| What are B.B. King’s dates? |
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| What are Charlie Patton’s dates? |
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| What are Muddy Waters’ dates? |
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| What are Robert Johnson’s dates? |
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| Why was Muddy Waters important to the development of the blues? |
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| He was one of the originators of the electric blues |
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| Who was said to have sold his soul to the devil in order to play the blues? |
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| Who started the devil rumor? |
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| How did Robert Johnson die? |
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| Why is Robert Johnson important to the development of the blues? |
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| He is known as being the greatest of all the blues guitarists and influenced many other musicians |
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| What is the delta blues lyric style? |
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| A three lined stanza where the first two lines repeat and the third line rhymes with the first two |
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| What were the original blues instruments? |
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| Why was Charlie Patton important to the development of the blues? |
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| He was the first to record the delta blues |
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| What did B.B King name his guitar? |
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| What does the “B.B” stand for in B.B King’s name? |
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| What is B.B King’s real name? |
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| Why is B.B King important to the development to the blues? |
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| He was the first blues musician to tour the world and he has remained popular for over fifty years |
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| What was so different about B.B King’s 1970 tour? |
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| What was the prison that B.B King played at on September 10, 1970? |
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| Cook County Jail, Illinois |
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| What instrument did Muddy Waters first learn to play? |
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| Which bottleneck players did Muddy Waters listen to? |
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| Robert Johnson and Son House |
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| What single was Muddy Waters’ first hit record? |
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| Who was Muddy Waters’ audience in the 1960s? |
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| A young, white, middle class audience |
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| What group got its name from a Muddy Waters’ tune? |
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| What was one distinction of B.B King’s guitar playing? |
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| The voice-like string vibrato |
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| What was B.B King’s first number one hit? |
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| When Muddy Waters left Mississippi, which big city did he go to? |
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