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Alabama Blues Project
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| Our mission is to educate the public about blues music through interactive presentations that educate while entertaining. We are dedicated to the preservation of blues music as a traditional and contemporary art form. Through educational programs, exhibits, and the development of archival and curriculum materials, we increase awareness of the role blues music has played in the development of popular American music-and specifically, how Alabama has contributed to that history. The Alabama Blues Project's educational programs encourage direct participation in the creative process. We reach a variety of audiences, including at-risk or troubled youth. Our programs teach self-esteem, discipline, cross cultural understanding, interaction, and teamwork with other members of society.
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Freedom Creek Festival
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| The Freedom Creek Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary this year on May 25th and 26th on Old Memphis Road in Old Memphis, Ala. near Aliceville.
The festival featured premier Alabama blues talent including — but not limited to — legendary bluesmen Paul Oscher, T-Model Ford, Willie King and the Liberators, Mudcat, Kent Duchaine, Terry "Harmonica" Bean, "Birmingham" George Conner, Sweet Claudette, Clarence Davis, Jessie Daniels, Taylor Moore, Caroline Shines, The Old Memphis Kings, Todd Johnson, Jock Webb, Pat Moss, Ricky Castillo, Grapevine, Robert and Alabama Blues Project’s advanced band "The Project."
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Aaron Willis (Little Sonny)
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| Aaron Willis, 6 October 1932, Greensboro, Alabama |
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Albert Macon
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Bessie Smith
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| Bessie Smith was the greatest of the classic Blues singers of the 1920s. |
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Beulah Bryant
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Big Joe Duskin
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Big Mama Thornton - Wikipedia
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| Willa Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American Blues and R&B singer. She was the original singer to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1953. The song was #1 on the Billboard R&B charts for seven weeks. Three years later, Elvis Presley recorded the Rock 'n' roll version of the song, the single hitting number one on the pop, country and blues chart, coupled with "Don't Be Cruel", for an astonishing 11 weeks. |
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Billy C. Farlow
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Butler Twins
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| "Not only the 'Butler Twins' by band name, Clarence and Curtis Butler were born seconds apart on January 21, 1942. They grew up with 16 siblings in Florence, Alabama, spending their early years in a very poor, rural society with nothing but their minds and their music for entertainment. |
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Caroline Shines
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Clarence "Bluesman" Davis
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| Clarence Davis was born in 1946 near the town of Eutaw, in Greene County Alabama. He is a one man band singing authentic, down home, southern juke joint blues while accompanying himself on Guitar, foot-pedal bass.
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Clarence "Pine Top" Smith
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| Clarence "Pine Top" Smith was one of the earliest pianists to recorded a boogie-woogie" piano solo. Smith was born in Troy, Alabama and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He received his nickname as a child from his liking for climbing trees. In 1920 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he worked as an entertainer before touring on the T. O. B. A. vaudeville circuit, performing as a singer and comedian as well as a pianist. For a time he worked as accompanist for blues singer Ma Rainey and Butterbeans and Susie. |
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Clarence Carter
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| Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Clarence Carter is both an artist steeped in the most traditional aspects of Southern music and one of the most modern of all deep bluesmen. |
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Clarence Carter
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| Born in Montgomery, Alabama on January 14, 1936. |
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Cow Cow Davenport
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| Born in Anniston, Alabama - Cow Cow Davenport is remembered most for his famous song "Cow Cow Blues" which is one of the earliest recorded examples of the Boogie-Woogie or Barrelhouse. |
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Dan Penn
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| Wallace Daniel Pennington (16 November 1941 -) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and sometime guitar player who co-wrote many soul hits of the 1960s. Penn grew up in Vernon, Alabama and spent much his teens and early twenties in the Quad Cities/Muscle Shoals area. |
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Dan Pickett
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David Vest
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| A professional bluesician from the age of 15, David Vest has toured with blues legends Lavelle White, Floyd Dixon and Jimmy T99 Nelson. He is probably best-known to northwest blues audiences for his four years as a featured artist with the Paul deLay Band. |
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Debbie Bond
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| Debbie Bond is a sassy lady from T-Town who earned recognition when asked to join forces with legendary bluesman Johnny Shines in 1984. She and her group, The Kokomo Blues Band performed with Shines throughout the South until his death in 1992.
Debbie has been active in promoting the Blues and seeing that the early pioneers are remembered and given the recognition they deserve. She has organized and conducted Blues Camps in schools as part of the Alabama Blues Project |
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Deja Blue
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Dinah Washington
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| Dinah Washington was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and became known as One of the most versatile and gifted vocalists in American popular music history, Dinah Washington made extraordinary recordings in jazz, blues, R&B and light pop contexts. |
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Dinah Washington - Queen of the Blues
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| Washington was born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her family moved to Chicago while she was still a child. Her penetrating voice, excellent timing, and crystal-clear enunciation added her own distinctive style to every piece she undertook. While making extraordinary recordings in jazz, blues, R&B and light pop contexts. |
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Doobie "Doghouse" Wilson
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Eddie Hinton
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Eddie King
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| Eddie king was Koko Taylor's Lead Guitarist/Band Leader for 20 years. He has won many awards including a W.C. Handy award for best come back album 'Another Cow Dead'. He is on Roesch Records. He has an extensive musical back ground, cutting heads with all the greats like Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Luther Allison, Magic Sam. Willie Dixon sought him out to back up Sonny Boy Williamson at Chess studios. |
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Eddie Kirkland
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| Eddie Kirkland, one of the original Blues men still bringing himself and the Blues direct to the people. Kirkland, who was born in Jamaica, raised in Alabama from the time he was two till he went off with the Sugar Girls Medicine show at twelve. |
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Elnora
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Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon
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| Born in Montgomery, Alabama - Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon was an eccentric singer and a mysterious figure who disappeared after the mid-'40s. Called "Half Pint" due to being 5'2". Half Pint helped Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters (among others) put on their productions. Jaxon, who also worked as a female impersonator, a pianist-singer and a saxophonist, was mostly in Chicago during 1927-41, a period when he made many recordings. |
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Hank Becker and the Boogie Chillin
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| Born in in Tilly's Mills, AL |
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