RARE! “Blues Legends" Signed Festival Brochure & Card JG Autographs COA

Description: Up for auction is a hand signed brochure from the 17th Annual Pocono Blues Festival by Jimmy McCracklin and Freddie Cunnigham and a 6 x 9 postcard from the 15th Annual Pocono Blues Festival signed by Bob Stroger, Mel Waiters and Ruthie Foster. This piece come authenticated by JG Autographs and comes with their COA. ES-3301 James David Walker Jr. (August 13, 1921 – December 20, 2012), better known by his stage name Jimmy McCracklin, was an American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. His style contained West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B. Over a career that spanned seven decades, he said he had written almost a thousand songs and had recorded hundreds of them. McCracklin recorded over 30 albums, and earned four gold records. Tom Mazzolini of the San Francisco Blues Festival said of him, "He was probably the most important musician to come out of the Bay Area in the post-World War II years." Freddie Cunningham, is 77 years old. He’s announced that 2021 will be his last year singing with Root Doctor. The band got its start in the late 1980s with an offer to assemble a group, and a get ready quick deal to perform at the former Tango’s in downtown Lansing. Cunningham says the club gave them two weeks to prepare. “So we practiced every day for two weeks," Cunningham explains, "and we finally got it together. I can remember the day, it was June the 29th, 1989. We played a set, and they said ‘whoa, you’ve gotta play another set!’ and I said ‘we only know one set!’” Cunningham says they played the same set again, in reverse order, and it went well enough that they were kept on. Bob Stroger (born December 27, 1930) is an American electric blues bass guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has worked with many blues musicians, including Eddie King, Otis Rush, Jimmy Rogers, Eddie Taylor, Eddy Clearwater, Sunnyland Slim, Louisiana Red, Buster Benton, Homesick James, Mississippi Heat, Snooky Pryor, Odie Payne, Fred Below, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, and Billy Davenport. In 2011 and 2013, Stroger was granted a Blues Music Award as Best Blues Bassist. Mel Waiters (June 25, 1956 – May 28, 2015) was an American R&B singer born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, United States. In the early 1970s, he began singing in the church choir and nightclubs. Additionally, he was a radio DJ and entertainer on military bases around this time. In the mid 1990s, he achieved national fame with his first single "Hit It and Quit It." He gave the only copy of his new CD, the soon-to-be Got My Whiskey, to Tommy Couch Jr. at Malaco Records in Jackson, Mississippi, and was subsequently brought onto the label. Waiters became popular on the blues festival and touring circuit in the South, and was known for songs about partying and romance. In 1999, his fourth album Material Things made it to the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. He claimed that Teddy Pendergrass was the main influence on his singing style. Waiters was featured in a cover story of the February 2007 issue of Living Blues magazine In May 28, 2015, Mel Waiters died of cancer. Ruthie Cecelia Foster (born February 10, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter of blues and folk music. She mixes a wide palette of American song forms, from gospel and blues to jazz, folk and soul. She has often been compared to Bonnie Raitt and Aretha Franklin. Foster is from Gause, Texas and comes from a family of gospel singers. At the age of fourteen, Ruthie was a soloist in her hometown choir, and was certain that her future would revolve around music. After high school, she moved to Waco, Texas to attend community college, where her studies concentrated in music and audio engineering. She began fronting a blues band, learning how to command a stage in the bars of Texas. Hoping to travel and gain a wider world perspective, Foster joined the Navy, and soon her musical talents had her singing in the naval band Pride, that played pop and funk hits at recruitment drives in the southeastern United States. Following her tour of duty, Foster headed to New York City where she became a regular performer at various local folk venues. Atlantic Records got wind of Foster's talent and offered her a recording deal, with the intent of cultivating her as a budding pop star, but Foster wasn't interested in a pop career, preferring instead to explore the various strains of American roots music that had informed her childhood. When her mother fell ill in 1993, Foster left New York and her recording deal and returned to Texas to be with her family. She began working as a camera operator and production assistant at a television station in College Station, Texas while she cared for her mother, who died in 1996.

Price: 199.99 USD

Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

End Time: 2024-12-04T19:36:21.000Z

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