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George Washington Biography, Photos, Pictures

While it easy to sympathize with their sentiments, some music writers have obviously gone way over the top in their reaction to credits for a bassist named George Washington on vintage John Lee Hooker albums, comparing the way his lines are played to the sound of a fruit tree being chopped down or interpreting the famous spoken lyrics “Boy gotta boogie! It’s in him and it’s gotta come out!” as relevant to the Declaration of Independence

This artist has worked as a producer and project coordinator on a variety of gospel and rhythm and blues projects since the mid ’90s, including dance music compilations

George Washington Phillips Biography, Photos, Pictures

East Texan Washington Phillips was one of the founding fathers of American gospel music Although he recorded only eighteen tunes (sixteen of which have survived) in five sessions in Dallas between 1927 and 1929, Phillips helped to lay the foundation that resulted in such spiritually-oriented performers as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Dixie Hummingbirds and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama

George Williams Biography, Photos, Pictures

Best known as the longtime lead vocalist for the Philly soul group the Tymes, George Williams was born in the City of Brotherly Love on December 6, 1935 After serving in the U

Georgia Anne Muldrow Biography, Photos, Pictures

Georgia Anne Muldrow grew up in a musical home in Los Angeles, her father an instrument inventor for Eddie Harris and her mother, Rickie Byars, a singer with the Pharoah Sanders Ensemble and co-founder of Sound of Agape Rhythms

Gabriel Brown Biography, Photos, Pictures

A highly original country blues guitarist and singer, Gabriel Brown was discovered in Florida by folk music researchers in the ’30s and launched on a recording career that lasted several decades

Georgia Cotton Pickers Biography, Photos, Pictures

This was one of the only country blues supergroups, although the name sounds more like something an announcer on the early Grand Ole Opry show might have come up with to hang on some old-time string band

Georgia Mass Choir Biography, Photos, Pictures

Formed in 1983, the 150-voice Georgia Mass Choir came to prominence through highly visible appearances in the Whitney Houston film The Preacher’s Wife and at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta

Georgia Tom Dorsey Biography, Photos, Pictures

Biographers of Georgia Tom Dorsey like to make comments such as “his life was a living testimony of the power of God” But there was also the trashy side to the man, expressed best in song titles such as “Terrible Operation Blues” and “Pig Meat Blues

Georgia White Biography, Photos, Pictures

Barrelhouse blues vocalist Georgia White recorded mildly risqué blues songs from the mid-30s through the early ’40s including “I’ll Keep Sitting on It,” “Take Me for a Buggy Ride,” “Mama Knows What Papa Wants When Papa’s Feeling Blue,” and “Hot Nuts