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Bernard Allison

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison sits with an electric guitar flat across his lap and smiles at the photographer as he wears a cowboy hat...

Date Published
1990
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bernard Allison

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison sits with an electric guitar flat across his lap and smiles at the photographer as he wears a cowboy hat...

Date Published
1990
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bernard Allison

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison stands in a doorway with his arms crossed over the body of an electric guitar. He wears a cowboy hat, a...

Date Published
2000
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bernard Allison

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison stands in a doorway with his arms crossed over the body of an electric guitar. He wears a cowboy hat, a...

Date Published
1995
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bernard Allison playing guitar in the street; outside the Grand Emporium

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison grinning and playing guitar in the street outside the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. He wears a...

Date Published
May-22-1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Big G

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Blues guitarist Big G, [Garrett Jacobson] closes his eyes as he plays an electric guitar as he stands next to an amplifier. He wears a cowboy hat.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy and the Voodoo Kitchin'

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Blues guitarist Billy [Royce] squats on a stage to light his red electric guitar on fire. His hat covers his face. Printed over the photograph, "in...

Date Published
May-2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues

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Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues, a band comprised of four African American men. Two wear cowboy hats. One at the top of the photo wears a backwards...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Billy Branch and the Sons the Blues

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Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues. Two band members wear cowboy hats. One member at the top of the photo wears a backwards ball cap. Printed in the...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Clarence Gatemouth Brown

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Blues musician Clarence Gatemouth Brown wears a cowboy hat and a western-style shirt as he holds a fiddle in his right hand, a bow over his left...

Date Published
1985
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Cotton Candy and four unidentified men

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Blues singer Cotton Candy sits in the center of four unidentified white men, all wearing fedora hats. The men sit on the chair's arm rests and on the...

Date Published
May-16-1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Guy Davis

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Blues vocalist and guitarist Guy Davis in a right side profile close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a fedora hat with a black headband with red...

Date Published
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jay McShann and Duke Robillard on stage

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Jay McShann wearing a ball cap and singing and playing and electronic piano on an outdoor stage with guitarist Duke Robillard at the 2004 Western...

Date Published
March-2004
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann seated on a couch with Duke Robillard

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Jay McShann seated next to Duke Robillard in sunglasses and a white hat; McShann is looking at him and he's looking at the camera; 2004 Western...

Date Published
March-2004
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann with Duke Robillard

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Jay McShann posing for a photo with guitarist Duke Robillard at the 2004 Western Maryland Blues Festival; a large crowd of festival goers can be seen...

Date Published
March-2004
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann, Duke Robillard, and unidentified bassist performing outdoors

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Jay McShann singing and playing an electronic piano on an outdoor stage with guitarist Duke Robillard, and unidentified white male bassist at the 2004...

Date Published
March-2004
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann, Duke Robillard, and unidentified bassist performing outdoors

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Jay McShann, guitarist Duke Robillard, and unidentified white male bassist performing outdoors at the 2004 Western Maryland Blues Festival; McShann is...

Date Published
March-2004
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Liz Barnez with a group of people

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Blues and Country guitarist and vocalist Liz Barnez sits on a tall stool in the center of an unidentified group of four white men and one white woman...

Date Published
2001
2010
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

R.L. Burnside

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Blues guitarist R.L. Burnside wears a conical masonic [possibly?] hat and holds his hands up shoulder height with his fingers spread.. Printed in the...

Date Published
1991
1999
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Roger Wallace

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Country-blues guitarist and vocalist Roger Wallace, from his left profile, looks seriously straight ahead in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Steve Ferguson

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Blues guitarist Steve Ferguson sits on the ground beside a tree and in front of a metal fence and plays a guitar. He wears a unique hat. Printed in...

Date Published
1994
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Blues musicians
  • Hats

Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (16)
  • Jay McShann Collection (5)

Types

  • photographs (20)

Genres

  • Publicity photographs (14)
  • Black & white photographs (13)
  • Gelatin silver prints (13)
  • Portrait photographs (11)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Color photographs (7)
  • Snapshots (6)
  • Concert posters (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (11)
  • 2001-2010 (10)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (15)
  • Guitarists (15)
  • Guitar (11)
  • Men, White (11)
  • Singers (9)
  • African American jazz musicians (5)
  • Jazz musicians (5)
  • Buildings (4)
  • Bands (Music) (3)
  • Electronic piano (3)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Piano (3)
  • Country musicians (2)
  • Double bass (2)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Sofas (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Blues musicians (21)
  • (-) Hats (21)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Allison, Bernard (5)
  • McShann, Jay (5)
  • Robillard, Duke (4)
  • Branch, Billy (2)
  • Barnez, Liz (1)
  • Brown, Clarence, 1924-2005 (1)
  • Burnside, R. L. (Rural L.), 1926-2005 (1)
  • Davis, Guy, 1952- (1)
  • Ferguson, Steve, 1948-2009 (1)
  • Jacobson, Garrett, 1984- (1)
  • Royce, Billy (1)
  • Wallace, Roger (Musician) (1)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (1)

Events

  • Western Maryland Blues Festival (2004) (5)

Date Published

  • 1995 (6)
  • 2004-03 (5)
  • 2000 (3)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 2002 (2)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1994 (1)
  • 1995-05-16 (1)
  • 1998-05-22 (1)
  • 1999 (1)
  • 2000-05 (1)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2004 (1)
  • 2010 (1)

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