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Larry McCray

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Blues guitarist and singer Larry McCray laughs as he looks down and to his right while holding an electric guitar. He wears a dark vest. Printed in...

Date Published
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Larry Raspberry

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Larry Raspberry, blues-rock guitarist and singer, sits on the grill of a car with an open hood and grins up at the camera. He wears sunglasses...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Leadbelly playing in studio

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Leadbelly [Huddie Ledbetter] playing guitar in a recording studio while also singing into a CPM microphone hanging from overhead. Leadbelly is sitting...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Lee Rocker and Scotty Moore

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Rockabilly musicians Lee Rocker and Scotty Moore stand outside and smile at the camera. Scotty holds a guitar. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lem Sheppard at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

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Lem Sheppard, wearing sunglasses, looks down at the electric guitar he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-29-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lem Sheppard during the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2001

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Lem Shepphard, wearing a crocheted skull cap, closes his eyes and sings into a microphone as he plays the guitar at Club Paradox during the Kansas...

Date Published
June-23-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lester "Wizard" King at the Grand Emporium

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Lester "Wizard" King, wearing a suit jacket over a sweater that says, "Crossroads of the Blues," closes his eyes as he plays a flying-X guitar at the...

Date Published
September-13-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles 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

Lightnin' Malcolm at the Grand Emporium

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Lightnin' Malcolm, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, perspiring heavily, sticks his tongue out as he plays an electric guitar...

Date Published
June-25-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials performing during toga night aboard Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise II

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Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, two members of the blues band, one African American man and the other a white man, perform on stage of the cruise...

Date Published
January-06-1994
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lil' Ed at the Grand Emporium

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Lil' Ed, singing and playing the guitar, leads a conga line of the audience through the seated audience at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
May-15-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lil' Ed at the Grand Emporium

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Lil' Ed of the band The Imperials, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a cheetah-skin print fez hat and vest, leans...

Date Published
January-23-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Linda Shell and Ron Thompson

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Linda Shell, blues singer, stands center stage singing into a microphone, and Ron Thompson, guitarist, closes his eyes as he plays guitar to the right...

Date Published
August-1986
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Link Wray

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Rock guitarist Link Wray sits resting his arms on an electric guitar while looking seriously at the camera. He wears a dark leather jacket and...

Date Published
January-01-1985
January-01-2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Link Wray at the Grand Emporium

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Link Wray, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing sunglasses, smiles at the playing of a bassist, possibly Pat Hays, as...

Date Published
May-26-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Little Buster

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Little Buster, guitarist for the Little Buster and the Soul Brothers blues band, stand on railroad tracks with a big smile as he plays an electric...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Little Ed Williams and Dave Weld

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Chicago blues slide guitarist Little Ed Williams and Chicago blues guitarist Dave Weld, stand on the side of a dirt road with their instruments in...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Little Jimmy King

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Little Jimmy King stands with his fingers threaded over the body of an electric guitar as he smiles at the camera. He is...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Little Mary at Blayney's

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Little Mary, one of the national acts at the Rhythm and Boobs Benefit in Blayney's, sings into a microphone as she plays an acoustic guitar.

Date Published
July-27-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Little Milton Campbell at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Little Milton Campbell, rolling his top lip over his lower lip, as he plays an electric guitar during Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-22-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Little Milton Campbell at the Grand Emporium

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Little Milton Campbell, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sits and looks seriously at the neck of a guitar he plays by a...

Date Published
May-25-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Little Smokey Smothers at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Little Smokey Smothers, wearing a bowler hat and overalls, looks to his left as he plays an electric guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...

Date Published
July-20-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Little Whitt and Big Bo

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Little Whitt looks down at an acoustic guitar he is playing as Blues vocalist and harmonica player Big Bo looks down in...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium 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

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