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The list Arhoolie Records artists includes Lightnin Hopkins, Flaco Jimenez, Clifton Chenier, Big Mama Thornton and Big Joe Turner. The list consists of 52 members.

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Arhoolie Records
American independent record label
  • 1.

    Lightnin Hopkins
    American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist (1912–1982)
    Lightnin Hopkins
    Overview: Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine ...
    Date of birth: 15 March 1912
    Date of death: 30 January 1982
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Guitarist
    Gender: Male
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    Aladdin Records artists 15T
    20th-century male singers 5,297T
    Guitarists from Texas 342T
  • 2.

    Big Mama Thornton
    American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
    Big Mama Thornton
    Overview: Willie Mae Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984), better known as Big Mama Thornton, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record Leiber and Stoller's "Hound ...
    Date of birth: 11 December 1926
    Date of death: 25 July 1984
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Musician
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American women singers 2,001T
    20th-century American drummers 1,414T
    20th-century women singers 3,624T
  • 3.

    Flaco Jiménez
    American accordionist, singer and songwriter
    Flaco Jiménez
    Overview: Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) is a Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music accordionist and singer from San Antonio, Texas.
    Date of birth: 11 March 1939
    Age: 85
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Songwriter
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    Singer-songwriters from Texas 667T
    20th-century American male musicians 7,796T
    21st-century American male musicians 5,585T
  • 4.

    Clifton Chenier
    American zydeco accordionist and musician
    Clifton Chenier
    Overview: Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), a Louisiana French-speaking native of Leonville, Louisiana, near Opelousas, was an eminent performer and recording artist of zydeco, which arose from ...
    Date of birth: 25 June 1925
    Date of death: 12 December 1987
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century accordionists 115T
    Alligator Records artists 56T
    Singers from Louisiana 387T
  • 5.

    Big Joe Turner
    American blues shouter
    Big Joe Turner
    Overview: Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never ...
    Date of birth: 18 May 1911
    Date of death: 24 November 1985
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Jazz Musician
    Gender: Male
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    Black & Blue Records artists 136T
    Jazz musicians from Missouri 117T
    Alligator Records artists 56T
  • 6.

    Rose Maddox
    American musician
    Rose Maddox
    Overview: Roselea Arbana "Rose" Maddox (August 15, 1925 – April 15, 1998) was an American country singer-songwriter and fiddle player, who was the lead singer with the Maddox Brothers and Rose before a successful ...
    Date of birth: 15 August 1925
    Date of death: 15 April 1998
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Songwriter
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American women singers 2,001T
    Women violinists 238T
    Writers from Ashland, Oregon 20T
  • 7.

    Mississippi Fred McDowell
    American Hill country blues singer and guitar player.
    Mississippi Fred McDowell
    Overview: Fred McDowell (January 12, 1906 – July 3, 1972), known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American hill country blues singer and guitar player.
    Date of birth: 12 January 1904
    Date of death: 3 July 1972
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Guitarist
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
    Black Lion Records artists 64T
    20th-century male musicians 12,801T
  • 8.

    Charlie Musselwhite
    American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader
    Charlie Musselwhite
    Overview: Charles Douglas Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike ...
    Date of birth: 31 January 1944
    Age: 80
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Guitarist
    Gender: Male
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    Blind Pig Records artists 57T
    20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
    20th-century male musicians 12,801T
  • 9.

    Bukka White
    American Delta blues guitarist and singer
    Bukka White
    Overview: Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White (November 12, 1906 – February 26, 1977) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. Bukka is a phonetic spelling of White's first name; he was named after ...
    Date of birth: 12 November 1906
    Date of death: 26 February 1977
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Musician
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
    20th-century male musicians 12,801T
    American male pianists 2,053T
  • 10.

    John Jackson
    American Piedmont blues musician
    John Jackson
    Overview: John Jackson (February 24, 1924 – January 20, 2002) was an American Piedmont blues musician. Music was not his primary activity until his accidental "discovery" by the folklorist Chuck Perdue in ...
    Date of birth: 24 February 1924
    Date of death: 20 January 2002
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Guitarist
    Gender: Male
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    Musicians from Fairfax County, Virginia 19T
    Southland Records artists 47T
    Folkways Records artists 30T
  • 11.

