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The musical revue Artists And Models Of 1927, is playing at The Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 151 performances.Blues singer and guitarist Tommy Johnson records Cool Drink Of Water Blues and Big Road Blues for Victor Records at Memphis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Blues singer and guitarist Tommy Johnson records Cool Drink Of Water Blues and Big Road Blues for Victor Records at Memphis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
The Regal Theater, opens in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It will become the city's most prestigious venue for jazz, gospel, blues and r'n'b.
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Mae Moore is recorded performing School Girl Blues and Stranger
Blues at Memphis
Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Guiraist and singer Tommy Johnson records Cool Drink Of Water Blues and Big Road Blues at Memphis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Big Road Blues will inspire Chicago bluesman Floyd Jones to record Dark Road (aka On The Road Again) in 1951. This will, in turn, inspire Canned Heat to record their 1967 song, On The Road Again, which is almost identical apart from a couple of new lyric lines and the addition of an Eastern instrument called a tamboura to give the song a psychedelic feel.