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Willie Hill is a veteran musician who spent a number of years playing with touring R&B and soul acts before starting his own recording studio and record label in Durham, NC

Willie Hutch Biography, Photos, Pictures

A versatile figure during Motown’s “golden years,” Willie Hutch penned hits for other artists, as well as issuing albums on his own Born Willie McKinley Hutchinson during 1946 in Los Angeles, CA, Hutch was raised in Dallas, TX, where he began signing as a teenager (as a member of an outfit called the Ambassadors)

Willie Johnson Biography, Photos, Pictures

Most often credited as Bill Johnson, this artist is one of the founding members of the Golden Gate Quartet, a gospel ensemble whose sounds quite often crossed over into the realms of doo wop and barbershop quartet harmony

Willie Jones Biography, Photos, Pictures

Not to be confused with an entire rhythm section’s worth of jazzmen with the same name, this Willie Jones, an obscure blues singer and guitarist from the late ’50s, shows up on several different compilations

When this Willie Jones sang and recorded “Willie’s Weary Blues” in the ’20s, he may have been expressing fatigue about being confused with so many other musicians with this same name

A member of the original formation of Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs, this Willie Jones is not the same vocalist who worked with the Coasters under the name of Will “Dub” Jones

The preeminent Chicago blues bassist of the postwar era, Willie Kent was the city’s last surviving link to the Mississippi Delta tradition, backing a who’s who of immortals including Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Junior Parker as well as fronting his own long-running band, the Gents

While he’s only come to a national audience in recent years, Alabama-based bluesman Willie King sets himself apart from many of today’s modern bluesmen and blueswomen by his insistence on addressing topical and political issues in his songwriting

North Texas bluesman Willie Lane recorded six sides (“Up and Down Building KC Line,” “Prowlin’ Ground Hog,” “Too Many Women Blues,” “Howling Wolfe Blues,” and two takes of “Black Cat Rag”) for Dallas-based Talent Records between 1934 and 1949

Willie Lee Patton Biography, Photos, Pictures

Sometimes all it takes is one recording session to earn a place in the history books, but there are plenty of artists who don’t seem to have gotten more than one such opportunity, either