    Mance Lipscomb
    American blues singer and guitarist (1895–1976)
    Mance Lipscomb
    Overview: Mance Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songster. He was born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas. As a youth he took the name Mance (short ...
    Date of birth: 9 April 1895
    Date of death: 30 January 1976
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Musician
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century male singers 5,317T
    People from Navasota, Texas 23T
    Guitarists from Texas 342T
  • 12.

    Elizabeth Cotten
    American folk and blues musician (1893–1987)
    Elizabeth Cotten
    Overview: Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (née Nevills) (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was an American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter.
    Date of birth: 5 January 1895
    Date of death: 29 June 1987
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Guitarist
    Gender: Female
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    Folkways Records artists 23T
    20th-century women guitarists 15T
    Musicians from Syracuse, New York 51T
  • 13.

    Earl Hooker
    American Chicago blues guitarist
    Earl Hooker
    Overview: Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, 1930 – April 21, 1970) was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician", he performed with blues artists such ...
    Date of birth: 15 January 1929
    Date of death: 21 April 1970
    Age: 41 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Guitarist
    Gender: Male
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    Tuberculosis deaths in Illinois 22T
    20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
    20th-century male musicians 12,801T
  • 14.

    Black Ace
    American Texas blues musician
    Black Ace
    Overview: Black Ace was the most frequently used stage name of the American Texas blues musician born Babe Kyro Lemon Turner (December 21, 1905 – November 7, 1972), who was also known as B. K. Turner, Black Ace ...
    Date of birth: 21 December 1907
    Date of death: 7 November 1972
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Guitarist
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
    People from Hughes Springs, Texas 2T
    20th-century male musicians 12,801T
  • 15.

    Dewey Balfa
    American musician
    Dewey Balfa
    Overview: Dewey Balfa (March 20, 1927 – June 17, 1992) was an American Cajun fiddler and singer who contributed significantly to the popularity of Cajun music. Balfa was born near Mamou, Louisiana. He is perhaps ...
    Date of birth: 20 March 1927
    Date of death: 17 June 1992
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Musician
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    20th-century American musicians 6,126T
    20th-century violinists 807T
    Cajun people 193T
  • 16.

    Dave Alexander
    American Texas blues singer and pianist
    Dave Alexander
    Overview: Dave Alexander (born David Alexander Elam), also known as Omar Sharriff, Omar Shariff, Omar Hakim Khayam (March 10, 1938 – January 8, 2012) was an American West Coast blues singer and pianist.
    Date of birth: 10 March 1938
    Date of death: 8 January 2012
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Other
    Gender: Male
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    2012 suicides 64T
    20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
    20th-century male musicians 12,801T
  • 17.

    Jesse Fuller
    American one-man band musician
    Jesse Fuller
    Overview: Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".
    Date of birth: 12 March 1896
    Date of death: 29 June 1976
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Musician
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century male singers 5,297T
    Guitarists from Georgia (U.S. state) 142T
    20th-century American guitarists 3,517T
  • 18.

    Snooks Eaglin
    American musician
    Snooks Eaglin
    Overview: Fird Eaglin Jr. (January 21, 1936 or 1937 – February 18, 2009), known as Snooks Eaglin, was an American guitarist and singer based in New Orleans. In his early years he was sometimes credited under other ...
    Date of birth: 21 January 1936
    Date of death: 18 February 2009
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Jazz Musician
    Gender: Male
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    American male jazz musicians 3,118T
    20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
    20th-century male musicians 12,801T
  • 19.

    Michael Doucet
    American musician
    Michael Doucet
    Overview: Michael Louis Doucet (born February 14, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known as the founder for the Cajun band BeauSoleil.
    Date of birth: 14 February 1951
    Age: 73
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Yep Roc Records artists 68T
    21st-century American male musicians 4,997T
    21st-century male musicians 9,676T
  • 20.

    Juke Boy Bonner
    American blues musician
    Juke Boy Bonner
    Overview: Weldon H. Philip Bonner, better known as Juke Boy Bonner (March 22, 1932 – June 29, 1978) was an American blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist. He was influenced by Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Reed ...
    Date of birth: 22 March 1932
    Date of death: 29 June 1978
    Age: 46 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Guitarist
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century male singers 5,297T
    Guitarists from Texas 342T
    20th-century American guitarists 3,517T
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