During a career that lasted six decades, Big Joe Turner helped pioneer rock and roll.
Blues
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Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin were three of the biggest rock icons of the 1960s, and they died within a year of each other. Decades later, only Joplin’s star has …
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Danny Gatton went by many names during his career, but the one that stuck was “World’s Greatest Unknown Guitar Player”…
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The sketchy details of bluesman Robert Johnson’s life and death inspired a mythology that sometimes obscures his musical accomplishments…
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Her hit songs included “Wang Dang Doodle.”
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His foot stompin’ and gravelly voice inspired generations of musicians.
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