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Louisiana Red

Louisiana Red (born Iverson Minter, 1932, Bessema, Alabama, United States) is a blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, who has recorded more than 50 albums. In a career spanning over half a century, Louisiana Red has played with just about every major bluesman you can name, some of the most memorable encounters being his jams with B.B.King and Muddy Waters. But it doesn’t matter who he plays with or where he appears - Louisiana Red brings the same intensitiy and enthusiasm to every stage he appears on...

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The Hamsters

The Hamsters are now coming up to their 20th year of hard work and heavy blues rock and roll, have performed more than 3,500 concerts with a national mailing list exceeding 20,000. The Hamsters are Britain's hardest working band, with an insane gig list that most bands would find daunting. The Hamsters have established themselves as the UK's top blues-rock attraction, done purely by hard work without any major record labels, handling all of their own affairs.

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Nick Moss

Chicago blues is now synonymous with guitarist Nick Moss. Though the golden era of Chicago blues is long past with many of its key players deceased or retired, this young Chicagoan stands tallest in the current generation of blues performers that honor the letter and spirit of the great urban African-American music. No less than Jimmy Rogers saw Nick as a prot

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