Elmore James(1918-1963)
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Mississippi-born Elmore Leonard was a blues musician known as "The King
of the Slide Guitar". He played on various radio shows throughout
the South and built up a following. In 1951, he recorded his first
record, "Dust My Broom", for the small Trumpet Records label out of
Jackson, MS. It became a "sleeper" hit, breaking through to the Top-10
charts and making him a star. Leonard recorded more than 100 songs over
the next dozen years and helped to shape what eventually became known
as the "Chicago Blues" sound of the postwar period. He was elected to
the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1980.
He died of a heart attack in Chicago in 1963.
He died of a heart attack in Chicago in 1963.
