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Live performance footage captures the energy, spontaneity, and imperfection that studio recordings polish away. The rarest live clips are from small venues, early gigs, one-off collaborations, and performances where something unexpected happened — a song played differently, a moment of improvisation, or a connection between the artist and the audience that was never repeated.
b. 10 Nov. 1938, Prichard, Alabama d. 24 Jan. 1992, St. Paul, Minnesota Blues artist, signed on with Don Robey's Houston-based Duke Records in 1961.
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