" When the tone poem moves into the blues, " our American friend ... has succumbed to a spasm of homesickness.

* 1955 – Blind Mississippi Morris, American blues musician

* 1924 – Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, American blues musician ( d. 2005 )

Korner brought many American blues artists, previously unknown in England, to perform.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

Category: American blues guitarists

Category: American blues singers

Category: American blues guitarists

Category: American blues singer-songwriters

" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

Variously referred to as roots music, American folk music, or old-time music, this tradition has exerted a strong influence on all forms of American music, including country, blues, and rock and roll.

Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

* 1939 – Soko Richardson, American rhythm and blues drummer ( d. 2004 )

* 2011 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist ( b. 1931 )

* 1969 – Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer ( b. 1937 )

* 1947 – Tracy Nelson, American blues singer

* 1992 – Albert King, American blues musician ( b. 1924 )

* 1937 – Magic Sam, American blues musician ( d. 1969 )

* 1937 – Robert Walker Jr., American blues guitarist

* 1903 – Scrapper Blackwell, American blues guitarist and singer ( d. 1962 )

His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean out the Vermejo by force immediately.

His Gettysburg Address of 1863 became the most quoted speech in American history.

Defying Lincoln's prediction that " the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here ," the Address became the most quoted speech in American history.

The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute.

* In 1919, the American NC-4 became the first seaplane to cross the Atlantic ( though it made a couple of landings on islands and the sea along the way, and taxied several hundred miles ).

In November 2010, she became an American citizen.

The French chaise longue (" long chair ") became the American " chaise lounge " by metathesis ( transposition of letters and / or sounds ).

Instead, he left home and became a traveling salesman in the American South, peddling books and merchandise.

This became poignantly true during the most serious test of American cohesion in the U. S. Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

Following the appropriation of the hymn in secular music, " Amazing Grace " became such an icon in American culture that it has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns, placing it in danger of becoming a cliché.

* 1970 – Patricia Palinkas became the first woman to play professionally in an American football game

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

The American philosopher and educator John Dewey became impressed with the Alexander technique after his headaches, neck pains, blurred vision, and stress symptoms largely improved during the time he used Alexander's advice to change his posture.

2B Orlando Hudson became the recipient of his second career Gold Glove Award, as announced on November 3 becoming only the sixth infielder in major league history to win a Gold Glove award in both the American and National Leagues.

After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ship as the most powerful warship afloat.

The Native American cuisine became part of the cookery style that the early colonists brought with them.

Puck's former colleague, Jeremiah Tower became synonymous with California Cuisine and the overall American culinary revolution.

While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous American Indians, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South ; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18th and 19th centuries unto the present.

Other Revolutionary War heroes who became figures of American folklore include: Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, Nathan Hale, John Hancock, Andrew Jackson, and John Paul Jones and Francis Marion.

He became an American legend while still alive, largely because of his kind and generous ways, his great leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples.

The Thirteen Colonies of the original United States were all former English possessions, and Anglo culture became a major foundation for American folk and popular music.

In 2002, fighting Abu Sayyaf became a mission of the American military's Operation Enduring Freedom and part of the U. S. War on Terror .< ref >

When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.