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  • Tampa Red
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  • Tampa Red
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  • American blues guitarists
  • 20th-century American singers
  • Blues Hall of Fame inductees
  • American blues singers
  • RCA Victor artists
  • 1904 births
  • 1981 deaths
  • American blues musicians
  • Bluebird Records artists
  • Chicago blues musicians
  • Slide guitarists
  • Vocalion Records artists
  • People from Lee County, Georgia
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  • Born: Jan. 8, 1904, Smithville, GA, USA. Died: March 19, 1981, Chicago, IL, USA. One of Chicago's earliest blues guitar stars.He came by his nick-name because he was raised in Tampa, Florida and because of his red hair. He is best recalled as part of the team of Tampa Red and Georgia Tom (Dorsey), - The Hokum Boys. But, Tampa Red also created several %22Jug%22 bands including 'Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band' (which incidentally featured a young Frankie Jaxon), and 'The Tub Jug Washboard Band' which did a lot of recording with blues singer Ma Rainey. He also recorded alone, and cut a number of exquisite guitar solos. By the time of his 1928 recording debut for Vocalion, he had developed the clear, precise bottleneck blues guitar style that earned him his billing, The Guitar Wizard'. His %22Bottleneck Guitar%22 and single-string solo style, inspired a number of other early Chicago Blues guitarists, namely, Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk. Tampa Red was also one of the most prolific Blues composers, writing such Blues standards as %22Sweet Black Angel%22, %22Love Her With A Feeling%22, %22Don't You Lie To Me%22, and %22It Hurts Me Too%22 (covered respectively by B.B. King, Freddy King, Fats Domino and Elmore James among others). He was perhaps the most influential of all the early 20th century Blues guitarists.
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  • Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician.Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who had a unique single-string slide style. His songwriting and his silky, polished %22bottleneck%22 technique influenced other leading Chicago blues guitarists, such as Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk, as well as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mose Allison and many others. In a career spanning over 30 years he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum records. His best known recordings include the %22classic compositions 'Anna Lou Blues', 'Black Angel Blues', 'Crying Won't Help You', 'It Hurts Me Too', and 'Love Her with a Feeling'%22.
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  • T. Red
  • Tampa Red %22The Guitar Wizard%22
  • Tampa Red, %22The Guitar Wizard%22
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  • 1904-01-08
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  • 1981-03-19
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  • Tampa Red
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  • Bluebird Records
  • RCA Victor
  • Vocalion
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  • Chicago Blues
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