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To: the OlLine Rebel
FEW black guitarists ever in serious stardom

OK, from memory a quick list of the others:

Jimi Hendrix
Prince
B.B. King
Bo Diddley
Muddy Waters
Buddy Guy
Freddie King
Albert King
Robert Cray
Lenny Kravitz

A bunch of these are the most famous players of the Blues, which, had dozens of other famous black guitaristrs, but they were not world-famous on the order of Hendrix or Chuck Berry who were real super-stars. Someone like John Lee Hooker, famous to some, but probably unknown to most. Might cover some of those on my list above too.

86 posted on 03/20/2017 10:19:06 AM PDT by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: Jack Black

Yes, many in the strictly blues category, but none frankly of the superstardom of Chuck Berry - or Prince (whom I’m not sure is pure black; even his music is B&W).

Jimi Hendrix - another of the hippie generation that never really had a hit, but is well known mostly because of the hippie culture San-Fran sound thing. Overrated, as far as being a true star who actually churned out hits.


90 posted on 03/20/2017 7:12:41 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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