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| - Muddy_Waters
- Big_Bill_Broonzy
- Sunnyland_Slim
- Elmore_James
- Memphis_Minnie
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| Subject
| - American blues guitarists
- Political music
- 20th-century American singers
- Blues Hall of Fame inductees
- American blues singers
- 1929 births
- 1967 deaths
- American blues musicians
- American people of French descent
- Blues musicians from Mississippi
- Checker Records artists
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- Electric blues musicians
- People from Lawrence County, Mississippi
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| - American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s. Born 5-Mar-1929 in Monticello, Mississippi; died 29-Apr-1967 in Champaign, Illinois. He died at the age 38 of internal bleeding (and/or a heart attack) from injuries he had suffered in a car crash three weeks earlier, which had not been properly treated in another hospital in Illinois.As a young boy, J.B.'s father taught him to play guitar in the style of Blind Lemon Jefferson; he was also taught by Arthur Crudup and Lightnin’ Hopkins. In the 1940s, he started playing in New Orleans with Sonny Boy Williamson and Elmore James. In 1949 he moved to Chicago; he began playing with names like Memphis Minnie, Big Maceo Merriweather and Muddy Waters.J.B. started making records in the late '50s for the Chicago-based J.O.B label. His most commercially successful and enduring release was 1954's “Mamma Talk To Your Daughter”, which reached #11 on the Billboard R&B chart and was later recorded by many other blues and rock musicians. He was immortalised in John Mayall's songs “The Death of J.B. Lenoir” and I’m Gonna Fight For You JB”. He also features in the 2003 documentary film “The Soul of a Man”, directed by Wim Wenders, part of Martin Scorsese’s The Blues series.
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| - J. B. Lenoir /ləˈnɔːr/ (March 5, 1929 – April 29, 1967) was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the 1950s and 1960s Chicago blues scene.Although his name is sometimes pronounced as French %22L'n WAHR%22, Lenoir himself pronounced it %22La NOR%22. The initials %22J.B.%22 had no specific meaning, his given name was simply %22JB%22
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| - Lenore
- J. B. Lenoir
- Lenoir
- J B Lenoir
- J-B Lenoir
- J. B. Lenore
- J.B. Junior
- J.B. Lenoir & His African Hunch Rhythm
- J.B. Lenoir And His African Hunch Rhythm
- J.B. Lenor
- J.B. Lenore
- J.B.Lenoir
- J.P Lenoir
- JB Lenior
- JB Lenoir
- Lenor J.B.
- T. B. Lenore
- T.B. Lenore
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| - Official Records
- CBS Records
- Chess Records
- Parrot Records
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