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Theodore Roosevelt Darby, better known as Blind Teddy Darby , was an American blues singer and guitarist. Darby was born in Henderson, Kentucky. He... moved to St. Louis with his family when he was a child. His mother taught him to play guitar. He served some time for selling moonshine, and in 1926 he lost his eyesight because of glaucoma. He recorded from 1929 until 1937 under the names of "Blind Teddy Darby", "Blind Darby", "Blind Blues Darby" and "Blind Squire Turner" for the Paramount, Victor, Bluebird, Vocalion and Decca labels. In 1960 he was "rediscovered" and recorded by Pete Welding of Testament Records, yet the recordings from this session were never released. In the late 1930s he gave up the blues and became an ordained deacon. His song "Built Right On The Ground" has been covered , from the 1970s onwards, by John Miller , Roy Book Binder, Howard Bursen, and Phil Heywood.
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Rosa Henderson was an American jazz and classic female blues singer, and vaudeville entertainer. Born Rosa Deschamps in Henderson, Henderson County,... Kentucky, she is remembered as one of the greats of the 1920s and 1930s classic blues era. Her career as an entertainer began in 1913 when she joined her uncle's circus troupe. She married Douglas "Slim" Henderson in 1918 and began travelling with his Mason-Henderson show. Her career as a musical comedian started during the early 1920s, after she moved to New York where she performed on Broadway and eventually in London. Her nine year recording career began in 1923. During that time she recorded upwards of one hundred songs using numerous pseudonyms such as Sally Ritz, Flora Dale, Sarah Johnson, Josephine Thomas, Gladys White and Mamie Harris. She was accompanied by such bands as The Virginians, Fletcher Henderson's Jazz Five, Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson's Club Alabam Orchestra, the Choo Choo Jazzers, the Kansas City Five, the Three Jolly Miners, the Kansas City Four, the Three Hot Eskimos, and the Four Black Diamonds.
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Timothy Lee Hoggard , better known by his stage name Kasper From The K, is an up and coming rap/hip-hop artist garnering substantial radio airplay... across the United States. His singles “Watchagondo” and “Shake It Down” have been played over 4500 times in 2008. He has performed or will be performing at shows in various radio markets this summer including Utica, NY, Reno, NV, Peoria, IL, Casper, WY and Green Bay, WI to support this airplay. Among Kasper’s influences are Eminem, Dr. Dre, Nelly and the many other mid-eighties and nineties popular artists. He credits Southern rap quintet Nappy Roots, as being the most influential in his development. Kasper’s career took off when he reunited with childhood friend, and producer, Joel Hopper who has previously worked with Nappy Roots, Static Major and The Villebillies. After spending long hours in Hopper’s Louisville studio discussing their mutual love of hip-hop they began working on the “Kasper Sound.
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