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1963 Blues great, Elmore James, “King of the Slide Guitar,” died of a heart attack on Friday, May 24, 1963 at the age of 45 in Chicago, Illinois. Originally born Elmore Brooks, he was the son of 15 year old Leola Brooks and Joe Willie “Frost” James and was raised on several different farms in the Durant, Mississippi, area by his sharecropping parents. At the age 12, Elmore James began making music using a strand of broomwire nailed to the front porch of his cabin (locally known as a 'diddley bow' or 'jitterbug'). In 1932, at the age of 14, Elmore James, also known as Cleanhead and Joe Willie James, began playing guitar for parties and dances in the Durant area. By 1937 James had moved on to plantations near the Delta town of Belzoni, Mississippi, and taken up with musicians like Kokomo Arnold, Tampa Red, Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Johnson who had a profound influence on developing his guitar technique. Known for his lifelong taste for, and manufacture of, moonshine whiskey, fast driving, and hunting, Elmore James along with his band “the Broomdusters” (which included 'Little' Johnny Jones , Odie Payne , Willie Love, and Homesick James) had over 45 recordings at a time when few when few blues artists recorded albums, including the blues classic “Dust My Broom” whose opening slide guitar riff is one of the best-known sounds in all of blues. Elmore James technique on the slide guitar influenced and shape blues, rock musicians like John Littlejohn, Hound Dog Taylor, J. B. Hutto, The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones, Fleetwood Mac's Jeremy Spencer, and Jimi Hendrix. Elmore James is buried in the Newport Baptist Church Cemetery in Ebenezer, Mississippi (Holmes County).
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Zydeco Music is a unique form of musical expression that originated in rural southwest Louisiana. Locally known as "la la" music, Zydeco music was formed and forged in a time best forgotten--a time when African-Americans had to struggle in the fields from sunup to sundown as sharecroppers so that their children might reap a better life.
It was these backbreaking hard times that help to define one of the most vibrant and successful musical traditions in the world. The phrase "Zydeco sont pas sale'" means "The snapbeans are not Salty" in Creole French, and the music draws upon French, Creole, West African, Cajun, Caribbean, and R & B musical traditions. Zydeco Music is characterized by the use of the accordion, spoons, scrubboard, fiddle and triangle. --ZydecoOnline.com--
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1963 Blues great, Elmore James, “King of the Slide Guitar,” died of a heart attack on Friday, May 24, 1963 at the age of 45 in Chicago, Illinois. Originally born Elmore Brooks, he was the son of 15 year old Leola Brooks and Joe Willie “Frost” James and was raised on several different farms in the Durant, Mississippi, area by his sharecropping parents. At the age 12, Elmore James began making music using a strand of broomwire nailed to the front porch of his cabin (locally known as a 'diddley bow' or 'jitterbug'). In 1932, at the age of 14, Elmore James, also known as Cleanhead and Joe Willie James, began playing guitar for parties and dances in the Durant area. By 1937 James had moved on to plantations near the Delta town of Belzoni, Mississippi, and taken up with musicians like Kokomo Arnold, Tampa Red, Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Johnson who had a profound influence on developing his guitar technique. Known for his lifelong taste for, and manufacture of, moonshine whiskey, fast driving, and hunting, Elmore James along with his band “the Broomdusters” (which included 'Little' Johnny Jones , Odie Payne , Willie Love, and Homesick James) had over 45 recordings at a time when few when few blues artists recorded albums, including the blues classic “Dust My Broom” whose opening slide guitar riff is one of the best-known sounds in all of blues. Elmore James technique on the slide guitar influenced and shape blues, rock musicians like John Littlejohn, Hound Dog Taylor, J. B. Hutto, The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones, Fleetwood Mac's Jeremy Spencer, and Jimi Hendrix. Elmore James is buried in the Newport Baptist Church Cemetery in Ebenezer, Mississippi (Holmes County).
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