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Gitlo Lee
11+ albums
bluesrockbluesContemporary Bluesguitar blues
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Gitlo.....the Blues man of the South. Discover the Legend behind the best Blues to ever come out of the Okefenokee Swamp Gitlo's brush with fame happened at an early age when he performed with Sonny Boy Williamson during a New Year's Eve gig in Darien, Georgia. Gitlo - Bluesman looks back on his life. "If I couldn't do this, I would ball up and die," Thomas Lee says of his chosen trade, traveling bluesman. Lee, who is wearing dark sunglasses even though he's been inside for an hour, is known to all blues lovers up and down the Southeast coast as Gitlo, so-called because a foreman who once watched him picking sweet potatoes remarked of his prowess, "Boy, you sure know how to get low." Every great bluesman has a great story. And when you hear this one, it might sound familiar. It starts with sweet-potato picking in rural Georgia, but ends with a Horatio Alger, or maybe in this case an Elwood Blues kind of hard-earned success. Lee was born on a turpentine farm among nine brothers and three sisters in Menola -- that's a town on the skirts of the Okefenokee Swamp in lower Georgia, where the South couldn't get any deeper. Gitlo was raised by Church of God in Christ parents, his father a minister, his mother extremely devout. Religion, which from time to time has a reputation for maintaining a relatively humorless environment, resigned in the Lee home, and eventually kept Lee from beginning his blues career earlier that he could have. In addition to attending Sunday services, Gi
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Coming Outta the Hole
Comin Out the Hole
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Akella Presents - vol.52 - Black Pure Blues CD2
Comin' Out the Hole
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The Best Blues
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Comin' Outta the Hole
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Akella Presents - vol.52 - Bla
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Akella presents: vol.52 Black Pure Blues
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Black Pure Blues
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AKELLA PRESENTS VOL. 52 - BLACK PURE BLUES
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Akella Presents - vol.52 - Black Pure Blues