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Favorite descriptive stage name?


What is your favorite descriptive stage name that does not include Little, Big, or Blind.
I'll start it off with a tie between Sleepy John Estes and Peg Leg Howell

Conchobor, I don't know if it counts, but if he's going by Pork Roll, I'm going to adopt the nom de guerre of Muffuletta Marty for my harp gigs :)

Barbeque Bob and Laughing Charlie! Good old school 1920's musicians too (should've dropped them onto my underrated thread)

My harp player goes by Po'Ro' Goncalves (Pork Roll). Does that count?

how bout clarence "gatemouth" brown? or "pinetop" perkins?

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

Professor Longhair

Muddy Waters
Memphis Minnie McCoy
Lightin' Hopkins
Mississippi Fred McDowell
The Blues Barker - Junior Parker
Howlin' Wolf
Lightin' Slim
Tampa Red
B.B. Blues Boy King
Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Screaming Jay Hawkins
Sonny Boy Williamson (there were two of those)

That's the best I can do for now. I'm really surprised I came up with this many on short notice.
You're right. The only female I thought of besides Memphis Minnie was Big Maybelle

Petie Wheatstraw
Big Mama Thornton

Howlin' Wolf

Memphis Minnie
Professor Longhair
Dr. John
Keb' Mo'
The Meters
Walter "Wolfman" Washington
Galactic
Soul Rebels
Greyboy Allstars
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Papa Grows Funk
Wild Magnolias

Magic Dick- harp player in the J.Geils Band and Bluestime.

One of my fav's Watermelon Slim. Wrote a tune about how he got the name.

Thomas Buck-Nasty

http://www.myspace.com/thehealersnyc

I'm tutting my own horn here but hell whats wrong with a little bit of pride .
So I will say my given name
SATAN HANDY
Believe me its my real name

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