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Billy Goat

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A split photograph of Mike Dillon, funk and rock percussionist, vibraphonist and drummer, on the left side, and Kim Pruitt, funk and rock singer, on...

Date Published
1992
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Buckwheat Zydeco

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Buckwheat Zydeco, zydeco accordion player and singer, plays an accordion and sings into a microphone on a stage with five other African American...

Date Published
March-1987
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Casey Jones

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Blues drummer and vocalist Casey Jones bends his elbow to curl three fingers of his right hand on his right cheek with one finger pointed straight up...

Date Published
1983
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Casey Jones

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Blues drummer and vocalist Casey Jones sits backwards on a chair and crosses his forearms to rest them on the back of the chair. He turns his head to...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Casey Jones

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Blues drummer and vocalist Casey Jones turns his head slightly over his right shoulder to smile at the camera.. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1983
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Cobalt Project at the Grand Emporium

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The blues band, Cobalt Project Band, which includes: Branden Hudspeth, Sue Stubbs, Jan Faircloth, Paul Greenlease. Standing inside the Grand Emporium...

Date Published
January-09-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cobalt Project at the Grand Emporium

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The blues band, Cobalt Project, including Brandon Hudspeth, closing his eyes and playing the guitar, Jan Faircloth, playing the drums, Sue Stubbs...

Date Published
January-11-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy and So Many Men

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Cotton Candy & So Many Men, a blues band from Kansas City comprised of one African American woman, one African American man, and four white men, sit...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

David Basse

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David Basse, a jazz singer and drummer, smiles in a head-shot as he wears a fedora hat and a bolo tie.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Duck Warner, Hugh Ruddick, Len Bacoski, and Richard Townsend outside on a bench

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Duck Warner looks serious wearing a cowboy hat, as he holds a trumpet on his leg while he sits on a bench outside. Hugh Ruddick is next to Duck on the...

Date Published
April-10-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Kansas City Red

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Blues drummer and vocalist Kansas City Red cocks his head to the right as he closes his eyes to sing into a microphone and play a drum set possibly...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Larry Garner at Club Paradox

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Larry Garner, wearing a fedora, closes his eyes as he plays the guitar at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. An unidentified white male keyboard...

Date Published
February-18-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Larry Taylor

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Larry Taylor, blues drummer and singer, looks straight ahead as he sings into a microphone. He wears a dark hat and a shirt with a space-themed print...

Date Published
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Larry Taylor

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Larry Taylor, blues drummer and singer, crosses his hands and rests them on something under his overcoat; possibly a walking stick. He looks seriously...

Date Published
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Larry Taylor

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Blues vocalist and drummer Larry Taylor closes his eyes and lifts his eyebrows as he sings into a microphone he holds with both hands. He wears a dark...

Date Published
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Levee Town and Simplexity sit outside on the steps

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Groups Levee Town and Simplexity (Jeff Jones; GoGo Ray; Dave Wilkerson; Wes Blackman; Blaze; George Robinson; Tyson Leslie; Mark Gilmore) sit outside...

Date Published
November-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Levee Town at the Grand Emporium

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The Levee Town Band stand together for a photo at the Grand Emporium. Jimmie Meade holds a harmonica. Brandon Hudspeth smiles and holds an electric...

Date Published
November-20-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ronnie Dawson

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Ronnie Dawson, rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, stands with one hand in his pocket and the other cradling an electric guitar. He wears a...

Date Published
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Ruthie Foster and Cyd Cassone

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Ruthie Foster (left), in a split photograph, sits on a suitcase on railroad tracks and plays an acoustic guitar. In the...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Scarlet Runner

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Scarlet Runner, a blues-rock band comprised of Jason Christensen, Jack Christensen, and Jeremy Ackley, stand outside in front of a house laughing. The...

Date Published
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Sherman Holmes, Evie Quarles, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon at the Grand Emporium

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Sherman Holmes, Evie Quarles, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon stand side by side with their arms around each other smiling at the photographer in front of...

Date Published
March-10-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon at the Grand Emporium.

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Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand arm in arm, side by side, in...

