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 Independent label: Bootleg Records managed at least three singles. Only 99 copies only pressed (to avoid purchase tax). It issued singles in an 500 numerical series. Distributed By
Bootleg Records. Guitar Nubbit Real Name was Alvin Hankerson he was a US blues singer and guitarist, born 1923 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Nicknamed ‘Nubbit’ following the loss of the tip of his right thumb at the age of three in a hurricane. He grew up in Georgia and relocating to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1945. He recorded for Bluestown in 1962 and again in 1965. Joe Hill Louis Real Name was Lester Hill. He was an American blues musician, born 23 September 1921 in Raines, Tennessee, USA, and died 5 August 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. This bluesman recorded quantity in Memphis as one-man band,and developed a primitive yet powerful style on the harmonica. J.B. Lenoir was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active on the Chicago blues scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Born 5 March 1929 in Monticello, Mississippi; died 29 April 1967 in Champaign, Illinois, of internal bleeding (and/or a heart attack) from injuries he had suffered in a car crash three weeks earlier, which had not been properly treated. As a young boy, J.B.'s father taught him to play guitar in the style of Blind Lemon Jefferson; he was also taught by Arthur Crudup and Lightnin’ Hopkins. In the 1940s, he started playing in New Orleans with Sonny Boy Williamson and Elmore James. In 1949 he moved to Chicago; he began playing with names like Memphis Minnie, Big Maceo Merriweather and Muddy Waters. J.B.'s first recording session was in late 1950 for Chess. He recorded for J.O.B and Parrot 1951-1953, before he returned to Chess. His most commercially successful and enduring release was 1954's “Mamma Talk To Your Daughter”, which reached no 11 on the Billboard R&B chart and was later recorded by many other blues and rock musicians. 

 
64 Guitar Nubbit Georgia Chain Gang BOOTLEG 501
65 Joe Hill Louis Heartache Baby BOOTLEG 502
65 J. B. Lenoir Mama Talk To Your Daughter BOOTLEG 503


  




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