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    Little Walter Play

    1,185,557 plays (172,575 listeners)

    Little Walter (born Marion Walter Jacobs in Marksville, Louisiana; May 1, 1930 - February 15, 1968) was an American blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist.

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    Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Play

    294,294 plays (43,565 listeners)

    Walter "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 - February 16, 1996) was a folk-blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry (October 24, 1911 - March 11, 1986).

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    Elmore James Play

    1,511,756 plays (219,636 listeners)

    Elmore James (Elmore Brooks, Richland, Mississippi, 27th January 1918 – Chicago, Illinois, 24th May 1963) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He was known as "The King of the Slide Guitar".

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    Jimmy Reed Play

    750,079 plays (133,513 listeners)

    Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed (September 6, 1925 - August 29, 1976) was an American blues singer. His lazy, slack-jawed singing, piercing harmonica and hypnotic guitar patterns were one of the blues most easily identifiable sounds in the 1950s and 1960s.

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    Big Walter Horton Play

    140,309 plays (24,652 listeners)

    Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton (April 6, 1917– December 8, 1981) was an American blues harmonica player.

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    James Cotton Play

    252,898 plays (45,254 listeners)

    James Cotton (1935.07.01/Tunica, MS - ) is an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter who is the bandleader for the James Cotton Blues Band. He was born on July 1, 1935, in Tunica, Mississippi. The youngest of eight brothers and sisters who grew up in the cotton fields working beside their mother, Hattie, and their father, Mose.

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    Willie Dixon Play

    538,549 plays (91,920 listeners)

    Willie Dixon (born July 1, 1915, Vicksburg, Miss., U.S.-died Jan. 29, 1992, Burbank, Calif.) was a U.S. musician who influenced the emergence of electric blues and rock music.

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    Big Joe Williams Play

    364,246 plays (77,369 listeners)

    Big Joe Williams (born Joseph Lee Williams, October 16, 1903 - December 17, 1982) was an American blues musician and songwriter, known for his characteristic style of guitar-playing, his nine-string guitar, and his bizarre, cantankerous personality.

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    Memphis Slim Play

    491,412 plays (94,103 listeners)

    Memphis Slim (3 September, 1915 in Memphis, Tennessee – 24 February, 1988 in Paris, France) was a blues pianist and singer.

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    Sonny Terry Play

    151,266 plays (28,527 listeners)

    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (October 24, 1911-March 11, 1986), was a blues musician. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on October 24, 1911, and died on March 11, 1986 in Mineola, New York. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts.

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