Date Published
September-05-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Tiny Tim performing at the Grand Emporium with Rich Hill, Arnie Young, and Bryan Hicks

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Tiny Tim, a singer and ukulele player, closes his eyes as he stands at the microphone to sing and play a ukulele. He wears a white, long-tailed tuxedo...

Date Published
April-12-1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Tiny Tim, Rich Hill, Arnie Young, and Bryan Hicks perform at the Grand Emporium

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Tiny Tim, a singer and ukulele player, closes his eyes and plays an ukulele as he performs with a Rich Hill on the keyboard, Arnie Young on drums, and...

Date Published
April-12-1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Twisters

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The Twisters, a rock and roll band comprised of three white men, in four individual photographs in a collage. The top is the drummer. In the bottom...

Date Published
1985
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (18)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (9)

Types

  • photographs (27)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (22)
  • Gelatin silver prints (22)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Publicity photographs (15)
  • Portrait photographs (13)
  • Color photographs (5)
  • Negatives (1)
  • Photocopies (1)
  • Slides (1)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (12)
  • 1991-2000 (11)
  • 1981-1990 (6)

Subjects

  • Blues musicians (20)
  • African American men (15)
  • Guitarists (15)
  • Men, White (14)
  • Bass guitarists (8)
  • Women, White (6)
  • Bands (Music) (5)
  • Double bassists (5)
  • African American women (3)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (3)
  • Keyboard players (3)
  • Rock musicians (3)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Ukulele (2)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • Blues-rock music (1)
  • Drum (1)
  • Funk musicians (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Jazz musicians (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Keyboardists (1)
  • Overalls (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Photographers (1)
  • Railroad tracks (1)
  • Rockabilly musicians (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • Washboards (1)
  • Zydeco musicians (1)
  • (-) Drummers (Musicians) (27)
  • (-) Singers (27)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (8)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Faircloth, Jan (3)
  • Hudspeth, Brandon (3)
  • Jones, Casey (Drummer) (3)
  • Taylor, Larry, 1955- (3)
  • Greenlease, Paul (2)
  • Hicks, Bryan (2)
  • Hill, Rich (Keyboard player) (2)
  • Holmes, Sherman (2)
  • Holmes, Wendell, 1943-2015 (2)
  • Stubbs, Sue (Guitarist) (2)
  • Tiny Tim, 1932-1996 (2)
  • Young, Arnie (Drummer) (2)
  • Ackley, Jeremy (1)
  • Angerer, Karl (1)
  • Bacoski, Len (1)
  • Baker, Tom Trashmouth (1)
  • Basse, David (1)
  • Blackman, Wes (1)
  • Blaze (1)
  • Cassone, Cyd (1)
  • Christensen, Jack (Bass guitarist) (1)
  • Christensen, Jason (1)
  • Dawson, Ronnie (1)
  • DeMent, Iris (1)
  • Dillon, Mike (Drummer) (1)
  • Dural, Buckwheat, 1947-2016 (1)
  • Foster, Ruthie (1)
  • Garner, Larry (1)
  • Garoutte, Jacque (1)
  • Gilmore, Mark (1)
  • Go-Go Ray (1)
  • Hayes, Willie (1)
  • Jones, Jeff (Keytarist) (1)
  • Kansas City Red (1)
  • Leslie, Tyson (1)
  • Meade, Jimmie (1)
  • Osborn, Tim (1)
  • Pruitt, Kim (Singer) (1)
  • Quarles, Evie (1)
  • Quintero, Cardy (1)
  • Robinson, George (Trumpet player) (1)
  • Ruddick, Hugh (1)
  • Sedovic, Mike (1)
  • Townsend, Richard (Singer) (1)
  • Warner, Duck (1)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (1)
  • Wilkerson, Dave (1)

Date Published

  • 2004 (4)
  • 2000 (3)
  • 1981 (2)
  • 1983 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1993 (2)
  • 1994-04-12 (2)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 2001 (2)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1987-03 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • 1999-11-18 (1)
  • 2000-04-10 (1)
  • 2001-01-11 (1)
  • 2001-02-18 (1)
  • 2002-01-09 (1)
  • 2002-09-05 (1)
  • 2002-11-20 (1)
  • 2003-11-05 (1)
  • 2004-03-10 (1)

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