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MEMPHIS, TENN. --
5 folks, an album, 5 singles and a e book have been chosen to affix this yr's Blues Corridor of Fame class.
The Memphis, Tennessee-based Blues Basis stated the 12 latest honorees of the Blues Corridor of Fame will probably be celebrated at an occasion on Might 4.
Singers Lucille Bogan, Little Willie John and Johnnie Taylor are among the many corridor's latest members.
Songwriter Otis Blackwell, who wrote "Do not Be Merciless" and "All Shook Up" for Elvis Presley and "Breathless" and "Nice Balls of Fireplace" for Jerry Lee Lewis, can be being honored by the corridor.
So is Mary Katherine Aldin, who has spent many years as a DJ and compiler or annotator of blues and people reissue albums.
An album by Bo Diddley and singles by Sonny Boy Williamson II, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Roy Brown, B.B. King and the Child Face Leroy Trio additionally will enter the corridor.
The e book "Crimson River Blues: The Blues Custom within the Southeast," written by Bruce Bastin, additionally has been named to the corridor.
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