Garfield Akers (possibly born James Garfield Echols, probably 1908 – c. 1959) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He had sometimes performed under...
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Deborah Akers, author and researcher Fred Akers (1938–2020), former American football coach Garfield Akers, blues singer and guitarist George Akers, film...
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first recorded by Victor in Memphis in 1928, and Big Joe Williams and Garfield Akers by Brunswick/Vocalion, also in Memphis, in 1929. Charley Patton recorded...
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Felix LaBauve House, NRHP-listed Court Square DeSoto Times-Tribune Garfield Akers, blues musician DeAundre Alford, cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons...
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"Cottonfield Blues" was performed by the early Delta blues musicians Garfield Akers and Mississippi Joe Callicott in 1929.[citation needed] In 1966, the...
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closest thing to it on records is 'Cottonfield Blues', recorded by Garfield Akers and Joe Callicott, two guitarists from the hill country of northern...
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Nesbit, Mississippi, United States. In 1929, he played second guitar in Garfield Akers' duet recording, "Cottonfield Blues", and in 1930, he recorded "Fare...
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Promised Land” Alfred G. Karnes 1927 3:11 8 “Cottonfield Blues (Pt. 2)” Garfield Akers 1929 3:21 9 “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground” Bascom Lamar Lunsford...
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Words Blues" Geeshie Wiley 1930 3:04 11. "Cottonfield Blues (Pt. 2)" Garfield Akers 1929 3:21 12. "Tallahatchie River Blues" Mattie Delaney 1930 2:48 13...
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jug band style and played at various locations with Robert Johnson, Garfield Akers, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Willie Brown, who periodically travelled...
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