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Frank Stokes & Dan Sane

Dan Sane
1950s1955youtube

Frank Stokes & Dan Sane Guitarist and singer, orphaned by his parents, he began playing in clubs near Memphis in 1895. In the early 1920s, we formed the Band 'Beale Street Sheks' by Frank Stokes & Dan Sane, an Archetypal duo from Memphis. Frank Stokes B. 1888 - Whitehaven, Tennessee D. 1955 - Memphis, Tennessee Wasn't That Doggin' Me The Beale Street Sheiks: Frank Stokes (gt/voc) Dan Sane (gt) Chicago, 1929

About Dan Sane

Dan Sane (possibly September 22, 1896 – February 18, 1956) was an American Memphis blues and country blues guitarist and songwriter. He was an associate of Frank Stokes. According to the Music journalist Jason Ankeny, "they had emerged among the most complementary duos in all of the blues, with Sane's flatpicking ideally embellished by Stokes' fluid rhythms." The best-known of the songs written by Sane are "Downtown Blues" and "Mr.

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