King Solomon Hill
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Delta blues guitarist and singer (1897–1949)
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1896-07-18
- Active to
- 1940-08-13
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King Solomon Hill (1897, McComb, Mississippi - 1949, Sibley, Louisiana) was a bluesman who recorded a small handful of songs in 1932. Hill is speculated to have been Joe Holmes, a self-taught guitarist from Mississippi. He fused the styles of his friends Sam Collins and Ramblin' Thomas (respectively, south Mississippi and east Texas/Louisiana musicians), and elements from Blind Lemon Jefferson, into the eerie bottleneck guitar sound that accompanied his chilling falsetto on his 1932 recordings.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- McComb
- Place of death
- Sibley
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- American English
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Paramount
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- King Solomon Hill
- date of birth
- 1897-01-01
- date of death
- 1949-01-01
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