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Bob Margolin at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Bob Margolin, wearing sunglasses, plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-19-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bob Margolin at the W.C. Handy Awards

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Bob Margolin, wearing sunglasses, stands behind a microphone and grins as he plays an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy...

Date Published
May-28-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bob Stroger at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

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Bob Stroger, wearing a cowboy hat, leans to his left as he plays an electric bass at 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios...

Date Published
October-18-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bob Stroger at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS

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Bob Stroger, wearing a top hat, and a guitar lapel pin, looks down at the neck of electric bass he is playing during the 4th Annual Blues Masters at...

Date Published
October-12-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby "Blue" Bland at the Grand Emporium

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Bobby "Blue" Bland, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes, scrunches his face, and lifts his chin as he sings...

Date Published
November-17-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby "Blue" Bland, Denise LaSalle, Buddy Guy, Robert Jr. Lockwood

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A promotional sheet of four portrait photographs of African American blues musicians. From the top left, Bobby "Blue" Bland; top right, Denise LaSalle...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Adams at the Grand Emporium

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Bobby Adams, wearing a ball cap, looks at the photographer as he twirls a drumstick above the drum set he is playing at the Grand Emporium.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Bland

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Blues vocalist Bobby Bland sits and holds a cigarette between the index finger and thumb of his right hand. The thick smoke rises up the left side of...

Date Published
1985
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Bland and Lee Oskar at the Grand Emporium

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Bobby Bland, Lee Oskar, and others perform as one of the national acts at the Grand Emporium. Bobby Bland looks to his left shoulder towards Lee Oskar...

Date Published
July-03-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Carson

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Blues guitarist Bobby Carson closes his eyes as he plays an electric guitar behind a microphone. He wears a short-sleeved shirt to reveal guitar...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Carson at the Grand Emporium

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Bobby Carson looks serious as he holds an electric guitar high on his chest and watches the fingers of his left hand on the neck of the guitar as he...

Date Published
November-24-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Carson at the Grand Emporium

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Bobby Carson on stage, speaks into a microphone looking left with a keyboard player, drummer, and guitarist behind him. A large crowd is in front of...

Date Published
May-30-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Murray

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Bobby Murray, a Japanese-Irish American male electric blues guitarist, looks directly at the camera as he hugs an electric guitar where the neck meets...

Date Published
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Parker

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Bobby Parker, blues guitarist and singer, stands with his hands resting on the headstock of an electric guitar of which he rests the other end of the...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Rush

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Bobby Rush, blues singer, looks to his right and smiles at the camera as he holds a harmonica in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Rush

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Blues singer Bobby Rush wearing a stage costume of a shiny suit, sits on a motorcycle and looks down to his right at the camera. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1978
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bobby Rush and Lo Lespes at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Bobby Rush, sings into a microphone as Lo Lespes dances during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival, The audience is visible behind Lo.

Date Published
June-24-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush and Marvine McKeithen at the Club Paradox

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Marvine McKeithen holds up Bobby Rush's hand and arm as she smiles and speaks into a microphone on the stage at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas...

Date Published
March-08-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush and the crowd at Club Paradox

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Bobby Rush is seated to the far right among the crowd at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.

Date Published
March-08-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Bobby Rush stands on stage holding a microphone in his left hand during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush at the Thanksgiving Blues Breakfast

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Bobby Rush, one of the national acts to perform at the Thanksgiving Blues Breakfast in Kansas City, KS, grins as he sings and holds a microphone.

Date Published
November-27-2003
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Womack at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Bobby Womack, wearing a cap and sunglasses, sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

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

Boney Fields at the Grand Emporium

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Boney Fields, one the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a bowler hat, blows into a trumpet he holds with a handkerchief.

Date Published
May-22-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bonnie Raitt

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Bonnie Raitt smiles over her right shoulder as she stands behind a microphone playing an acoustic guitar. Printed in the...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Boozoo Chavis at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Boozoo Chavis, wearing a cowboy hat, looks down at the microphone as he plays the accordion during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-16-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

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