"Blues Legends" Hand Signed Festival Brochure & Card JG Autographs COA

Description

Up for auction is a h
and signed brochure from the 17th Annual Pocono Blues Festival by Jimmy McCracklin and Freddie Cunnigham and a 6 x 9 postcard from the 15th Annual Pocono Blues Festival signed by Bob Stroger, Mel Waiters and Ruthie Foster.
This piece come
authenticated
by
JG Autographs
and comes with their COA.
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James David Walker Jr.
(August 13, 1921 – December 20, 2012), better known by his stage name
Jimmy McCracklin
, was an
American
pianist
,
vocalist
, and
songwriter
. His style contained
West Coast blues
,
Jump blues
, and
R&B
. Over a career that spanned seven decades, he said he had written almost a thousand songs and had recorded hundreds of them. McCracklin recorded over 30
albums
, and earned four
gold records
. Tom Mazzolini of the
San Francisco Blues Festival
said of him, "He was probably the most important musician to come out of the Bay Area in the post-World War II years."
Freddie Cunningham
, is 77 years old. He’s announced that 2021 will be his last year singing with
Root Doctor
. The band got its start in the late 1980s with an offer to assemble a group, and a get ready quick deal to perform at the former Tango’s in downtown Lansing. Cunningham says the club gave them two weeks to prepare. “So we practiced every day for two weeks," Cunningham explains, "and we finally got it together. I can remember the day, it was June the 29
th
, 1989. We played a set, and they said ‘whoa, you’ve gotta play another set!’ and I said ‘we only know one set!’” Cunningham says they played the same set again, in reverse order, and it went well enough that they were kept on.
Bob Stroger
(born December 27, 1930) is an
American
electric blues
bass guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has worked with many blues musicians, including
Eddie King
,
Otis Rush
,
Jimmy Rogers
,
Eddie Taylor
,
Eddy Clearwater
,
Sunnyland Slim
,
Louisiana Red
,
Buster Benton
,
Homesick James
,
Mississippi Heat
,
Snooky Pryor
,
Odie Payne
,
Fred Below
,
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
, and
Billy Davenport
.
In 2011 and 2013, Stroger was granted a
Blues Music Award
as Best Blues Bassist.
Mel Waiters
(June 25, 1956 – May 28, 2015) was an American
R&B
singer born and raised in
San Antonio
,
Texas
, United States. In the early 1970s, he began singing in the church choir and nightclubs. Additionally, he was a radio DJ and entertainer on military bases around this time. In the mid 1990s, he achieved national fame with his first single "Hit It and Quit It." He gave the only copy of his new CD, the soon-to-be
Got My Whiskey,
to Tommy Couch Jr. at
Malaco Records
in
Jackson, Mississippi
, and was subsequently brought onto the label.
Waiters became popular on the blues festival and touring circuit in the
South
, and was known for songs about partying and romance.
In 1999, his fourth album
Material Things
made it to the
Billboard
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
chart.
He claimed that
Teddy Pendergrass
was the main influence on his singing style. Waiters was featured in a cover story of the February 2007 issue of
Living Blues
magazine I
n May 28, 2015, Mel Waiters died of cancer.
Ruthie Cecelia Foster
(born February 10, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter of
blues
and
folk
music. She mixes a wide palette of American song forms, from gospel and blues to jazz, folk and soul. She has often been compared to
Bonnie Raitt
and
Aretha Franklin
. Foster is from
Gause, Texas
and comes from a family of
gospel
singers. At the age of fourteen, Ruthie was a soloist in her hometown choir, and was certain that her future would revolve around music. After high school, she moved to
Waco, Texas
to attend community college, where her studies concentrated in music and audio engineering. She began fronting a blues band, learning how to command a stage in the bars of Texas.
Hoping to travel and gain a wider world perspective, Foster joined the
Navy
, and soon her musical talents had her singing in the naval band Pride, that played pop and funk hits at recruitment drives in the southeastern United States. Following her tour of duty, Foster headed to
New York City
where she became a regular performer at various local folk venues.
Atlantic Records
got wind of Foster's talent and offered her a recording deal, with the intent of cultivating her as a budding pop star, but Foster wasn't interested in a pop career, preferring instead to explore the various strains of American roots music that had informed her childhood. When her mother fell ill in 1993, Foster left New York and her recording deal and returned to Texas to be with her family. She began working as a camera operator and production assistant at a television station in
College Station, Texas
while she cared for her mother, who died in 1996.