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Roosevelt Sykes (31 January 1906 in Elmar, Arkansas – 17 July 1983 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American blues musician also known as “Honeydripper”.

He was a successful and prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player who influenced blues piano playing with his rollicking thundering boogie.

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Afuera wrote:
September 2008

awesome music

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badlovemojo13 wrote:
August 2007

yes, play that thing baby! smack those piano keys,like you do..

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