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Bar BQ Bob and Washboard Chaz

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Guitarist Bar BQ Bob and washboard player Washboard Chaz crouch down on a boulder with their instruments and smile at the photographer. Printed in the...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bob Margolin

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Blues guitarist Bob Margolin sits looks directly at the camera while playing an electric guitar. He wears sunglasses. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bruce Katz

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Blues musician Bruce Katz turns his head toward his right shoulder and winces as he plays an upright piano. An organ is behind him and to his left...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bugs Henderson and the Shuffle Kings

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Bugs Henderson and the Shuffle Kings, a blues band comprised of three white men, are standing on a pile of dirt in front of a factory holding their...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Coco Montoya

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Blues guitarist Coco Montoya looks directly at the camera as he plays a left-handed electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Coco...

Date Published
1996
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Coco Montoya

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Blues guitarist Coco Montoya looks directly at the camera with his hand resting on the neck of a guitar he holds in his lap. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1996
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Erick Hovey Band

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The Erick Hovey Band, a blues and roots rock band comprised of four white men, stand in a storefront holding their instruments. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

G. Love and Special Sauce

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G. Love closes his eyes as he stands behind a microphone, blows into a harmonica on a neck harness and plays a resonator guitar. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jake La Botz

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Chicago blues guitarist and vocalist Jake La Botz sits on a barstool playing an electric guitar, wearing a suit jacket and rolled-up jeans. A guitar...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jeremy Lyons and the Deltabilly Boys

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Jeremy Lyons and the Deltabilly Boys, a blues band comprised of three white men, stand out in the woods and smile as they look around. Printed in the...

Date Published
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

John Mooney

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Blues guitarist and vocalist John Mooney stands under a canopy looking at the neck of a guitar he is playing as he wears sunglasses. Printed in the...

Date Published
1992
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Juke Jumpers

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The Juke Jumpers, a band comprised of six white men, who play rhythm and blues, blues, and rockabilly music. They stand together more or less in a...

Date Published
1980
1981
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

King Brothers

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King Brothers, a blues band comprised of four African American men and one white man, looks ahead at the camera; most wearing dark leather jackets...

Date Published
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lamont Cranston

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Blues harmonica player Lamont Cranston smiles off to the left as he holds a harmonica in both hands and wears a light-colored fedora hat with a dark...

Date Published
1988
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Led Jaxson Band

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The Led Jaxson Band, a blues band comprised of five white men, stand on steps smiling at the camera. Most wears suit jackets. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1989
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lee McBee

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Blues harmonica player Lee McBee looks directly into the camera as he holds a harmonica to his mouth with both hands in a close-up, head-shot...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lil' Slim and the Back-Alley Blues Band

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Lil' Slim and the Back-Alley Blues Band, comprised of one African American man and three white men, sit on a couch at the Zoo Bar in Lincoln, Nebraska...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Little Mike and the Tornadoes

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Little Mike and the Tornadoes, a blues band comprised of four white men, look seriously at the camera. One on the left is sitting. The other three are...

Date Published
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lonnie Mack

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Blues guitarist Lonnie Mack closes his eyes as he stands and sings into a microphone and plays an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lonnie Mack

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Blues guitarist Lonnie Mack looks directly at the camera from under the brim of a ball cap as he holds an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below...

Date Published
1988
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Monte Montgomery

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Blues guitarist Monte Montgomery smiles and looks to the right as he leans on crossed arms. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Texas Music...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

R.J. Mischo

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Blues harmonica player R.J. Mischo looks up and to the right as he holds a vintage microphone in his right hand and a harmonica in his left hand...

Date Published
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Richard Johnston

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Richard Johnston sits in front of a brick wall and closes his eyes as he sings into a microphone and plays a cigar box...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Blues musicians
  • Musicians

Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (23)

Types

  • photographs (23)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (23)
  • Gelatin silver prints (23)
  • Publicity photographs (23)
  • Portrait photographs (14)
  • Group portraits (8)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (13)
  • 1981-1990 (7)
  • 2001-2010 (4)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Men, White (23)
  • Bands (Music) (10)
  • Guitarists (10)
  • Guitar (9)
  • African American men (3)
  • Harmonica players (3)
  • Singers (3)
  • Harmonica (1)
  • Hip-hop (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Rockabilly musicians (1)
  • Washboards (1)
  • (-) Blues musicians (23)
  • (-) Musicians (23)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Lincoln (Neb.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Mack, Lonnie (2)
  • Montoya, Coco (2)
  • Bar BQ Bob (1)
  • Cranston, Lamont (1)
  • G. Love, 1972- (1)
  • Henderson, Bugs (1)
  • Hovey, Erick (1)
  • Johnston, Richard (Richard Wayne) (1)
  • Katz, Bruce (Musician) (1)
  • La Botz, Jake (1)
  • Leary, Washboard Chaz (1)
  • Lil' Slim (1)
  • Little Mike, 1955- (1)
  • Lyons, Jeremy (1)
  • Margolin, Bob (1)
  • McBee, Lee (1)
  • Mischo, R. J. (1)
  • Montgomery, Monte (1)
  • Mooney, John, 1955- (1)

Date Published

  • 2000 (6)
  • 2001 (4)
  • 1991 (3)
  • 1999 (3)
  • 2004 (3)
  • 1988 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 1996 (2)
  • 1997 (2)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1994 (1)

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