Tampa Red & Georgia Tom

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Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 - March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an influential American musician. He is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who had a unique single-string bottleneck style. His songwriting and his silky, polished slide technique influenced other leading Chicago blues guitarists, such as Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk, as well as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mose Allison and many others. In a career spanning over 30 years he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum records. Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899, Villa Rica, Georgia - January 23, 1993, Chicago). He is known as "the father of gospel music". Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist under the name Georgia Tom. He learned to play the piano as a young man, and after studying music formally in Chicago, became an agent for Paramount Records. He put together a band for Ma Rainey called the Wild Cats Jazz Band in 1924. He started out playing at rent parties with the names Barrelhouse Tom and Texas Tommy, but he was most famous as Georgia Tom, under which name he teamed up with Tampa Red to record the raunchy 1928 hit "Tight Like That", a sensation, selling seven million copies. The two went on to record almost 90 sides, sometimes as The Hokum Boys or, with Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon, as Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band. Their partnership ended in 1932. Tampa Red remained much in demand as a session musician, and in 1934 sig

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Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - A Musical Journey (Disc 1)

Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard

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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues, A Musical Journey, (Five CD Box Set)

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The Blues: A Musical Journey

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Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - A Musical Journey

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The Blues: A Musical Journey (Disc 1)

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TTRH 3 - 14 - Cats

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey

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The Slide Guitar Bottles, Knives & Steel Vol.2

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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues-A Musical Journey Cd 1

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Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Third Series

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Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey

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