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Subject
| - American blues guitarists
- American blues singer-songwriters
- African-American musicians
- 20th-century American singers
- Fat Possum Records artists
- People from Memphis, Tennessee
- 1893 births
- 1981 deaths
- American buskers
- Blues revival musicians
- Country blues singers
- Memphis blues musicians
- Songster musicians
- Vocalion Records artists
- People from Greenwood, Mississippi
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abstract
| - Born: 06 March 1899, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA.Died: 14 September 1981, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.American Country/Delta blues guitarist, singer & songwriter, who began recording on the Vocalion label in 1927. His stamping ground - despite the fact he had lost a leg - was in & around the Memphis scene, such as Pee Wee's near his home on Beale street, with a day job as a street-sweeper until his retirement in 1966.In 1972 he was part of the renowned [url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Memphis-Blues-Caravan-Vol-I/release/2531611]Memphis Blues Caravan[/url], along with artists such as [a150530], [a307408] & [a1012068]. He twice opened for [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rolling+Stones%2C+The]The Rolling Stones[/url] and even acquired a profile in Playboy magazine. He died of heart-failure aged 82, shortly after contracting pneumonia, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, South Memphis.
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dbo:abstract
| - Walter E. %22Furry%22 Lewis (March 6, 1893 – September 14, 1981) was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. Lewis was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement, and given a new lease of recording life, by the folk blues revival of the 1960s.
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- W. Lewis
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- Walter %22Furry%22 Lewis
- Walter 'Furry' Lewis
- Walter Lewis
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| - American country blues guitarist
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| - Elektra
- Roots
- Blue Horizon
- Biograph Records
- Document Records
- Fat Possum Records
- Folkways Records
- Prestige Bluesville
- Vocalion
- Wolf Records
- Yazoo Records
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schema:genre
| - Country Blues
- Memphis Blues
- Delta Blues
- Blues Revival
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