Rock & Roll Birthdays

injinji

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Feb 1, 2022

• #4,941

1902 Langston Hughes, American poet (Weary Blues), playwright (Mulatto), and librettist (Troubled Island), born in Joplin, Missouri (d. 1967)

REK's take on this and other poets.

 

injinji

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Feb 1, 2022

• #4,942

• 1938 Jimmy Carl Black [Inkanish], American rock drummer (Mothers Of Invention, 1965-69; Muffin Men, 1993-200, born in El Paso, Texas (d. 200

 

injinji

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Feb 1, 2022

• #4,943

• 1939 Del McCoury, American bluegrass guitarist and singer, born in York, Pennsylvania

 

injinji

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Feb 1, 2022

• #4,944

1948 Rick James [James Ambrose Johnson, Jr.], American funk musician ("Super Freak"), born in Buffalo New York (d. 2004)

 

injinji

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Feb 1, 2022

• #4,945

• 1950 Mike Campbell, American guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - "Breakdown"), born in Panama City, Florida

 

injinji

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Feb 1, 2022

• #4,946

• 1951 Clide "Sonny" Landreth, American blues and zydeco slide guitar player, born in Canton, Mississippi

The man keeps good company.

 

injinji

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Feb 1, 2022

• #4,947

1968 Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson, daughter of Elvis, born in Memphis, Tennessee

 

injinji

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Feb 1, 2022

• #4,948

• 1979 Jason Isbell, American singer (Drive-By Truckers), born in Green Hill, Alabama

 

injinji

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Feb 2, 2022

• #4,949

• 1942 Graham Nash, British-American musician and singer-songwriter (The Hollies - "Bus Stop"; Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Our House"), born in Blackpool, Lancashire

 

topcat

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Feb 4, 2022

• #4,950

Feb. 3, 1947. Dave Davies. The lesser Davies. The Kinks. Tired of Waiting.

 

topcat

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Feb 4, 2022

• #4,951

Melanie (Safka), Feb. 3, 1947. Look what they've done to my song, Ma.

 

injinji

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Feb 4, 2022

• #4,952

• 1941 John Steel, British rock drummer (The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"), born in Gateshead, County Durham, England

 

injinji

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Feb 4, 2022

• #4,953

1948 Alice Cooper [Vincent Furnier], American theatrical rock singer and songwriter ("School's Out"), born in Detroit, Michigan

 

injinji

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Feb 5, 2022

• #4,954

• 1929 Hal Blaine [Harold Belsky], American pop and rock session drummer (The Wrecking Crew), born in Holyoke, Massachusetts (d. 2019)

 

topcat

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Feb 9, 2022

• #4,955

1942. Carole King. So far away.

 

topcat

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Feb 11, 2022

• #4,956

1962. Cheryl Crow.

 

injinji

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Feb 15, 2022

• #4,957

• 1984 Gary Clark, Jr. American blues-rock-soul singer-songwriter and guitarist ("This Land"; The Story of Sonny Boy Slim), born in Austin, Texas

 

injinji

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Feb 17, 2022

• #4,958

• 1950 Rick Medlocke, American rock guitarist and vocalist (Blackfoot), born in Jackson, Florida

 

injinji

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Feb 18, 2022

• #4,959

• 1934 Skip Battin, American singer-songwriter (The Byrds), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2003)

 

injinji

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Feb 18, 2022

• #4,960

• 1946 Buddy Cage, American pedal steel guitarist (New Riders of the Purple Sage; Great Speckled Bird), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2020)