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Mem Shannon - 100% match to Bobby Rush

1959, New Orleans, USA. As an amateur blues singer he discovered plenty of musical opportunities in the region, occasionally adding guitar and sometimes clarinet accompaniment to impromptu bar-room sessions. The city’s music circuit of that time demanded singers capable of copycat renditions of standards such as ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’ and ‘Dust My Broom
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Lurrie Bell - 62% match to Bobby Rush

13 December 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The second son of Carey Bell, Lurrie’s musical interests were encouraged from an early age by his father and the guitarist Roy Johnson. By the age of eight Bell was regularly called onstage for guest appearances. In his teens he joined Koko Taylor’s band as guitarist. In the 80s he established himself as both a respected ba Read more

Smokey Wilson - 49% match to Bobby Rush

Robert Lee Wilson, 11 July 1936, Glen Allan, Mississippi, USA. Wilson was eight when his father bought him his first guitar. His teenage years were spent developing his singing and playing skills. In 1961 he became a member of Junior Green And His Soul Searchers Band, which, after some years, he left to join Roosevelt ‘Booba’ Barnes, with whom he played for four ye Read more

Henry Butler - 43% match to Bobby Rush

21 September 1949, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. A pianist, vocalist and composer, Butler’s work explores ethnic, gospel, blues and European classical traditions as part of a refreshingly eclectic take on contemporary jazz. Blind since birth, he has also become one of the most prominent sightless photographers in America with exhibitions in several major cities.

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Pink Anderson - 41% match to Bobby Rush

Pinkney Anderson, 12 February 1900, Laurens, South Carolina, USA, d. 12 October 1974, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA. For much of his life, Anderson was Spartanburg’s most famous songster and medicine show huckster. He was 10 when he first learned to play the guitar in open tuning. He also earned money as a buck dancer on the streets of Laurens. In 1917 he joined  Read more

Sheba Potts-Wright - 39% match to Bobby Rush

Otis Grand - 37% match to Bobby Rush

Fred Bishti, 14 February 1950, Beirut, Lebanon. Grand has spent most of his life in the USA, although he lived in France for a few years. He began playing guitar at the age of 13, citing his influences as B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Otis Rush and Johnny Otis, and he has played with many San Francisco Bay area blues artists. Otis Grand And The Dance Kings created a sensation wh Read more

Sandra Hall - 32% match to Bobby Rush

c. 1948, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Hall sang from very early childhood, singing not only in church but also performing for admiring customers at her grandmother’s fish fry. From the age of 12 she sang in a duo, the Soul Sisters, with her sister Barbara Hall. From the mid-60s she sang and danced with the Exotic, a female group that sometimes opened for touring blues and so Read more

Detroit Junior - 30% match to Bobby Rush

Emery H. Williams Jnr., 26 October 1931, Haynes, Arkansas, USA, d. 9 August 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Blues pianist Junior became interested in music in the mid-40s. In the early 50s, as a pianist and band leader, he had a residency in a Detroit club where he backed artists such as Rosco Gordon and Amos Milburn, the latter greatly influencing his songwriting. Eddie Boyd Read more

John Littlejohn - 30% match to Bobby Rush

John Wesley Funchess, 16 April 1931, Learned, Mississippi, USA, d. 1 February 1994, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Littlejohn taught himself to play guitar and was inspired by Henry Martin, a blues guitarist friend of his father. In 1946, he left home and was an itinerant worker before settling in Gary, Indiana, in 1951 and taking up the guitar seriously. He quickly became a popula Read more

Willie Kent - 28% match to Bobby Rush

24 February 1936, Sunflower, Mississippi, USA. Kent was brought up in Shelby, Mississippi, and was influenced by the blues he heard on the radio. He settled in Chicago in 1952 and was soon able to hear the top blues artists live in the clubs, although he was under-age. Kent began working as a singer in 1957 and started to play guitar the following year. He quickly switched t Read more

Mark Hummel - 27% match to Bobby Rush

15 December 1955, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Hummel was raised in Los Angeles, California, where as a child he became interested in blues rock as practised by contemporary popular rockers such as Jimi Hendrix, Cream and the Rolling Stones. He had begun playing harmonica and gradually stretched his musical interests backwards in time to those artists who had inspired the bl Read more

Jessie Mae Hemphill - 22% match to Bobby Rush

18 October 1937, Mississippi, USA, d. 22 July 2006, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. A member of a family whose musical activities can be traced back a number of generations (her grandfather Sid Hemphill and aunt Rosa Lee Hill both made recordings), from the 50s onwards, Hemphill spent many years playing and singing. She sang blues, most of which she wrote herself, based on her own Read more

Chuck Leavell - 19% match to Bobby Rush

Charles Alfred Leavell, 28 April 1952, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. An in-demand session player, Leavell has played piano and keyboards for some of the most famous artists in rock music. Growing up in the south, he was first influenced by the music being played on the local R&B and gospel radio stations, and in particular by Ray Charles. By the age of 15 he was working with Read more

Precious Bryant - 19% match to Bobby Rush

Precious Bussey, 4 January 1942, Talbot County, Georgia, USA. This acoustic blues singer grew up in a rural community in the deep south, learning traditional songs from her music loving family and local performers but also listening to R&B and rock ‘n’ roll on the radio. Her uncle taught her to play guitar and helped her build up a repertoire of blues and folk Read more