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Gritty
Overview
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Gritty Song Highlights
Orgullecida
Eliseo Silveira
Buena Vista Social Club
These Arms of Mine
Otis Redding
Otis Redding
Jesse James
Woody Guthrie
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Huddie Ledbetter
Woody Guthrie
War Pigs
Geezer Butler
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Tony Iommi
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Ozzy Osbourne
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Bill Ward
Black Sabbath
Rollin' and Tumblin'
Morgan Robinson
Elmore James
I've Got a Woman
Ray Charles
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Renald Richard
Ray Charles
Act Naturally
Voni Morrison
Buck Owens
Superstition
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Got the Blues for Murder Only
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
Where You At?
Lloyd Price
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Huey "Piano" Smith
Lloyd Price
John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
A.P. Carter
The Carter Family
At Last
Mack Gordon
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Harry Warren
Etta James
She Moves Me
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
Bop Gun (Endangered Species)
George Clinton
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Bootsy Collins
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Garry Shider
Parliament
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Bemsha Swing
Denzil Best
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
St. Thomas
Sonny Rollins
Tommy Flanagan
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Max Roach
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Sonny Rollins
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Doug Watkins
I Can't Be Satisfied
Big Bill Broonzy
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Muddy Waters
Big Bill Broonzy
God Can Do Anything But Fail
James Cleveland
James Cleveland
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The Gospel Chimes
West Side Baby
Dallas Bartley
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Johnny Cameron
T-Bone Walker
I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
Tim Brymn
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Nina Simone
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Bert Williams
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Hans Zimmer
Nina Simone
The Red Rooster
Willie Dixon
Howlin' Wolf
Daddy Sang Bass
Carl Perkins
Johnny Cash
A Certain Girl
Naomi Neville
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Allen Toussaint
The Yardbirds
Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues
Charley Patton
Charley Patton
Rebel Without a Pause
Carlton Ridenhour
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Norman Rogers
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Eric "Vietnam" Sadler
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Hank Shocklee
Public Enemy
We're Gonna Make It
Gene Barge
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Raynard Miner
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Clifton William Smith
Little Milton
It Was Fun While It Lasted
Billy Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver
Yancey Special
Meade "Lux" Lewis
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Andy Razaf
Jimmy Yancey
Ain't No Rockin' No More
Roy Brown
Roy Brown
Shake Your Hips
James Moore
Slim Harpo
All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)
Hank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams, Jr.
It's Tricky
Darryl McDaniels
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Jason Mizell
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Rick Rubin
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Joseph Simmons
Run-D.M.C.
Living for the City
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
At Last
Mack Gordon
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Harry Warren
Etta James
High and Lonesome
James C. Bracken
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Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed
Purple Haze
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
My Girl
Smokey Robinson
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Ronald White
The Temptations
Trouble in Mind
Richard M. Jones
Jimmy Witherspoon
Chan Chan
Francisco Repilado
Buena Vista Social Club
Do I Move You?
Nina Simone
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Rudy Stevenson
Nina Simone
How Long-How Long Blues
Leroy Carr
Leroy Carr
Boom Boom
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)
Johnny Mercer
Sonny Rollins
All Your Love
Willie Dixon
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Otis Rush
John Mayall
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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
How Blue Can You Get?
Jane Feather
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Leonard Feather
B.B. King
I Ain't Got No Home
Woody Guthrie
Mothership Connection (Star Child)
George Clinton
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Bootsy Collins
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Bernie Worrell
Parliament
Three Little Words
Bert Kalmar
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Harry Ruby
John Coltrane
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Milt Jackson
Roll 'Em Pete
Pete Johnson
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Big Joe Turner
Jimmy Witherspoon
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