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History
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Happy Birthday, Willie Dixon!
July 1, 1915-January 12, 1992 Today is Willie Dixon’s Birthday! I could commemorate this by listing the people he wrote songs for, but that’s just about everybody in the Chicago Blues Scene. I could list the songs he wrote, but I’m pretty sure you have heard at least 3 or 4 variations of all of…
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Happy Birthday, Ransom Knowling!
June 24, 1912-October 22, 1967 Not much can be found on the internet about Ransom Knowling, but what there is, well, it’s quite impressive! It seems he started out playing tuba, violin, and bass in the early 1930s in NOLA, playing on riverboats and with a traveling orchestra. He moved to Chicago in 1937, and…