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Linsey Alexander
Sign in to saveAmerican blues musician (1942–2025)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Life, the Universe and Poetry
- Mortal Man
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1942
- Active to
- 2025
actoraustrianschlager
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,260
- Total plays
- 17,132
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Linsey Alexander (born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on 23 July 1942; died 22 February 2025) was an American blues songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist remembered for being a fixture in clubs on Chicago's North Side for nearly two decades and playing with numerous blues musicians including Buddy Guy, A.C. Reed, Magic Slim, and B.B. King. On June 8, 2014, Alexander was inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame at the blues club Buddy Guy's Legends. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Linsey+Al
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Alexander
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Holly Springs
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- Chicago blues
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Delmark Records
- Official website
- www.linseyalexander.com/index.htm
- Image
- Linsey Alexander at the Legends.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1942-07-23
- Commons category
- Linsey Alexander
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- date of death
- 2025-02-22
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