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  • Roscoe Shelton - (August 22, 1931 – July 27, 2002) Born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, Shelton was a blues and R&B singer, best remembered for his 1965 R&B Hit, "Strain on My Heart".
  • Frankie Lee Sims - (April 30, 1917 – May 10, 1970) Electric Texas blues guitarist
  • Drink Small - Born January 28, 1933 in Bishopville, South Carolina, Small is known was the "Blues Doctor".
  • Barkin' Bill Smith - Born in Mississippi, Smith has lived in Detroit and St. Louis before he moved to his current home in Chicago. Smith is a Chicago blues singer who does solo work and also has sang for electric blues bands like Dave Specter & the Bluebirds. He received his name from Homesick James Williamson in the 1950s, but did not record his own album until 1991 for Delmark Records with Dave Specter, and then a follow-up release in 1994 titled Gotcha!.
  • George "Harmonica" Smith - (April 22, 1924 – October 2, 1983) Born in Helena, Arkansas, Smith was a Harmonica blues blues harp player and singer and exponent of West Coast blues, spending most of his career in Los Angeles, California. Playing harmonica on an amplified microphone as well as in acoustic settings, he released at least four albums under his own name.
  • Angela Strehli - born in 1945, Strehli is a singer-songwriter, a Texas blues historian, impresario and fan.

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