - drums; Hubert Sumlin - guitar)


RIP

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn
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