Blues Artists Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. played an enormous role in revitalizing and preserving traditional acoustic blues
  2. 4. had a reputation as a fighter
  3. 6. his life in the 20th century.
  4. 7. died in a helicopter crash
  5. 8. had many different names in order to record at many different studios
  6. 9. Modern electric blues guitar can be traced directly back to this Texas-born pioneer
  7. 10. was one of the first professional blues songwriters to benefit in a serious, material way
  8. 11. Has a guitar named Lucille
  9. 12. stayed in the business for 5 decades and recorded every shade of blues imaginable
  10. 13. added a post-war sophistication to barrelhouse/boogie-woogie piano.
  11. 14. sings the song "Bright Lights, Big City"
  12. 15. His song 'Rollin' Stone' is what the The Rolling Stones are named after
  13. 17. started as a blues group but grew into more of a rock and roll sound
  14. 18. An architect of Chicago blues' West Side sound
  15. 19. said to have first learned to play on a homemade two-string instrument fashioned from wire and tin cans.
  16. 20. has a sandpaper growl of a voice that has been widely imitated.
Down
  1. 1. her mother was only 14 years old when she was born
  2. 3. died after someone was said to have poisoned his whiskey
  3. 5. was not born in the 20th century but live the majority
  4. 14. One of the greatest performers of traditional blues, acoustic or electric.
  5. 16. Great blues storyteller and slide guitarist, recorded sides in the 1920s