Doctor Ross
Singer, Guitarist
1925 – 1993
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Who was Doctor Ross?
Doctor Ross, aka Doctor Ross, the harmonica boss, was an American blues singer, guitarist, harmonica player and drummer — a one-man band — who was born Charles Isaiah Ross, in Tunica, Mississippi.
Ross played various forms of the blues that have seen him compared to John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson I, and is perhaps best known for the recordings he made for Sun Records in the 1950s, notably "The Boogie Disease" and "Chicago Breakdown".
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- Born
- Oct 21, 1925
Tunica - Also known as
- Dr. Ross
- Charles Isaiah Ross
- Doctor Issaiah Ross
- Doctor Ross the harmonica boss
- Dr. Isaiah Ross
- Ross, Doctor
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- May 28, 1993
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on July 23, 2013
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